Stormlight Archive Timeline (v2.4.12)
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Small updates to the timeline published tonight: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zq5bJoKE83ggDCjH43i1hZi0CIpB2iAx7v37zQPVFK0/edit#gid=856252766
Changelog:
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Added crude spoiler filter for References sheet. (So if you set the book filter on the Timeline sheet it will hide the events here as well. But note that it's not discriminatory about where sources come from, so people picky about spoilers should not rely on this.)
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Updated Instructions sheet.
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Fixed bug with calculation on multi-interval events. These are generally events which don't have a clear date... but I know they happen before one thing and after another. Rather than setting some manual value to place it between the two, I reference both events and have my database put it in the middle of the two. That way, if one of them gets altered later the dependent event will shift accordingly. My placement of the date previously took some of the error ranges into account, but I ran into an odd case where lopsided error and a small difference between the two referenced events was causing the "middle" event to be placed before the first. Whoops. It now just averages the two reference dates and lets the error fill in as needed on either side.
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Fixed discrepancy with Dalinar and Taravangian's visits to the Valley. This is a tricky one, and the most interesting change I've made. The previous version had some weird issues regarding these events. It involves RoW spoilers:
Spoiler
In Taravangian's first interlude in RoW he mentions that the "day of brilliance" was "seven years gone". I took this to mean it happened "over 7 years ago". Unfortunately this not only placed the event before my previously assumed Taravangian-Nightwatcher visit, but it also put the Diagram's creation before Dalinar visited the Valley. So... wrong because he needed to see Cultivation first, and wrong because we know Dalinar was the first human to get a visit from Cultivation in centuries. (according to her, during his visit)
I first decided that my previous assumption for Taravangian was wrong. It was based on an Oathbringer ch 34 quote about Taravangian having a strange illness 5 years back. I loosely tied this to his visit to the Valley. I've now decided it probably refers to the time after the creation of the Diagram. (He was probably in seclusion for a bit as they figured out what to do with the Diagram and how to deal with Taravangian's condition moving forward.) It also fits (barely) with the next assumption I made...
...Which was that "seven years gone" can reasonably mean as little as 6.5 years. So if you take the "five years ago" reference as 5.5 years and the "seven years ago" reference as 6.5 years, there's just BARELY some overlap. I'm not sure what the official timeline has to say about all of this, but I'm going to assume the Diagram was created in that little window. That's my best guess.
I also bumped the date of Dalinar's visit 2.5 months earlier, keeping it within the range of error I had allowed. (The event was "5.5 years ago" from the end of Oathbringer, so I've shifted it to be 5.75 years ago, with error adjusted to allow no more than that and as little as 5.25 years ago.) There were two reasons for this. The first is that I had is visit just a few weeks prior to the creation of the Diagram, and that just plain doesn't look right. The logic of the numbers makes sense, and the error ranges allowed more reasonable dates... but it just looks wrong on the timeline. Dalinar had to have visited earlier (and the Diagram was maybe created just a bit later). Adding to this, however, was the Eshonai flashback marking the arrival of the Alethi on the Shattered Plains. They arrive at the end of 1168 month 4 according to that flashback. And that's a good bit of time. Four whole months to gather their armies and march to the Shattered Plains (which are NOT very far from Alethkar) seems very reasonable. Dalinar was SUPPOSED to be arriving before the main armies (before his fake hold-up). There's no way he didn't make it to the Valley until month 7 of that year. The rest of the Alethi wouldn't just be wondering why Dalinar got held up. They'd be wondering if he was still alive.
Shifting his visit back to month 5 still seems a little odd, but it's better at least.
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Fixed Cord's birthday. I had placed her a bit older according to a Dawnshard quote, but someone noted that Oathbringer sneakily puts her as about 16.
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Added Gift's birthday. Someone else noted that Gift and Cord are twins, so knowing one birthday also gives the other's.
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Removed an event placing the Dawnshard finale in early 1175. Dawnshard happens late in 1174, so I think this is a very clear error. Probably a consequence of Dawnshard being written after RoW. I've added to the typo thread in case Dragonsteel missed it: https://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/93207-rhythm-of-war-typo-thread/?do=findComment&comment=1198400
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Removed a duplicate event from RoW. Interlude I-2 was showing up twice, on separate dates. I worked through the references I had and picked the better ones to leave just one event.
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Aaaaaand... probably some other small stuff that I forgot to make a record of.
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