Deryni timeline (was Re: Happy Candlemas!)

On 3 Feb 2007 09:32:54 -0800, Shiral
<shiral14.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote:

> And in 1092, Duncan McLain was born on Candlemas. =o) Happy birthday
> plus one, Father Duncan. For a 900 odd year old man, he doesn't look a
> day over 750!

I've never been certain that the Deryni timeline quite matches ours
numerically, has anything been said officially about it? For instance,
in the mid 1100s Morgan's ship was using a "new sail called a jib" for
tacking closer to the wind, but my sources have indicated that it was
introduced to the UK a couple of centuries later, and various other
technological and social developments don't seem to match. I regard the
Deryni universe as parellel to ours, but mostly tend to think of its
timeline as not related in any direct way (indeed, as with other
well-written books, I slip into 'now' being whenever that story is set
rather than actually correlating them). I don't remember a Deryniverse
date on the Codex (not that that would mean much either, since it must
have slippeed universes and could have slipped time as well).

Just a thought...

Chris C

On Feb 3, 2:28 pm, Chris Croughton <c....TakeThisOut@keristor.net> wrote:
> On 3 Feb 2007 09:32:54 -0800, Shiral
> <shira....TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > And in 1092, Duncan McLain was born on Candlemas. =o) Happy birthday
> > plus one, Father Duncan. For a 900 odd year old man, he doesn't look a
> > day over 750!
>
> I've never been certain that the Deryni timeline quite matches ours
> numerically, has anything been said officially about it? For instance,
> in the mid 1100s Morgan's ship was using a "new sail called a jib" for
> tacking closer to the wind, but my sources have indicated that it was
> introduced to the UK a couple of centuries later, and various other
> technological and social developments don't seem to match. I regard the
> Deryni universe as parellel to ours, but mostly tend to think of its
> timeline as not related in any direct way (indeed, as with other
> well-written books, I slip into 'now' being whenever that story is set
> rather than actually correlating them). I don't remember a Deryniverse
> date on the Codex (not that that would mean much either, since it must
> have slippeed universes and could have slipped time as well).
>
> Just a thought...
>
> Chris C

Katherine means it as a close, but not exact correlation to real
world time, I think Chris. The level of technology and the culture is
very similar with a few exceptions, such as the jib sail. Most of the
time though, the parallel is pretty strong.

Melissa