BB universe

This is the article for the 'Berkley Boulevard universe. This article compares between the classic King's Quest series (including its strategy guides/Companions, manuals, and other related Sierra games) and spin off novel trilogy.that was oriignally published by Berkley Boulevard books.

Background
For more details concerning the novel series treatment on this wiki and special policy notes, see KQ Omnipedia:Canon Policy.

The King's Quest novels were a trilogy based on the characters and world from the King's Quest series. While it is largely considered new stories inserted between the events of the games. It does have a few 'issues' with the games portrayal of things. Though most of these discrepenices are easy to explain or reinterpret from perspective of other sources.

This article describes where the novel series diverges from other material. Discussing and comparing the details from the original games, the manuals, and spinoff source material (Hoyle I, The King's Quest Companion, Hint Books) with the details of the new novels..

Note: This wiki more or less considers the novels as being part of the 'original series' history, and timeline, but acknowledges that there are a few issues. Most articles reinterpret things from perpspective of other material when things arise.

Grahams heritage
In the books its suggested in Kingdom of Sorrow, that Graham moved into Daventry during the travels of his youth, and is thus only the first generation of his family to live in Daventry. Infact, he may have only moved into Daventry a little over ten years before Kingdom of Sorrow, and then had only been a knight in Daventry for a very short time. Someone like Seneschel's family had roots that went far back into the kingdom.

In addition the series suggests that Graham was a 'nobody', and would go as far to suggest he has no noble or royal blood on either side of his family ((it appears to conflate 'noble' and 'royal' in this case, so it implies Graham could be a 'commoner'/peasant or at the most a freeman). Note: With the exception of also suggesting he might be distantly related to the 'royal family' and thus Edward. As it only talks about there being one 'royal family' and talks about that royal family being much larger having cousins, nieces, and nephews some time before. This suggests that if Graham is related, its only through those who moved out of Daventry and married members in other kingdoms, and apparently mainly the 'common folk'.

In the original series there are a number of sources that state or suggest that Graham was born and raised in Daventry his entire life, and came from a privileged noble class. Perhaps not 'royalty' but still a nobleman.Some sources discuss up to two generations before Graham that lived in Daventry. The oriignal manual for King's Quest on the PCJR implies that Fairy Godmother encountered in the game was a citizen of Daventry, and by proxy suggesting that Graham received his 'godmother' when he was very young. This is not specific of course, but indirectly supports the idea. KQ1 remake talks about him having gone to high school in Daventry (and perhaps a couple of other offhand references to his earlier days), the Companion talks about his father being a knight and nobleman of Daventry, KQ6 hintbook also mentions his father being a knight of Daventry, and Hoyle 1 mentions both his father and Grandfather being Knights of daventry. The Companion also goes as far to discuss more about Graham's childhood growing up, as well as his academic schools he attended in Daventry... The original KQ1 manual for PCJR also refers to Graham as a 'noble knight' (although arguably 'noble' has more than one meaning)., and Graham is described as 'princely' in the second version of the manual that replaced it.