In a message dated 5/20/2004 6:51:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time, alexx at panix.com writes: [Spoilers? What Spoilers?] > The Phoenix Guards is submitted to the Imperial Library in 309 PI > (approximately 60 years after Issola). So, "300 years PI" is > certainly about when he *started* writing/publishing. > > Sometime after that (how much is unknown), Norathar takes the > throne. At some small-but-controversial number of years after > that, FHYA comes out. My copy says it was published in the 11th year of the reign of Norathar II; where did the controversy come from? I guess I could check your timeline myself ... oh, it's those funky long dates again. Two possibilities: 1) Brust is way smarter than us (or at least me). 2) All long dates contain at least one error. --KG