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labellementeuse) wrote2012-08-25 07:29 pm
labellementeuse) wrote2012-08-25 07:29 pm
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Young Wizards Timeline: Updated for Millenium Editions
I bought the New Millenium version of SYWTBAW last week and thought I'd have a stab at updating PM's timeline with the new dates. I'll only go as far as the end of SYWTBAW with the updated dates, presuming that DD will continue with the NMEs - I think DW and HW are both pretty sticky timeline-wise so it's not too easy to extrapolate from SYWTBAW alone. Please do read the notes on PM's timeline which I have more or less replicated wholesale as they include credits for people who contributed to its original construction.
I haven't updated any of the historical dates. For some birthdays that are derived from ages given in later books I have guessed that the entire series will have taken place over no more than 3 years (leaving the Holiday-War-Mars to take place in spring-summer 2011 - slightly ahead of Mars's 2010 publication date: gosh, I can't believe that's two years old!) Where I felt it necessary to leave notes I have italicised; all text is otherwise PM's.
SYWTBAW takes place over a calendar week in May 2008. I believe PM determined the dates for this week based on a date given in one of the modern editions of DW, which I can't do because the DW NME isn't out yet; I located the date of the May 2008 full moon (Tuesday 20th, meaning the moon is actually waning when Liused gives Nita a rowan branch ... but that's being rather picky), which happens to match the 2005 dates PM had. If you really need the moon to be waxing (for which I have some sympathy narratively speaking) you could pick the whole lot up and move it earlier by a week. Also there are a whole lot of busted links to the Errantry Concordance in there that I am way too lazy to go through and fix. Sorry about that.
Background/History
So You Want to Be a Wizard
Well, that was fun.
I haven't updated any of the historical dates. For some birthdays that are derived from ages given in later books I have guessed that the entire series will have taken place over no more than 3 years (leaving the Holiday-War-Mars to take place in spring-summer 2011 - slightly ahead of Mars's 2010 publication date: gosh, I can't believe that's two years old!) Where I felt it necessary to leave notes I have italicised; all text is otherwise PM's.
SYWTBAW takes place over a calendar week in May 2008. I believe PM determined the dates for this week based on a date given in one of the modern editions of DW, which I can't do because the DW NME isn't out yet; I located the date of the May 2008 full moon (Tuesday 20th, meaning the moon is actually waning when Liused gives Nita a rowan branch ... but that's being rather picky), which happens to match the 2005 dates PM had. If you really need the moon to be waxing (for which I have some sympathy narratively speaking) you could pick the whole lot up and move it earlier by a week. Also there are a whole lot of busted links to the Errantry Concordance in there that I am way too lazy to go through and fix. Sorry about that.
Background/History
So You Want to Be a Wizard
| Original date as guesstimated by PM | Event | Reference (Book-Chapter) | Updated dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Background/history | |||
| 13.1E9 years ago | Dairine takes starsteel for the Spear. Date suggested by Nathan. | AWAb-9 | 13.1E9 years ago |
| 50 - 60 eons ago | Life brought itself about. | SYWTBAW-P | 50 - 60 eons ago |
| 400 million years ago | Partholon and his people arrived in Ireland and fought the Fomori, but lost. | AWAb-2,-3 | 400 million years ago |
| 250 million years ago | The people of Nemed arrived in Ireland and fought the Fomori, but lost. Ice covered the land and Ireland became an island. | AWAb-2,-3 | 250 million years ago |
| 150 million years ago? | The ice melted and the Fir Bolg arrived in Ireland and bred with the Fomori. The Tuatha de Danaan arrived in Ireland and defeated the Fomori with the Four treasures of the people of Dana. | AWAb-2,-3 | 150 million years ago? |
| 15 million to 2 million years ago? | Ed born (probably). Ed becomes the Master Shark. The Song of the Twelve was first sung. (Is Ed old enough to have been there? That's very old.) [Source: DD's wizcast 28 July 2005] | DW-3 | 15 million to 2 million years ago? |
| >10,000 years ago | Trees went to war against the dark powers to ensure human intelligence happened. (The Battle of the Trees was shortly before the fall of Atlantis, says Ed.) | SYWTBAW-3 | >10,000 years ago |
| 10,000 years ago | Atlantis or Afállonë drowned after the Song failed. Ed was apparently there. For the consequences, see C. | DW-7 | 10,000 years ago |
| 7 Jul 1945 | Harry Callahan born (he's aged 41 in Holiday, months before his 42nd birthday). | DW-10,AWH-1 | 7 Jul 1970-74 |
| ? 1961? | Annie Callahan marries, has two sons (Todd and Alec) and a daughter ("About twenty-five years" before AWAb) | AWAb-2 | ? 1984? |
| ? 1966? | Annie divorces her husband, moves to Ireland, buys Ballyvolan (five years after her marriage) | AWAb-2 | ? 1989? |
| ? ? | Juan Rodriguez and Marina Bellario marry. | ?,EC | ? ? |
| ? ? | Harry Callahan and Betty Dunbar marry, to the surprise of none of their friends, who had been expecting them to realise sooner or later. | ?,EC | ? ? |
| ? ? 1968? | Helena born, based on her likely age in WD (leaving for college) | WD-4 | ? ? 1990-93? |
| ? ? 1971? | Carmela born, based on her age (15) in WD and that she must be at least 9 months older than Kit. | WD-4 | 6 November 1993-94? |
| ? Apr? 1972 | Nita born (EC, and her age, 13, in SYWTBAW) | EC, SYWTBAW-1 | 16 Apr 1995 |
| 25 Aug 1972 | Kit born (EC, and his age, 12, in SYWTBAW) | SYWTBAW-8 | 25 Aug 1995 |
| 20 Oct 1973 | Dairine is born. (Straight from EC; this makes her 11 in SYWTBAW) | EC, SYWTBAW-1 | 20 Oct 1996 |
| Sep 1978 | Nita starts infant school, aged six. Dairine learns the world can make you unhappy if you don't know things. | HW-2 | Sep 2001 |
| 7 Jul 1984 | Harry Callahan's 39th birthday. | DW-10,HW-1 | 7 Jul 2007-2009 |
| 25 Aug 1984 | Kit is 12. | SYWTBAW-8 | 25 Aug 2007 |
| 20 Oct 1984 | Dairine is 11. | SYWTBAW-1 | 20 Oct 2007 |
| ? Apr 1985 | Kit got his manual about a month before Nita. | SYWTBAW-2 | ? Apr 2008 |
| ? Apr? 1985 | Nita is 13. Her birthday seems to have been a month or less before SYWTBAW starts, as her father says he couldn't manage the bike she wanted "this month". | SYWTBAW-1 | 16 Apr 2008 |
| 28 Apr ? | Betty Callahan's birthday. | DW-10 | 28 Apr ? |
| 18 May 1985 26 May 1985 | So You Want To Be A Wizard © 1983 (Corgi 1991 repr 1992 NME 2012) C | 17 May 2008 25 May 2008 | |
| Sat, 18 May 1985 | Nita C gets her manual. (HW says that Nita got the manual in March, which doesn't fit the dates in DW, but does fit the spring start of this book.) First appearances of Dairine C, Harry C and Betty Callahan C. | SYWTBAW-1 | Sat, 17 May 2008 |
| Sun, 19 May 1985 | Learning the Speech C, the basics. Nita dreams of Fred C in Timeheart C. Nita and Kit C meet. Fred comes to Earth. | 1 | Sun, 18 May 2008 |
| Mon, 20 May 1985 | Nita and Kit meet Tom C, Carl C and Machu Picchu. | 2 | Mon, 19 May 2003 |
| Fri, 24 May 1985 | Liused C gives Nita her first wand C. A car C gives Kit his first wand. | 3 | Fri, 23 May 2003 |
| Sat, 25 May 1985 | Through the worldgate. C | 3 | Sat, 24 May 2003 |
| Sat, 25 May 1985 | "This is not a nice place." | 4 | Sat, 24 May 2003 |
| Sat, 25 May 1985 | Kit helps the Lotus Esprit C. They see the Lone Power C. | 5 | Sat, 24 May 2003 |
| Sat, 25 May 1985 | The Lotus rescues them. They meet the Eldest, a fireworm C, and get the Book of Night with Moon C. They cast a blank-cheque wizardry. (DW establishes the date that was cast.) | 6 | Sat, 24 May 2003 |
| Sat, 25 May 1985 | The Lone Power goes after Nita and Kit. The Lotus dies. They return to their universe. The trees and statues fight the Lone Power. Fred dies. Nita offers the Lone Power a chance for redemption. | 7 | Sat, 24 May 2003 |
| Sun, 26 May 1985 | Back to normal for now. | 8 | Sun, 25 May 2003 |
| Later | Ffairh restores the worldgate they used to a normal position. | EC | Later |
Well, that was fun.