Timeline for Genesis of Shannara

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The Timeline for Genesis of Shannara is a visual representation of the time frame for the events that take place during the trilogy Genesis of Shannara. As such it includes all the events from Armageddon's Children, The Elves of Cintra, and The Gypsy Morph. This is done since though broken into three books it is one continuous story with the same characters. It is a best attempt to piece together the events that happen based on the descriptions of time given by Terry Brooks in the novel. Where ever possible the references to time from the book will be used. In some cases assumptions about time must be made since the author does not provide something more specific. If you discover more information or anything that contradicts what it here, please add it.

Prelude Timeline

The Prelude Timeline lists some of the events that took place prior to the opening of the book. These may or may not be pertinent to the story, but they are listed or can be inferred. Years listed are years before the first event in the main story line. In the series many of these events are described outright, but since they are not actual events of the specific story being told just character developement they are listed here as part of the prelude timeline.


Year Event(s)
8 Jan 1983 Nest Freemark is born in Hopewell, Illinois.[1]
2013[2] Nest Freemark gives birth to Hawk the gypsy morph.[3]
2077 Logan Tom starts fighting with Michael Poole attacking slave pens to free those trapped and to kill those children mutated by experiments.[4]
2081 Delloreen enters the service of Findo Gask.[5][6]
2082 Logan Tom kills his mentor Michael Poole during the raid on the Midline Slave Camp[7] and becomes a Knight of the Word within a few weeks afterwards.[8]
2086 Angel Perez becomes a Knight of the Word, when she is only sixteen years old.[8][9]
2087 Hawk comes to Seattle from Oregon. He discovers the underground city from old Seattle and makes it his home. He meets Tessa and she brings Owl to Hawk, and together they start their new family the Ghosts.[10]
2089 Owl meets Candle and they form and instantly strong bond, and so the little girl joins the family. Candle is only 6 or 7.[11]
2090 Anan Kawanda returns from a week-long foraging expedition to find his entire community and family killed in the Presidio Park. He buries them, and departs north ending up in Seattle and joins the Ghosts, to become Panther.[12]
Midyear 2091 Angel Perez comes to the LA area to try and save the people of eight different compounds, ultimately without much success.[13]
Solstice 2091 Kirisin, Biat, Erisha, Raya, Jarn, and Giln are selected by the Ellcrys as Chosen to serve her for the coming year.[13]
Fall 2091 Angel Perez forms a guerrilla force out of those who know that the fortresses are doomed.[14]
Midyear 2092 Year the story takes place.[15][16]

The following list is of events that where the same year as the start of the story just days or months prior to the start of the story.

Day(s) Event(s)
-3 The Ellcrys speaks to Erisha about the danger she is in and the need to seek out the Loden Elfstone. She goes to her father the King. He gets furious and absolutely refuses that she do anything to seek out and find this elfstone.[17][18]
-2 Squirrel has a temperature of 106 degrees after cutting his hand on a piece of sharp metal and getting it badly infected.[19][20]
-1 Logan Tom leaves Cleveland, Ohio to reach Hopewell, Illinois as sent by The Lady[21]


Timeline

This is the timeline tracks the events that are outlined within the books as the story unfolds. Armageddon's Children starts out with four different story lines, that of Logan Tom, that of the Ghosts, that of Angel Perez, and finally that of the Kirisin and the Elves. They will be places side by side here, though a bit confusing, this is done as all the timelines with interweave and cross. So it is believed that this is ultimately the only way they would make sense.

Day(s) Event(s)
1 Logan Tom drives south through the day and by early evening reaches the town of Hopewell. That even he meets up with O'olish Amaneh and is given the quest to find and protect the gypsy morph.

On the way to a trade meeting, Hawk and a small group of the Ghosts see a Lizard that has been mauled. Hawk uses a viper-prick to kill it to put it out of its misery.[22] This concerns Hawk. They go the the trade meeting with the Cats. Hawk agrees to get Tiger pleneteen medicine for his sister.[23]
Chalk and Fixit find a big stash of bottled water foraging for food.[24]

Angel Perez tries to help at the fall of the Coliseum Compound in the L.A. area.[13]

2 Logan Tom crossing the Mississippi heading west, drives through an area with people dead from the plague Quick Drain.[25] That night Logan finds a slave camp that probably had something to do with the dead people at the Mississippi. After waking from a dream, he attacks and destroys the camp in a rage, freeing what few survivors he could find.[26]

Panther, Sparrow, Candle & Fixit retrieve the stash of bottled water Chalk and Fixit found the prior day.[27]
Hawk leaves with Cheney in midmorning to visit the Weatherman, warned of the death of a whole nest of Croaks[28]
Evening Hawk meets with Tessa just outside Safeco Field Compound.[29] On returning home Candle warns him that something is coming that will kill them. She says they have to leave right now.[30]

Angel Perez meets with Helen Rice to save the children of the Anaheim Compound as it is under attack and in risk of falling that night. She battles with the demon Delloreen nearly losing but allowing the Helen and the children to escape the fall of the compound.[31][32]
Anaheim Compound falls that night. Findo gask learns of the escape of the children.[33]

3 Logan Tom drives across the Great Plains without stopping to sleep.[34]

Ghost play a game of stick ball in the streets of Pioneer Square.[35]
Hawk is told about River disappearing by Owl.[36]
Hawk takes Panther, Bear, Fixit and Candle to get purification tablets. They run into the lair of something dangerous, but Panther gets the tablets without incident.[37]
Hawk meets with Tessa and gets the pleneteen but Tessa says she might have been caught. Tessa worries that her father has been killed.[38]

Angel Perez and Helen Rice march the children more than twenty miles into the Chino Hills to meet up with her unit that will protect the children and take them north. With those saved from the other compounds the children number more than a thousand.[14]

4 Logan Tom continues his drive across the Great Plains.[34] When he was within sight of the Rocky Mountains at Dusk he stops in a town and meets Preacher who asks his to have dinner with his flock to give them some hope. [39]

By daybreak Angel Perez reaches the guerrillas camp north with the children from the Anaheim Compound.[40] Ailie meets with Angel To send her on a quest to help the Elves locate the Loden Elfstone. Angel tells Helen to head north with the Children to the Columbia River and to wait for her there. [41]

The Ellcrys speaks to Kirisin telling of the danger she is in and the need to seek out the Loden Elfstone. Kirisin speaks with both the rest of the Chosen and with Arissen Bellorous the Elven King. He believes he is being lied to by Kirisin and the King about their knowledge of this danger.[42][43]

5 Logan Tom travels into the Rockies. By midday he has to turn around after coming to a slide that has destroyed the road through the pass. He turns around and takes a route north.[44] With night coming on, he encounters a group of Spiders. The reveal that another Knight of the Word passed more than two years prior, killing thirty of them as payment for their foolishness. They guide him to the pass, up in the pass Logan is forced to face all the spirits of the dead that he had known, saved, killed and had relationship with. Afterwards he passes through the mountains.[45]
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After a week, Kirisin hears nothing from the King. During the day he confronts Erisha with the lies he is aware of. She admits to having the Ellcrys talk to her. Kirisin convinces her of the need to do something. They agree to sneak into the library where the Elven Histories are and see what the king knows.[17]

References

  1. ^ Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 56
  2. ^ O'olish Amaneh says that the gypsy morph was born to Nest Freemark in her 30th year (which fits with Angel Fire East). Since it is revealed in Armageddon's Children that she specifically was born in 1983, that would put Hawk's birthday in the fall or early winter in 2013, given that she became pregnant with the gypsy morph on Christmas Day 2012.
  3. ^ Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 53
  4. ^ Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 212
  5. ^ Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 118
  6. ^ The text reads, 'almost a dozen years' so it is assumed that almost would mean 11 years. Though it is very possible that Delloreen entered service sometime in late 2080.
  7. ^ Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 214-224
  8. ^ 8.0 8.1 Brooks, Terry (2008). The Gypsy Morph pp. 254
  9. ^ Angel says that she had been a Knight of the Word about six years. So it is likely that she started something in the fall or early winter of 2086. Though it is possible that it was the first part of the year in 2087.
  10. ^ There are two references to when Hawk came to Seattle that do not match up. Both in Armageddon's Children page 18 says he was in Oregon thill he was five and then Seattle, while page 62 says that he found the underground city five years after arriving in Seattle. Page 65 says that Tessa brings Owl to him when he is still new to the city at fourteen years old. So it is being assumed that Hawk came to Seattle five years prior and was in Oregon up till that point, (if his memory is accurate in that regard or just one given to him by the King of the Silver River.
  11. ^ Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 158-159
  12. ^ Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 151-153
  13. ^ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 112
  14. ^ 14.0 14.1 Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 192-193
  15. ^ O'olish Amaneh says that the gypsy morph is nearly 80 years old. So it is assumed that he is 79 years old. Thus 2092 from a birth year of 2013.
  16. ^ Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 87
  17. ^ 17.0 17.1 Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 301-304
  18. ^ See the notes on Kirisin for the timing of this event.
  19. ^ Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 29
  20. ^ Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 33
  21. ^ Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 12
  22. ^ Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 19-22
  23. ^ Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 24-27
  24. ^ Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 32
  25. ^ Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 77
  26. ^ Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 106-110
  27. ^ Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 67
  28. ^ Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 73-74
  29. ^ Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 96-96
  30. ^ Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 97-98
  31. ^ Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 123-142
  32. ^ No specific references to time of day are given for Angel journey, though in the book it is placed after adventures of Hawk and Logan ending in the night time, so it is likely that that is when it takes place. However lighting of any kind is never mentioned so it is just as possible that it is during the day. Though likely towards the later half as the Coliseum Compound was attacked the night before.
  33. ^ Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 138-140
  34. ^ 34.0 34.1 Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 203-204
  35. ^ Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 145
  36. ^ Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 149-150
  37. ^ Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 154-157
  38. ^ Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 163-168
  39. ^ Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 204-211
  40. ^ Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 194-195
  41. ^ Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 196-202
  42. ^ Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 177-191
  43. ^ It is being assumed that the timing of this event corresponds directly with were it is placed within the manuscript. So even though this is the first event listed with the Elves it therefore would not correspond with day 1, rather day 4.
  44. ^ Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 212-213
  45. ^ Brooks, Terry (2006). Armageddon's Children pp. 226-239


Characters in Armageddon's Children

Angel Perez · Findo Gask · Hawk · Kirisin · Logan Tom · O'olish Amaneh · Minor Characters

Characters in The Elves of Cintra

Angel Perez · Findo Gask · Hawk · Kirisin · Logan Tom · Owl · Panther · Simralin · Minor Characters

Characters in The Gypsy Morph

Angel Perez · Findo Gask · Hawk · Kirisin · Logan Tom · Owl · Panther · Simralin · Minor Characters

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