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Chronology

The Spellmonger series timeline — book windows, the Callidore calendar, and POV overlaps

Series Timeline

Every book plotted against the wiki's year count (Year 0 = the Boval invasion; full numbering notes at the bottom of the page). Overlapping books stack. Colors mark the POV character. Click any bar to jump to that year's details.

Minalan Tyndal Rondal Pentandra Other / ensemble +N = extra POVs
Year 0
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6
Year 7
Year 8
Year 9
Year 10
Year 11
pre-coronation
Rard Y1
Rard Y2
Rard Y3
Rard Y4
Rard Y5
Rard Y6
Rard Y7
Rard Y8
Rard Y9
Rard Y10
1 Spellmonger 2 Warmage 3 Magelord 4 Knights Magi 5 High Mage 6 Journeymage 7 Enchanter 8 Court Wizard 9 Shadowmage 10 Necromancer +3 11 Thaumaturge 12 Arcanist 13 Footwizard 14 Hedgewitch +1 14.5 The Mad Mage of Sevendor 15 Marshal Arcane +17 16 Preceptor 17 Practical Adept 17.5 The Golden Goblin 18 Seamage 19 Theurge 1.7 Victory Soup (short story) 1.8 The River Mists of Talry (short story) 1.9 The Spellmonger's Wedding (short story) 1.95 The Spellmonger's Honeymoon (novella) 1.97 The Road to Sevendor (short story) +1 3.3 The Secret of Westwood Hall (short story) 3.4 The Wizard of Birchroot Bridge (short story) 3.6 The Iron Ring (short story) +3 9.5 The Spellmonger's Yule (short story) 2.7 Hawkmaiden 3.1 Hawklady 17.6 The Talon and the Flame +2

Hover any bar for its exact date range; click it to jump to that year below. Gold dots along the top are major events — hover to identify, click to open the event page. Books on the same row never overlap in time — stacked rows are simultaneous stories.

Year 0
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6
Year 7
Year 8
Year 9
Year 10
Year 11
pre-coronation
Rard Y1
Rard Y2
Rard Y3
Rard Y4
Rard Y5
Rard Y6
Rard Y7
Rard Y8
Rard Y9
Rard Y10
Minalan
Tyndal
Rondal
Tyndal/Rondal
Pentandra
Other
1 Spellmonger 2 Warmage 3 Magelord 4 Knights Magi 5 High Mage 6 Journeymage 7 Enchanter 8 Court Wizard 9 Shadowmage 10 Necromancer +3 11 Thaumaturge 12 Arcanist 13 Footwizard 14 Hedgewitch +1 14.5 The Mad Mage of Sevendor 15 Marshal Arcane +17 16 Preceptor 17 Practical Adept 17.5 The Golden Goblin 18 Seamage 19 Theurge 1.7 Victory Soup (short story) 1.8 The River Mists of Talry (short story) 1.9 The Spellmonger's Wedding (short story) 1.95 The Spellmonger's Honeymoon (novella) 1.97 The Road to Sevendor (short story) +1 3.3 The Secret of Westwood Hall (short story) 3.4 The Wizard of Birchroot Bridge (short story) 3.6 The Iron Ring (short story) +3 9.5 The Spellmonger's Yule (short story) 2.7 Hawkmaiden 3.1 Hawklady 17.6 The Talon and the Flame +2

Each POV character has their own lane. Bars marked with a +N badge feature additional POV characters, listed in the tooltip.

Year 0

Book 1
Spellmonger
Minalan POV
Baismas (late summer, Berry Month), Year 0  →  Friyamas (late winter, Cold Month), Year 1

Year 1

Book 2
Warmage
Minalan POV
Delsolmas (Midsummer), Year 1  →  Gespamas (Gleaning Month, mid-autumn), Year 1
Book 1.7
Victory Soup (short story)
Minalan POV
Colitasmas (early autumn), Year 1  →  Gespamas, Year 1
Book 2.7
Hawkmaiden
Dara POV
Colitasmas (autumn), Year 1  →  Fincmas (Snowstone Yule), Year 2
Book 1.8
The River Mists of Talry (short story)
Tyndal POV
Fincmas (winter), Year 1  →  Geledesmas, Year 2
Book 1.9
The Spellmonger's Wedding (short story)
Minalan POV
Fincmas (winter), Year 1  →  Geledesmas, Year 2

Year 2

Book 1.95
The Spellmonger's Honeymoon (novella)
Minalan POV
Geledesmas (winter), Year 2  →  Geledesmas, Year 2
Book 1.97
The Road to Sevendor (short story)
Other POV (+ Lesana (village hedgewitch))
Geledesmas, Year 2  →  Numas (Snow Month), Year 2
Book 3
Magelord
Minalan POV
Numas (Snow Month, winter), Year 2  →  Fincmas (Spinning Month, late autumn), Year 2
Book 3.1
Hawklady
Dara POV
Gespamas (Magic Fair), Year 2  →  Geledesmas (Yule), Year 4

Year 3

Book 4
Knights Magi
Tyndal/Rondal POV
Numas (post-Yule winter), Year 3  →  Esfonmas (Melt Month, early spring), Year 4
Book 5
High Mage
Minalan POV
Friyamas (late winter, Cold Month), Year 3  →  Aradamas (Spring Equinox, Plow Month), Year 4
Book 3.3
The Secret of Westwood Hall (short story)
Minalan POV
Esfonmas (spring), Year 3  →  Aradamas, Year 3
Book 3.4
The Wizard of Birchroot Bridge (short story)
Rondal POV
Floramas (summer), Year 3  →  Tallarmas, Year 3
Book 3.6
The Iron Ring (short story)
Other POV (+ Sastan, Antrig, Gos the Feather)
Fincmas (winter), Year 3  →  Esfonmas (spring), Year 4

Year 4

Book 6
Journeymage
Minalan POV
Floramas (Flower Month, late spring), Year 4  →  Colitasmas (Autumn Equinox, Luin's Day), Year 4
Book 7
Enchanter
Minalan POV
Gespamas (late autumn, Gleaning Month, Sevendor Magic Fair), Year 4  →  Baismas (late summer, Berry Month), Year 5
Book 8
Court Wizard
Pentandra POV
Gespamas (late autumn), Year 4  →  Baismas (late summer), Year 5

Year 5

Book 9
Shadowmage
Tyndal/Rondal POV
Geledesmas (Yule, Frost Month), Year 5  →  Fincmas (Spinning Month, late autumn / Festival for the Dead), Year 5
Book 9.5
The Spellmonger's Yule (short story)
Minalan POV
Fincmas (Yule), Year 5  →  Geledesmas, Year 6

Year 6

Book 10
Necromancer
Minalan POV (+ Tyndal, Rondal, Dara)
Numas (post-Yule winter, Snow Month), Year 6  →  Gespamas (late autumn), Year 6

Year 7

Book 11
Thaumaturge
Minalan POV
Numas (late winter), Year 7  →  Geledesmas (Yule, Frost Month), Year 8

Year 8

Book 12
Arcanist
Minalan POV
Numas (Snow Month, two days before Briga's Day), Year 8  →  Floramas (Flower Month, late spring), Year 8
Book 14
Hedgewitch
Pentandra POV (+ Rondal)
Numas (Snow Month, around Briga's Day), Year 8  →  Delsolmas (Midsummer, Sun Month) - Antimei's prophetic vision, Year 8
Book 13
Footwizard
Minalan POV
Tallarmas (Mow Month, summer), Year 8  →  Delsolmas (Midsummer, Sun Month), Year 8
Book 14.5
The Mad Mage of Sevendor
Minalan POV
22nd Baismas (late summer), Year 8 (Rard Year 9)  →  26th Gespamas (mid-autumn), Year 8
Book 15
Marshal Arcane
Minalan POV (+ Alurra, Gatina, Atopol, Rondal, Pentandra, Lorcus, Dara, Terleman, Festaran, Astyral, Taren, Arlastan, Lilastien, Ruderal, Moudrost, Alya, Tavard)
Baismas (Berry Month, late summer), Year 8  →  Numas (Snow Month, week after the Yule battle), Year 9

Year 9

Book 16
Preceptor
Minalan POV
Friyamas (Cold Month, late winter, weeks after Yule), Year 9  →  Tallarmas (Mow Month, early summer), Year 9
Book 17.6
The Talon and the Flame
Dara POV (+ Arlastan, Festaran)
Baismas (late summer), Year 9  →  Geledesmas (Yule), Year 10
Book 17
Practical Adept
Minalan POV
Baismas (Berry Month, late summer / early autumn) - Tyndal & Rondal's double wedding at Vanador, Year 9  →  Numas (Snow Month, looking toward Spring), Year 10
Book 17.5
The Golden Goblin
Tyndal/Rondal POV
Early winter, Year 9 (provisional)  →  Late winter, Year 10 (provisional)

Year 10

Book 18
Seamage
Minalan POV
Esfonmas (Melt Month, early spring), Year 10  →  Tallarmas (Mow Month, high summer), Year 10
Book 19
Theurge
Minalan POV
Delsolmas (late summer), Year 10  →  Geledesmas (deep winter), Year 11

Books listed chronologically by start date, grouped by Year. Each entry shows POV and the season-anchored span.

The Callidore Calendar

Twelve months in four seasons. Days are 26 hours long. Holy days and equinoxes anchor the in-story dating.

Winter
Geledesmas
Frost Month
Winter Solstice (Yule); Festival for Orvatas
Numas
Snow Month
Briga's Day
Friyamas
Cold Month
Spring
Esfonmas
Melt Month
Duin's Day
Aradamas
Plow Month
Spring Equinox (Ishi's Day)
Floramas
Flower Month
Summer
Tallarmas
Mow Month
Trygg's Day
Delsolmas
Sun Month
Midsummer Solstice (Huin's Day)
Baismas
Berry Month
Autumn
Colitasmas
Harvest Month
Autumn Equinox (Luin's Day)
Gespamas
Gleaning Month
Fincmas
Spinning Month
Festival for the Dead

Year by Year

Each year of the series with the books set in it and the major events that happen.

Year 0

Boval Invasion (Spellmonger)
Books set in Year 0:
  • Book 1 — Spellmonger (Minalan POV; Baismas (late summer, Berry Month), Year 0 → Friyamas (late winter, Cold Month), Year 1 )
    Opens in late summer of Year 0 with Minalan spellmongering at Boval Vale; the gurvani host descends in autumn, the long siege runs through winter, and the book ends with the river escape at the close of winter Year 1. Spans roughly six months of action.
Notable events:
  • Siege of Boval Castle — The disaster that opens the series. Sire Koucey's pastoral fief in the Mindens is overrun by Sheruel's gurvani horde. Minalan and Pentandra activate the gurvani-augmented molopor under the castle through a sex-magic ritual to evacuate over four thousand Bovali peasants to safety, while the Aronin and his Tree Folk hold off the Dead God's sphere long enough to portal the warmagi clear. Koucey, captured alive by Sheruel's mind, is the Dead God's first human thrall.
  • The Flight from Boval — Minalan's evacuation of the surviving Boval refugees out of the dying valley, eastward over the high passes ahead of the gurvani host.

Year 1

Boval falls; Battle of Timberwatch (Warmage)
Books set in Year 1:
  • Book 2 — Warmage (Minalan POV; Delsolmas (Midsummer), Year 1 → Gespamas (Gleaning Month, mid-autumn), Year 1 )
    Picks up immediately after Book 1's escape from Boval. Minalan's opening narration: "It was late summer, now, almost autumn, an eventful summer. Hells, it had been an eventful year." Battle of Timberwatch falls on Luin's Day (autumn equinox) of Year 1. Rard angles for a crown but is NOT crowned in this book - the coronation happens mid-Magelord at the summer Coronet Council of Year 2. **No overlap with Book 1; small (about five-week) gap to Book 3** for the wedding-travel short stories ("The River Mist of Tarly," Minalan and Alya's wedding) sitting in late autumn Year 1 (Fincmas).
  • Book 1.7 — Victory Soup (short story) (Minalan POV; Colitasmas (early autumn), Year 1 → Gespamas, Year 1 )
    ↳ POV-overlap with Book 2
  • Book 1.8 — The River Mists of Talry (short story) (Tyndal POV; Fincmas (winter), Year 1 → Geledesmas, Year 2 )
    ↳ POV-overlap with Book 1.9
  • Book 1.9 — The Spellmonger's Wedding (short story) (Minalan POV; Fincmas (winter), Year 1 → Geledesmas, Year 2 )
    ↳ POV-overlap with Book 1.8
  • Book 2.7 — Hawkmaiden (Dara POV; Colitasmas (autumn), Year 1 → Fincmas (Snowstone Yule), Year 2 )
    ↳ POV-overlap with Book 2,3
Notable events:
  • Battle of Timberwatch — The pitched day-long battle that broke the first gurvani horde -- and the night it ended, Duke Lenguin of Alshar was assassinated by Isily on the Family's orders, disguised as a battlefield wound. Hesia and Horka fell on the field; the Hesian and Horkan Orders would later be named for them at the Robinwing Conclave. Lenguin's death cleared Rard's path to the throne of Castalshar.
  • Siege of Tudry — Some ten thousand gurvani encircled the chartered city of Tudry while Duke Lenguin of Alshar refused to send relief from Vorone. Minalan and a coalition of warmagi, mercenary companies, and the heavy cavalry of the Baron of Megelin coordinated a relief battle that broke the siege. After the battle, Azar burned the Lord Mayor of Tudry alive in council for invoking the Bans on Magic. Civil control passed to Captain Volerin of the City Guard; military command was given to Astyral, who would hold it for the rest of the early war. Tudry became the warmagi's forward base for the entire Penumbra war that followed.

Year 2

Sevendor's first year; Rard crowned mid-year (Magelord)
Books set in Year 2:
  • Book 3 — Magelord (Minalan POV; Numas (Snow Month, winter), Year 2 → Fincmas (Spinning Month, late autumn), Year 2 )
    Spans roughly eleven months covering Minalan's first year at Sevendor. Yule court at Wilderhall sits in the gap immediately before the book opens; Magelord picks up just after, in Numas (Briga's Day month, deep winter). Minalyan is born early in the book during the snow-that-never-melted chapter. Mid-book, Rard is crowned at the summer Coronet Council of Year 2 - this anchors the Year-of-Rard reign-count for everything afterward (Rard Year 1 = mid-Year 2 onward). Climax is the dragon at Cambrian Castle. Late autumn brings the Magic Fair, the Spellmonger's Trial, and Sire Cei's wedding to Estret all stacked into the final moon (Minalan: "less than a moon in our past"). The earlier short story "The River Mist of Tarly" (Minalan and Alya's own wedding) sits in the small gap between Warmage and this book.
  • Book 1.95 — The Spellmonger's Honeymoon (novella) (Minalan POV; Geledesmas (winter), Year 2 → Geledesmas, Year 2 )
  • Book 1.97 — The Road to Sevendor (short story) (Other POV; Geledesmas, Year 2 → Numas (Snow Month), Year 2 )
    ↳ POV-overlap with Book 3
  • Book 3.1 — Hawklady (Dara POV; Gespamas (Magic Fair), Year 2 → Geledesmas (Yule), Year 4 )
    ↳ POV-overlap with Book 3,4,5
Notable events:
  • Robinwing Conclave — The first great post-war assembly of the High Magi and warmagi, called by Minalan in the spring after Timberwatch and hosted by Sire Forandal at Robinwing Castle. The Conclave founded the Arcane Orders -- Hesian, Horkan, Thaumaturgical, Medical, Scholarly -- and the institutional shape of magic in the new Kingdom of Castalshar. The orders of Hesia and Horka were named for the warmagi who had fallen at Timberwatch.
  • Siege of Sevendor (Gimbal's Attack) — The first private war fought against a Magelord in the new Kingdom -- launched by Sire Gimbal the Warbird with Censorate funding and command oversight, intended as a bloody example to discourage future magelord baronies. It ended within a week as a Sevendori counter-conquest: Minalan, with Baron Arathanial of Sendaria and Sire Sigalan of Trestendor, marched through West Fleria, took Gimbal's seven domains in five days, plucked the Warbird off his throne entirely, and stripped the Censorate of its presence in the Riverlands.
  • Spellmonger's Trial at Sevendor — Minalan's open contest at the Sevendor Magical Fair to award a witchstone to whichever mage could traverse Matten's Helm and break the banewarding on the summit. Two hundred magi competed. The thirteen-year-old falconer Dara of Westwood used her hawk Frightful to bypass every challenge but the final, while the warmage Jendaran the Trusty actually broke the banewarding -- raising the awkward question of who had won. Minalan settled it by awarding stones to both.
  • The Dragonfall — The first dragon killed by mortal hands on Callidore in living memory. The dragon attacked Castle Cambrian on the Cotton Road in Gilmora, where Terleman was holed up with the Magical Corps. Minalan led the relief charge with Sarakeem's Alka bow, his snowstone snowflake threaded onto an arrow as a resistance-breaker. Pentandra hooked the dragon with lightning relayed through a Brunaron weather-hedgemage. The killing blow was joint -- Dara's Thoughtful Knife from inside, Sir Cei's lance from outside, snowstone packed along the dragon's upper lip by Sarakeem's arrows. The victory was celebrated afterward in Barrowbell. Sir Cei was crowned the Dragonslayer, Dara the Hawkmaiden.
  • The Snowstone Event — The Yule-night thaumaturgic event, triggered during Lord Minalyan's difficult birth, that transmuted every rock and clod of soil within a two-mile radius of Sevendor Castle into snowstone. A permanent geological alteration of the entire mountain that lowered local magical resistance to near nothing, quickened latent Talent in residents who had never tested as magi, and made Sevendor the wealthiest magical polity in the Five Duchies overnight.

Year 3

Knights Magi & Cambrian Dragon
Books set in Year 3:
  • Book 4 — Knights Magi (Tyndal/Rondal POV; Numas (post-Yule winter), Year 3 → Esfonmas (Melt Month, early spring), Year 4 )
    ↳ POV-overlap with Book 5
    Tyndal and Rondal POV. Begins AFTER Magelord ends - the boys open the book in trouble for things they did at Yule of Year 2/3, and in early chapters Rondal recounts the slaying of the dragon at Cambrian Castle (Book 3's climax) as a past event. Spans about fourteen months from late winter (Numas) of Year 3 through the winter-into-spring transition (Esfonmas) of Year 4, covering Inarion Academy, Relan Cor, Cargwenyn, and the spring offensive. **Overlaps heavily with Book 5 (High Mage)** - Tyndal and Rondal are pulled off detached duty for the Alka Alon Convocation that drives the High Mage plot. The Stonesinger novella (later collected in Book 6) is a back-fill set in spring of Year 3.
  • Book 5 — High Mage (Minalan POV; Friyamas (late winter, Cold Month), Year 3 → Aradamas (Spring Equinox, Plow Month), Year 4 )
    ↳ POV-overlap with Book 4
    Prologue dateline: "Gavard Crossing, Northern Gilmora, 3rd Year Of King Rard I's Reign." With Rard crowned mid-Year 2, his 3rd reign-year begins mid-Year 4 - the prologue dateline reads as the in-world chronicler's reckoning, while the body of the book spans roughly fourteen months from late winter Year 3 through early spring Year 4. **Overlaps with Book 4 (Knights Magi)** through the spring and summer of Year 3 - Tyndal and Rondal are pulled off their detached duty for the Alka Alon Convocation that opens High Mage. Covers the Greenflower wounding plot, the founding of the Order of the Secret Tower, and the Convocation. **Does NOT overlap with Book 6** - Book 6 begins after Book 5 ends.
  • Book 3.3 — The Secret of Westwood Hall (short story) (Minalan POV; Esfonmas (spring), Year 3 → Aradamas, Year 3 )
  • Book 3.4 — The Wizard of Birchroot Bridge (short story) (Rondal POV; Floramas (summer), Year 3 → Tallarmas, Year 3 )
  • Book 3.6 — The Iron Ring (short story) (Other POV; Fincmas (winter), Year 3 → Esfonmas (spring), Year 4 )
    ↳ POV-overlap with Book 4
Notable events:
  • The Kasari Sacred Quest — The decennial Kasari pilgrimage to the ancestral Diketower in the Kulines, escorted by knights magi Tyndal and Rondal during their unofficial errantry.
  • Alka Alon Convocation — The first in-person summit between Minalan's magi and the Alka Alon Council, held at Carneduin in the Mindens. The Council confronted Minalan over irionite, snowstone, and the Aronin of Angriel's decision to support him; Minalan answered with snowstone gifts and the demonstrated truth that without humani help the Abomination could not be opposed. The Convocation produced grudging alliance, the dispatch of Master Onranion to Lesgaethael, and the search-mandate for Ameras, the Aronin's missing daughter.
  • Battle of the Poros — The great river campaign at Gavard Crossing, where the Castali held the Poros against a gurvani army in northern Gilmora. The gurvani enchanted the Poros at its highest spring flood stage and froze it solid, giving the water-averse goblins a broad ice highway across the river. But the frozen crossing at Gavard proved to be a feint: the true objective was the Alka Alon city of Anthatiel far to the north, and the horde marched westward up the frozen river toward it rather than south into Gilmora. Minalan, coordinating from Gavard with Terleman's Magical Corps, uncovered the deception and pursued the gurvani up the frozen Poros. The campaign culminated at the siege of Anthatiel, where the goblin army — some hundred thousand strong with siege worms and engines — was ultimately destroyed when the ice was melted beneath it, drowning the host and saving the Alkan city.
  • Defense and Fall of Anthatiel — Sheruel's grand assault on the Alka Alon Lake City, broken on the day Pentandra melted the frozen lake under the gurvani feet and drowned a hundred thousand of them. The siege was a Magelaw-Alka Alon victory; the city itself had to be abandoned afterward because two uncontrolled dragons survived the drowning and could not be killed with the resources to hand. Aeratas evacuated his people through the Ways, magically sealed the Ghost Rock vein beneath the city, and went into exile. Sir Ryff saved Aeratas's life in the final harbor melee and was pledged Fallawen's hand for the deed. The ruined city was later occupied by Korbal and renamed Olum Seheri, the Lake of Death.
  • Siege of Castle Cambrian — The gurvani siege of Castle Cambrian during the invasion of Gilmora, relieved by the magi with a dragon slain -- Dara's first war, seen from the air in Hawklady.

Year 4

Greenflower wounding; Convocation
Books set in Year 4:
  • Book 6 — Journeymage (Minalan POV; Floramas (Flower Month, late spring), Year 4 → Colitasmas (Autumn Equinox, Luin's Day), Year 4 )
    Picks up sequentially after High Mage. Spans about five months from late spring (Floramas) through the autumn equinox (Luin's Day, Colitasmas) of Year 4. Mid-book Midsummer Festival is held at Salik Tower (Chapter 17: Midsummer); Duke Anguin makes his clandestine visit at midsummer, and the next tower raised on the orphan march is named Anguin Tower in his honor. The march itself ends at Lemsiddons on Luin's Day, when Pentandra submits her name for the autumn rites. The book closes with a Sevendor coda (Karshak Lodge arrives at Matten's Helm in late winter), but the core arc closes at the autumn equinox.
  • Book 7 — Enchanter (Minalan POV; Gespamas (late autumn, Gleaning Month, Sevendor Magic Fair), Year 4 → Baismas (late summer, Berry Month), Year 5 )
    ↳ POV-overlap with Book 8,9
    Spans roughly eleven months from the Sevendor Magic Fair in late autumn (Gespamas) of Year 4 through late summer (Baismas) of Year 5. The book is bracketed by the conception and birth of Istlan, Minalan and Isily's second child: Isily becomes pregnant at the Magic Fair (Chapters 7-8: "The Solace Of The Snowflake" / "Ishi's Tits") and gives birth in summer Year 5 (around Chapter 36). Mid-book is "An Enchanting Yule" (Chapter 11) at Yule of Year 5; the climax (Chapter 40: Castle Salaisus) is the Magewar, which is the same event covered in **Court Wizard Chapter 36 ("The Magewar")** just after the Midsummer Raid. The brief epilogue jumps forward to an early-autumn legal meeting at Stapledor. **Runs parallel to Book 8 (Court Wizard)**, which runs about one month longer to cover the dragon attack on the Vorone palace and its aftermath; **Book 9 (Shadowmage)** also overlaps from Yule onward and extends two months past both into Fincmas.
  • Book 8 — Court Wizard (Pentandra POV; Gespamas (late autumn), Year 4 → Baismas (late summer), Year 5 )
    ↳ POV-overlap with Book 7,9
    Pentandra POV. Picks up after Journeymage with Pentandra accepting the post of Court Wizard for Duke Anguin's Restoration. Spans roughly twelve months from late autumn (Gespamas) of Year 4 through the autumn equinox (Colitasmas, Luin's Day) of Year 5, covering her arrival in Vorone, the harsh first winter, the reorganization of the ducal court, the Midsummer Raid, and **culminating in the dragon attack on the ducal palace** (Chapter 40). Final chapter "Aftermath" closes at the first cold breath of autumn. **Overlaps with Books 7 and 9** in Year 4/5; Book 9 (Shadowmage) shows the dragon attack from Tyndal/Rondal's POV and extends past Court Wizard's end.
Notable events:
  • The Bransei Migration — The escort of two thousand Kasari children, families, and elders out of the Bransei Mountain refuge through the Wilderlands and Castali frontier to the Kasar homeland in the deep north. Minalan accepted the commission from Captain Arborn at Yule (Book 5), used Anguin's ducal commission as legal cover, and led the long march. Tyndal and Rondal were dispatched separately on the Kasari Sacred Quest to recover an ancient idol from the abandoned Endrenar shrine.
  • Wedding of Prince Tavard and Princess Armandra — The royal match binding Castal and Remere -- Prince Tavard III of Castal to Lady Armandra, daughter of the Count of Remeralon. Held in Castabriel as the great political wedding of the post-Timberwatch era, the occasion also celebrated Tavard's role in the victory over the goblins. The wedding established the new Kingdom of Castalshar's political shape on a national stage.
  • Greenflower Magewar — The first formally-named Magewar fought in the Five Duchies since the fall of the Magocracy. A conspiracy between Baron Dunselen of Greenflower, Baroness Isily, the captured-and-resurfaced warmage Nothoua ("Lady Mask"), and Enshadowed allies aimed to build a witchstone-breeding nursery, run a magelord-eugenics programme, and assassinate Minalan's wife. Mask was captured at Sevendor before the operation. The night assault on Castle Salaisus killed Dunselen, recovered four witchstones including a charred black one, rescued nine babies from the nursery, and ended at the climax with Alya destroying the bound witchstone in Isily's lacis with the pommel of a broken dagger. The blast killed Dunselen's mind through Isily's stolen connection, reduced Isily's mind to vegetation, claimed Alya's unborn child, and scattered Alya's mind for years.
  • The Sashtalia War — Baron Arathanial of Sendaria's campaign to recover lost House Lensely lands from Sashtalia, fought across Books 6 and 7. Sevendor backed Arathanial with intelligence, magical-supply (a Carmella-built warstaff for his new Court Wizard), and tacit permission for Sevendori vassals to hire on as mercenaries. The result reshaped the Bontal Vales: Sashtalia was defeated and partitioned, the Lensely cadet barony of Taravanal was carved out for Arathanial's elder son Arlastan, and the Riverlords balance tilted decisively toward Sendaria.
  • Wedding of Pentandra and Arborn — <p><strong>Pentandra</strong> weds <strong>Captain Arborn</strong> after completing the full <strong>Kasari</strong> rites deep in the sacred groves of <strong>Kasar</strong>, at the base of a grand ninety-foot waterfall in the homeland of Arborn's tribe. <strong>Minalan</strong> held custody of her torus-shaped witchstone for the duration of the rites, on the principle that she had to win her ranger by her wits and not by magic.</p><p>A separate reception, originally hosted by the Order of the Secret Tower, was taken over by Pentandra and transformed into a celebration of her wedding at <strong>Sevendor</strong> during the Magical Fair. Afterward Pentandra and Arborn departed with their corvee of Kasari rangers, ultimately traveling with Duke <strong>Anguin</strong>'s party toward <strong>Vorone</strong>, arriving just before Yule. Arborn pledged his rangers' service to help restore order in Vorone, where the couple settled in Sire Koucey's former residence and struggled through a difficult early married life. The marriage strengthened the alliance between the Kasari and the Alshari crown.</p>
  • Anguin's Yule Coup at Vorone — The clandestine seizure of Vorone by the Orphan Duke on Yule Eve. Anguin rode in with the Orphan's Band, declared himself Duke at the gate, and took the city without a single battlefield casualty. The interim warden Baron Edmarin was tried and executed by Anguin's own hand at midnight in the Stone Hall. The ducal court was established within hours: Pentandra as Court Wizard, Angrial as Prime Minister, Salgo as Ducal Minister of War.

Year 5

Anguin's Restoration to Vorone
Books set in Year 5:
  • Book 9 — Shadowmage (Tyndal/Rondal POV; Geledesmas (Yule, Frost Month), Year 5 → Fincmas (Spinning Month, late autumn / Festival for the Dead), Year 5 )
    ↳ POV-overlap with Book 7,8
    Tyndal and Rondal POV. Begins around Yule of Year 5, after Anguin's Restoration takes hold. Spans roughly twelve months from Yule (Geledesmas) of Year 5 through Fincmas (Festival for the Dead, late autumn) of Year 5, covering the rescue of Ruderal, the Brotherhood of the Rat investigation, the Cats of Enultramar, **the dragon attack on the ducal palace at Vorone** (shown here from Tyndal and Rondal's POV), and the rising threat of the Necromancer of Olum Seheri. **Goes beyond Book 8 (Court Wizard)** which ends at the dragon attack aftermath; Shadowmage continues for another two months. Ends before the Yule gap that leads into Book 10 (Necromancer).
  • Book 9.5 — The Spellmonger's Yule (short story) (Minalan POV; Fincmas (Yule), Year 5 → Geledesmas, Year 6 )
    ↳ POV-overlap with Book 9
Notable events:
  • Tyndal's Enultramar Infiltration — Sir Tyndal's covert mission into rebel-held Enultramar, posing as a minstrel to map the rebel lords' courts ahead of Anguin's eventual restoration.

Year 6

Olum Seheri
Books set in Year 6:
  • Book 10 — Necromancer (Minalan POV; Numas (post-Yule winter, Snow Month), Year 6 → Gespamas (late autumn), Year 6 )
    Picks up after a Yule gap following the Year-5 cluster. Opens with "The Spellmonger's Yule" recap chapter and the Beryen Council that met "a few days after Yule" of Year 6. Spans roughly twelve months from Numas of Year 6 through Briga's Day of Year 7, the deadline by which Minalan must leave Sevendor to begin his three-year exile to the Magelaw. The Olum Seheri raid that names the book is mid-book at Midsummer of Year 6 ("We shall plan on Midsummer, then," says Pentandra in the war council). Aftermath chapters cover autumn business at Sevendor, Yule of Year 7, and packing for exile - the final chapter (80: "Forseti") closes with "spring threatening to break out across the land, and the days before Briga's Day were growing fewer," with Minalan's father arriving with carts to help haul belongings overland. The book closes as Minalan departs Sevendor on Briga's Day; the "Road to Vanador" short story sits in the month-long cart trip immediately after.
Notable events:
  • Battle of Olum Seheri — The audacious three-pronged raid on Korbal's seat at Olum Seheri. Anguin's Westwardens broke Princess Rardine out of the Tower of Despair, Terleman's Gatebreakers held the Waypoints against Korbal's field force, and Minalan's Scholars team penetrated to the Ghost Rock vein beneath the city. The Scholars retrieved the Handmaiden enneagram (which became the working core of the Magolith), killed the Nemovort Reshtitelin, lost the Aronin and Lord Aeratas to Mycin Amana's blade, resurrected Aeratas and his wife Hynalinae into the Tera-Alon-style host bodies Korbal had been preparing for himself, captured Mycin Amana herself, cracked Sheruel's sphere with Sire Cei's hammer, and bound Korbal's enneagram permanently into his decaying corpse with the freshly-loaded Magolith. The Raid of Emancipation, executed separately and immediately before, served as cover and freed tens of thousands of human slaves from the Wilderlands and Gilmora.
  • Briga's Day at Sevendor — The Briga's Day celebration where Prince Tavard and Princess Armandra visited Sevendor and the Seven Gods walked into the canopy. Fallawen and Ryff's wedding was performed at the celebration; Trygg the All-Mother personally blessed Armandra's infant Prince Heir against childhood illness; the Tera Alon programme was publicly legitimated; and Sevendor became the only place in living memory where a confirmed multi-divine visitation occurred. Tavard pledged to fund a Sevendor temple to commemorate the day.
  • Overthrow of the Enultramar Rebellion — The bronze-collar infiltration campaign, masterminded by Lady Gatina of House Furtius, that ended the Five Counts' rebellion in Enultramar and restored Duke Anguin II to the Coral Seat at Falas. Eight hundred Wilderlords sold themselves into slavery, threw off enchanted slave-collars on a coordinated night, and walked the Mandros down to the capital while Lord Hance and the loyalist barons turned the south for them.
  • The Velsignal Hall Dragon-Head Gambit — Rondal used a hoxter ring — targeted to a spot twenty feet over the Coral Seat and ten feet in front — to materialise a partially-decomposed dragon's head
  • Wedding of Lady Fallawen and Sir Ryff — The first Alka Alon-humani marriage of the modern era. Lady Fallawen, daughter of Lord Aeratas of fallen Anthatiel, married Sir Ryff of Hosendor after Ryff saved Aeratas's life at the Battle of the Red Ice. Fallawen had stalled the match for two years; Minalan, Lilastien, and Lord Aeratas pressured her into the wedding as both political alliance and Tera Alon-recruiting tool. The ceremony was held on Briga's Day at Sevendor in a temporary open-sky chapel, with the Seven Gods physically attending; Trygg the All-Mother blessed Princess Armandra's infant son personally during the celebrations.

Year 7

Minalan, Count Palatine of the Magelaw; Vanador founded
Books set in Year 7:
  • Book 11 — Thaumaturge (Minalan POV; Numas (late winter), Year 7 → Geledesmas (Yule, Frost Month), Year 8 )
    Picks up after a roughly month-long gap from Book 10 covering the "Road to Vanador" short story - Alya is sent ahead by the Ways at Yule of Year 7 while Minalan travels overland by cart with his father; he arrives at Vanador on the late-winter / early-spring cusp (Esfonmas, the Melt Month) of Year 7 with snow still on the ground. Spans roughly ten months covering the founding of the Magelaw, Vanador Spring, the summer build-out, and the winter campaign culminating in the Battle of Spellgate at Yule of Year 8 against Gaja Katar. **No overlap with Book 10 (Necromancer)**; the gap holds the Road to Vanador novella.
Notable events:
  • Barrowbell Tournament — The Champion's Tournament at Barrowbell -- the most extravagant Gilmoran social event of the year, attended by the leading nobility and the magi. Minalan came to provoke the Gilmoran chivalry deliberately. Terleman, with no patience for jousters, was challenged at the Champion's Ball by the young pretender knight Sir Larvone the Valiant (the self-styled "Red Lion of Gilmora"), who slapped him with a sleeve. Terleman boxed his ears, accepted the duel on the spot, refused to wait for the list-field, and beat the young knight bloody with personal weapons in front of the entire Gilmoran court.
  • Wedding of Duke Anguin and Princess Rardine — The political wedding that bound the restored Duchy of Alshar to the Castali crown -- Duke Anguin II to Princess Rardine, his cousin, and the Family operative who had originally orchestrated his parents' assassinations. Held at Falas just after Midsummer with a week of festivities, the wedding produced an effective ruling partnership that ran the Alshari court for the rest of the series. The dowry transferred nearly every Bimin holding in southern Alshar back to House Terine, leaving Castal with only Maidenpool.

Year 8

Spellgate; Stanis Howe; Anghysbel; Mad Mage; Spellmonger's Trial
Books set in Year 8:
  • Book 12 — Arcanist (Minalan POV; Numas (Snow Month, two days before Briga's Day), Year 8 → Floramas (Flower Month, late spring), Year 8 )
    Opens "two days until Briga's Day" of Year 8, with the Spellgate snow still stained dark from the winter's battles that closed Thaumaturge. Spans roughly five months covering the Council of the Wilderlands, the Battle of Stanis Howe, the Battle of the Eastern Bank, and the Beryen Council. Ends on a gorgeous late-spring morning at Sevendor with Alya prepared to spend the summer there while Minalan readies a dangerous journey - "two wars in two seasons" behind him. **No overlap with Book 11 (Thaumaturge)** - sequential after Spellgate.
  • Book 13 — Footwizard (Minalan POV; Tallarmas (Mow Month, summer), Year 8 → Delsolmas (Midsummer, Sun Month), Year 8 )
    ↳ POV-overlap with Book 14
    The Anghysbel expedition departs in summer of Year 8, slotting between Arcanist (which closed at Floramas) and Mad Mage of Sevendor (which opens 22 Baismas at Spellgarden). Spans Tallarmas (Mow Month) through Delsolmas (Midsummer) - the core summer months. Alya warns the trip will last "weeks. Months, perhaps. All summer long." Mid-book the party reaches Anferny for "a brief midsummer respite" with the Lakeshire Tal Alon Midsummer fair "another few weeks" out; they harvest the striekema, open the Cave of the Ancients, and find Ameras's vault. The return is rushed when Minalan is poisoned by an Enshadowed agent; they leave Anghysbel just before "the late summer rains would start in earnest." Pentandra meets them on return with news of the Mycin Amana / Darkfaller crisis. **Sequential between Arcanist and Mad Mage of Sevendor**, no overlap with either.
  • Book 14 — Hedgewitch (Pentandra POV; Numas (Snow Month, around Briga's Day), Year 8 → Delsolmas (Midsummer, Sun Month) - Antimei's prophetic vision, Year 8 )
    ↳ POV-overlap with Book 12,13,14.5
    Multi-POV book (Antimei prologue, then Pentandra and Rondal) running parallel to the Minalan-POV books of Year 8. Spans roughly seven months from Briga's Day (when Pentandra's Tower Arcane reception in Falas opens the main story) through Midsummer of Year 8. Chapter 1 ("a glorious spring day") is concurrent with Arcanist's late-spring close; Chapter 13 ("A Summer In Vorone") covers Pentandra preparing the Summer Capital for Duke Anguin's arrival, concurrent with Footwizard's Anghysbel departure; Chapter 26 ("The Spellmonger's Return") is Footwizard's late-summer return; the closing chapters cover Antimei's prophetic vision foretelling "the Mad Mage of Sevendor fortifies his hand" - the prophecy that immediately precedes Minalan starting his journal at Spellgarden on 22 Baismas. **Ends right before Book 14.5 (Mad Mage of Sevendor) begins**, no overlap. The Sevendor Magic Fair / Spellmonger's Trial that follows is the opening of Book 15 (Marshal Arcane), where Alurra is kidnapped from the Fair.
  • Book 14.5 — The Mad Mage of Sevendor (Minalan POV; 22nd Baismas (late summer), Year 8 (Rard Year 9) → 26th Gespamas (mid-autumn), Year 8 )
    ↳ POV-overlap with Book 15
    Minalan's journal of his madness following the Anghysbel expedition. Begins at Spellgarden on 22 Baismas (late summer) of Year 8 and runs through 26 Gespamas (mid-autumn) - roughly three months. The book's in-text dateline reads "9th year of King Rard I's reign," and these are the most explicitly dated entries in the entire series, so the chronology anchors here. Concurrent with the closing chapters of Hedgewitch (Antimei's prophetic vision: "the Mad Mage of Sevendor fortifies his hand"). Closes alongside Hedgewitch at the Spellmonger's Trial leading to winter; Marshal Arcane picks up immediately after at Fincmas Year 8.
  • Book 15 — Marshal Arcane (Minalan POV; Baismas (Berry Month, late summer), Year 8 → Numas (Snow Month, week after the Yule battle), Year 9 )
    ↳ POV-overlap with Book 14.5
    Spans roughly three months from late autumn Year 8 through the week after Yule of Year 9. **Picks up just after Hedgewitch and Mad Mage of Sevendor close** (no overlap) - the Sevendor Magic Fair / Spellmonger's Trial that ended Hedgewitch leads directly into Alurra's kidnapping that opens this book (Chapter 1: "A Walk In The Woods"). Early chapters cover the captive march to Darkfaller, Pentandra and Rondal's response, the Darkfaller raid prep (Chapters 7, 11), Mycin Amana's counter (Chapters 13-14), the Briga / Flame That Burneth Bright thread, and the Magelaw / court / Merwyni / sea-mage threads as they build toward Yule. Chapter 36 ("A Wedding In Autumn") is Azar and Noutha's wedding at Megelin "a few weeks before Yule" of Year 9; Chapter 40 ("Yule In Sevendor") is the Yule court of Year 9; Chapters 41-44 are the spider attacks on Castabriel and Darkfaller Village right after the Yule court; Chapter 45 ("Talk Of The Future") is "a week after the battle" with Larask becoming Minalan's new apprentice.
Notable events:
  • Battle of Stanis Howe — The bait battle of Shakathet's invasion. Terleman picked a defensible hill, Mistress Marsden made the Magelaw garrison there look twice its real size, and the host was lured into committing siege forces it had drawn off from Megelin, Forgemont, Fort Destiny, and Iron Hill into climbing a magically muddied slope into the teeth of three thousand longbows. Shakathet committed his giant; the Sky Riders scared it off and it rampaged west through his own ranks; the Magelaw force then withdrew across Shakathet's own captured bridge to fight him again on the Eastern Bank.
  • Battle of the Eastern Bank — The set-piece battle of Shakathet's invasion of the Magelaw, and the climax of Minalan's year-long con against Count Anvaram of Nion. Roughly a third of the "Magelaw" host on the field were Gilmoran knights who had marched north to make war on the Spellmonger and were conscripted in the field, as Royal Marshal Arcane, under threat of treason charges and starvation. Minalan removed Shakathet by single combat under the ancient Alka Alon dueling code; the rest of the host was destroyed on the field, though a 5-7,000-strong gurvani rump escaped east and was reinforced through a Korbal portal.
  • The Anghysbel Expedition — Minalan's deep-north expedition into the Anghysbel jevolar to investigate the source of striekema, recover pre-Inundation artefacts, and learn what he could from the jevolar-protected region. The expedition discovered the Cave of the Ancients (Unger Station, a colonial geophysical research outpost), recovered a small arsenal of pre-Inundation weapons (plasma rifles and other tools) under Lilastien's instruction, established working contact with the Met Sakinsa Leshi, harvested striekema from the ash mound of the fallen Lesh Stonetrunk, mapped the various peoples of Anghysbel (Kasari, Tal Alon, Karshak, Kilnusk dwarves, the Plain of Pillars), and made allies of the Avalanti adept Bomoadua and the colonial-era refugee Rolof.
  • The Aborted Civil War — Prince Tavard's secret war on the Magelaw, intended to humble Minalan through coordinated proxy attacks along the entire frontier. Settled before it could become a kingdom-wide conflict thanks to Terleman's three-day conquest of three baronies, Astyral and Baron Gydion's legal defection to Alshar, the staged Benfradine duel, and a Curia-level settlement at which King Rard ratified the Magelaw's gains.
  • The Astyral and Gydion Defection — A legal sleight-of-hand worked out by Terleman in the Hedgemage civil war. Baron Astyral of Losara and Baron Gydion of Tantonel formally surrendered their Castali baronies to him under right of conquest; Terleman gifted them back under Alshari sovereignty and the two swore fealty to Duke Anguin instead of Prince Tavard. Two Castali domains lawfully transferred to Alshar in an afternoon, without a sword drawn.
  • The Benfradine Duel — A staged judicial duel in which Baron Maynard of Benfradine, Astyral's future father-in-law, challenged Viscount Terleman to a three-pass lance combat over the disposition of his fief, lost on purpose, and thereby transferred Benfradine from Castal to Alshar under right of conquest. Same lord, same castle, new duke.
  • The Cleston War — Prince Tavard's secret war on the Magelaw, uncovered and conquered before he was ready. The Lord of Cleston used Tavard's unannounced declaration to raid the frontier and capture Terleman's squire Anjak; Terleman, already in the field with three thousand men, conquered Cleston the same day, filed a Writ of Conquest with the Alshari court, and went on in three days to also take the Castali baronies of Walkurjurik and the Gilmoran barony of Harton, mostly bloodlessly, becoming Viscount of Spellgate.
  • Darkfaller Raid — The rescue assault on Darkfaller Castle, mounted to recover the magi and Talented commoners that Mycin Amana, the so-called Witch Queen, had abducted en masse from the Sevendor Magic Fair. All captives recovered; Mycin Amana retained Darkfaller. The raid drew first blood against her court, drained her of half her Paranchek, exposed the Otherworld-conjoined necromantic field at the heart of the castle, and set up the eventual Siege of Darkfaller.
  • Tavard's Siege of Darkfaller — The castle storming and fall was accomplished in Marshal Arcane (Book 15); Mycin Amana's expulsion from Isily's body followed in Preceptor (Book 16).

Year 9

Yule spider attacks; Preceptor's post-Yule fallout; Tyndal & Rondal weddings; Farise expedition begins
Books set in Year 9:
  • Book 16 — Preceptor (Minalan POV; Friyamas (Cold Month, late winter, weeks after Yule), Year 9 → Tallarmas (Mow Month, early summer), Year 9 )
    Picks up cleanly after Marshal Arcane closes - Minalan opens the book "still tired from my exertions at Yule" with the royal couple visiting in "chilly winter weather" weeks after the Yule spider battles. Spans roughly five months from Friyamas (late winter) through Tallarmas (early summer) of Year 9. Covers post-Yule political fallout (Rard and Grendine's Sevendor visit), Tavard's Gilmoran misadventure, and the lead-up to the next phase of the kingdom's realignment. **Sequential after Marshal Arcane**, no overlap.
  • Book 17 — Practical Adept (Minalan POV; Baismas (Berry Month, late summer / early autumn) - Tyndal & Rondal's double wedding at Vanador, Year 9 → Numas (Snow Month, looking toward Spring), Year 10 )
    Spans roughly six months from late summer Year 9 through late winter Year 10. Picks up after a roughly 2-3 month gap from Preceptor; the gap (summer of Year 9, Tallarmas-Delsolmas) holds Minalan tutoring Prince Tavard's cousins ("I encountered it this summer while tutoring Prince Tavard"), the final wrap of the broader Korbal/Mycin Amana war (Loiko at chapter 1: "it's only been a few weeks since the war ended"), Anghysbel refugees settling in for winter, and wedding preparations. Prologue covers Tyndal and Rondal's double wedding at Vanador set in "late summer, or early autumn" - the Wilderlands "just considering changing from rich and vibrant greens to a multitude of hues" with late-season wildflowers blooming. Chapter 1 ("The Beryen Council") opens at Carneduin with "autumnal chill cut through our cloaks" - just after the wedding. Chapter 5 ("Duin and Luin") is set explicitly at "Luin's Day dawned crisp and cold... as the first day of Autumn began in Vanador" (Colitasmas Y9). Chapters 6-30 cover preparations and the journey to Farise; Chapters 31-50 cover the actual Farise conquest, which Minalan describes as taking "three months." The book closes with Minalan as the new Doge of Farise, training the first Farisian warmagi and looking ahead to "this spring" when Merwyn will press their offensive. **Picks up after Book 16 (Preceptor) with a summer-Y9 gap; runs sequentially.**
  • Book 17.5 — The Golden Goblin (Tyndal/Rondal POV; Early winter, Year 9 (provisional) → Late winter, Year 10 (provisional) )
    ↳ POV-overlap with Book 17
  • Book 17.6 — The Talon and the Flame (Dara POV; Baismas (late summer), Year 9 → Geledesmas (Yule), Year 10 )
    ↳ POV-overlap with Book 17,17.5
Notable events:
  • The Fall of Darkfaller — The Briga's Day assault on Mycin Amana's Darkfaller, mounted while Korbal was personally present to inspect her. Minalan and Ruderal teleported into the throne-room parley atop the central keep, Minalan dropped Sheruel's sphere out of Korbal's staff with Avalanche, then detonated a necromantic-overload spell that briefly collapsed both Korbal and Mycin Amana (Isily's face visible for an instant under Mycin Amana's). The four-pronged Magelaw assault, the Paranchek lifted into the air and skewered by the Thoughtful Knife and the Unrelenting Needle, the thermite destruction of the central keep, and the gurvani revolt that recovered Sheruel followed in sequence. Mycin Amana escaped through the Ways; Sheruel woke up.
  • The Vanador Snowstone Event — The deliberate reproduction of the snowstone spell during Vanamin's birth at Spellmonger's Hall in Vanador. The first time Minalan ever made snowstone on purpose. Three goddesses attended -- Briga, Trygg, and Falassa -- and the spell transformed silica within roughly thirty-five hundred feet, quickened Talent in nine thousand residents (humans and four Alon races alike), produced a permanent green outer band of unknown thaumaturgical character, transformed the entire Tal Alon community into a literate self-respecting people, and woke the Magolith into sentience.
  • The Vundel Sau'libik Confrontation — The first time a humani openly threatened the Vundel. Auditor Antherose and Dryspeaker Nuayas of the Sau'libik pod arrived at Sevendor to confront Minalan over what their predecessor Moudrost had concealed. Minalan revealed that he had reproduced the snowstone spell, that he knew where the Lost Egg was, and that the Vundel pod could either leave him alone or face his "wrath of a ferocious and very short-lived race." The audit ended without violence; the Vundel withdrew to consult their masters.
  • Election of Doge Mirkandar I — In the closing chapters of <em>Practical Adept</em>, <a href="/character/Minalan">Minalan</a> — ruling Farise under the assumed name <strong>Mirkandar the Magnificent</strong> ("Mirkandar" being effectively Minalan's Farisian alias and nom de guerre) — stood for election as sovereign Doge of Farise before the city's electoral council. His chief rival was <strong>Captain Rellin Pratt</strong>. Farisian tradition provided for a <strong>Rite of Challenge</strong>, a formal contest used only a handful of times in the city's history to settle disputed successions. Minalan won the election and was sworn in as Doge, a title answering to no other crown. Note: the specific details of the council's formal name, the venue on the Citadel, and Pratt's exact manner of yielding the Rite require further sourcing from the text of <em>Practical Adept</em> before they can be confirmed.
  • Vanador Double Wedding — The shared wedding of Sir Tyndal and Lady Tandine alongside Sir Rondal and Lady Gatina, held in Vanador. Two of the Spellmonger's former apprentices wed two extraordinary shieldmaidens at once: Tandine of Anferny -- a Wilderlord shieldmaiden from the jevolar -- and Gatina anna Furtius, the Kitten of Night, shadowmage of House Furtius. The day brought together magelords, Estasi Order knights, Tera Alon, Karshak masons, Tal Alon brewers, Kasari rangers, Alshari court, and Castali state -- effectively the whole world the Magelaw had built.

Year 10

Doge of Farise
Books set in Year 10:
  • Book 18 — Seamage (Minalan POV; Esfonmas (Melt Month, early spring), Year 10 → Tallarmas (Mow Month, high summer), Year 10 )
  • Book 19 — Theurge (Minalan POV; Delsolmas (late summer), Year 10 → Geledesmas (deep winter), Year 11 )
Notable events:
  • Defense of Farise (The Merwyni Armada) — Doge Mirkandar's preparation and defense of Farise against the invading Merwyni armada: magical defenses at the Straits, more than twenty miles of trapped beaches, and the marshaled talents of Durgan Jole, Curmor and Sandoval.
  • The Landing of the Serenity — The long-lost colonial spaceship Serenity lands in the Magelaw, less than twenty miles from Henga -- returning functional colonial technology, and its implications, to the world stage.
  • The Battle of the Gods — A divine confrontation in Theurge referred to on-page as the Battle of the Gods -- gods manifesting and taking part in open conflict, with every High Mage who could fight summoned to stand alongside them.

Year numbering note. Year 0 of this chronology is Spellmonger (the gurvani invasion of Boval). Year 1 is Warmage (escape, Battle of Timberwatch, Rard angling for the crown). Year 2 is Magelord; Rard's coronation falls mid-book at the summer Coronet Council, so Rard Year 1 begins mid-Wiki-Year-2. Rard Year 9 (explicitly stamped in The Mad Mage of Sevendor) therefore corresponds roughly to Wiki Year 10. Downstream books are still being aligned to this anchor.

About the AC count. The colonial calendar ("Originally Published By Callidore Central Council, 178 AC" from the Book of the Hand) refers to dates from the original Callidore colonization, several hundred years before Minalan's lifetime. A Constructed Intelligence elsewhere notes the colony had been running over seven hundred years and was considered a success — placing Minalan's era roughly 500–700+ years AC, though no exact year is ever given on-page. The wiki keeps to the series-internal Year-of-Rard anchor for dating.