KQ5 timeline

The KQ5 Timeline is an timeline based on the "About KQV" within KQ5, KQ5 manual, and KQ5 Hintbook (with additional KQ6 related material). See KQ4 Timeline for another alternate timeline that seems to fit with the About KQ5.

One of the major differences in this timeline in comparison to the others, is that the birth of the twins is placed 1 year after KQ2, some of the other sources place it two years after KQ2. Another difference is that Alexander apparently escaped Llewdor when he was eighteen, between 18-19.

Background
This timeline (and the variants, based on it) largely ignores the KQ4 manual (which has an incompatible date for the twin's birth, and royal wedding), and largely ignores the King's Quest Companion (which also includes incompatible dates), and any other sources inconsistent with the KQV Hintguide (The World of King's Quest: A Brief History of Daventry) and Once Upon a Time in a Land Faraway from The Magical World of King's Quest from InterAction, fall 1992).

Timeline
This timeline uses all KQ5 specific material including the KQ5 Hintbook, KQ5 manual, and about KQ5. It also utilizes the KQ6 Hintbook (but causes it to completely ignore the KQ4 manual)
 * 19 BGC
 * Graham is born in Daventry (KQ7 Hintbook)


 * 0 GC
 * Graham (recently turned 19) searches for the three treasures in the spring (KQ1)


 * 4 GC
 * King Graham and Valanice are married "several years" after Graham's coronation (KQ2).
 * Graham begins walks near Lake Maylie (KQ6 Hintbook).


 * 5 GC
 * Twins are born.


 * 6 GC
 * Six months later Alexander kidnapped.
 * Not long after the disasters befall Daventry, and the dragon begins to attack the kingdom.


 * 10 GC
 * Abdul Alhazred moves to the Land of the Green Isles and becomes the vizier (KQ6).


 * 13 GC
 * Kingdom of Sorrow would be about here.


 * 20 GC
 * See No Weevil would be about here.


 * 23 GC
 * Alexander, nearly eighteen escapes Llewdor (KQ5 material rounds this up to eighteen)
 * Shortly after Alexander returns to Daventry, Rosella travels to Tamir (KQ4).
 * The Floating Castle would be about here (although the timing in the novel may not fit exactly)
 * 18th birthday of the twins.


 * 24 GC
 * The kingdom was peaceful and prosperous again, and the people were content.
 * Graham goes walking during a spring day, his family is kidnapped (KQ5)
 * Alexander falls in love with Cassima the moment he sees her, and begins to miss her after she returns home.
 * TFC (epilogue) goes about here.
 * 3 months after KQ5;
 * Leaves for Green Isles (KQ6 intro)
 * 5 months later;
 * Shadrack sends a letter to Abdul Alhazred[2](KQ6)
 * Graham turns 47 years old.


 * 25 GC (or end of the previous year)
 * 6 months later;
 * Defeats Abdul Alhazred (KQ6)
 * 1 week later;
 * The ferry is fixed, Alexander and Cassima are married.
 * Valanice and Rosella travel to Eldritch shortly before Rosella's 20th birthday (KQ7).

Behind the scenes
With the reading of the KQ5 Hintbook alone, the exact date of KQ1 is unclear, as is the exact date of marriage (takes place "several years after KQ1"). This would mean that the wedding had to have been 2 or 3 years, but not 'many' (likely less than 5). This is a brief timeline that tries to look at the hintbook in context; BW = Before Wedding, and AW = After Wedding. Wedding = KQ2.
 * 4-2 BW: After various adventures and altercations, Graham successfully retrieved the three treasures and brought them back in triumph to his king. Soon thereafter, though, King Edward died and Sir Graham was indeed crowned King of Daventry.
 * 0 AW: Graham and Valanice returning to Daventry, Valanice became King Graham's wife, and Queen of Daventry in a beautiful wedding ceremony.
 * 1 AW: The twins are born.
 * 6 months later: Alexander is kidnapped
 * Not long after the mirror goes dark, and the dragon begins ravaging Daventry.


 * 18 AW
 * Alexander escapes from Manannan in Llewdor (a similar date also appears in TFC)
 * Shortly after Rosella travels to Tamir to save her father.


 * 19 AW
 * KQ5
 * KQ6
 * KQ7

Novel timeline

 * See Novel timeline.

Using the twins birth date for KQ1 and KQ3 from the 'Novel timeline' because the World of King's Quest and The Floating Castle share the same age for Alexander during KQ3 (eighteen). In this timeline, KQ2 would take place late 1 GC or so. KQ2 Manual date for Graham's journey is more or less maintained. In this timing Alexander may be kidnapped either during late 2 GC, or early 3 GC. KQ5 manual (1 year date), KQ6 (six month date), and KQ7 introduction dates are utilized.

Behind the scenes
The about KQ5 has two main references to time. The first is a near quote of Roberta Williams' information in KQ5 Hintbook, in 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).

Roberta also places the births of the twins 1 year after KQ2 in that source, and Alexander's kidnapping six months later, but it doesn't easily map onto the About KQ5 or the KQ6 timeline.

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).