User talk:Ontos/chronolore

Potential duplication

Hey Ontos, I just wanted to make sure you're aware of the following two articles in case they overlap with your chronolore project or resolve what you're looking to do.

• Timeline/Sourced, the in-universe timeline but with where each story source for that timeline fits in chronologically (in-universe).
• List of storyline sources, a list of all the non-webfiction organized by category by release date.

-- RivalRowan (talk) 05:54, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

I was aware of the second list, though not of the sourced timeline - thanks for bringing it to my attention. The list I'm attempting to build has a more specific purpose though: how would someone following Magic from the very beginning have experienced the flavor and lore? (and while I'm doing it, I'd like to double check all the dates, as far as possible). That's why I'm mixing sets, lore articles, lore development articles, novels etc. I'm not sure yet how deeply I'd like to go with it. It might require splitting into more digestible parts (but still mixed chronological ones, with dates and authors). Either way, a chronological overview like this will be more useful (to me anyway) in tracking the development of lore concepts, flavor, retcons etc., or at least how they appeared in the fans' awareness (because theoretically, tomorrow Garfield could drop some new info on how he initially developed some of the ideas behind the Multiverse and it would end up as the last entry on such list). It's for research purposes mostly. In time, I could attempt to remake this list as a graphical timeline (if an appropriate and visually appealing plugin is or will be available). Ontos (talk) 11:09, 27 October 2025 (UTC)