Forum:Complete Book of Necromancers Date

I found another interesting dating problem: The Complete Book of Necromancers contains a campaign setting section detailing the "Isle of the Necromancer Kings", which is Sahu in Zakhara. While we consider Al-Qadim material as set in 1367 DR, there are some reasons to date TCBoN later:

A character named Kazerabet is detailed in Cities of Bone as 16th-level necromancer and queen of Ysawis. In TCBoN she is 20th level and has relocated to Sahu some time ago. In CoB, Kazerabet is married to Sumulael, who may be killed in that adventure, when she offers to marry one of the adventuring party. In TCBoN appears a character named Talib, who has married Kazerabet "in his youth" and is "now" "in his sixities".

If we take this seriously, some fourty years should have passed and the "Isle of the Necromancer Kings" should actually be set after 1400 DR, putting this 2nd edition setting squarely between 3rd and 4th edtion and after the Spellplague.

(Kazerabet is also 200+ in TCBoN. There is no hint about this in CoB, but also nothing which directly contradicts it.)

And then there is even more speculation in this thread.

Now how should we handle that? Ignore the discrepancy and treat the "Isle of the Necromancer Kings" as set in 1367 DR as part of Al-Qadim? Call the corresponding information as "around 1400 DR", possibly with a footnote (which would currently be my favourite)? Or does anyone have a different idea? Or even better, is anyone able to narrow down the date?

Thank you very much for input!

Daranios (talk) 20:05, December 7, 2018 (UTC)