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Na-Gang
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 01 Mar 2008 : 11:17:07
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Does anyone know when these books are set? I looked in the GHotR but couldn't find any reference to them. Are they even considered canon?
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Na-Gang
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
348 Posts |
Posted - 02 Mar 2008 : 09:27:11
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
Yes, they are canon. All novels are (or will be) canon.
O Love's Novels Timeline sets them in 1366, the Year of the Staff.
OK cool, but that timeline isn't right because there's a gap of three years between the 2nd and 3rd books. |
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O Love
Acolyte
Germany
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Posted - 02 Mar 2008 : 12:13:50
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| Please elaborate! Since there are no given years/year names in the books (like in newer novels), I took that information from Wizards' own novel timeline. |
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Na-Gang
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
348 Posts |
Posted - 04 Mar 2008 : 22:28:49
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Originally posted by O Love
Please elaborate! Since there are no given years/year names in the books (like in newer novels), I took that information from Wizards' own novel timeline.
Aha, OK. Well, the books are quite vague about the passage of time for the most part with large sections of overland travel skipped over so there's never any concrete idea of how much time each book actually spans.
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Queen Brianna of Hartwick is stated as having been pregnant for three years (she's descended from giants so that's normal apparently) at the start of the third book. She fell pregnant around the middle of the second book.
I checked the Giantcraft book which relates the myths and histories of the region and giant-kind in Faerun, but there are no dates in that sourcebook either. Maybe this is a question that should be posted to Troy Denning himself... |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 05 Mar 2008 : 00:14:44
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Originally posted by Na-Gang
Queen Brianna of Hartwick is stated as having been pregnant for three years...
What a pain that must be. |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
--Richard Greene (letter to Time) |
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Na-Gang
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
348 Posts |
Posted - 05 Mar 2008 : 11:35:04
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Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
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Originally posted by Na-Gang
Queen Brianna of Hartwick is stated as having been pregnant for three years...
What a pain that must be.
===SPOILERS===
Imagine going through that, and then discovering that half of all giants want to kill your baby, and the other half want to kidnap him to recreate the Giant Empire of Ostoria. Then learning that your baby has two fathers - one, your beloved Firbolg husband, and two, the original and originator of all Ettins who drugged and essentially raped you. |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
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Posted - 05 Mar 2008 : 16:14:29
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| Yes, that would suck even more. |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
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Twilight Giants Trilogy
