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Re: Dresden Files: Series Timeline
« Reply #690 on: October 23, 2015, 02:52:05 PM »
Victor Sell's children, are they listed on the timeline? Not sure how old they were in Storm Front.
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Re: Dresden Files: Series Timeline
« Reply #691 on: October 23, 2015, 02:58:33 PM »
Not sure I saw them on the timeline, so in case they are not, I believe that Yuki Yosomori is about the same age as Carlos and Wild Bill Meyers is about a year younger.
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Re: Dresden Files: Series Timeline
« Reply #692 on: October 30, 2015, 08:53:46 PM »
Victor Sell's children, are they listed on the timeline? Not sure how old they were in Storm Front.
Page 43, post #657.  Exact ages aren't given in text, but close approximations are given.

Jenny was about roughly 12-13 and Billy ('a year or two younger') would have been ~10.
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Re: Dresden Files: Series Timeline
« Reply #693 on: June 10, 2016, 07:55:27 AM »
Any thoughts on where Jury Duty, the short story in the anthology 'Unbound', fits in? I imagine it's after Skin Game, since it has Harry moving his stuff from Demonreach into Molly's apartment?
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Re: Dresden Files: Series Timeline
« Reply #694 on: June 16, 2016, 07:36:04 AM »
What about Elaine?  She is starborn and it appears from their conversations together that Harry and Elaine are the same age or very close to it.  Was she born on the same day that Harry was?
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Re: Dresden Files: Series Timeline
« Reply #695 on: June 16, 2016, 02:13:06 PM »
What about Elaine?  She is starborn and it appears from their conversations together that Harry and Elaine are the same age or very close to it.  Was she born on the same day that Harry was?
Not the same day. I think either WOJ or the books say it was within a few months, though.
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Re: Dresden Files: Series Timeline
« Reply #696 on: June 28, 2016, 10:57:07 AM »
How old was Malcolm when he died?  This is how I Worked the math. Him being a little older than Copperfield puts Malcolm being born between 1950 and 1955. Harry was 6 when Malcolm died. So, 19 years before SF which takes place in 2001. That would be 1982-ish.  So, Malcolm was between 27 and 32 when he died. He would have been between 20 and 25 when Harry was conceived. Am I off or is there a way to narrow it down ?
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Re: Dresden Files: Series Timeline
« Reply #697 on: July 09, 2016, 01:17:15 AM »
I just came across this WoJ that gives an unsure date for Margret's mother's death (and thus a bracket on her birth)

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This WoJ seems to confirm that the 1812 New Madrid earthquake already on the timeline was associated with her death.
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Re: Dresden Files: Series Timeline
« Reply #698 on: July 10, 2016, 10:52:32 AM »
Which gives us an age for Margaret, since she'd then have probably been born around 1800 (give or take 2 years).
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Re: Dresden Files: Series Timeline
« Reply #699 on: July 10, 2016, 11:48:44 AM »
Two new dates in the timeline are the "birth" of Mavra ~600 years ago and Ebenezer becoming the  Blackstaff in 1884-5.

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Re: Dresden Files: Series Timeline
« Reply #700 on: July 10, 2016, 04:11:17 PM »
Which gives us an age for Margaret, since she'd then have probably been born around 1800 (give or take 2 years).

It certainly gives us a tidy age range! While we don't yet know exactly how old she was when her mother died, that WoJ makes me believe she was no older than her early teens, so she was likely born sometime between 1797 and 1810.  What most interests me is that this means she and Luccio are close to the same age. :D

Two new dates in the timeline are the "birth" of Mavra ~600 years ago and Ebenezer becoming the  Blackstaff in 1885-6.

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Re: Dresden Files: Series Timeline
« Reply #702 on: July 11, 2016, 02:26:19 PM »
It certainly gives us a tidy age range! While we don't yet know exactly how old she was when her mother died, that WoJ makes me believe she was no older than her early teens, so she was likely born sometime between 1797 and 1810.  What most interests me is that this means she and Luccio are close to the same age. :D

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Might be worth adding to the timeline, along with the Luccio Entry, "Circa 1800" a mention of Margaret's Birth.
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Re: Dresden Files: Series Timeline
« Reply #703 on: July 11, 2016, 05:53:22 PM »
Might be worth adding to the timeline, along with the Luccio Entry, "Circa 1800" a mention of Margaret's Birth.

I did so yesterday. :D

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Re: Dresden Files: Series Timeline
« Reply #704 on: July 11, 2016, 06:43:07 PM »
Time stamped link in new Q&A podcast for Eb gaining blackstaff

Timestamped link to Mavra WoJ (it covers a little more than her age, which is at the end of that answer)

Looking at Wikipedia, Krakatoa happened in 1883, so either Jim was mistaken about Eb's getting the Blackstaff, or there's some time-shenanigans going on (not completely crazy, since it sounds a little like what might have happened had the "banefire" gone off).

Either way, this seems to have been one of the first missions of Ebenezer as Blackstaff (perhaps the one in which his predecessor died?).


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