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