252) later, is nearly captured in Ryevost. Alina flees the Little Palace, and ‘well over a week’ (S&B p.The winter fete featured is a final one for the season, so at the end of winter.Hypothesized to be on the equivalent of 19 December. Feast of Sankt Nikolai: held during the winter.Winter begins not long after the Darkling and Alina first discuss Morozova’s stag.It is autumn at the start of the story and still autumn when Alina arrives at the Little Palace not very long after.A year after being drafted, aged seventeen, Alina and Mal leave the military encampment at Poliznaya with their regiment and arrive at Kribirsk on the edge of the Shadow Fold.The events of the three books then occur over the period of approximately 11 to 12 months or so. Alina and Mal are drafted into the First Army at the age of sixteen.I’m in the midst of a reread and so may make updates to this in the future if more details prove relevant. And there is repeated reference in the books to actual clocks, so time is not kept by bells tolling alone. There’s also a reference to ‘two o’clock’ in Crooked Kingdom. Incidentally, the term is used by Ravkans, Kerch, and Fjerdans, so is fairly widespread. as this is a time reference used in Siege and Storm, the Six of Crows duology, and in King of Scars. The hours are often marked in terms of bells - e.g., three bells, twelve bells, etc. The days of the week are apparently the same as in the real world - at one point, Alina mentions ‘Sunday’ by name (and that its the day people attend church).
The Ravkan calendar is organized in months and weeks, though the former are not given specific names in the trilogy.
However, upon paying attention to time-related keywords very specifically, I realized it only spans about a year, give or take perhaps a month or so. And there are several points in the books that do give an impression of lasting for quite a long time. I’ve spoken with numerous people over the years who got the impression that the entire thing spanned at least two years, perhaps more. Here instead we have a more macro view in which the main intent is to frame the overall in-universe duration of the Shadow and Bone trilogy. This is a project I began ages ago, but got bogged down in the details of wringing out day to day information and never finished the actual writeup.
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