User blog comment:LurkerLordB/Real-Life People born after a POD/@comment-2231398-20120730070759/@comment-1310192-20120731175733

LurkerLordB, then, in your same path of thought, all the timelines here take no longer than 1 minute!!!1!

I agree my post was an extreme overstatement, but still my point stands. You're stating it's only a hundred people, when, if you want to go in depth, your TL needs something closer to ten thousand. I agree no timeline will plausibly reach so many people (except maybe NW, possibly our single largest timeline, which, by the way? Uses OTL people) but your "O WE ONLY NEED 100 PEOPLE!!!1!!!!1!! was an extreme understatement. Like what Scraw said, you need thousands, and it takes a long while to make thousands of names, birth and death dates, cultural backgrounds and personalities.

About regal names, while that is in a large level true (kings are not entirely imaginative with their names, heh), you'd need eight names per large cultural period; look, for example at Victorian nobility (every one was called Albert because Victoria was crazy for Albert) and the entire lack of royal Alberts after Edward came to the throne. Or how, in Spain, kings have moved from Sancho, Ordoño, Urraca and García to Felipe, Isabel and Carlos to Amadeo and now Juan Carlos because of culture, with the only prevailing names being Felipe and Alfonso.