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Post by allure on May 13, 2024 13:48:03 GMT
There's a line in the Lone Wolf wiki Timeline article which suggests that Joe Dever was inconsistent on this point. It says the year is either MS 5058 or MS 5060: And I'm wondering if anyone can see a way to resolve this inconsistency.
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Post by Black Cat on May 13, 2024 15:02:58 GMT
The convention when problems like this arise is that the info in the gamebooks have precedence over what is written in the Legends. If something is written in the Legends that doesn't contradict what is written in the gamebooks, then the info is good but it's clearly not the case here.
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egel
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Post by egel on Jul 4, 2024 15:21:15 GMT
I have a slightly different perspective on this, which is that this information may not be contradictory. In a gamebook, you get first-person information. So at the time of the start of the Jungle of Horrors, news reached Dessi that Darkland had been in civil war for 5 years and Gnaag is the new Archlord. The novel describes exactly how this happened, but this information may have arrived to Dessi distorted, incomplete... Actually, Darkland is a difficult country for the rest of Magnamund to understand and find out about, a normal person can't get into it. There were no witnesses to the civil war by normal people... just some information that got out of Darkland, it's incomplete, distorted...
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Post by allure on Jul 10, 2024 10:52:05 GMT
I have a slightly different perspective on this, which is that this information may not be contradictory. In a gamebook, you get first-person information. So at the time of the start of the Jungle of Horrors, news reached Dessi that Darkland had been in civil war for 5 years and Gnaag is the new Archlord. The novel describes exactly how this happened, but this information may have arrived to Dessi distorted, incomplete... Actually, Darkland is a difficult country for the rest of Magnamund to understand and find out about, a normal person can't get into it. There were no witnesses to the civil war by normal people... just some information that got out of Darkland, it's incomplete, distorted... Clever, but this shouldn't work - Lone Wolf himself went to Dessi, and he knew, so he must've carried the news with him. Therefore the latest Dessi should have known was when Lone Wolf first visited, and that happened by Castle Death.
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