Over the weekend I spent some happy moments updating the Kephrath timeline page with the events in The Flame Before Us. This proved to be a little more tricky than I had anticipated – the entire action of the book takes place in rather less than two months, so I had the problem of managing a whole lot of overlapping events.

But that is all done now so everything is up to date!

Over the next few weeks I will be doing a short study of each of the four strands contained in the book – Tadugari and Anilat from Ikaret, Nikleos and Kastiandra of the Sherden, the Mitsriy scribe Hekanefer, and Labayu, who originally comes from Kephrath but is living in the town of Ramath Galil, rather to the north of the area he knows. I’m not quite sure of the format yet but as usual there will be a blend of history and fiction!