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green@phx.mcd.mot.com (Jim Greenfield) writes:

> About a month ago there was a request for a time-line for all the major
> characters in the seven Incarnations books.  (I forget who requested it.)

Here's one I wrote up some time ago.  It only goes up through the first
five books.  Use the -ms macros with nroff or troff.
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Timeline for
Incarnations of Immortality
.IP 1894 8
Niobe born.
.IP 1915
Niobe marries Cedric.
[TS, Author's Note]
.IP 1917
Niobe gives birth to Junior/Magician Kaftan.
.IP 1917
Cedric shot and killed after Niobe meets all five Incarnations.
.IP 1917
Niobe becomes Clotho and stops aging (At age 23).
.IP 1917
Niobe visits Void, meets Satan.
Niobe accuses Chronos, discovers real truth.
.IP 1923
Atropos, Junior, and Pace visit fair.
Learn of Prophecy of one to marry Death,
the other to marry Evil.
.IP 1927
Pace marries Blanche.
.IP 1928
Blanche gives birth to Blenda.
Atropos changes.
.IP 1951
Niobe visits her son.
[TS, 132]
.IP 1952
Magician Kaftan marries Blenda.
At the wedding, Blanche dies at the hands of a demon.
Lachesis changes.
.IP 1952
Niobe thwarts Satan's plan to remove a Senator.
Senator resigns after plot to kill him is foiled.
.IP 1953
Chronos changes to an eight-year old child.
(Clotho will leave in three years [TS, 157])
.IP 1956
Niobe visits Pacian.
Satan visits Niobe, tells her of something to happen about forty
years later (c. 1996).
Clotho changes, Niobe resumes aging (At age 23).
.IP 1957
Niobe marries Pacian.
.IP 1958
Niobe gives birth to Orb.
Blenda gives birth to Luna Kaftan.
.IP 1961
Norton born.
Chronos changes to Norton.
.IP 1962
Orb hears the Song of the Morning.
.IP 1966
Orb encounters the gypsies.
.IP 1974
Episode with the Mountain King.
.IP 1978
Mym meets Orb and falls in love.
Mym saves Orb's life by invoking his berserker power.
Mym leaves Orb, but gives her his snake ring.
Orb pregnant by Mym.
.IP 1979
Blenda dies.
Pacian dies.
Orb and Luna separate.
.IP 1979
Orb begins her quest to find the Llano.
Orb spends time with Tinka.
.IP 1980
Zane becomes Thanatos with help of Lachesis.
.IP 1980
Zane talks with Magician Kaftan and meets Luna Kaftan.
Magician Kaftan dies.
.IP 1980
Zane meets Fate, Mars, and Gaea.  He and Luna begin dating.
.IP 1980
Zane and Chronos(Norton) work together.
Chronos(Norton) tells Zane of Luna's future c. 2000.
.IP 1980
Luna sacrifices herself.
Zane refuses to take her soul, goes on strike.
Other Incarnations reveal their intervention in his accession to office.
.IP 1980
Zane defeats Hell Hounds and faces Satan.
Zane prevails and Luna is freed.
.IP 1980
Prince Mym and Princess Rapture are imprisoned within Honeymoon Castle.
After the experience, they are betrothed.
.IP 1980
Mym meets Famine, Thanatos(Zane?), Chronos(Norton) (who recognizes
Mym as Mars), and Gaea.
.IP 1980
Orb begins touring with the Living Sludge inside Jonah.
Orb begins to use the power of the Llano.
.IP 1981
Niobe becomes Lachesis (At age 48).
Atropos and Clotho change.
With help of Chronos(Norton), avert UN Incident.
.IP 1981
Niobe tricks Satan into a deal:
Orb will not go into politics.
Luna, though, will.
However, Niobe has inadvertently ``given'' Orb to Satan.
.IP 1981
Niobe discovers Magician Kaftan is now in Hell.
Niobe threads Satan's maze, gets answer from her son,
thwarts Satan's plan.
.IP 1982?
Orb meets Gaea/demon.
.IP 1982
Mym becomes Mars with the help of Gaea.
(Previous Mars had helped Lachesis(Niobe) with Satan's maze)
.IP 1982
Mym take Rapture to stay with Luna.
.IP 1982
Mym meets Satan.
.IP 1982
Mym meets Lachesis(Niobe).
Lacheis brings Rapture to the battlefield to force Mym to stop it.
Working together, they do.
.IP 1982
Mym meets Thanatos(Zane).
They, plus Gaea, work to suppress zombie knowledge in Latin America
[RS, 144]
.IP 1982
Mym and Chronos(Norton) work to thwart the Time Bomb.
.IP 1982
Rapture leaves Mym.
Mym meets Gaea.
Unknowingly, she takes away Mym's stutter.
.IP 1982
Mym tries to rescue Ligeia.
He is trapped and travels to Hell.
.IP 1982
Trapped in Hell, Mym organizes a revolt.
Satan is forced to acquiesce to Mym's demand for fair hearings.
.IP 1982
(Alternate Reality)
Luna Kaftan runs for Senator for the first time.
She would be defeated except for Norton's intervention.
Norton shows the world what the future would be like should Luna lose.
Luna is elected.
[BH 356]
(Should all further events be considered as happening in
an Alternate Alternate Reality?)
.IP 1982
Martial law declared in USA.
Mym meets Chronos(Norton) who tells him what has happened on Earth.
Mym visits Thanatos(Zane), Lachesis(Niobe), and Gaea.
.IP 1982
Mym threatens to precipitate the Holocaust.
Satan removes the cause of the martial law declaration.
.IP 1983
Norton visits Orlene's past.
Part of demon amulet escapes.
.IP 1983
Orb meets Thanatos/demon and Chronos/demon.
She sees Mym's ring.
.IP 1983
Orb meets Mars/demon in Purgatory as she attempts to use the Llano.
.IP 1983
Orb becomes Gaea.
Orb discovers Natasha is actually Satan.
.IP 1983
(Old Reality)
Orb sings the Song of Night and the Song of Chaos.
Gaea meets Mars(Mym), his wife Ligeia and his mistress Lilith.
Gaea meets Chronos(Norton), who relates the story of
Mym's ring and how it made its way to him.
In three successive singings of the Song of Chaos,
Orb invokes Rain(Water), Storms(Air), Cold(Fire), and
Earhquakes(Eath).
The Earth is devastated and dead.
.IP 1983
(New Reality)
Orb accedes to marry Satan(Natasha).
During the wedding, all the demons become damned souls and then
all the damned souls are released from Hell.
Satan(Natasha) resigns as the Incarnation of Evil.
.IP 1992
Norton comes back in time to prevent Satan's plan.
He reverses the world by six hours.
Meets Helga for the second/first time.
.IP 1992
(Old Reality)
Luna Kaftan elected Senior Senator position when previous Senator dies.
(This is her first entry into politics)
[BH, 221]
.IP 1994
Norton and Helga meet for the first/second time.
[BH, 265]
.IP 1998
Norton meets Thanatos(Zane) when he comes to take Orlene's baby.
.IP 2000
Norton meets Thanatos(Zane) and Luna Kaftan.
With help of Lachesis(Niobe), they discover kink in time
c. 1992.
.IP 2000
(Alternate Reality)
Norton discovers how the past has been changed.
Meets Mars(Mym) to discuss battle.
.IP 2001
Norton almost changes Zane's past, preventing him from becoming
Thanatos.
.IP 2001
Norton accepts Satan's amulet.
.IP 2001
Norton assumes the office of Chronos.
Time reverses for Norton.
Lachesis(Niobe) aids him.