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[R2s Muse]

Nrieh wrote...

I might have to go with berelinde on an 'oops' explanation.

As I said - I'm fine with 'ooops' explaination, I'm not nitpicking, because I loved the novel, as well as this very scene.

There still was a chance that I misunderstood something, though. Like travelling to Adamant and back again took from late autumn to late springearly summer, while Andoral's Reach summit happened next winter.

I'm also curious how long it takes them to travel there. I'd always figured 1-2 months there and back, tho, given the autumn to winter turning, since I'd mostly been looking for seasonal cues. I never caught the lavender  mention, tho!

[nightscrawl]

R2s Muse wrote...

That being said, the geography still doesn't really help because Adamant Fortress and the rift are south of Val Royeaux (they're  just off the bottom of nightscrawl's map).

I got confused for various reasons. I had originally posted the correct area, and then changed it. The OP mentioned Andoral's Reach, which is why I posted it.

Will fix.

[berelinde]

nightscrawl wrote...

berelinde wrote...

That whole Thedosian geography thing confuses me. I'm perfectly OK with the idea that it gets colder as you go south, but if that were the case, I would expect the seasons to be reversed, with autumn happening in April. But Thedas doesn't use English month names, so trying to line them up like "Satinalia = December solstice" is pure silliness on my part. My mind boggles with disappointing ease.

The five holidays, or annums, take place at the beginning of the month within which they fall.

1st month: Verimensis / Wintermarch (Annum: First Day)
2nd month: Pluitanis / Guardian (Annum: Wintersend)
3rd month: Nubulis / Drakonis
4th month: Eluviesta / Cloudreach
5th month: Molioris / Bloomingtide (Annum: Summerday)
6th month: Ferventis / Justinian
7th month: Solis / Solace
8th month: Matrinalis / August (Annum: All Soul's Day)
9th month: Parvulis / Kingsway
10th month: Frumentum / Harvestmere
11th month: Umbralis / Firstfall (Annum: Satinalia)
12th month: Cassus / Haring

You are looking at it by comparing to the real world, which you should not be. To us, of course it seems like their year should be starting in the 6th month because the seasons are reversed, but they didn't don't think of it that way. Winter is winter, and while Wintersend may, for us, correspond to the middle of the year for say, Australians, it IS the start of the year in Thedas.

Now, if the world grows beyond Thedas, they may have cause for thinking of it differently, but that is not the case currently.

Yeah, I know that trying to think of Thedas as earth is not really a good idea, but it's difficult to avoid doing it.

It's southern hemisphere because the equator is to the north. Maybe the axis of the planet is tilted in the other direction? That would make the months line up. Or they could just start their year in the middle of their own winter and let it go at that. The only interest the subject holds for me is as a way to keep the dates straight in my fanfic.

[R2s Muse]

nightscrawl wrote...

R2s Muse wrote...

That being said, the geography still doesn't really help because Adamant Fortress and the rift are south of Val Royeaux (they're  just off the bottom of nightscrawl's map).

I got confused for various reasons. I had originally posted the correct area, and then changed it. The OP mentioned Andoral's Reach, which is why I posted it.

Will fix.

I see. Yeah, hard to say where the lavender was. Somewhere in  between the rift and Val Royeaux, I guess.

[NRieh]

 

Renwillow wrote: 
So, unless that scene in Asunder happened sometime between mid or late May through early October, think of it as artistic license.

wow, cool! The lavender expert chimed in, you have my thanx! )) 
It happens (according to most of hints) somewhere between September and December ( how we know the seasons).  

R2s Muse wrote: 
hard to say where the lavender was. Somewhere in  between the rift and Val Royeaux, I guess.

According to the text 'They were a day away from the capital city. That’s what Knight Captain told them' - that's how chapter 15 begins, later it has another time reference 'That was two days ago', but as I understand - it goes for the mentioned earlier meeting with a Purple Cloaked man.  
Either way - it's few days away from Val Royeaux, somewhere off the main routes, but not too far away.

[Fredward]

It could just have been a continuity error. They have been know to happen.

[CuriousArtemis]

This is why you don't write novels for video game fans. One tiny mistake and they make a whole thread about it!  

[Renmiri1]

lavenders are blooming in my yard right now