Three Doors timeline

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Belt of Deltora·7/25/2015

Interesting thoughts! I always thought it referred to the Battle for Deltora, and then the defeat of the Shadow Lord during Dragon Night, so it would correlate with the end of the DQ3.

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Chericola·7/26/2015

I'd still count the end of DQ1. Didn't that involve the Belt shining for Lief and the Shadow Lord being driven away from Deltora because of it? The Belt counts as a magic more powerful than the Shadow Lord's. I wasn't sure about the dragons, though, but if they do count as well then I do think the Three Doors takes place during DQ2.

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Belt of Deltora·7/26/2015

Dragon Night happened after DQ2, so by counting it, surely TTD would be set after that, after DQ3? Perhaps I'm misunderstanding.

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Chericola·7/26/2015

It does, but what I'm trying to say is that I think that if the battle for Deltora, the end of DQ1, and Dragon Night all involve the Shadow Lord being repelled by a magic greater than its own, then Three Doors takes place during DQ2 (or just after) as Sholto states in The Third Door that Deltora has repelled the Shadow Lord twice. So if Dragon Night is counted then it wouldn't have happened yet, if we go by what Sholto says.

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Belt of Deltora·7/26/2015

Ah yes. I understand now. Unless the end of DQ1 and Dragon Night is counted as one defeat. I'd love to find out!

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Lukas Exemplar·6/7/2016

Perhaps they are counted as one. Remember, the Shadow Lord's influence on the land didn't actually end before the end of DQ3. He still had the Four Sisters set in place, poisoning the land, and making people sick as well as hindering crops from growing. There were probably also still spies in Deltora, and his crystal was still in the palace as well, and he used that to torture Lief. Going by this, in a way, at least in spirit and mind, he was not gone or repelled at all. He was physically driven out himself, but all of his power was not.

It could also take place just before, slightly after or during his third defeat in DQ3. If it was shortly after, news of his defeat would spread slowly at first, and people on the other islands might not have heard about it yet. This makes some sense to me, since The Three Doors was the second story we got after DQ3, so there's no books taking in-between which can disputed the theory.

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Belt of Deltora·6/8/2016

Good points Lukas!

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Lukas Exemplar·8/29/2020

Furthermore, saying that he's been repelled twice by a magic more powerful than his own does not necessarily mean that the latter of those two times just happened. Also, I'd say the second time was at the end of DQ1. It just means that it happened twice. I could also say that some country's been defeated twice in two world wars in our world. But that does not mean that the second world war just happened.