[anzalover]

Ok. I'm a bit confused and was hoping someone could shed some light....

I'm a bit confused as to where Midnight Tides fits into the grand timeline of the other books... Does it continue straight after the previous book ended or is it more like an offshoot book talking about events of the past?

If anyone could shed some light, I'd appreciate it.



Oh, and does anyone know why book 5 came out 6 months after book 6? ^^

[Danyah]

The timeline and other goodies compiled by some people on this forum.


Here:
---> Encyclopaedia Malazica <------

[anzalover]

Ah. Thanks very much. I'll take a look at the link.

[Werthead]

The timeline is reasonable. Midnight Tides takes place circa 2 (but more likely 3 years) before Reaper's Gale and the timeline more or less works out on that basis. We know more than a year passes between the events of The Bonehunters and Reaper's Gale, and all events up to the end of The Bonehunters take place in 1164, with the possibility of some overlap into 1165. Reaper's Gale thus takes place in late 1165 or early-to-mid 1166.

Spoiler

After the events of Reaper's Gale there has to follow the consolidation of the Empire, the building or at least gathering and adapting of the fleets and then time for them to travel around the globe, find their champions and then return to Lether. We don't know what route the 14th took on its way to Lether, however. Curiously, although the Letherii headed west from Seven Cities and then presumably south-west across Malazworld's largest ocean, they only arrived a few weeks at best before the 14th arrived, and they seem to have taken the far more confused and possibly longer eastward route around Korelri, Jacuruku and Assail before heading to Lether.

There is of course a problem with the 3-year hypothesis, namely that in that case, Fear and co. spent a truly ludicrous amount of time on the road traversing a mere thousand miles or so.