Dresden Files: Series Timeline

[Todjaeger]

Perhaps I've missed this, but the timeline doesn't have an entry on when the Culling of mortals with minor/untrained talent by the White Court started.  From Chapter 11 of White Night, it seems to have started about a year before the events in White Night.  Basically right around the time of Something Borrowed,  or perhaps just a little bit before.

-Cheers

[Quantus]

This may be a bit whimsical, but there's a WOJ that says Demonreach got its limp from the Glacier that carved out the Great Lakes, which happened when the Laurentide ice sheet retreated, some 10,000 Years ago.  Not long ago at all, from Sue's Point of View

[AzrieldeLeon]

Looking ahead...there's supposed to be what, 20-25 books in the series? If Harry's 37 in Changes, he's going to be almost 50 when the series ends, assuming the current trend of roughly one adventure per year, book-verse, right?

[Katarn]

*Turn Coat:

He (Harry) was not truly your apprentice.  You kept watch over him for a mere two years.

This would support Harry living with McCoy for 2 rather than 3 years, but it's possible Mai was misinformed (a little unlikely given the amount of attention Harry got), or forgot it was 3.  Thoughts?

*Also, this might not fit the timeline, the DFRPG casefile "Neutral Grounds" would take place in 2003 or 2004.  Reasoning:  The character Maria Emana fled then-Zaire during the civil war (read: First Congo War) 7 years ago.  That conflict took place 1996-1997, placing the casefile at 2003 or 2004.

[binz]

Possibly I'm just interpreting incorrectly, but doesn't Storm Front take place in (lateish) March, not April?

Re: Anyway, it had been a slow month. A slow pair of months, actually. My rent from February didn’t get paid until the tenth of March, and it was looking like it might be even longer until I got caught up for this month. mid Chapter One [sorry, epubs only right now], and It was cool and windy, like it usually is in March, and she wore a long coat that covered her pantsuit. from the beginning of Chapter Two.

[lovejoy69]

Possibly I'm just interpreting incorrectly, but doesn't Storm Front take place in (lateish) March, not April?

Re: Anyway, it had been a slow month. A slow pair of months, actually. My rent from February didn’t get paid until the tenth of March, and it was looking like it might be even longer until I got caught up for this month. mid Chapter One [sorry, epubs only right now], and It was cool and windy, like it usually is in March, and she wore a long coat that covered her pantsuit. from the beginning of Chapter Two.

A full year before I looked online for Jim Butcher stuff and found this forum I had first started reading the Dresden Files. I have made my own simple document, strictly for my own personal use, for two or three authors where I plan to read several related books of theirs and wanted to keep track of when each novel takes place, significant events occur, major characters are introduced to the storyline, that kind of stuff. From that info, not from the official timeline here on the forum, I had put down when Storm Front appeared to begin per its info in-text. Like you, I had Storm Front as beginning in March.

However, I do keep to the forefront of my mind that this forum timeline is one to which Jim has always had access. If he's left it as saying April without making any comment to the contrary, I kinda figure author trumps plain ol' me for knowing the straight dope. (Not to mention Timeline Chick and Industrious Little Gnome too, She doesn't do sloppy or casual work. She's rather amazingly correct as to details.) 

[Priscellie]

Possibly I'm just interpreting incorrectly, but doesn't Storm Front take place in (lateish) March, not April?

Re: Anyway, it had been a slow month. A slow pair of months, actually. My rent from February didn’t get paid until the tenth of March, and it was looking like it might be even longer until I got caught up for this month. mid Chapter One [sorry, epubs only right now], and It was cool and windy, like it usually is in March, and she wore a long coat that covered her pantsuit. from the beginning of Chapter Two.

Huh.  You're exactly right!  I have no idea where I got April.  Thanks!

[Serack]

A full year before I looked online for Jim Butcher stuff and found this forum I had first started reading the Dresden Files. I have made my own simple document, strictly for my own personal use, for two or three authors where I plan to read several related books of theirs and wanted to keep track of when each novel takes place, significant events occur, major characters are introduced to the storyline, that kind of stuff. From that info, not from the official timeline here on the forum, I had put down when Storm Front appeared to begin per its info in-text. Like you, I had Storm Front as beginning in March.

However, I do keep to the forefront of my mind that this forum timeline is one to which Jim has always had access. If he's left it as saying April without making any comment to the contrary, I kinda figure author trumps plain ol' me for knowing the straight dope. (Not to mention Timeline Chick and Industrious Little Gnome too, She doesn't do sloppy or casual work. She's rather amazingly correct as to details.)

Jim has actually said if someone has a question about the timeline, they are better off asking Priscellie, since she keeps better track of it than he does (heck I think that's how she became a beta)

[Priscellie]

Heh, yup.  Just after WN was released, I pointed out that Molly had somehow celebrated two birthdays in the ten-month span between "Proven Guilty" and "White Night" and coyly floated that if Jim needed a Timeline beta...

[lovejoy69]

Heh, yup.  Just after WN was released, I pointed out that Molly had somehow celebrated two birthdays in the ten-month span between "Proven Guilty" and "White Night" and coyly floated that if Jim needed a Timeline beta...

And thus a proto-goddess grew into a glorious Goddess in her own right, complete with cult devotees.

[Arjan]

*Turn Coat:This would support Harry living with McCoy for 2 rather than 3 years, but it's possible Mai was misinformed (a little unlikely given the amount of attention Harry got), or forgot it was 3.  Thoughts?

Everything between two and three will be rounded up or down depending on the personal agenda of the one talking.

[Orladdin]

Hey, Priscellie, is there any chance that this timeline might get the glossy-treatment and a printed copy one of these days?  I'd love to be able to purchase a wall-scroll of the timeline... maybe through the JB store?

[Priscellie]

Hey, Priscellie, is there any chance that this timeline might get the glossy-treatment and a printed copy one of these days?  I'd love to be able to purchase a wall-scroll of the timeline... maybe through the JB store?

That might be fun!  Not sure if there would be enough interest to justify the time and expense, though.

[Tarion]

*Turn Coat:This would support Harry living with McCoy for 2 rather than 3 years, but it's possible Mai was misinformed (a little unlikely given the amount of attention Harry got), or forgot it was 3.  Thoughts?

Mai is known as "Ancient".  Odds are, a few years either way could slip by her attention.  They probably start to slide together pretty well once you're more than a few hundred years old. 

[lovejoy69]

That might be fun!  Not sure if there would be enough interest to justify the time and expense, though.

Conceivably another Kiva support project if the pricing could be kept in an accessible range? Though 'Cellie might have difficulty carving enough time away from other needs this year.