Timeline Project!

[mycenaeth.livejournal.com]

Alright! This is my rough timeline for the Thief Series so far. There might be large gaps, I'm just setting up a skeleton for adding more stuff. From this point on, feel free to add details, or correct any mistakes.

I left the events in the books themselves un-covered. So those can be fleshed out if necessary. Things in (parentheses) or with question marks are things I am not certain of and may need to be looked up. =3

Since I haven't had the time to look up all the details, my guesses might be a bit off (concerning ages the books mention and other stuff). Everyone is welcome to help so comments and queries are mightily encouraged! I will update the timeline as we go along and eventually it will become a more formal thread in the Megaron. =3



Eddis allows Attolia to send armies through the Pass to Sounis
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Invaders are driven out of Sounis (and Attolia?)
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Attolia attacks Sounis?
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Eddis does not allow Sounis to send armies through the Pass to Attolia
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The Great Plague hits Attolia > The Magus' family dies on a farm on the border of Sounis/Eddisian foothills. Takes place 30 years before The Thief.
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Magus lives with foster family for some time
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Magus leaves the farm and goes to (Sounis?) to study
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Irene is born
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Helen is born
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Eugenides is born
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Sophos is born?
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Helen and Temenecus begin fencing lessons by age 9.
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Eugenides begins training to be a thief under his grandfather (possibly also begins miltary (sword) training at this time)
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Eugenides sees Attolia dancing in the garden
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Eugenides' mother falls off roof of (Eddis' Palace?) coming in the window at night after dancing and dies. Eugenides is age 10 (according to The Thief).
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Attolia's brother dies falling off of a horse (suspiciously). She breaks her favorite amphora of perfume.
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Attolia is engaged to the son of her father's most powerful baron and goes to live in father-in-law's house one month after her brother dies. She is engaged one year and six weeks. Her father is assassinated just before she is married.
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Attolia poisons her husband with coleus in her wine cup on her wedding night and becomes Queen with Teleus' help.
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Eddis becomes Queen when her two brothers die of fever. Also has one younger sister.
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Eugendides fights with father in front of the court and tears up his army enrollment papers. Takes place two years before The Thief.
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Eugenides' grandfather dies (throws self down stairwell?)
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Ambiades apprenticed to the Magus
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Sophos apprenticed to the Magus
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Ambiades begins taking Attolian bribes
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Sounis sends marriage proposal to Eddis mentioning Hamiathes' Gift
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Eugenides goes to Sounis
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Events of The Thief take place. Eugenides probably age 15-17? (general consensus says about 16) Eddis has been on her throne about 5 years at the end of The Thief.
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Eugenides begins sneaking around Attolia's palace and generally bugging her
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Events of The Queen of Attolia take place over about 2 years.
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Marriage of Eugenides and Attolia
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Events of The King of Attolia take place over about 3 months.


Some events may be out of order... etc. etc. XP

This is just to get us started! You may begin critiquing now... *grin*

~ Aesa

Comments

[anon8.livejournal.com]

When I read The Thief, I kinda felt it was set in ancient Greece, or a fantasy world based on ancient Greece. So, along those lines, girls got married in their teens back then and boys started training when they were flexible little kids (think Spartans? but less severe?). Plus, being "back then" and a "Mediterranean country" I decided "in the privacy of my own skull" that the only things to drink were wine, water, and maybe juice = no minimum drinking age. So, if girls can marry at oh, let's say 14-16 and be engaged younger, I'd say guys could join/be drafted into the army around 14-16. So if you can die for your country, surely you could drink with a rowdy bunch of soldiers and tavern people? Besides, the profit-minded tavern owner isn't exactly going to tell a teenage to watch his intake ;).

Alternatively, maybe he was a little on the young side in the Eddisian Guard scenario because he was very talented, and maybe being a part of the royal family meant that other people thought he ought to be trained to guard his own cousin?

[mycenaeth.livejournal.com]

All excellant points! =3