# Quick Question **URL:** https://forum.paravia.com/t/quick-question/545 **Category:** Wars of Light and Shadow **Tags:** Other **Created:** [July 28, 2004, 11:08am UTC](https://forum.paravia.com/t/quick-question/545 "2004-07-28T11:08:00Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 8
### Author: ![jannywurts](https://forum.paravia.com/user_avatar/forum.paravia.com/jannywurts/32/31_2.png) [@jannywurts](https://forum.paravia.com/u/jannywurts) #### Post date: [July 28, 2004, 9:31pm UTC](https://forum.paravia.com/t/quick-question/545/8 "2004-07-28T21:31:00Z")
Official timeline - very hard to "review". Why - the "notes" for it are on scattered papers, and notebooks, spanning years. They are not "cross correlated." They tend to "cluster" around time periods, or events, or even, a person's life… Example: the Twelve Swords of Isaer - their histories wax and wane, depending on what was going on at the time. Each sword has a story. Some emerge into prominence in the hands of a certain individual - then fall into background. To "correlate" them - one needs to look at a Lot of material - and recall all of the bearers and events, and look THEM up, individually. Then compile…and some of the notes are literally on restaurant napkins…backs of train schedules. Yup - whenever they "arrived" they got jotted. Even in class notes from college. I did MUCHO work on this, as I was "correcting" the glossaries in the UK reissue books…swore I'd get some of it available for this site - but the art deadlines, page proofs, production deadlines, then a short story - all due - sidetracked me yet again. It's a Massive Job. And you have to realize - the notes for this ERA are all mixed into the others…yup - First, Second and Third Ages - are only a FRAGMENT sliver of Atheran history, in total. Drakish histories extend back WAY further. (They covered the Era of Destruction, which followed AFTER the Era of Creation - Paravian arrival marked the Opening of the Era of Redemption, of which there were Seven Ages…) Complex mess of notes… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.paravia.com/t/quick-question/545)._