Category:Timelines

The subcategories within this category link to the alternate timelines that make up different versions of King's Quest history, both canon and unofficial.

Official King's Quest Timeline
The Official King's Quest Timeline subcategory contains only dates derived from canon sources, such as the official games themselves, their manuals, official novels, and official hint guides. KQ1 is designated as the year 0 GC date. GC (Graham's Coronation) is an unofficial designation for what is the equivalent to KQ1. These are derived only from official sources, with KQ1 designated as the starting date. Later timelines are inconsistent with the official timeline, and dates are off by a couple years. Sometimes the official material can be inconsistent with itself so only the most consistent references to time within the official material is referenced, and the contradictory material is only briefly mentioned.

The Silver Lining Timeline
Secondly, the Silver Lining Timeline, contains unofficial dates of Daventry history derived from The Silver Lining website, with additional dates extrapolated from other sources such as the KQ2 (AGDI) grave stones. The The Silver Lining timeline was created to specify history for their game.

The Silver Lining timeline starts at the year 0 DC which corresponds with its invented date for the founding of kingdom of Daventry.

Further dates were extrapolated from other sources and added to the The Silver Lining timeline. Note that none of the manuals, the novels, guides, or the official games give any specific calender dates (excluding some tombstones in KQIV), though they mention how much time passes between events. The Silver Lining timeline is not consistent with those mentioned references to time.

KQ2 (AGDI) Timeline
Note in the subcategory KQ2 (AGDI) Timeline, that dates mentioned in KQ2+ don't have the DC after them. This is because the timelines of KQ+ and The Silver Lining are inconsistent, so we can assume that KQ2+ uses a different calendar, maybe of Kolyma, independent of the The Silver Lining Daventry Calendar which differ by 83 years approximately: 1677=1594 DC approximately. Its also possible that the dates given are based on the dating sytem used in KQ4's gravestones.

It should be noted that the The Silver Lining team does not take KQ2+ into account for their timeline, and only the canon KQ2 is considered part of their version of continuity.

"No, our game and timeline are independent of the AGDI KQ2+" -from a The Silver Lining chatlog.

However for the sake of this omnipedia we extrapolate certain dates from Romancing the Stones and adapt them into the The Silver Lining timeline, in order to compare and contrast it with The Silver Lining universe's history.

KQ3 (IA) Timeline
While there is no specific dates given the timeline differs from the official timeline in one major way. Several months pass between the time Alexander returns to the castle and has his family reunion, to the time that King Graham decides to give away his Adventures Cap, in which Alexander helps repair the kingdom, giving Alexander plenty of time to get to know his father before the events of the King's Quest 4.

Where as only about an hour had passed between those events in the official timeline, it was the shock of happiness that he hadn't lost his children that caused the heart attack.

Some other differences include;

Who kidnapped Alexander and when the kidnapping took place, and why he was kidnapped, as well as many new events not seen in the original version of the game.

Additionally, Manannan's house is burned to the ground, where as was still standing in the official timeline, and became the home of Derek Karlavaegen.

King's Quest ZZT Series Timeline
Additionally there is the King's Quest ZZT timeline subcategory which shares an odd, Space Quest 4-style eras format. That is the timeline is made up of the titles of each game, and characters within the game refer to those headings by name.

For example the world that Alexander says he lives in, is "King's Quest", and the era of King's Quest 3 is simply known as King's Quest 3 by him.

"Hey, its the evil sorcerer Manannan who I turned into a cat in King's Quest 3"-Alexander.

Differences Between the Timelines
Though note that events in all fan timelines are inconsistent due to differences in the different development team interpretations of when certain events occurred in relation to other events, so all the timelines may be off by a few months, years, or in some cases decades.

For example the implied period of time for when the events of Mask of Eternity took place seems to be slightly different in the various sources. The Silver Lining puts the events in the same year as KQ7. Whereas KQ2+ implies that the events must have happened when Graham was in his late 50s or older(at least a decade having passed between KQ7 and MOE). Even the video of KQ8 shows Graham to have aged skin that he lacks in The Silver Lining's screenshots, implying that events must occur years after KQ6-7.

"'I think we merely discussed it in terms of 'Graham is now old.'"-Mark Seibert, MOE's Producer.

Another example is that according to the The Silver Lining timeline the events of the KQ2 took place over three months, where as in KQ2 (AGDI) the events took place over the course of 3 days. The Silver Lining timeline puts the events of KQ6 over a month, however the official timeline put it over the course of 3 days. The Silver Lining timeline puts the events of King's Quest 7 over 4 months of Daventry's time when in reality only a few minutes to an hour of Daventry's time passed making them 15 minutes late for lunch, which even makes some people think that the adventure never even occured(Derek Karlavaegen).

Another issue is when the events of KQ2 took place. In KQ2+ and The Silver Lining timelines he travels to Kolyma 1 year after the events of KQ1, this was directly based off the KQ2 manual which said he talked to King Edward in the mirror who told him to look for a wife, and then after checking all the local woman he looked into the mirror again and saw Valanice, and then chose to travel to to the land of Kolyma to save her. Whereas in the KQ4 manual it specifies that it was 3 years after KQ1 that Graham finally saw Valanice in the mirror (2 years had passed since he talked to Edward). There is no contradiction in the official timeline however as the KQ2 manual never actually specified how much time passed between the time he saw Edward and the time he saw Valanice. However this create a 2 year difference in the timelines.

Also the birth of royal twins differs between the official timeline and The Silver Lining. The Silver Lining's timeline places the birth 1 year after KQ2. Where as KQ4 specifies that the birth was exactly 2 years after KQ2.

It should also be noted that the KQ6 manual places the events of Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow at just after the 25 years celebration of the reign of King Graham in Daventry. Where as the The Silver Lining team places the events of KQ6, 23 years after Graham was made king in their timeline.

KQ7 places its events just before Rosella's 20th birthday, which is approximately within the same year as the 25th celebration. While the The Silver Lining timeline places the events of KQ7 the year after the bulk of the events of KQ6 took place(24th year).

A main difference between the official timeline and King's Quest ZZT, is that in the official timeline it says that Derek Karlavaegen moved into Manannan's house after the events of King's Quest 3, and lived there throughout the rest of the series(though he had occasional visits to Daventry). He mentions that he never found out the outcome of Manannan after the events of KQ5, and hopes he didn't prove to be a threat.

However in the King's Quest ZZT Timeline, apparently Ravenlos took over the house directly after King's Quest 3, and set up a guard there, while Manannan was still living there. Later Manannan returned to the house after KQ5 somehow having escaped the bag Graham tied him up in on Mordack's Island. It wasn't until some time later, that Alexander returned to Manannan's house and killed the guard, and attempted to kill Manannan(he later learned he only knocked him unconcious). Soon after the Relentless Army took over the house and converted into a base, and enlarged the basement making part of it a War Room.

The differences between the official timeline and the unofficial timelines are enough that they cannot easily be reconciled with each other, and must be assumed to be alternate realities of the King's Quest world.