(Oct-15-2012, 08:33 AM (UTC))thul Wrote: so, it seems we've fairly well placed both the Farseer trilogy, the tawny man books and the rain wild books.

Farseer would be first, with tawny man being placed some 15 or so years after it. for the most part, about 5-6 years pass before rain wild.

(Oct-15-2012, 08:33 AM (UTC))thul Wrote: It would not be all that unlikely that the Liveship books are several years after the Farseer books, considering that (spoiler)
[spoiler="tawny man & liveship class spoiler"]Fitz not only visited the rain wilds, but also went to bingtown, without encountering the fool. This means that the fool would not have gone to the rain wilds instantly.

put say, 4 years into that part. Then add in a small break between his leaving and the fool, a.k.a. amber coming south. Add a couple of years for amber to settle in before books start. That makes about 7 years. The liveship books take a few years to pass, say three. That brings the total to 10 years. This would indicate that tawny man starts 5 years after liveship ends. This seems a bit odd, as the information spread to the duchies about the rain wilders work with dragons is neither correct nor reliable. Even in a society as disconnected as RotE, at least some reliable information ought to have filtered north in a span of five years. perhaps shifting liveship ahead a year or two would be more likely.

perhaps asking the tangle leader is the solution?[/spoiler]

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Fitz was drawn to Bingtown and particularly Rain Wild Street as this is the region where Fool was at the time. It was only the magic of the street that prevented him from actually venturing down it...much the same as how he avoided the path of Others' Island. Fitz was also drawn back by the land which was calling him, namely Kelsingra etc, and this calling saw he and Nighteyes attempt their trip up the Rain River, but I think Fool's presence there was also drawing him, given their (by then) well-established Skill link/bond.

The two years I previously spoke of, from the end of the Red Ships War to the indirect meeting up of Brashen, Althea and Amber outside Amber's shop, was the two years that it took for Amber to find her feet in Bingtown, selling her wares in the small shop before relocating to Rain Wild Street. We are not privy to what took place in those two years but Brashen had noted that, up to that point where he and Althea had seen her in her shop window, Amber had been settled in Bingtown for two years. Likely she fled there after Regal had attempted to confer lands and a title on Fool following his actions in leading the simulacra back to Buckkeep etc.

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Dutiful is presumably born approx 9 months (unless fitz is completely wrong about his paternity!) after the end of the farseer trilogy and is 14 at the beginning of fool's errand therefore the gap is 15 years give or take a few months.

The fool states in golden fool (when discussing the Bingtown delegates with fitz) it is two years since he was on the rain wild river and this is after the dragons are hatched so that would perhaps indicate TM starts a couple of years after LT ends given that GF probably covers several months (there is a line in which Fitz says something about spending 6 months teaching Dutiful & being Lord Golden's servant)

The reason I think there is a 6 year gap between LT and dragon keeper is because Thymara saw the dragons emerge from their cocoon and she says this occurs five years earlier when she was almost 11

(Oct-15-2012, 02:22 PM (UTC))thul Wrote: the part about 15 years wasn't something 'thul thought up. It strikes these beings as a bit odd too. Seems too long.

The entire post above was based on that "15 year gap between Farseer&tawny = true". If that is incorrect, then the numbers would have to be modified. Mostly by shortening gap on each side of liveship books.