Scarlet Book Timeline

This is more of a scratch page than anything else. Since the Scarlet Jusenkyou books actually have a very tight timeline and continuity, I need to lay out some specific orders and finally clarify a few things I've never gotten around to needing in previous volumes. A similar system will see use in the Conri books. See: Alliance Calendar for an explanation of how the dates work.

A Basic Layout of a Scarlet Year

Month Number	Season Number	Number of Days	1st Day of month	Notable Dates
1st Month	1st Month of Winter	31	1	8th day of the first month: school resumes from winter break
2nd Month	2nd Month of Winter	30	32
3rd Month	3rd Month of Winter	31	61
4th Month	1st Month of Spring	30	1	17th Week(21s-27th) Spring break. 27th day: Resurrection Day
5th Month	2nd Month of Spring	31	31
6th Month	3rd Month of Spring	30	62	6th day: School gets out for the summer
7th Month	1st Month of Summer	30	1
8th Month	2nd Month of Summer	31	31	24th day: Scarlet's birthday!
9th Month	3rd Month of Summer	30	30	2nd day: school starts/first quarter starts. 9th day: start of book 1
10th Month	1st Month of Fall	31	1
11th Month	2nd Month of Fall	30	32	First Quarter of school ends| 8th day parent/teacher conferences
12th Month	3rd Month of Fall	31	61	20th day of the 9th month: School lets out for winter break. 25th day: Dawn's Reflection

School Year

Scarlet's school is broken down into Fall and Spring semesters, further subdivided into quarters.

Summer vacation lasts 87 days, school starts on the second day of the 9th month, which is always a monday

Each Semester is 19 weeks long, the first quarter is always 9 and the second 10, with a few weeks off for various holidays.

First quarter runs from the 36th week to the 45th week

Second quarter from 46 to 51st - break for winter - 2nd week to 6th week

Third Quarter(Second Semester) 3rd to 12th week

Fourth Quarter 13th to 23rd week(actually only 9 weeks because spring break)

• First Quarter Fall Semester: 2nd day of 9th month to 1st day of 11th month
• Second Quarter Fall Semester: 4th day of 11th month to the end of the year, then resumes for 4 weeks in the new year.

Books Timeline

Chapters 1-9

Chapter 1

• 9th day of the 9th month - dinner table conversation that opens book 1
• 10th day of the 9th month - field trip and fall into tomb

Chapter 2

• 6th day of the 11th month - presentation to pets - start of chapter 2
• 7th day of the 11th month - parent/teacher conferences - day of dragons

Chapter 3

• Still 7th day of 11th month when chapter starts
• Dinner conversation is 8th day
• 9th day of 11th month - meets Hezikah - formally begins quest

Chapter 4

• 10th day of 11th month, day after dinner with necromancer
• 11th day of the 11th month - fight at school
• 11th day of 11th month - shoping trip with espy
• 12th day of 11th month - first day of detention
• 15th day of 11th month - chapter 4 ends

Chapter 5

• 15th day of 11th month - first session with psychiatrist
• 16th day of 11th month - symposium
• 18th day of 11th month - Lancer Scarlet appears in school

• 20th day of 11th month - reception at Keep, Emmerich dies
• 21st day of 11th month - finds out Emerich is dead
• 22nd day of 11th month - second therapy session

Chapter 6

• 25th day of 11th month - back to school
• 29th day of 11th month - third therapy session, doctor prescribes dancing
• 30th day of 11th month - Emmerich's funeral
• 1st day of 12th month - scarlet visit's lab

~*Jason Research~

• 6th day of 12th month - 4th therapy session - might not be covered in book?

• 12th day of 12th month - school dance

Chapter 7

• 13th day of the 12th month - final therapist visit, Scarlet deemed 'a menace'

• ~scene with Nessemen~

• ~scene with expensive books~

• No date is given but considering the timing, I suspect this is all after the winter break. 8th day of 1st month school resumes(and presumably work)

• Scarlet's father does have to be called home from work.

• Lets say this all happens on a Tuesday, the 9th day of the 1st month

• ~Confrontation with Winkldorf over date~

• ~Roy finds out Antiquarian membership cost $$$~

Chapter 8

• Weeks have passed, so put us somewhere around the 4th week of the 1st month

• 2nd day of 2nd month - chapter 8 begins
• 3rd day of 2nd month - Scarlet goes to visit Hezikah at temple - section needs revision as this is mid-winter

• This is a very long day since she gets up, visits Hezikah, does research, breaks up with Kruz, and finds out about her Antiquarian membership all on the same day.

Chapter 9

• Still 3rd day of the 2nd month

• 5th day of the 2nd month - Scarlet visits Antiquarian headquarters

• Presentation on the same day. She leaves on the 1st day of the 3rd month

• 12th day of the 2nd month - 1 week later.

• 30th day of the 2nd month - beauty pageant

Chapters 10-17

Chapter 10

• 1st day of the 3rd month - scarlet leaves for the citadel

• 2nd day of the 3rd month? Scarlet arrives in Sun's Beacon

• 3rd day of the 3rd month - scarlet boards riverboat Scene requires revision, its winter

Chapter 11

• 8th day of the 3rd month - arrival in Gau

• 17th day of the 3rd month - carvan leaves for Citadel
• 18th day of 3rd month - 2nd day in desert
• 19th day of 3rd month - 3rd day in desert, arrival at citadel

Chapter 12

• Still 19th day of 3rd month
• 20th day of 3rd month - wakes up at citadel

• 23rd day of the 3rd month - end of chapter

Chapter 13

24th day of the 3rd month - Scarlet meets Naomi 25th day of the 3rd month - next morning

~some weeks of exploration~

• 16th day of the 4th month - Scarlet kills valentine, leaves citadel Section deserves some revision, it is now early spring

Chapter 14

• 16th day of 4th month - chapter starts

• 17th day - 1st full day in desert
• 18th day - 2nd day in desert - friday
• 19th day - 3rd day in desert
• 20th day of the 4th month - vision in desert, finding oasis

• 21st day of the 4th month - scarlet reaches river

• 5th day of 5th month - boat arrives in Uddin
• 6th day of 5th month - full day in uddin, decides to go for it
• 7th day of 5th month - sets off for feast

Chapter 15

• 3 days of difficult rowing, making it 10th day of 5th month

• 11th day of the 5th month - scarlet travels only 9 miles

• ~indeterminate length of time~

• 30th day of the 5th month - meets Arisa

• 1st day of the 6th month - lake, and giant waterfall

• 2nd day of the 6th month - first look at Oncar

• 6th day of the 6th month - school is supposed to be letting out for the summer. Whoops.

• 24th day of the 6th month - vision with arisa

• Three Months Later break

• 28th day of the 9th month - hunting scene, meets Nalfagoer

• 5th day of the 10th month - edge of broken tabletop
• 6th day of the 10th month - flight across the tabletop
• 7th day of the 10th month - finding Arisa's spear

• End of 7th day, the tabletop is crossed, 60 miles closer to Feast

Chapter 17

• 25th day of the 10th month - reach feast of aeons

• 30th day of the 10th month - hiking around the feast
• 31st day of the 10th month - planning session
• Morning of the 1st day of the 11th month - setting down onto the feast
• Night of the 1st day of the 11th month - final battle

• 2nd day of the 11th month - meets nalfagoer and start down river

• 9th day of the 11th month - Arrival at civilization

• 11th day of the 11th month - safe arrival home, book ends.

Problem

Book1 was supposed to start at the beginning of the third month of summer, and end right when school lets out the following year.

Instead, the book starts on time, but goes 6 months too long.

Solution

Right now, from doorstep to doorstep, chapters 10-17 takes 7 months, 11 days. I can trim that easily to the planned 6 months, but scarlet needs to leave in the first week of the new year - or sooner. I could have her leave on the 20th day of the 12th month and have her traveling during the winter holiday. Christmas in Gau could make for a fun scene.

That leaves us with chapters 1-9, which need to be restructured so the entire thing takes place between the start of school(2nd day of 9th month) and the winter break(20th day of 12th month). That leaves a grand total of 109 days to tell the first half of the story.

The only way to do this is with HEAVY re-structuring. Currently all of the big breaks are happening early-on.

Chapters 1 and 9

Chapter 1 remains untouched. 9 will need a little work but is largly acceptable as-is

Ending of chapter 8 needs to stay as is.

Chapters 2-8 Redux

chapter 1 stays as is, its only 2 days total.

Start by listing out all of the major events of chapters 2-9:

• Presentation to pets
• parent teacher conferences
• climbing the tribute road
• meeting dragons
• meeting hezikah/Emmerich(happens on the same day)
• Fight at school
• Therapy sessions start(5 weeks)
• Reception/Emmerich dies
• Funeral for Emmerich/getting research lab
• Meeting with antiquarians
• finding out membership dues
• Solo meeting with Albus

TO make this all work, she needs to have the meeting with Alubus on the 18th day of the 11th month, and leave for the citadel on the 21st day of the 12th month.

This has her traveling during the winter holidays for christmas and wash day in gau, and arrival at the citadel early in the new year