In another era I could have been a revered polymath and wit, beloved of the salons of Europe and with the ear of kings. But since I hate writing things out longhand and I don't like socialites, it's probably best that I would in all likelihood have died in infancy.
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- Botched caesarean (10%, 15 votes)
- Evil spirits (3%, 5 votes)
- Rare infant gout (0%, 1 vote)
- Hippo (1%, 2 votes)
- One of the plagues (2%, 3 votes)
- Bog sacrifice to ensure harvest (3%, 5 votes)
- Paper cut infection (2%, 4 votes)
- Paper cut mutilation (0%, 0 votes)
- Allergy to wheat (1%, 2 votes)
- Vikings (1%, 2 votes)
- Children's Crusade (2%, 4 votes)
- Adult Crusade mistaken identity (0%, 1 vote)
- Miniature auto-da-fé (0%, 1 vote)
- Time-traveling Honda Civic (3%, 5 votes)
- Named pope, poisoned (0%, 0 votes)
- Named anti-pope, stabbed (2%, 3 votes)
- Failure to yield to oncoming dung cart (2%, 4 votes)
- Vanished as object lesson to surviving siblings (1%, 2 votes)
- Hanged by mistake (2%, 4 votes)
- Poverty-induced gin-overconsumption (1%, 2 votes)
- Angered the king by crying (3%, 5 votes)
- Baked into pie for surviving siblings (2%, 3 votes)
- Quantum-superposition accident (3%, 5 votes)
- Ironically eaten by Jonathan Swift (2%, 4 votes)
- Rockin' Pneumonia and Boogie Woogie Flu (2%, 3 votes)
- To force mother back into estrus (0%, 1 vote)
- Clan feud (1%, 2 votes)
- God smiting some tribe or other (0%, 1 vote)
- Invention of fire (0%, 0 votes)
- Invention of the wheel (0%, 0 votes)
- Invention of radium pacifier (0%, 1 vote)
- Genghis Khan (1%, 2 votes)
- Family chose incorrect side in religious schism (4%, 6 votes)
- Family chose correct side in religious schism (0%, 1 vote)
- Dysentery (4%, 6 votes)
- Dropsy (0%, 1 vote)
- Collateral damage in duel (0%, 0 votes)
- Lost extremely rare infant duel (2%, 4 votes)
- Won extremely rare infant duel (celebration) (0%, 1 vote)
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome (0%, 1 vote)
- Fell afoul of prophesy (2%, 4 votes)
- One too many potions (2%, 4 votes)
- One too few potions (2%, 3 votes)
- Tripped into thresher (0%, 1 vote)
- Killed by jealous siblings for technicolor diaper (0%, 1 vote)
- Usury (0%, 1 vote)
- Wrath (0%, 1 vote)
- Accidentally built into fortification (1%, 2 votes)
- Bad dates (dried fruit) (0%, 0 votes)
- Bad dates (Julian calendar confusion) (7%, 11 votes)
140 voters. Poll end: 2 weeks ago