Codex Alera Timeline

[Priscellie]

The Goddess is down with that!

Mmmmm, crepes.

[belgarion]

The Goddess is down with that!

Mmmmm, crepes.

No No, Junior's Blintzes!!!!
More filling!!! Sticks to everything!!

Mikey

[Priscellie]

Veselka also does awesome blintzes, but I'm a crepes girl.  And a cupcake girl.  And a pie girl.  Mmmmm, food.  And I'm going to stop this off-topic chatter in this thread and direct it here instead.

[blackwolf]

Well here is an accuall question on the timeline, and maybe someone can help me with the answer,


in the epilogue of FLF

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it sais that it is ALMOST 1 year later, however it is only when a Marat gets pregnet by another marat, and human pregnantacy is 9 months. she found out with about 1 month to go till land fall. and spent about maybe 2-3 weeks traveling to riva from land fall where Tavi found out about the kid. so at minimum by the time tavi finds out about the baby, Kitai is already 6 weeks pregnant. so is her pregnantcy 13 months or am I missing some point here

[belgarion]

Veselka also does awesome blintzes, but I'm a crepes girl.  And a cupcake girl.  And a pie girl.  Mmmmm, food.  And I'm going to stop this off-topic chatter in this thread and direct it here instead.

Sorry. got sidetracked. Carry on! As you were!
I got kinda lost here once we got into a lot of physics.

Are we saying that the extent of time on Alera is not equivalent to the extent of time on Earth or are we saying that they are roughly equivalent? Or that it doesn't matter since it's fiction and only loosely based on hard science allowing the readers a degree of faith?
I thought that's what the discussion was about? Maybe not? Got confused even though I was trying to follow the discussion.

M.

[Quantus]

Well here is an accuall question on the timeline, and maybe someone can help me with the answer,


in the epilogue of FLF

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it sais that it is ALMOST 1 year later, however it is only when a Marat gets pregnet by another marat, and human pregnantacy is 9 months. she found out with about 1 month to go till land fall. and spent about maybe 2-3 weeks traveling to riva from land fall where Tavi found out about the kid. so at minimum by the time tavi finds out about the baby, Kitai is already 6 weeks pregnant. so is her pregnantcy 13 months or am I missing some point here

At the time of the Epilogue, it had only been 6 months since "Third Calderon"

[Shecky]

Well here is an accuall question on the timeline, and maybe someone can help me with the answer,


in the epilogue of FLF

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it sais that it is ALMOST 1 year later, however it is only when a Marat gets pregnet by another marat, and human pregnantacy is 9 months. she found out with about 1 month to go till land fall. and spent about maybe 2-3 weeks traveling to riva from land fall where Tavi found out about the kid. so at minimum by the time tavi finds out about the baby, Kitai is already 6 weeks pregnant. so is her pregnantcy 13 months or am I missing some point here

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Shorter than that. Their kid is already born by the end of the story; remember how they took "Desi" with them down the aisle?

[blackwolf]

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Shorter than that. Their kid is already born by the end of the story; remember how they took "Desi" with them down the aisle?

Quote from Epilogue

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Tavi to Ehren" What's happened to us ehren Last year we were marching with leagions and saving the relm, Now we are planning roads and implimenting policies" to me this means that it has been almost a year, or else he would have said something liek 6 months ago, or 3 months ago, not LAST YEAR

Also the kid was Born only a week prior, that is why I was asking about the timeline

[Priscellie]

Depends on how their calendar is structured.  In April, I'll refer to something that happened last October as "Last Year," and that's six months.  Especially if something momentous has happened since then, like the end of a freaking war that led them to restructure their entire system of recording time!

Remember, people don't think in precise measurements when they speak.  Grant fictional characters the same leeway.

[blackwolf]

Maybe we're just different Pris, because If something happened 6 months ago I accually refer to it as 6 months ago, It accually has to be close to and I mean 10-12 months before I refer to something as LAST YEAR, Which could also be the source of my confusion

[Sebastian]

I tend to refer to stuff by season, last spring, last winter etc. and let the years sort themselves.

[Shecky]

See? You both just proved that it's an individual thing. Would you argue it if your friend said "last year" in April when referring to October? No, you'd understand what they meant.

[blackwolf]

As I said Sheck, I Guess that because of how we say things is different it could also be because of my confusion

[Shecky]

As I said Sheck, I Guess that because of how we say things is different it could also be because of my confusion

Yup, perfectly reasonable. Which is why I always try to think of how others might be reading things. Not always successful, to be sure, but it does help a good bit.

[Quantus]

Im looking through the epiogue and Im not seeing this refernce to Last Year you guys are talking about, where is it?  I see several references to how it was six months ago

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"After six months, most of the feral Vord had starved to death"

  or later

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"It was the only way Alera could appear to him.  In the last six months since Third Calderon she had continued fading away."

  The only reference to "last year" is "Last year we were marching with legions saving the Realm"  which has been true since CF.