"There Is No Honor" has lots of backstory, but it's scattered pretty well throughout the scenario. The way my brain works, I prefer to have a compiled timeline; I'm posting in case anyone else would find it helpful.
Most dates are approximate, and a few are interpolated or otherwise guessed at.
-23 years: Lavinia born
-21 years (?): Vanthus born
-10 years: Sea Princes overthrown; Dawn Council formed
-5 years: Lavinia sent to academy; Vanthus sent to plantation
-1 year: Lavinia and Vanthus return to manor
-1 year: Vanthus taking up with seedy characters
-4 months: Vanthus involved with Brissa Santos
-3 months: Vanthus steals mother's signet ring
-1 month: Vanderborens killed; Lavinia inherits
-3 weeks: Vanthus hits Lavinia; disappears
-3 weeks: Vanthus kills Penkus
-3 weeks: Vanthus starts stealing from the vault
-1 week: harbormaster impounds The Blue Nixie; places Soller Vark in charge
-3 days: Lavinia pays Vark; denied access to ship
-1 day: Lavinia invites the PCs to dinner
0: Go!
The only thing that I find a little difficult to reconcile is the fact that Vanthus stole his mother's signet ring well before he started stealing from the vault. It's not hard to come up with reasons, but I haven't come up with one that's entirely convincing.
If you have additions or corrections, please post them!
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Although there wasn't enough room to go into Vanthus' backstory into detail, he was planning on murdering his parents as far back as a year ago... In fact, the plantation he was working for had a similar problem. He came back to live in Sasserine after the plantation burned to the ground, as a matter of fact. Always a rebel, something happened to him during his time at the plantation that pretty much turned him hard-core evil, and that's when he hit upon the plan to kill his parents and inherit their wealth. Of coruse... it took him a year or so to work up the courage to act on his plan, in no small part due to Rowyn's urging, no doubt.
So the theft of his mother's signet ring 3 months ago isn't outlandish. He didn't start stealing from the vault right away because he wanted to wait until after his father was dead. He didn't know where to find his father's ring, and didn't want to start stealing while someone had a good chance of getting in there to see what was going missing too soon.
Can anyone put a year an a month to when the first adventure starts on the Grreyhawk calender? I'm not a real Greyhawk buff so I have no idea when to start but I want to track time fairly close.
Can anyone put a year an a month to when the first adventure starts on the Grreyhawk calender? I'm not a real Greyhawk buff so I have no idea when to start but I want to track time fairly close.
I'm not either. But yay for the internet! Here are the notes I wrote up for myself:
Moons: Luna (28 days), Celene (91 days). Luna (white, larger, "The Mistress") is a waning sliver; Celene (aquamarine, smaller, "The Handmaiden") is a small waxing crescent. http://www.theocracyofthepale.com/background/pale_quick_reference_sheet.htm l suggests this happens the night of 17 Flocktime, Moonday, in the middle of low summer. The next day is Godsday, a day of worship. (Starday, Sunday, Moonday, Godsday, Waterday, Earthday, Freeday (rest).)
Basically, I figured the rendezvous with the Blue Nixie would take place on a dark night, and backfilled from there.