Talk:Inner Sanctum of Martek

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Hello there! Without knowing the adventure myself, is there an indication when the library was stacked? That might be used to deduce the (minium) age of Martek, By Martek and the parody books mentioned on p. 127. Thanks! Daranios (talk) 20:09, 11 August 2021 (UTC)


 * There is only one indication I can find as to when the library was stacked: one of the posters reads "Visit Beautiful Cormyr", and it's unique to the DoD Realms compilation, being a "Visit Beautiful Barovia" poster in Lost Tomb of Martek. Stabbier (talk) 23:28, 14 September 2021 (UTC)


 * I am not very familiar with Desert of Desolation. So I assume that does not really tell us when these adventures take place, right? Daranios (talk) 19:55, 30 September 2021 (UTC)


 * We do not in fact know when. I've done some work on timing it, though, but I've started from the assumption it takes place around 1356 DR, per BadCatMan's judgement. All we know is that it is a 1E adventure, which means sometime around 1357. From there, I took the following assumptions: first, that Khalitharius has been imprisoned for 1000 years (roughly the year 350, thus), and Martek has been alive for some time after that, though perhaps not long after. That's a spell, so I'm taking it to be the most exact timing bit: the spell ends at a thousand and one years, Martek foresees peeps a thousand years later.
 * However, since he owns a poster reading "Visit Beautiful Cormyr" which wasn't present in the non-Realms version, all we know is that he must've died at some point AFTER the naming of Cormyr, but probably no later than 370 DR, since he too has been gone for about 1000 years; 980 years is kinda pushing it. Exactly when someone would make and sell this lad the poster becomes our only timing clue, but since Cormyr was built in -26 DR, we've got like 400 years' worth of slack. You can visit the Martek page, for my full attempt at timing the events. Stabbier (talk) 17:08, 2 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Hey, that's still quite cool: So we can assume that the Inner Sanctum of Martek was built and furnished some time between 350 DR and 370 DR, right? (Or at least between 300 DR and 370 DR, according to "Martek began preparing for ... somewhere around the year 300 DR."?) Which again means all the books present must have been written before 370 DR. So for the List of books (in-universe) we could write as date written "Before ca. 370 DR", or more cautiously but more cumbersome "4th century DR or earlier". What do you think?Daranios (talk) 10:38, 4 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Again, I'm taking the spell to be the exact bit, but someone with a different assumption might very well reach a different conclusion. And yeah, I think 4th century or earlier is kind of our best shot at timing this. That Martek began preparing around the year 300 is kind of a weird thing... but it is what fits with the stuff that the book says, so, there's that, I guess. Cheers Stabbier (talk) 01:36, 6 October 2021 (UTC)