The Clocks
By internal chronology, "The Fallible Fiend" is the second story in the Novarian series, coming after the short story "The Emperor's Fan", which is set centuries before the others, and prior to the "Reluctant King" trilogy. (The Paaluan invasion of Ir is mentioned in the second and third books of the trilogy, "The Clocks of Iraz" and "The Unbeheaded King", respectively, as an event occurring either recently or some generations past.)