Scarlet Book Timeline

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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 NumberSeason NumberNumber of Days1st Day of monthNotable Dates
1st Month1st Month of Winter3118th day of the first month: school resumes from winter break
2nd Month2nd Month of Winter3032
3rd Month3rd Month of Winter3161
4th Month1st Month of Spring30117th Week(21s-27th) Spring break. 27th day: Resurrection Day
5th Month2nd Month of Spring313115th day - Scarlet's little sister is born!
6th Month3rd Month of Spring30626th day: School gets out for the summer| 13th day Spring Intertwention Day
7th Month1st Month of Summer301
8th Month2nd Month of Summer313124th day: Scarlet's birthday!
9th Month3rd Month of Summer30302nd day: school starts/first quarter starts. 13th day Summer Intertwention Day
10th Month1st Month of Fall311
11th Month2nd Month of Fall303211/11 Darious's birthday - First Quarter of school ends| 8th day parent/teacher conferences
12th Month3rd Month of Fall316113th day Fall Intertwention Day 20th day of the 12th 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.

Book Timelines

Book2 Timeline

  • 6th day of 6th month school gets out
  • 9th day of the 7th month - Scarlet arrived back home
  • 24th day of the 8th month - Scarlet's birthday
  • 2nd of 9th month - school starts

Chapter 1

  • 13th day of 8th month - Night introduction, book starts.
  • 14th day of 8th month - knighting with King
  • 15th day of 8th month -
    • meeting with new school principle
    • First therapy appointment - if she's 14 in this scene, its after the 24th day of the 8th month
    • Meeting with Antiquarian Society - Some revision required, school hasn't started yet.

Chapter 2

  • 16th day of 8th month - Forging scene with Nal, could be day after chapter 1/dinner same night - editing Scarlet finding out DeLarual's are moving in.

Chapter 3

  • 17th day of 8th month - night time, Scarlet catches Relend in her room, sleeps next to Nal
  • 19th day of 8th month - leaving for camping trip, arrival at camp site, scarlet hurts face & kills bear
  • 20th day of 8th month - The following morning, the various denizens. Scarlet gets fish heads tossed on her. Relend gonna die.
  • 23rd day of 8th month - camping trip over heading home.

Chapter 4

  • 25th day of 8th month - Scarlet's birthday dinner
  • 29th day of 8th month - Kicking Relend out, second therapy visit
  • 2nd day of the 9nth month - first day of school
  • 5th day of 9th month - presentation to antiquarians
  • 6th day of 9th month - chat with Willy

Chapter 5

  • 6th day of 9th month - visit from Naomi
  • 7th day of 9th month - day out with Tess
  • 8th day of 9th month - Naomi leaves(no actual story)

Chapter 6

  • 12th day of 9th month - therapy
  • 13th day of 9th month - brings Nal to school, team meeting
  • 16th day of 9th month - heavy sword tryouts

Book3 Timeline

First Act

Chapter 1

  • 20th day of 8th month - Scarlet leaves(4 days before her birthday)
  • 2nd day of 9th month - scalret misses first day of school, gets kicked out of Briarwood
  • 14th day of 11th month - book actually starts Notes mention that while the calendar says late fall its really early fall because the seasons do not match the months, still, its cold!!
  • 16th day of 11th month - awakens in cave
  • 18th day of 11th month - sets off for surface
  • 25th day of 11th month - escapes from cave
  • 29th day of 11th month - centaurs

Chapter 2

  • 30th day of 11th month - leaves centaurs
  • 13th day of 12th month - sights Lake Bentika - friday the 13th
  • 16th day of 12th month - paddle to island Note might mention its nearly winter and cold AF. Lake Bentika don't freeze but being on a kayak in normal clothes in late fall ain't pleasant.
  • 17th day of 12th month - first morning on the island
  • 21st day of 12th month - "For four days, Scarlet roamed the ruins" - finds body

~Celebrates holidays on the island ouch~

  • 8th dat of 1st month - "At the end of three weeks, Scarlet had become numb to the subtle horrors of the ruined Marconian city"
  • 11th day of 1st month - Scarlet ventures into burial vaults
  • 14th day of 1st month - finds Gnarra's tomb
  • 15th day of 1st month - leaves Bentika
  • 30th day of 2nd month - Now on the Nara River, she had passed all of the difficult bits and reached the Blue Nara
  • 14th day of the 3rd month - Scarlet arrives in Zathra and starts her way home

Chapter 3

  • 16th day of 3rd month - Scarlet arrives home
  • 17th day of 3rd month - Scarlet starts new school
  • 22nd day of 3rd month - "Between homework and chores, Scarlet had barely had time to think. When Saturday came, she didn’t even know what to do with herself. " - Meets Ammon
  • 23rd day of 3rd month - Ammon library kiss
  • 28th day of 3rd month - history teacher conversation on plagerism - laptop shopping - Ammon Meets Scarlet's parents
  • 29th day of 3rd month - Scarlet Meets Ammon's Parents, looks at lake pictures

Second Act

Chapter 4

  • 30th day of 3rd month - Scarlet meets Katy
  • 31st day of 3rd month - visit with Nal
  • 5th day of 4th month - "The Saturday ritual involved a lot of walking in circles and chanting"
  • 6th day of 4th month - second meeting with Katy

Chapter 5

  • 12th day of 4th month - dragon forge with katy

Chapter 6

Spring break!!

  • 19th day of 4th month - family leaves on vacation
  • 20th day of 4th month - 2nd day of vacation, family lost in woods
  • 21st day of 4th month - Family sets off for coast
  • 23rd day of 4th month - "Two days later"

Chapter 7

  • 3rd day of 5th month - Scarlet receives tablets
  • 4th day of 5th month - scarlet visits Tortuga "It being Sunday, Scarlet waited until afternoon."

Chapter 8

  • 10th day of the 5th month - chapter starts
  • 11th day of the 5th month - visits Tortuga again, agrees to start paladin training
  • 12th day of 5th month - first day of paladin training

Chapter 9

  • 15th day of the 5th month - chapter opens
  • 17th day of 5th month - cutting stuff with Katy
  • 23rd day of 6th month - "The weeks stretched by. Her progress was slowed because she wanted to spend more time with Ammon."
  • "Scarlet entered the small shop and sauntered up to the counter, " - dragonite scene really needs to be rethought, it takes place in the morning so has to be on a weekend
  • "Scarlet’s history teacher was a nice fellow" scene also needs to be moved, its summer now

Chapter 10

  • 5th day of 7th month - dinner with all 4 parents and Tortuga! - also could stand to move further back

Chapter 11

  • 6th day of 7th month - "With a long sigh, Scarlet threw a sheet over the tablets,"
  • 7th day of 7th month - "snake" scene, last day of paladin training(may need to move around)

Final Sequence

Since its pretty clear I need to do some rewrites to accomodate other issues with the timeline, I am instead going to number the days and work out the end-date to match up with the start of book 4.

  • Chapter 12
    • 1 - Scarlet comes home from last day of training with Tortuga(must be a thursday)
    • 2 - Scarlet cuts school to visit Tortuga, visits him in the morning then again after school - "On Friday after school, Scarlet had her very last meeting with Tortuga. " - Scarlet's last date with Ammon(talk about a rich full day)
    • 3 - Ammon breaks up with Scarlet in text message
  • Chapter 13
    • 4 - Sunday, Scarlet sleeps till noon - Rewrite depending on proximity to birthday
    • 5 - Scarlet boards riverboat
    • 6 - travel
    • 7 - travel
    • 8 - Travel
  • Chapter 14
    • 9 - Arrives at stopover on River, gets off and takes off by herself.
    • 10 - Paddle up river "A day’s paddle up-river and she reached the inlet"
    • 11 - Canal
    • 12 - Sees Citadel wall, wades into water just after sundown
    • 13 - Aqueduct swim - "At mid-day, Scarlet pulled herself out from the aqueduct and stretched out" - entire rest of book

Proposed Dates

If we start on the 15th day of the 8th month, Scarlet becomes Pendragon on the 27th day. This makes day 10 her birthday, so some rewrites to mention that are important.

Book4 Timeline

Part 1

Pre-Book

  • 21st day of 8th month, Scarlet becomes Pendragon
  • 22nd day of 8th Month - triumphant return to Arindell, end of book 3

Chapter 1

  • 23rd day of 8th month - chapter 1 opens with Saber showing Scarlet around Enclave, meeting her staff
  • 24th day - Scarlet got her gun,

Chapter 2

  • Still 24th day of 8th month - mall "date" with Darryl
  • 25th day of 8th month - Pendragon's Inspection

Chapter 3

  • 1st day of 9th month - Shooting practice, cuddling with Darryl - "The timing of events in Scarlet’s life of late had not been fantastic."
  • 2nd day of 9th month - first day of school, Scarlet

Chapter 4

  • 14th day of 9th month - “All right, you, young lady, are being entirely too antisocial,”
  • 25th day of the 9th month - helmet scene - “Could we talk about why the Pendragon is wearing a helmet to the breakfast table?”
  • 27th day of 9th month - “As summer draws to a close, I thought we might like to begin a few of the Trials,”
  • 28th day - Trial of Endurance fail
  • 29th day - drawing session with Darryl/punching session with Saber

Chapter 5

  • Status: Scarlet's mom is by now around ~8 weeks pregnant
  • 6th day of 10th month - Golfing with Dad
  • 17th day of the 19th month - dish "washing", shiny armor night, visit with katy's mom

Chapter 6

  • 19th day of the 10th month - visit to craftsmen's city.
  • 21st day of 10th month - library crawl
  • 22nd day finish crawl

Chapter 7

  • 26th day of the 10th month - trip to Sun's Beacon, Dotsen, street race
  • 27th day of the 10th month - Warsong

Chapter 8

  • 28th day of the 10th month - return to Arindell, cutting scene

Chapter 9

  • 2nd day of 11th month - family reunion

Chapter 10

  • 3rd day of 11th month - Scarlet is told of civil war, meets with her dad and Relend's mom, rewrite scene with dad to mention baby.

Chapter 11

  • Meeting Gailen

Chapter 12

  • 4th day of 11th month - visit to Hezikah and discusion of chakras
  • 8th day of 11th month - visit with katy as filler
  • 16th day of 11th month - consult with necrosages
  • 17th day of 11th month - final drawing scene
  • 11th day of 11th month - Darryl's Birthday write this scene
  • 19th day of 11th month - Shock Light, school attempted shooting
  • 20th day of 11th month - Finding Darious, book ends

Book 5

Book 4 ends on the 20th day of the 11th month. Scarlet's little sister is born on the 15th day of the 5th month of the next year. This puts it before summer vacation, so she's had a chance to meet the baby before heading up to camp.

Need to move

  • Maryn and Serena visit Scarlet in Enclave, see Scarlet's corset, Maryn catches Pierce with his honey
  • 11th day of 11th month - Darious's b-day
  • 13th day of 12th month - "wash day party"
  • 19th day of the 12th month - fall concert, Scarlet gets drunk, "Weird night" - train leaves for Long Lake late that evening

Book Stats

For quick reference:

  • book1 - 122,000 words - 246 pages
  • book2 - 133,313 words - 260 pages
  • book3 - 109,228 words - 216 pages
  • book4(unfinished) 6/11/2019 -

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