Timeline (Emelan)

This timeline tries to give an overview over the events in the Circle Books. So far it only includes detailed dates for the first four novels, The Circle of Magic.

Before 1035 KF

• 982 KF - Niklaren Goldeye was born

• 21st/22nd of Hearth Moon in 1002 KF - Rosethorn was born
• Sometime between 990 - 1010 - Lark was born, exact birth date unknown

• Probably early Wolf Moon of 1024 KF - Trisana Chandler is born

• 30th day of Seed Moon in 1025 K. F. - Daja Kisubo is born

• 12th day of Wort Moon in 1025 K. F. - Sandrilene fa Toren is born

• 1025 KF - Briar Moss is born

• 1030 KF - Niko paid his last visit to the University of Lightsbridge in Karang;

• 1032 KF
  • Sandry and her parents visit Bihan, where they see a porcupine in a forest
  • Drought in northern Emelan, including Gold Ridge Valley, begins

• 1034 KF
  • Late summer/fall:
    • Sandry and her parents visit Zakdin in Hatar
    • The smallpox strikes in the fall 
    • Sandry's parents and Pirisi die in Barley Moon
    • Sandry spends about two weeks in the storeroom
  • End of Blood Moon/beginning of Snow Moon
    • Niko finds Sandry in the storeroom and she needs several weeks to recover from her ordeal
  • End of Hearth Moon/beginning of Wolf Moon
    • Moonsday - First day Sandry reengaged with the world after her parents died, due to the lack of looms beating the day before. In the Hataran king's palace.

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• Early in the year - Tris is brought to Stone Circle Temple in Ninver, Capchen

• Storm Moon - Third Ship Kisubo leaves the harbor of Nidra Island

• Carp Moon
  • Early in the month - Niko arrives with Sandry at Winding Circle

• • 20th/21st of Carp Moon - spring equinox; In the two months between the equinox and the children's arrival at Discipline, six earthquakes hit Winding Circle

• Late in Carp Moon/early in Seed Moon - Niko arrives at Winding Circle with Tris and has a vision of Third Ship Kisubo's sinking in a storm

• Some time in Seed Moon:
  • Third Ship Kisubo sinks with Daja Kisubo as the lone survivor
  • She is saved by Niko and declared trangshi by the Trader Council
  • Niko takes her to Summersea

• Goose Moon
  • Early in the month
    • Daja arrives at Winding Circle and meets Sandry for the first time
    • Niko has a vision of a plant mage, Briar
    • Briar is arrested for the third time
    • Niko attends Briar's trial and gets him released

• • Middle of the month - Tris has an argument with Dedicate Staghorn which is interrupted by an earthquake

• • 16th - Briar arrives at the boy's dormitories of Winding Circle

• • 17th
    • Daja is assaulted by several other children 
    • Moonstream decides that she should better live at Discipline cottage

• • 18th
    • Morning - Daja arrives at Discipline cottage;
    • Evening/Night - Briar is accused of stealing and found innocent, however he is banned from the dormitories for possessing knives

• • 19th
    • Briar arrived at Discipline Cottage
    • Sandry and Tris arrived at Discipline cottage
    • Daja met Frostpine and Kirel
    • Lark took Sandry on as her student
    • Tris had her first meditation lesson with Niko

• • 20th of Goose Moon
    • Niko holds the meditation lesson for all four children in the Hub
    • Briar and Tris first climb onto the roof of Discipline cottage
    • Rosethorn allows Briar to help her work in her garden and thus takes him on as her student
    • Frostpine takes Daja on as his student
    • Daja asks Lark for plain clothes and scarlet mourning headbands and armbands

• • 21st of Goose Moon - Briar steals the shakkan from Dedicate Crane's greenhouse
  • 22nd of Goose Moon - inhabitants of Discipline go to Summersea for market day
    • Sandry, Briar and Daja get into a fight with local boys when they attempt to rescue a puppy
    • Tris creates a water spout which does great damage to the market place
    • Briar and Tris learn that Duke Vedris is Sandry's great-uncle
    • The children are allowed to keep the puppy they rescued, whom they name Little Bear
    • All of them learn that they were sent to Discipline because they had magic

• Willow Moon/Goose Moon - Lark teaches all of them how to do handstands
• Hawthorn Moon/Rose Moon - Rosethorn teaches them how to make a lotion to prevent sunburn

• Rose Moon
  • 20th - Tris experiments with the tides

• • 21st Midsummer/solstice, Another earthquake hits Winding Circle

• • 22nd - Niko is being called away from their daily meditation practice to attempt interpreting omens seen in the Hub

• Mead Moon
  • Early in the month - The children see messenger birds and riders leave Winding Circle

• • Two days later- Niko tells them of an expected earthquake that is supposed to hit Ragat and her neighbour Pajun

• • The next day morning - the earthquake is supposed to hit Ragat Island

• • Some time after the earthquake - Tris begins teaching Briar how to read

• • Ten days after the earthquake/second week of Mead Moon Pirate's Point and Bit Island watchtowers explode

• • Day after the towers' explosion
    • Morning - Tris and Niko visit the Bit Island watchtower ruins; Tris finds Shriek
    • Sandry and Lark work on bandages in the Earth temple loomhouses
    • Daja, Frostpine and Kirel search for the pieces of the spell net; Daja notices the hidden ship
    • Afternoon - Tris begins caring for Shriek
    • Aymery Glassfire arrives at Discipline with a message for Niko and is recognized by Tris as her cousin

• • The following day
    • Night - Tris is out on the wall and notices a stormlike structure which isn't a real storm at all
    • Morning - Daja and Frostpine are out in the harbor to strengthen the harbor chain
    • Evening - Aymery stays at Discipline
    • Night - pirates try to get through the north gate with Aymery's help and Aymery is killed

• • The next morning: The four mages are on the wall surrounding Winding Circle and attack the pirate fleet themselves

• Two weeks before the arrival at Gold Ridge: the Duke's company left from Summersea
  • Probably Barley Moon
    • Duke Vedris visits Gold Ridge Valley in northern Emelan 
    • The company stays there for approximately for one and a half month until returning to Summersea only a few days before the first snow was predicted to fall in Gold Ridge (the decision to return was made on the fifth day before the predicted snow)

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• Sap Moon
  • 5th
    • Morning/midday - Briar, Rosethorn and Flick were quarantined in Urda's House
    • Night - A body was found in an empty lot on Spice Walk, the man died of the blue pox

• • 6th, early morning - two derelicts, Yuvosh and Orji, were found with the blue pox on Mummer's Close and brought to Urda's House, where Briar and Rosethorn cared for them

• • 8th
    • Early morning- five more victims were brought into Urda's House and Dedicate Henna arrived to help
    • At this time thirteen dead were found and sixty-five cases of infected people known, although Henna suspected more sick people to be hiding. The sick were found in North Mire, near the city wall
    • Duke Vedris initiated a house-to-house search of the Mire and the city guards were ordered to prevent any residents of the Mire from entering the city walls
    • Late afternoon - Urda's House was declared a "pesthouse", which enabled the healers and apprentices to move through the whole building
    • Jokubas Atwater's daughter brought ten more sick to Briar and Rosethorn's floor in Urda's House
    • Sick people from East District were brought to Urda's House
  • 9th
    • Early morning - The first victims of the blue pox were found withing the city walls, on Cobbler's Lane Ten vicitims were found in Fountain Square, seven in Emerald Triangle
    • After breakfast - a meeting of all the healers in Urda's House took place
    • Noon - every bed in Urda's House was filled and pallets were laid in the broad aisles
    • Rosethorn and Briar refreshed the old medicine stores of Urda's House, because all the new medicines Rosethorn had brought in the past months had been stolen
    • Afternoon - On Briar's request Tris brought plants to Urda's House
    • The Water Temple in Summersea opened its normal hospital wards to take in the people infected with the blue pox
    • The temple hospital soon filled up and a hospital camp was set up uphill of the Mire and a pit for burning the dead was dug on Bit Island

• • 10th
    • Night - Flick died after 3:30 in the morning
    • Morning - The detection oil found by Crane was put to use in Summersea
    • Briar and Rosethorn returned to Winding Circle

• • 11th
    • Briar and Rosethorn started working on the cure with Crane
    • Tris discovered the blue pox has a magical origin
  • 12th - Rosethorn had blue pox essence spilled on her
  • 13th - Rosethorn tested positive for blue pox
  • 16th - First Winding Circle resident dies, Henna
  • 17th - Rosethorn started showing spots
  • 19th - Cranes team began formulating cures
  • 23rd - Cure is tested on Rosethorn
  • 28th
    • Cures starts being mass produced by the Water Temple
    • Rosethorn dies and is brought back by Briar, Sandry, Tris and Daja

• Goose Moon:
  • 19th - Briar chose the 20th of Goose Moon as his birthday

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• Goose Moon
  • Briar, Daja, Sandry and Tris get their medallions.

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• Spring
  • Rosethorn suggested traveling to Briar
  • Daja, Briar and Tris went on travels with their teachers

• Wort Moon
  • Daja and Frostpine arrive in Namorn
• Mead Moon - Duke Vedris suffered a heart-attack.

• Barley Moon
  • Sandry discovered Pasco Acalon and his magic
  • Daja and Frostpine arrive in Kugisko

• Snow Moon
  • Daja discovers Jory and Nia have magic
• Autumn - Briar and Rosethorn visited Chammur
  • Briar discovered Evumeimei Dingzai and her magic
• Hearth Moon
  • 14th - Ben is burned for his crimes in Kugisko

1041 - 1042 KF

• Blood Moon (of 1041)
  • 18th — Daja learns she cannot move back into Discipline as she has no intention of becoming a dedicate.
  • 26th — Sandry visits the new house on Cheeseman St. Daja and Sandry fight about reopening the bond garnered from the thread circle.

• Rose Moon (of 1042)
  • Tris returns to Emelan, and moves in to Daja's house.

1043 KF

• Storm Moon
  • Briar, Rosethorn, and Evvy return from Yanjing, after the Gyongxin War.
  • There is even more contention between the four as they fight about the bond.
• Carp Moon
  • Vedris fer Toren asks Daja, Tris, and Briar to accompany Sandry on a visit to Namorn in order to keep her safe. They agree.
• Goose Moon
  • The four arrive outside of Dancruan, and meet the empress while she is hunting.
  • 29th — The four are presented to the imperial court. They find Zhegorz Fiavrus and save him from the wrath of Pershan fer Roth.
  • 30th — Sandry leaves Dancruan to tour the Landreg estates.
    • Gudruny Iarun approaches Sandry to be free of her marriage.
• Rose Moon
  • 1st — Sandry splits the marriage between Gudruny and her husband Halmar Iarun.
  • Sandry is ambushed outside of Pofkim village by Dymytur fer Holm and Yeskoy fer Haugh. She unravels their clothes.
  • 4th — Berenene goes to her summer residence, Sablaliz Palace, to continue to entice her cousin to stay in Namorn. She visits them at Castle Landreg without notice.
  • 8th — Finlach fer Hurich kidnaps Sandry in the Imperial Palace of Namorn. Sandry reforges the bond with Briar and Tris.
    • Empress Berenene has Quenaill Shieldsman arrest Fin and the head of the Mages' Society, Notalos fer Hurich.
    • Sandry decides to leave Namorn.
  • 9th - 22nd
    • Ishabal Ladyhammer curses Tris, causing her to fall down the stairs and break all major bones in her body, except the ones she needs to live.
    • Tris sends her foster-siblings along to the border to not waste time.