OFFICIAL Craft Sequence Timeline (translated)
I mentioned in my last article that there is an official Craft Sequence timeline out there. I’ve never seen it in English, but I knew it was in the inside cover of the German version of Three Parts Dead.
Turns out I should have checked said German version before I spent so long working on my own timeline because it just…tells us most of what I worked out. Well done me.
HOWEVER, as well as some of the dates and timeframes we get some brand new information about the God Wars and other off-page world events, so that’s fun.
I have now translated said German version for your pleasure. You’re welcome. Note that I am a) far from fluent, and b) guessed some words from context or used a dictionary, so there may be a couple of dodgy word choices. If you’re fluent, feel free to correct me! Photos of the German are at the bottom of this article.
Without further ado, here is the OFFICIAL published Craft Sequence timeline, according to Word of Gladstone.
Craft Sequence Timeline
-492 The Rise of the Immortal Faith (faith of the Telomeri Empire, connected to vampires as per Raz’s exposition in Four Roads Cross)
0 Fall of the Telomeri Empire
993 The Iskari reach the New World
1100 Contact Wars
1114 Creation of the Fang Fjords
Destruction of Quechaltan
1133 Dresediel Lex becomes the capital city of the Quechal peoples
1356 Publication of “Das Thaumas”
1359 First purge of Craftspeople in the Old World
1363 Siege of Alikand
Creation of the God Wastes
The God Wars begin according to general opinion (?)
1403 Fall of the old dynasty (not sure which dynasty in which country!)
1423 Ms Kevarian born
1440 Siege / fall of Dresediel Lex
1443 Makawe’s fleet leaves Kavekana
1452 The battle of Kho Khatang
1450 Penitents are created in Kavekana (date not a typo - in this order in the book)
1459 Seril is slayed in battle
Guardians go mad (in Alt Coulumb)
The last embers of war begin to cool (very poetic)
1460 Deathless: City’s Thirst
Ms Kevarian’s first assignment in Alt Coulumb (the Seril case)
1463 Ms Kevarian in Dresediel Lex (pre-series)
1472 Caleb Altemoc born
1478 Tara Abernathy born
1483 Skittersill Rising
Last First Snow
1489 Koschei takes ultimate control of the Zur
1490 Choice of the Deathless begins
1497 Choice of the Deathless ends
1499 Civil war in the Gleb intensifies
1500 Two Serpents Rise
1502 Three Parts Dead
1503 Four Roads Cross
1504 Full Fathom Five
1507 Ruin of Angels
So, what have we learned?
Official year dating begins at the fall of the Telomeri Empire - read: fall of Rome analogue
Some of the events of the God Wars surprised me - I knew the Liberation of Dresediel Lex wasn’t the end of the God Wars, but I was surprised it happened SO LONG before Makawe even left Kavekana and Seril fell
My span of the series was close to correct - I said 23 years, and it looks like 24 here
I put Caleb and Tara as 5 years apart, but it’s 6 - however, based on the references I quoted in my first article, it looks like Caleb turned 11 in the same year as Last First Snow, but later in the year
I was a decade or so off placing City’s Thirst
I was 100% off with dates for Choice of the Deathless, but @NeoTiamat on Twitter was right on with their correction (see below)
What do you think? Is there anything else you wish was included in the timeline? Did I mis-translate anything? Let me know in the comments, on Twitter, or on r/CraftSequence