KQ5 timeline

The About KQ5 Timeline is an timeline based on the "About KQV" within KQ5 (with additional KQ6 related material). See KQ4 Timeline for another alternate timeline that utilizes the About KQ5.

Background
The information places KQ3, some "...20 years..." after KQ2 (it more or less ignores KQ4 manual, the intent of the KQ2 manual, the KQ5 Hintbook, as well as the King's Quest Companion). It assumes that Alexander was 17 when he escaped as opposed to 18 (see Novel timeline or TWOKQ timeline), or even 19/20 (based on the about screen quote). This timeline maintains the KQ6 Hintguide material (as well as internal dates within KQ6).

If he was "18" when he escaped, his birthdate would be at 6 GC (rather than 7 GC).

With some tweaks, the the 20 year date incidentally fits on top of some of the variant timelines such as KQ4 timeline (which places KQ2 and KQ3 approximately twenty years apart), but internal dates within KQ6 do not fit well.

Timeline

 * 0 GC
 * KQ1


 * 1 GC
 * Graham sees King Edward in the mirror.


 * 4 GC
 * KQ2


 * 7 GC
 * The Children are born


 * 10 GC
 * Abdul moves to the Green Isles.


 * 24 GC
 * KQ3/4


 * 25 GC
 * Graham travels trough Serenia to reach Mordack's island and save his family (KQ5).
 * Six months later ; Alexander travels to the Land of the Green Isles to save Cassima (KQ6).


 * 27 GC
 * KQ7

Behind the scenes
The about KQ5 has two main references to time. The first is a near quote of Roberta William's information in the The World of King's Quest: A Brief History of Daventry, in which KQ2 is said to be "several years" after KQ1 (suggesting that it is more than 2 or 3 years after KQ1).

The second main reference is that KQ3 is twenty years after KQ2. In other words suggesting that the children were born two years after KQ2 (if they were almost 18 in KQ3).