*wonders who Van is planning on killing in Naroni...*

It's funny, heights are something I still make up out of my head. I don't have any statistics about the range of child heights you would expect from parents of height N and M. Plus there are things like premature birth and malnutrition to take into account.

I just do what I like -- in a sensical manner, as you say. (Though the men in Matilda's family are quite tall, so her sons have a fighting chance. I think the Old Man will be 5'10".) I also do what helps make the character. Height seems to matter a lot in character development -- just like beauty and ugliness. What would Alred have been if he were tall? What would Sigefrith be if he were shrimpy? And what if Gwynn were not of portable size?

I don't think the dead wife of a new Duke gets promoted to Duchess. I've never heard of such a thing. Titles aren't generally retroactively posthumous that I know of. In the case of Queens its an actual consecration so I am sure it can't be retroactive. And maybe that's true for Duchesses too... I wonder if a woman, upon marrying a Duke, is in some way "declared" a Duchess by the monarch? Surely it must be so! There must be a protocol for this! My American upbringing is showing!

Brit outranks Alred and Dunstan anyway, so I'm not too worried about the question, personally.

I did it, and it told me I should be 5'6.5". Whereas I am 5'9"! I'm not even within their 68% chance range. It says I have a 95% chance of being within 5'2.5" and 5'10.5" which seems almost self-evident. So, not very useful.

I guess I will keep on making up my own heights. Somehow this has never bothered me, in spite of how much fun I have making everything else randomized in one way or another (via the game or via my own random number generators).