How long is the story line over?

[revo]

So i'm reading dance for the first time and i came along a Davos chapter where a sailor says something along the lines of "the beggar prince has been dead for years. Slain by dothraki horselords" This lead me to thinking: how long have these books spanned? From game of thrones to the end of dance how long has it been?

[Pinkie Pie]

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Best guess would be between 2 and 3 years. This is based on Sansa (as Alayne) claiming to be 14 while thinking Alayne should be slightly older than Sansa. We can thus take her age at just under 14. Her age at the beginning was 11.

Margaery Tyrell was also 14 when she wed Renly Baratheon yet 16 when she wed Tommen Baratheon

[kiwibloke]

i think the last book ends in 300 AD and the first was in 297 AD (roughly) so 3 years? i thought is was more but not sure

[Skizbot]

No one knows for sure, probably a little over three years.

[jacb547]

In the wiki it begins in the end of 297 and ends at the beginning of 301

[Pinkie Pie]

Slightly longer than I thought but not far off

[Werthead]

It starts in 298 AL (After the Landing). There's been some speculation that Daenerys's storyline begins a little bit earlier in AGoT, maybe even right at the end of 297 (and the prologue can certainly take place that much earlier), but Daenerys's 14th birthday (which happens on the Dothraki sea) happens in 298 (as she was born in 284, eight months after the Sack of King's Landing).

Several separate attempts have been made to put together a solid timeline and these all seem to concur on several things, most notably that Sam and Arya's storylines in AFFC-ADWD end in early 301 AL. By the end of ADWD everyone else has caught up with them and might have even moved on a little, more towards the middle of 301 AL.

Unfortunately, the recent revelation of more maps of Essos, including the location of Vaes Dothrak and the Lhazareen village where they meet Mirri Maz Duur, has meant that the timeline has to be rejigged. Daenerys's journey in AGoT by itself is mental (4,000 miles, give or take a couple of hundred) and possibly stretching credulity, especially the speed with which Robert was able to send an assassin after her and for him to get to Vaes Dothrak; unless ravens or pigeons were involved somewhere, that's almost impossible.

But yeah, as a rule of the thumb between 3 and 3.5 years.

[HannibalExMachina]

perhaps swallows were carrying him? though, were it westerosi or essos swallows?

[Herr Shimmler]

perhaps swallows were carrying him? though, were it westerosi or essos swallows?

But then the essosi swallow's not migratory. So it only leaves us to westerosi swallows.

[Wowwars]

Shimmler nice job & goodluck on your mod

and thats why i think GoT is so epic

[ggggtotalwarrior]

perhaps swallows were carrying him? though, were it westerosi or essos swallows?

I SAW WHAT YOU DID THERE! *GRRM Trollfaces*

I don't know that!

*rep for you, sir