I've been working on the graphical timeline, and something came up.

25-26 BSF, October 31:  Harry is born.  Harry's mother, now Margaret Gwendolyn Dresden, dies in childbirth.  She is murdered by a ritual entropy curse, courtesy of Lord Raith.

17-18 BSF:  At age 10, Harry manifests his magical abilities and is adopted by Justin DuMorne a few weeks later.  Elaine Mallory is adopted soon after.

How do those two entries fit together?
If Harry is about 10 when he is adopted, shouldn't it be 15-16 BSF in the second entry?


And some others:

8-9 BSF:  After leaving Ebenezar at age 19, Harry roamed around for a while (between nine and twenty months) before winding up in Chicago.  [NB: This is most likely to be on the short side of Jim's estimate]

~7 BSF:  At age 20, Harry arrives in Chicago.  Before he goes to work at Ragged Angel, he takes a number of jobs, one of which was as a dance partner with a senior-citizen organization.

5 BSF:  At age 20-21, Harry starts working with Nicholas Christian ("Nick") at Ragged Angel.  He spends three years there.

the ages and the BSF placements are not all consistent.
Just trying to get them straight.

I'm still working on it, some titles are still messed up, and longer axplanations to the events have to be added.
Maybe i'll color-code some of the events...

Ah, so much to do and so little time...

The tool i used is this one btw. http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/
It takes some getting used to, you should have heard me cursing at my PC while i tried to make it work... *g*

Jupp, it's a know issue, we've already decided to make it smaller during our Map-Chat session.

I just haven't gotten around to incorporating these changes yet. I hope to find the time this weekend.

Plus:
Ahhhh... SCALE !! AAAHHHHAAHHHH *runs away screaming in panic*


 

Darn. I was trying to keep the chat on the weekend so Priscellie can moderate and keep us all playing nice. That's the basic problem.I suppose we could do Friday the 27th, I just don't know what time she gets home from work. If we start the chat like around 6:00 or 6:30 Eastern US time, what time is it for you and Koko?

We are at GMT+1 wich puts us 6 hours before EST, so 6:00 would be Midnight for us. We can probably shedule a session for a time like thin sometime, but on the 27th it would be impractical, at least for me, due to the aforementioned LARP meeting.

I'm assuming LARP is Live Action Role Playing ? And who was scheduled first? Hmmmm.

You assume correctly. And actually the LARP was scheduled long before, since its every month. 

Mikey
/* Puts on his Master cartographers hat, not the apprentice one Tsunami borrowed */

Hey... no fair... *g* Ah well... Honor where honor is due

*salutes the Master-hat*

Well, the position of the Tiber is still contested. I created the Map you quoted to illustrate my point.

In my opinion the Canim never intended to take the Elinarch to be able to go to Alera Imperia (AI), they wanted to control it to stop the Alerans from deploying forces in their back. they never really intended to get to AI, that was Kalares goal.
In CuF, Cyril says the following: "If they take the Elinarch, they'll run right through Placidas heartlands on the north side, and with the river protecting their flank, they'll be able to lay waste to Ceres' lands on the south." -> Tiber between Ceres and Placida... wich would be my Version of the Map.

There are several things to work through, and the upcoming chat session will hopefully help to clear some of them up.

I've been thinking about the further development of the Map, and aside from all the discussion about what should be where, i think we need to look at the scale of the Map.

For Example: Calderon Valley.
In FoC i get the impression that the holders of calderon expected to get word  to Riva in a manner of days by sending out riders.
That leads to me picturing Calderon Valley as being somewhere between 100 and 200 miles long.
The relative Dimensions we have right now would then put the width of Alera as a whole at about three times that distance, but we've seen plenty of indication that it is much bigger (i.e. Antillus being thousands of miles from the sea)
Yet, we cannot simply make the scale of the Map bigger, because that would lead to Calderon being more than a thousand miles long, and thats far to big for my taste. Especially when you take into consideration that most people in FoC traveled without the use of Furycraft for the better part of the time.

Sadly, distances are usualy only vaguely described in the Books, off the top of my head i can only think of a few instances:

• Founderport being about 20 miles from the Elinarch.
• The First Aleran being the only Legion in a 800 mile Radius, wich leads me to believe that Ceres should be about that far away from the Elinarch, since i see it as the closest big city.
  
• Gaius/Amara/Bernard starting their trek at about 300 miles southwest of Kalare.

_{I bet there are more, but i don't remember them right now.}
most other times Distance is referenced as Time-Travelled, wich is a bit difficult to put into a map.

Ok, whats the point of all this?
I guess to show that we need to take a look at distances in general in this World, and that i think that Calderon is to big right now :-)

Word from Jim: Antillus is indeed in the northwest, and Riva is toward the northeast.  I think Tsunami has the right idea about the two cities.  I'll take a closer look at this new proposal when I get home from work.  What are your green lines meant to signify, Tsunami?

Green Lines indicate troop movement in CuF.

Also, please see the post above again, it has been edited.