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  Indagare > February 7th, 2018, 08:01 PM

  Howdy folks! I've been reading and rereading the Witch World novels and I created a timeline: http://elwher.wikidot.com/timeline-years . I've made copious notes (and probably too many redundant footnotes) and had some help, but I'd like the folks here to get back to me on it. I actually wasn't sure if I ought to have put this in the Witch World thread proper, but it also involves a fansite.

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  Michael > February 10th, 2018, 04:51 AM

  Well, as a "purist" I am a bit reserved about incorporating dates from non-Andre sources like GURPs. How much input did she have into that material?
  
  And I thought Warding of the Witch World took place after everything else because Andre rounded up all the characters and brought them together? I no longer have the books so I cannot check.

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  Indagare > February 10th, 2018, 11:07 AM

  Thanks for replying!
  
  

  Michael Wrote:Well, as a "purist" I am a bit reserved about incorporating dates from non-Andre sources like GURPs. How much input did she have into that material?

  
  I consider the GURPS years to be non-cannonical, and I include them only for thoroughness because, well, they're out there and someone is bound to ask about them. I only use them twice - the first is for the coming of the Dalesfolk (in GURPS this is some 600 years after the Old Race flee to Arvon and Estcarp), and the second is for the birth of Simond. In both cases I don't have anything else to use.
  
  

  Quote:And I thought Warding of the Witch World took place after everything else because Andre rounded up all the characters and brought them together? I no longer have the books so I cannot check.

  
  It does, but the timelines don't work out. As far as I can tell both Songsmith and Key of the Keplain are both supposed to take place some thirty years from the Second Turning. However, Warding is (I think) about a year or two after Magestone which (in the book) is about two years going on three from the Second Turning. As I mentioned on that page some things just won't work out. I've made many (probably too many) footnotes to cite sources or explain things.

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  Michael > February 24th, 2018, 02:39 PM

  Sorry for disappearing again. I just cannot seem to stay healthy.
  
  I don't know where my Witch World notes are. The information I published on Xenite.Org here doesn't cover much detail or go up to the last books. I was just never able to finish that project. I will have to defer to your research.

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  Indagare > February 24th, 2018, 09:35 PM

  Michael Wrote:Sorry for disappearing again. I just cannot seem to stay healthy.
  
  I don't know where my Witch World notes are. The information I published on Xenite.Org here doesn't cover much detail or go up to the last books. I was just never able to finish that project. I will have to defer to your research.

  
  I hope you feel better soon!
  
  We have a number of notes on the books on http://elwher.wikidot.com/ . You'd be more than welcome to them, if you want.

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  Irene > March 9th, 2018, 10:35 PM

  I didn't spot this post for a long time..... Mostly as it was not posted to the Andre Norton Forum on this site.
  
  Well. The years don't work out. They just don't. Andre Norton wasn't keeping a calendar/chart as she wrote the books. But she didn't write the books in year order, and she never let simple things like "what year?" stand in the way of a good story.
  
  Also, co-authors, and short story authors made up names for years, as they wanted them.
  
  If you have questions, you can try the Andre Norton Web site (not associated with sf-fandom.com) http://andre-norton-books.com where a similar time-line was created.
  
  I do have a time line as created by Juanita Coulson (sorry about spelling here), which was created during Andre Norton's lifetime. I think that it was intended to be part of a compendium of all references to characters, locations, and named references in all of Andre Norton's work. It was never published.
  
  If you need me to, and I have the time, I can go into some of Andre Norton's own notebooks. But please make the request after you have checked the above AN web site, and post directly to the Andre Norton forum.
  https://www.sf-fandom.com/vbulletin/foru...dre-Norton
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