Companion universe

This is the article for universe of the King's Quest Companion. This article compares between the classic King's Quest series (including its hint books/strategy guides, manuals, and other related Sierra games) and the King's Quest Companion.

While King's Quest Companion is heavily inspired upon and intended to expand the universe of the games, and was influential to the games, there are a number of ways that details in the guide may differ from details given in the games and other official guides such as official Sierra hintbooks, and the The Official Book of King's Quest.

The Multiverse
The Companion splits the stories of Daventry into another universe, and claims that it is the real universe in which the games are based on, and the games are actually less accurate retellings of real events (aka the game universe).

Much of the backstories of the various games, place Daventry in earth's past a long time ago, some centuries past.

Other Sierra franchise play along with King's Quest being past or contemporary part of a Sierra universe/multiverse.

See On the Origin of Daventry, for more detail.

Manannan's Cat
The Companion backstory makes the Mananna's cat female, and a victim of the evil wizard revenge on a rival wizard using the cat cookie spell.

KQ3 makes the cat male, and other guides usually go with this. Going as far to add that the cat is Manannan's pet, and loyal to his master, actively trying to kill Gwydion to protect his master.

The Sorcerer/Enchanter
The Companion makes the Sorcerer in KQ1 and Enchanter in KQ2 the same character.

The Official Book of King's Quest makes them seperate characters.

This one is complicated, originally in early versions of KQ1 the Sorcerer and Enchanter were obviously different characters with different character sprites.

But in later version releases of KQ1 the Sorcerer was replaced with the KQ2 enchanter, making them the same character.