Oct-15-2012, 05:00 AM (UTC)
Yes, extremely difficult to answer without spoilers but, WELCOME to thePlenty, Jundra. 
An instance where three characters chance to indirectly meet up with each other in Rain Wild Street, in the first half of Ship of Magic, tells us that at least two years have lapsed since the new arrival of one of those characters to Bingtown. This then equates to at least two years having elapsed since the final events that comprise the ending of Assassin's Quest and that moment in time of Ship of Magic.
Having just finished bookwork that near drove me mad (so I have numbers swilling about in my head and so am likely to be way off here!)...with fifteen years being the gap between Farseer and Tawny Man, it only stands to reason that LST also loosely spans that timeframe also, give or take the events of those two years where the character settles in to life on the Cursed Shores but the details of which we are not privy to? So, more likely thirteen years-ish by this thinking?
Will think on this some more.
While elements of Tawny Man and RWC overlap, this is not the case with LST and TM. Of course, a number of events spoken of in TM have taken place since the end of LST (a certain purchase of a certain animal on the return trip to the north by a certain character and also a gifting of certain items to that same character by a much larger character etc) but these would likely have been brief moments in time and would be a part of the fifteen years of separation of two characters in Tawny Man anyway. Can't discuss this much more without spoilers (think I'm walking a fine line already!
) but am happy to come back and discuss behind spoiler tags so we make sure that we have our facts right? Will have to look back over other threads too, at some stage, where we have discussed such things previously.
An instance where three characters chance to indirectly meet up with each other in Rain Wild Street, in the first half of Ship of Magic, tells us that at least two years have lapsed since the new arrival of one of those characters to Bingtown. This then equates to at least two years having elapsed since the final events that comprise the ending of Assassin's Quest and that moment in time of Ship of Magic.
Having just finished bookwork that near drove me mad (so I have numbers swilling about in my head and so am likely to be way off here!)...with fifteen years being the gap between Farseer and Tawny Man, it only stands to reason that LST also loosely spans that timeframe also, give or take the events of those two years where the character settles in to life on the Cursed Shores but the details of which we are not privy to? So, more likely thirteen years-ish by this thinking?
Will think on this some more. While elements of Tawny Man and RWC overlap, this is not the case with LST and TM. Of course, a number of events spoken of in TM have taken place since the end of LST (a certain purchase of a certain animal on the return trip to the north by a certain character and also a gifting of certain items to that same character by a much larger character etc) but these would likely have been brief moments in time and would be a part of the fifteen years of separation of two characters in Tawny Man anyway. Can't discuss this much more without spoilers (think I'm walking a fine line already!
) but am happy to come back and discuss behind spoiler tags so we make sure that we have our facts right? Will have to look back over other threads too, at some stage, where we have discussed such things previously.
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