Timeline of Velgarth

Calendar

According to Foundation the months are named based on the season and the moon: Midwinters Moon, Ice Moon, Thawing Moon, Budding Moon, and Flowering Moon.

Mercedes Lackey has stated that New Years begins on the 1^st day of the Midwinter Moon.

Using these names and a 30-day moon cycle, the following Calendar has been officially approved by Mercedes Lackey and can be used for reference.

Moons	Modern Dates	Known Events During This Moon
🌑 Midwinters Moon	(January 1^st to January 30^th)	The New Year begins on the 1^st day of Midwinters Moon (January 1^st).
🌒 Ice Moon	(January 31^st to February 29^th)	Candlemas occurs on the 2^nd day of Ice Moon (February 1^st). The 3^rd day of Ice Moon (February 2^nd) is usually when weather-witches are able to predict how good or bad the weather will be for the rest of the season. Winter ends on the last day of Ice Moon (February 29^th).
🌒 Thawing Moon	(March 1^st to March 30^th)	Spring officially begins on the 1^st day of Thawing Moon (March 1^st). Herald-Chronicler Assistant, Joshuah's birthing day is the 1^st day of Thawing Moon (March 1^st). Planting Season begins with the start of Thawing Moon.
🌓 Budding Moon	(March 31^st to April 29^th)	Spring Equinox is on the 1^st day of Budding Moon (March 31^st). Crops are either being planted or already planted and growing. Growing season continues until Harvest and Wine Moons.
🌔 Flowering Moon	(April 30^th to May 29^th)	Beltane occurs on the 15^th day of Flowering Moon. Spring ends on the 5^th day of Flowering Moon. Summer begins on the 6^th day of Flowering Moon.
🌔 Mead Moon	(May 30^th to June 28^th)	Herald-Chronicler Myste Williger's (Mercedes Lackey) birthing day is the 25^th day of Mead Moon. Midsummer's Eve occurs on the last day of Mead Moon. Queen's Own, Talia Sensholding's birthing day is the last day of Mead Moon.
🌕 Midsummer Moon	(June 29^th to July 28^th)	Kyree Historian (Larry Dixon)'s birthing day is the last day of Midsummer Moon (July 28^th).
🌖 Foaling Moon	(July 29^th to August 27^th)	Summer ends on the 3^rd day of Foaling Moon (July 31^st). Autumn begins on the 4^th day of Foaling Moon (August 1^st). Also known as Autumn's Eve.
🌖 Harvest Moon	(August 28^th to September 26^th)	Autumnal Equinox occurs on the 26^th day of Harvest Moon (September 23^rd).
🌗 Wine Moon	(September 27^th to October 26^th)	Typical harvest time for wine ends mid-Wine Moon. Autumn ends on the last day of Wine Moon (October 26^th).
🌘 Mourning Moon	(October 27^th to November 25^th)	Winter begins on the 1^st day of Mourning Moon (October 27^th) and is celebrated with Winterfinding. Sovvan-Night occurs on the 6^th day of Mourning Moon (November 1^st). Harvestfest is a celebration of memorial festivities held in the evenings on this day. Sovvan is considered by some as a time to celebrate the lives of ancestors, family members, elders of the faith, friends, pets, and other loved ones who have died.
🌘 Dying Moon	(November 26^th to December 25^th)	Midwinter's six days of Festivities begins on the last day of the Dying Moon (December 25^th). Feasting, and gift giving are common elements of Midwinter festivities. Bringing sprigs and wreaths of evergreenery (such as holly, ivy, mistletoe, yew, and pine) into the home and tree decorating are also common during this time. Traditionally Valdemar celebrates with additional festivities taking place during the six days leading up to Midwinter's Eve. On the 6^th day of Midwinter's Festival, is Midwinter's Eve, the last day of the year (December 31^st).

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1355 AF

---♔ Reign of King Sendar ♔---

Exile's Honor: Chapter Three

By the Sword: Chapter Three

1356 AF

Herald-in-training Elcarth graduates to full Herald. Herald Jadus was counselor to Elcarth during internship.

By the Sword: Chapter Ten

By the Sword: Chapter Eleven

1357 AF

Selenay is born to King Sendar of Valdemar.

By the Sword: Chapter Eleven

By the Sword: Chapter Eleven

1364 AF

Exile’s Honor: Prologue

1365 AF

♘

Hypothesis: He is fourteen years old

Hewerd joins Lord Rathgar's House as a loyal guardsman.

By the Sword: Chapter Two

1366 AF

By the Sword: Chapter One

1368 AF

Dirk is born

1369 AF

Heraldic Trainee Keren, Chosen by Companion Dantris, is made a full Herald at this time. This puts her age at about eighteen years old.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Twelve

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Twelve

By the Sword: Chapter One

♘

Discrepancy: By the Sword: Chapter One says that Wendar, the seneschal spoke to Lord Rathgar three years before...when Lenore died. That puts her death now. But By the Sword: Chapter Eight says that Kerowyn took "care of the Keep for five years after Mother died."
I am assuming Wendar meant that three years ago he told Rathgar that, when Lenore died, he should have hired a housekeeper.

By the Sword: Chapter One

1370 AF

By the Sword: Chapter Four

Shallan becomes a mercenary. Her mother had been a member of the mercenary Company, The Sunhawks. She is fourteen years old.

By the Sword: Chapter Eleven

Hypothesis: She is about thirteen at this time

Nerrissa is born

1372 AF

Kerowyn is seventeen years old.

By the Sword: Chapter One

Alberich was given a horse as promotion gift that turns out later to be Companion, Kantor.

Exile’s Honor: Prologue

Derk is a scullion working at prepping the High Feast.

By the Sword: Chapter One

Perry, a cooks helper, gets whacked by Kerowyn for trying to eat icing off the wedding cake.

By the Sword: Chapter One

Ami is the dishwasher in the kitchen.

By the Sword: Chapter One

Wendar is the Seneschal for Lord Rathgar, Kerowyn's father.

By the Sword: Chapter One

Kerowyn mentions having learned how to fight with a knife from Armsmaster Dent.

By the Sword: Chapter One

Dierna is almost fifteen and about to be married to Lordan (Kerowyn’s brother and son of Rathgar and Lenore, daughter of Kethryveris and Jadrek, the Archivist).

By the Sword: Chapter One

Seneschal Wendar and Kerowyn find Armsmaster Dent, along with many others, had been killed by the wedding crashers.

By the Sword: Chapter Two

Guardsman Hewerd manages to live long enough to tell Kerowyn that there was a mage with the invaders and that they kidnapped Dierna.

By the Sword: Chapter Two

Dierna's uncle is Lord Baron Reichert, who has used the pretext of familial insult to add to his lands more than once.

By the Sword: Chapter Two

Kerowyn, riding her Shin'a'in mare, Verenna, goes off to ask her grandmother, Kethryveris, for help.

By the Sword: Chapter Two

Kerowyn meets Tarma for the first time.

By the Sword: Chapter Three

Kethryveris offers Need to Kerowyn, who sees the writing on the blade, "Womans Need calls me, as Womans Need made me. Her Need will I answer as my maker bade me".

By the Sword: Chapter Three

Tarma, with kyree Warrl, decide to follow Kerowyn, while Kethryveris goes to the Keep to tend to Lordan's wounds.

By the Sword: Chapter Three

Late Night/Early Morning

Need takes over Kerowyn's body and Kerowyn kills a man for the first time.

By the Sword: Chapter Four

With the help of Tarma, Warrla and Need, Kerowyn fights through the bandits, and manages to kill the mage as well as the demon that had been called up to feed on Dierna.

By the Sword: Chapter Four

After collecting her wedding presents, Dierna thanks Kerowyn and the two of them ride back to the Keep.

By the Sword: Chapter Four

Skif is born
Several Days Later
Lord Rathgar has been buried.

By the Sword: Chapter Five

Tarma and Kerowyn are training children and young adults in archery and defense.

By the Sword: Chapter Five

One of the thirty seasoned fighters Tarma was able to hire for Lordan was Lyla Stormcloud. A tall, golden-skinned daughter of a Shin'a'in and a Full Bard-Assassin.

By the Sword: Chapter Five

Jadrek, son of Kethryveris and Jadrek the Archivist, is the shaman of Talesedrin.

By the Sword: Chapter Five

Several Days Later

Captain Alberich of Karse is Chosen after being rescued by Companion Kantor from a burning shed in Sunsdale, Karse.

Exile’s Honor: Prologue

Kerowyn's rescue of Dierna is a story that has now been turned into a song simply called "The Ride".

By the Sword: Chapter Five

During the wedding feast Kerowyn decides to leave and go join her grandmother, Kethryveris' and Tarma's school for training.

By the Sword: Chapter Five

Four Days Later

Heraldic Trainee and Heir Selenay is half-way through her Herald training. She is almost sixteen years old at this time.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter One

Kerowyn has been chopping wood for three days now in an effort to build muscles and strengthen her arms, back, shoulders and aim.

By the Sword: Chapter Six

One Week Later

Herald Joyeaus, is the Lord Marshal’s Herald.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter One

One Week Later

Kerowyn is told about her family history.

By the Sword: Chapter Six

Warrl begins training Kerowyn in the use of her Mindspeech.

By the Sword: Chapter Seven

Alberich meets King’s Own Talamir for the first time.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter One

King’s Own Herald Talamir is forty years old
♘ Hypothesis: Exile’s Honor: Chapter One places Talamirs age between forty and fifty years old. Therefore I’m placing his age at forty years old. This may change later with more information.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter One

Alberich meets Father Henrick and Acolyte Gerichen for the first time. Father Henrick has been in Valdemar for forty years. He is sixty-one years old at this time.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter One

Heraldic Trainee Alberich meets Herald Jadus for the first time.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Three

Herald Jadus is thirty-six years old
♘ Hypothesis: In Exile’s Honor: Chapter Three, Alberich places Jadus at middle age. Supposing that Jadus was twenty when he was Elcarth’s Counselor during internship, this places him at about thirty-six years old

Alberich meets Weaponsmaster Dethor for the first time and becomes an Internee to become the new Weaponsmaster.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Three

Alberich has spent the last seven years fighting after training.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Four

Alberich is surrounded by angry Companions who may be intent on hurting him, led by Companion Jasker, until Kantor and Taver come to his rescue.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Five

One Week Later

Alberich meets Herald Elcarth for the first time.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Six

Ortrech is King of Karse at this time.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Six

Alberich meets Selenay for the first time.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Six

Princess Selenay is on an extended Internship that has already started and will go until she graduates to full Whites.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Six

One Week Later

Word reaches Valdemar that the Karsite Sunpriests are planning on hiring all the Tedrel Companies.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Seven

Alberich is asked to be an agent for the King on the streets of Haven.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Seven

Companion Taver shows only Alberich that he is Grove-born and what exactly that means.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Seven

The Tedrel Wars begin when the Tedrel Companies take Menmellith and then begin attacking Valdemar, using Karse as a staging ground
♘ Discrepancy: According to Jadus in Arrows of the Queen, when he says, “It has been about fifteen years since the Tedrel Wars when King Sendar, father of Selenay, died.
It is possible he was talking about the start of the wars that would kill Sendar in the end.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Eight
📖 Exile’s Honor: Chapter Sixteen

1373 AF
Midsummer Eve
Talia Sensdaughter is born to Holderkin family in Sensholding
High Summer
Herald Alberich meets Heraldic Trainee Myste Willenger, Chosen by Companion Alerian, for the first time.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Eight

Heraldic Trainee Myste Willenger is middle-aged
♘ Hypothesis: In these books middle-aged makes me think they are between the ages of thirty-five and forty. I am placing Myste’s age at thirty-five since it is impolite to guess a woman’s age.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Eight

Acolyte Gerichen is now a full Priest of the Lord of Light.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Eight

Weaponsmaster Dethor recommends that Myste gets training to be the new Herald Chronicler.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Eight

Herald Elcarth is currently the Herald Chronicler and acting Dean of the Herald Collegium

Alberich is asked by Talamir and Dethor to train new agents to infiltrate Karse for information. Alberich agrees only if there is a way to train them to be protectors of Karsites as well as spies. Talamir and Dethor agree and Alberich “lends” his memories, with the help of Mindhealer Crathach, to four Heralds. Herald Orven, Herald Laika, eighteen-year-old Herald Wethes, and one other older Herald are all volunteers for this treatment. This is the first time Alberich meets Mindhealer Crathach.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Ten

Selenay tries to teach Alberich how to fish. He doesn’t do well at all.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Ten

Alberich cracks his first public joke since coming to Valdemar.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Ten

Myste Willenger, Chosen by Companion Alerian, becomes a full Herald and also becomes Herald Chronicler-Second with expectations of becoming Herald-Chronicler in one or two years.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Eleven

1375 AF

Princess Selenay completes her Herald Internship and becomes a full Herald
One Week Later
His Majesty, King Megrarthon Jadrevalyn of Rethwellan has had three state marriages, two of them loveless, as well as several sons and daughters.

By the Sword: Chapter Seven

Faramenthas (Faram) is the oldest son of King Megrarthon (Jad).

By the Sword: Chapter Seven

Karathanelan (Thanel) is the second oldest son of King Megrarthon.

By the Sword: Chapter Seven

Tarma says that Karathanelan is most likely going to find a "little fool of a princess with a senile old father" who is going to "fall for his pretty face, clever wit and graceful manners".

By the Sword: Chapter Seven

Darenthallis (Daren) is mentioned as the youngest son of King Megrarthon.

By the Sword: Chapter Seven

Kerowyn meets His Highness, Prince Darenthallis, third son of the King of Rethwellan, for the first time.

By the Sword: Chapter Seven

Late Fall/Early Winter

Daren mentions wanting to be the Lord Martial of Rethwellan for the first time.

By the Sword: Chapter Eight

1376 AF

Herald-Princess Selenay turns nineteen
Late Winter
Alberich begins teaching a cross-class, with the Horsemanship teacher, in the art of combat.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Twelve
Ten Days Later Early Spring/Late Winter
Talamir tells Alberich that this is the year the agents in Karse say the Tedrels will be making their final push into Valdemar.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Twelve

Alberich chooses Herald Keren and Ylsa, City Guard Locasti Perken, Berda Lunge, and Haydee Dallas, and Palace Guardswoman Lotte as bodyguards for Princess Selenay.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Twelve

Herald Jadus and Mindhealer Crathach volunteer to be bodyguards for King Sendar.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Thirteen
Midsummer
The final push of the Tedrel Companies begins.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Sixteen

King Sendar throws himself into the fight in order to distract the Tedrels while half of the Valdemar army rushes to protect the villages under attack by the Tedrel Infantry.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Seventeen

Alberich saves the life of Princess Selenay when he keeps her from fighting alongside her father.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Seventeen

A Tedrel mercenary strikes and kills Companion Taver
♘ Hypothesis: Companion Taver is five hundred and seventy-eight years old [see 807 AF].

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Seventeen

Herald Jadus throws himself between the King and a Tedrel mercenary and gets an axe in the leg and goes down.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Seventeen

King Sendar of Valdemar and his Companion, Lorenil, are killed by an overwhelming group of Tedrel mercenaries. The mercenaries are almost immediately decimated by the surrounding Valdemaran army in retaliation.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Seventeen

Grove-born Companion Rolan arrives and brings Talamir back from the dead in order to continue being Monarch’s Own.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Seventeen

Herald Alberich and Herald Laika lead a rescue mission to rescue all the children from the camp of the Tedrel Companies.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Eighteen

While en route to find the children the rescuers are found by the children themselves and Herald Alberich hears of the child Kantis who told the children of the Prophecy that says the White Riders will save the children.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Eighteen

King Sendar of Valdemar is buried.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Nineteen

Dethor retires as Weaponsmaster and Alberich is named Weaponsmaster.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Twenty
Two Weeks Later
Alberich is caught making his second public joke since being a Herald.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Twenty

Princess Selenay is crowned Queen of Valdemar at the age of nineteen years old.

Exile’s Honor: Chapter Twenty
♕ Reign of Selenay ♕
Alberich goes down to the Temple of the Lord of Light and meets the young boy, Kantis. Kantis acts and speaks like the incarnation of Sunlord Vykandis. He tells Alberich that one day he will meet Kantis’s daughter, “or should I say, my daughter who will be my Son.’”.

Exile’s Honor: Epilogue

Beginning of Winter

Herald Elcarth is the Acting Dean of Herald’s Collegium.

Exile’s Valor: Chapter Two
Midwinter
Queen Selenay announces an Ice Festival.

Exile’s Valor: Chapter Five

Herald Alberich invents an “ice war” for his students that turns into a sport called, “Hurlee” that is played on frozen bodies of water
♘ Hypothesis: Alberich just invented ice hockey.

Exile’s Valor: Chapter Seven

1377 AF

Herald Alberich hears that plans are in the works to play Hurlee on solid ground. He thinks that the next thing he knows they will probably play the game Companion-back.

Exile’s Valor: Chapter Nine

Herald Kyril is the Seneschal’s Herald.

Exile’s Valor: Chapter Eleven
Spring
Prince Ancar of Hardorn is born to King Alessander.

Exile’s Valor: Chapter Three

Queen Selenay meets Prince Karathanelan of Rethwellan for the first time.

Exile’s Valor: Chapter Twelve

Karsite bandits murder every man in Feldars Teeth after they had surrendered.

By the Sword: Chapter Eleven
Vernal Equinox
The first public game of mounted Hurlee is played on Companion-back.

Exile’s Valor: Chapter Thirteen

♘ Exile’s Valor: Chapter Thirteen mentions that Prince Faramentha already has a son
Midsummer
Queen Selenay throws a masquerade party to announce the end of her year of mourning for her dead father, King Sendar. Selenay is twenty years old.

Exile’s Valor: Chapter Fourteen

Prince Karathanelan proposes marriage to Queen Selenay at the Midsummer Masquerade.

Exile’s Valor: Chapter Fourteen
One Month Later
Queen Selenay and Prince Karathanelan are married
♘ By the Sword: Chapter Ten says this happens over a year before King Megrarthon dies.

Exile’s Valor: Chapter Sixteen
Winter
As a means of learning deployment, strategy, commerce and diplomacy, as well as command over troops, Tarma, Warrl, Kerowyn and Daren play a mercenary version of Dungeons & Dragons (DnD).

By the Sword: Chapter Nine

Kerowyn and Darenthallis have sex for the first time. It does not go well for Kero.

By the Sword: Chapter Nine

1378 AF
Budding Moon

Beginning of Spring

Elspeth is born to Queen Selenay and Prince Karathanelan of Rethwellan.

Exile’s Valor: Chapter Twenty-One
Mead Moon

Two Months Later

Queen Selenay is starting to have doubts about her husband, who she has begun to realize is a spoiled, selfish man. She leaves the palace grounds to get away, but Karathanelan and his friends follow and try to kill her. Weaponsmaster Herald Alberich and his combat team are alerted and rush to the scene.

Exile’s Valor: Chapter Twenty-One

Heraldic-trainee Mical, Chosen by Companion Eloran, is fifteen years old when he saves Queen Selenay’s life by toppling her closest attacker to the ground, breaking the man’s neck and fracturing his own arm. The team fights on until all of the attackers are dead, and Alberich realizes he has slain Karathanelan.

Exile’s Valor: Chapter Twenty
Midsummer's Eve

Talia Sensholding turns five years old

Karsite bandits murder every man in Feldar’s Teeth after they had surrendered.

By the Sword: Chapter Eleven

1379 AF

Tarma begins looking for a mercenary Company that would be a good match for Kerowyn.

By the Sword: Chapter Ten

A half-dozen men from the mercenary Company, Doomslayers, who were prisoners of war and waiting for Guild ransom, were tortured by Karsite priests, leaving the men completely mindless husks.

By the Sword: Chapter Eleven
One Week Later
His Majesty, King Megrarthon Jadrevalyn of Rethwellan dies after learning of the attempted murder of Queen Selenay at the hands of his son, Karathanelan.

By the Sword: Chapter Nine
📖 Exile’s Valor: Chapter Ninteen

Prince Faramentha becomes King of Rethwellan and sends for his brother, Prince Darenthallis.

By the Sword: Chapter Ten

As a parting gift, Tarma gives Daren a saddle-bred gelding named Roan that was bred by her Clan.

By the Sword: Chapter Ten

Prince Darenthallis of Rethwellan leaves training from Tarma to go back home and begin training to be Lord Martial.

By the Sword: Chapter Ten

Dirk is eleven years old when he is Chosen in a marketplace on Fair Day by Companion Ahrodie

Need strikes out again, attempting to control Kerowyn, but over the course of candlemarks, she manages to regain control of her own body.

By the Sword: Chapter Ten

Tarma gifts Kero with the battle-mare, Hellsbane.

By the Sword: Chapter Ten

Lerryn Two-Blades is Captain of the Skybolts
♘ Hypothesis: Lerryn Two-Blades is the grandson of Justin Two-Blades.

By the Sword: Chapter Ten
Midsummer
Kerowyn joins Twoblades Company, The Skybolts as a recruit. This mercenary comapny is an entirely mounted force of specialists. Kerowyn will become a Scout/Skirmisher.

By the Sword: Chapter Ten

1380 AF

Prince Daren becomes Lord Martial for his brother King Faramentha of Rethwellan

Kerowyn gets drunk for the first time in public, and frightens a tavern full of hard-bitten soldiers into sobriety, as her mental shields come down and she is able to read their thoughts.

By the Sword: Chapter Eleven
Next Day
Using some fancy verbal footwork, Kerowyn is able to convince those that heard her at the tavern, that she had misheard a lot of the information she spewed as having got from them. After this Kerowyn vows to not get drunk again nor to drink alcohol at all.

By the Sword: Chapter Eleven

Karsite bandits overrun the winter quarters of the mercenary company, The Hooters, killing all the civilians. The Hooters were out putting down a rebellion in Ruvan and were not even near Karse.

By the Sword: Chapter Eleven

1381 AF
Early in the Year
During a really bad rainy season, Kerowyn's packhorse that is carrying Need, drowns while crossing a flood-swollen river. Kerowyn collapses and manages to tell the Comapny Healer about her bond with Need. The entire Company goes in search of the sword and manages to find before sunset of that same day.

By the Sword: Chapter Eleven

Kris, son of Lord Peregrine, nephew of Lord Orthallen, is Chosen by Companion Tantris. He is twelve years old at this time.

Arrow’s Flight: Chapter

1382 AF

Skif is ten years old when he begins training with Bazie
Spring
Shallan, Kerowyn, Gies and his twin brother, Tre, are heading back from a scouting foray along the Karsite/Menmellith border.

By the Sword: Chapter Eleven

The Skybolts are working with three other mercenary companies, all hired by the Menmellith Council: Bornams Bastards, Jeffrey's Wolflings, and.

By the Sword: Chapter Eleven

Shallan mentions that Captain Lerryn Two-Blades refuses to put green recruits into the field.

By the Sword: Chapter Eleven

Captain Lerryn announces that the companies will be making a push on the Karsite bandits and the SKybolts are to pack up and be ready to leave.

By the Sword: Chapter Eleven

Panic ensues as word reaches the Skybolts that the bandits were Karsite regular army and that Karse had sent a real army to close in behind the mercenaries and catch them in a pincer move.

By the Sword: Chapter Eleven
Sunset
Lerryn divides the Skybolts in half in order to throw pursuers off the trail. Shallan, hedge-wizard Tarres, and Relli go with Lerryn while Kerowyn the second in command, Icolan Ar Perdin.

By the Sword: Chapter Twelve

Kerowyn theorizes that those born with a Gift in Karse are not really killed but are brought into the Priesthood.

By the Sword: Chapter Twelve

Later that night Kerowyn's group split twice more during the night trek along the Karsite border. The leader of the twenty Skybolts left in Kerowyns group is a colorless woman known as Lyr. Another member of the group is a man named Tobe. They decide to cross the border into Karse in the hopes the army will think they are Karsite bandits and leave them alone.

By the Sword: Chapter Twelve
Next Day
After crossing the border and getting some rest and water, Kerowyn's group is attacked. During the skirmish Kero is separated from her group, who were far downstream.

By the Sword: Chapter Twelve

Hellsbane and Kerowyn fling themselves into the river whose powerful current sweeps them downstream, to the south, and the opposite direction of her Company.

By the Sword: Chapter Twelve
Next Day
Kerowyn comes across a village that is being used for military camp.

By the Sword: Chapter Twelve
Three Days Later
Kerowyn has been dreaming every night of an old woman and a girl barely in her teens and seemed to be so far in the past that they bordered on incomprehensible.

By the Sword: Chapter Twelve

Kerowyn is watching another village when she notices the priest is a woman.

By the Sword: Chapter Twelve

Each day, after dreaming of the old woman, Kero will find a female priest wearing a sword in the next village who seemed to either see her or sense the sword, Need.

By the Sword: Chapter Twelve
Several Days Later
Herald Eldan is captured by Karsite villagers and handed over to a priestess.

By the Sword: Chapter Thirteen

Kerowyn watches as Karsite troops and a priestess escort a prisoner to a nearby canyon. The prisoner is a Herald.

By the Sword: Chapter Thirteen

Kerowyn sees a Companion and recalls that they are spirits, or leshya.

By the Sword: Chapter Thirteen

Kerowyn meets and rescues Herald Eldan.

By the Sword: Chapter Thirteen
More Than A Candlemark Later
Kerowyn finds a cave to hide in, by falling into it, and learns that Eldan has Animal Mindspeech.

By the Sword: Chapter Thirteen
Two Candlemarks Later
Kerowyn and Eldan have sex for the first time.

By the Sword: Chapter Thirteen
The Next Day
Kerowyn tells Eldan of how she came to be there, starting from Kerowyn's Ride, which Eldan admits to have heard about even in Valdemar.

By the Sword: Chapter Thirteen
About a Week Later
Kerowyn and Eldan leave their hiding place, traveling by night. As they make camp just before dawn, Kerowyn realizes that she thinks she is falling in love with Eldan.

By the Sword: Chapter Thirteen
Several Days Later
It has been a month since Eldan was captured.

By the Sword: Chapter Thirteen

Companion Ratha almost suggests that if Kerowyn were to go to Valdemar she might get Chosen.

By the Sword: Chapter Thirteen
Several Days Later
Kerowyn and Eldan are near the Valdemar border when they find a small village with a enormous Sunpriest temple. They decide to stop for the day (since they travel at night) and camp under some low-hanging pine trees.

By the Sword: Chapter Fourteen

So far at least three priestesses have passed their position. Kerowyn is sure they are tracking Need.

By the Sword: Chapter Fourteen

Kerowyn and Eldan have sex for one last time so she can tire him out.

By the Sword: Chapter Fourteen

Kerowyn wakes up at sunset and manages to pack up and prep to leave Eldan behind without waking him. She gets stopped by Ratha who questions her motives but concedes her decision to sacrifice herself as a target for Eldan to cross the border unharmed is respectable and allows her to pass.

By the Sword: Chapter Fourteen

The Karsite hunters found Kerowyn's trail in the middle of the night causing her to crisscross the river several times in order to hide from their searches. But by the time dawn bloomed the hunters were still hot on her trail.

By the Sword: Chapter Fourteen

A seemingly supernatural storm pours so heavily as to make it impoosible for the hunters to see her, and it washes away her trail, making it impossible for them to follow her.

By the Sword: Chapter Fourteen
Five Days Later
Kerowyn rides into a Menmellith borderpost.

By the Sword: Chapter Fifteen
Two Days Later
Kerowyn rides into the Skybolts camp.

By the Sword: Chapter Fifteen

Shallan tells Kero that Lerryn and his second in command, Icolan, are dead. Worse is that Ardana Flinteyes is now Captain of the Skybolts.

By the Sword: Chapter Fifteen

Relli mentions that the Skybolts will not be in Winter Camp because they have a possible job in Seejay. He says he got his information from the Company accountant, Willi.

By the Sword: Chapter Fifteen

1383 AF

Sherrill is Chosen by Companion Silkswift
♘ Hypothesis: She is thirteen years old

Nerrissa is Chosen
♘ Hypothesis: She is thirteen years old

1384 AF

Jeri is Chosen. She is thirteen years old.

Take a Thief: Chapter (?)

1385 AF

Skif is Chosen by Companion Cymry
♘ Hypothesis: He is thirteen years old.

Take a Thief: Chapter (?)

Herald Destria broke both her legs while rescuing half a dozen children from a flood
Later in the Year
Destria rode circuit with Herald-trainee Christa and was badly burned in the bandit raid that caused Christa’s death

1386 AF

Monarch’s Own Herald Talamir is murdered. His Companion, Rolan, goes on a search for the next Queen’s Own that lasts two months
One Month Later
Herald-in-training Kris, nephew of Lord Orthallen, becomes full Herald
♘ Hypothesis: He is seventeen at this time

Herald-in-training Dirk graduates to full Herald
♘ Hypothesis: Dirk is eighteen at the time

Kris and Dirk intern together with counselor Herald Gerick.

Arrow's Flight: Chapter (?)

1387 AF

Talia from Sensholding is Chosen by Companion Rolan on her thirteenth birthday. Talia’s birthday is Midsummers Eve

Queen Selenay is thirty years old

Elspeth, daughter of Queen Selenay, is seven years old

Herald Elcarth, Chosen by (?), has been Dean of Herald’s Collegium for decades

Herald Beltren and his Companion are ambushed and pushed over a cliff
♘ The Valdemar Companion mentions that Beltren is a first-year mate of Herald Keren
♘ Hypothesis: Beltren is the same age as Keren
♘ Hypothesis: Beltren is the reincarnation of Chancellor Juuso Beltran, the second person to ever have been Chosen.

Arrow's of the Queen: Chapter (?)

1388 AF

Talia turns fourteen

Herald-in-training Sherrill, Chosen by Companion Silkswift, becomes a full Herald

Herald-in-training Nerrissa, Chosen by Companion (?), becomes a full Herald

Herald Beryl and Companion die

Herald Gerick and Companion die

Herald Jadus and Companion die

1389 AF

Dean Elcarth admits under Truth Spell that he is fifty-seven years old

Herald Ylsa and her Companion Felara are killed by bandits. She was thirty-three years old

Herald Keren, Chosen by Companion Dantris, and Herald Sherrill become lifebonded after the death of Kerens previous lifebonded, Herald Ylsa, dies

Talia was able to assuage Herald Destria’s suicidal guilt and put her in contact with Herald Vostel, who had suffered similar burns

Talia is sixteen years old on Midsummers Eve

Darian Firkin is born in Errold's Grove to Kullen and Daralie Firkin

Herald Keren is slightly more than twice Talias’ age, which puts her around thirty-three years old
♘ Hypothesis: Exile’s Valor: Chapter Four says that Alberich thinks Keren is the same age as he is. It also says that Herald Ylsa was yearmates with Keren, putting her at about the same age

Herald-in-training Skif, Chosen by Companion Cymry, graduates to full Herald
♘ Hypothesis: He is eighteen at this time

1390 AF

Talia seventeen years old when she becomes a Herald
♘ Talia mentions that it has been two years since she had been carried to her room after helping retrieve Ylsa’s Arrows. She also mentions that her birthing day is on Midsummers Eve

Weaponsmaster Herald Alberich is in his mid-forties

Elspeth is thirteen years old when she is Chosen by Grove-born Companion Gwena
♘ Discrepancy: Talia is thirteen when she arrives at Collegium. Elspeth is seven. If Elspeth is fifteen (As The Valdemar Companion states) than it has been eight years that Talia has been in school.
Since Elspeth’s birthday is in the spring I am placing her age at just turning thirteen years old

Heralds Keren and Sherrill are senior Heralds and instructors at the Collegium

1391 AF

Herald Christa, Chosen by Companion (?) dies

Talia turns twenty years old on Midsummers Eve

Herald-in-training Princess Elspeth is about fifteen years old

Prince Ancar of Hardorn kills his father, King Alessander, and takes over the kingdom

Herald Kris is killed while trying to escape King Ancar of Hardorn

Queen’s Own Herald Talia is captured by King Ancar and Hulda

Herald-in-training Elspeth and Herald Dirk manage to rescue Talia with the help of all the Companions

Herald-in-training Princess Elspeth kills Lord Orthallen when he attacks her and Talia

Queen’s Own Herald Talia and her lifebonded, Herald Dirk, are married

Herald Elcarth retires as Dean of the Heralds Collegium and names Herald Teren his successor

1392 AF

Kerowyn has been Captain of the Skybolts for roughly ten years.
♘ Kerowyn mentions it has been ten years since she met Herald Eldan.

By the Sword: Chapter Eighteen
Early Winter
It is winter time when the Skybolts leave for Valdemar to fight Ancar
♘ Hypothesis: It is the beginning of the year, just after Midwinter.

By the Sword: Chapter Twenty

Kerowyn is forty-two years old
♘ Kerowyn believes she is two or three years older than Selenay
♘ Hypothesis: For continuity I am placing Kerowyn’s age as two years older than Selenay.

By the Sword: Chapter Twenty-One

Queen Selenay is forty years old

Ancar is beaten back again by the Valdemar army, Captain Kerowyn’s Skybolts, and the army of Rethwellan led by Lord-Martial Prince Daren of Rethwellan
♘ By the Sword places this two years after the rescue of Talia

Lord-Martial Prince Daren is Chosen by Companion Jasen. He also falls instantly in love with Queen Selenay of Valdemar

Captain Kerowyn of the Skybolts is Chosen by Companion Sayvil
♘ Hypothesis: Prince Daren and Queen Selenay are married within a month
♘ Hypothesis: Companion Sayvil is the reincarnation of Herald-Mage Savil Ashkevron

CONTINUE TO PART EIGHT?