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From: adam@owlnet.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton)
Subject: Re: The Quendor World
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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 18:58:15 GMT
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In article <ian.735495979@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> ian@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Xiphias Gladius) writes:
>I've always been impressed by the way that the Quendor - universe
>adventures fit together.  What follows is a first attempt at a
>cronology.  This is just the order in which I imagine that the
>adventures happen:
>
>Zork Zero, Zork/ Enchanter, Zork II, Zork III, Sorcerer, Beyond
>Zork/Spellbreaker, Lurking Horror, Planetfall, Stationfall.
>
>It seems like Zork and Enchanter happen at the same time, as do
>Sorcerer and Beyond Zork.

Hmmm....But Enchanter is visitable as "IV" from the table in Zork III, which
would presumably date it as later, although the adventurer in Enchanter has
stepped out of Zork I.  So there's a chronological loop there.

And don't forget that Planetfall hearkens back to Starcross in Floyd's Song.

You can get to Zork I from Wishbringer, too.

I don't think there _is_ an internally consistent and complete chronology.
Quite frankly, the games allude to each other but I doubt they were ever
conceived as a myth cycle.

Adam
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