Book 1 |
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2010 |
12th August |
Jack Leaves Canton. |
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24th August |
Jack is washed ashore on the Island. |
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1st September |
Day 9 on the island. |
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23rd December |
Day 123 – Jack is transported to the interior. |
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28th December |
Day 128 – Jack catches Jien Noi leaving the food parcel, and later arrives at Forest Meade. |
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30th December |
Arrival at Grimwaldi Rinns after swimming.
Jack is imprisoned that night. |
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31st December |
Jack is released by Jien Noi (Friday). |
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2011 |
1st January |
Ch 1 – Assimilation (Relative time-fix). |
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Mid-February |
Jack spends about 5 weeks in the city, this is not precisely defined. |
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Late February |
Days teaching at the hot springs – 6 days there before they go to the city - the rise of Sar Tan. |
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End of February |
Day 7 sees Jack return to the City, and then leave that night when dark. |
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Next Day |
Jack with n'Gnung and meet Won Long; Jinnie is told she will be executed midday the next day. |
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Next next Day |
Ch 7 – Jack rescues Jien Noi and escapes to the shore. This is late summer = correct in Southern Hemisphere. |
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Early March |
On the third day of their headland sojourn Sar Tan kills the Empress. Restoration. |
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Weeks pass… |
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18th April |
Harvest Moon 2011. |
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Ch 20 |
The Prince completed the Trials of Passage. |
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August 2011 |
Jack passes the point of being on the island for 1 year. |
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2012 |
Late February |
Many months pass with this short section. |
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6th April |
Harvest Moon 2012. |
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One year passes |
The story picks up again in spring 2013. |
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2013 |
Early March |
Jinnie starts acting strangely (Baby); Autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. |
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27th March |
Harvest Moon 2013 is early that year. Lunar date. |
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Marriage of Jack and the Empress. |
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Next Day |
They discover the Ring of the Ancestor, late at night. |
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29th March |
Discover the control room, Chapter 27. |
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They meet Ælthrelntheine via hologram, and learn of the impending attack. Ch. 28. |
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30th March |
3rd day after the Full Moon – 11.5 days until new Moon. |
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10th April (4 am) |
Theodosius Quinn invades and is defeated.
Jack meets the Eleventh and the Seventh. |
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Last Page |
Jack sends a note to Dawn. |
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Book 2 |
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Book 2 begins – 12th April 2013 |
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2013 continued |
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April 2013 |
Ælkræleinnoire arrives, they make slow progress understanding the now suspected spacecraft. |
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Late September |
The Giants arrive the day before Spring Festival. |
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19/20th September
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Spring Moon 2013. Ræm is born at Midnight of the Full Moon (Northern Hemisphere Harvest Moon). |
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22th September
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The Vernal Equinox, and beginning of the new Sun Calendar. |
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Several weeks pass: Chapters 11 – 14 span about 3-weeks, ill-defined. |
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Less than 2-months Pass quickly, a couple of paragraphs. |
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21st December
Summer Solstice |
The Giants are returned to the Himalayas; southern hemisphere seasonal time used. |
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2014 |
16th March |
The full Moon preceding Harvest Home. The phase of the Moon is correct, the eclipse of the Sun is artistic licence. |
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Return of The Ring of the Earth; the Shaman is restored, and the old religion reinstated. |
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21st June |
The Sword of Destiny is forged. |
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2nd July |
Jack and Kay fall comatose. |
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2015 |
7th December |
Kay wakes up. |
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12th December |
Henry is introduced to the plot. |
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16th December |
Jack and Kay put the spaceship back together (Arbitrary date). |
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28th December |
Jack visits Henry’s family. |
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2016 |
First Weekend |
Meeting with U.S. and Chinese Presidents. |
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11th January |
The first war with the Great Ogre. |
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12th January |
Nuclear attack on Bushehr. |
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Friday,
13th January |
A date mentioned in the book as reference, when interviewing the Trolls. |
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18th January |
The Trolls are granted Tribal status as The New Tenth. |
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23rd |
The Commandments of the Troll are agreed. |
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29th February |
Wedding of n'Gnung and Gung Loi. |
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Book 3 |
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Book 3 begins – 1st March 2016 |
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2016 continued |
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1st March |
Jack discovers Cynthia has cancer. |
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2nd March |
The Mexicans arrive.
The spacecraft is remodelled. |
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3rd March |
The Mexicans work, as the islanders sleep. |
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Days pass |
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More days pass |
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Circa 7th March |
Behrouz is found and transported back. Gary and Sheila arrive. |
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10th March |
The scientist's revelations of Gaia's Wrath. |
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11th March |
The last Arabian daybreak. |
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12th March |
Early hours, Bushehr gasfield blows.
Jack speaks with the Shaman at the end of the day. |
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Days later |
South Pars / Northfield blows; the world’s largest gasfield. |
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20th March |
Ghawar, the world’s largest oilfield blows. |
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Time speeds up gradually, as we warp into the future over the next couple of chapters. Notable: |
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Late March |
Many are rescued or protected: Billy and Gilly come to the island.
The Eden Project is protected. |
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End of March |
They discover the world is no longer in orbit around the Sun. |
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1st April |
They target the Middle East, the earth’s orbit is corrected. |
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Weeks pass Gaia's wrath subsides. |
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August |
NASA visits, they work with the international spacestation. |
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December |
Gung Loi gives birth to a boy, Zhong Zhi; Jinnie also to Jason. |
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2017 |
Late January |
Contact with the Pope established. |
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February |
Jack and Kay, supported by, and later superceded by Finity Gael, begin to unravel the Great Cobweb. |
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March |
The third spacecraft is discovered. |
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Kay spends a lot of this period researching hermeneutics. |
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11th April 2017 |
Harvest Moon. Weid Noi marries Ali, she was already with child. |
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August |
Won Long Dies. |
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October |
Weid Noi gives birth to a son, Wong Kai, the next Seer. |
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2018 |
March
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Lo Si dies. |
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July |
Ræm begins school. |
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Winter |
Timeline ill defined: Chapter 17, Masks of the Allegory. |
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Circa 2022 |
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Ræm begins learning Ancestor, and is educated at the University. |
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2023 |
December |
Only 90 million people left alive in the world. |
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2026 |
April |
Harvest Home celebrations attended by all the Tribes.
Ræm celebrates her 13th Birthday, and becomes the Shaman’s Apprentice. |
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2027 |
April |
Harvest Home sees the first Games of the Tribes.
The Great Ogre strikes as they return to their homelands. |
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2028 |
Olympiad |
The first officially planned Olympiad of the 12 Tribes. |
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2029
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The Emperor dies. |
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2031 |
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The future crew of the spacecraft begin training, Peni becomes Science Officer. |
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2033 |
September |
Ræm returns from her instruction with the Shaman. |
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An Ogre fortress is attacked, Kay and Jack almost die. |
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Jack has problems with the Core. |
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Spring Moon |
The fifth Olympiad, Jack competes in the marathon, a 5-way tie. The Games were moved from Harvest Moon to Spring Moon, hence the extra year. |
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2035 |
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7th Olympiad (abridged, deleted), Jack's team win the Cricket. |
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2036 |
Sunday, 5th October |
Spring Festival and the eighth Olympiad.
The final wars with the Great Ogre begin . |
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October |
The Ancestors are restored. |
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December |
Jack learns what happened when Taris landed on Gaia. |
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2037 |
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Both spacecraft fly. |
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Ræm marries Iydm. |
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The immaculate Conception. |
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2038 |
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Ræm and Iydm call their first child and daughter Eve Ning. |
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