Fallowtide

The name given by the Eldritch to the period between the end of the Chatcaavan War and the beginning of the next conflict. This is both an in-canon term (used by the characters) and a meta term (used to group the books that take place during this period).

Canonical

Origin

A combination of the words 'fallow' (to lie unused/uncultivated for a period to restore) and 'tide' from the Old English (a point or portion of time, due time, period, season). The Eldritch constructed it so because they still use words like 'eventide'.

Notes here about what the characters have said about this period; who began it? Who decreed it? Who was the first to use the word? Someone did.

Events

Major events of the Fallowtide include:

• wedding of the imperial heir, Sediryl, to Jahir Seni Galare
• investiture of Sediryl Galare
• formation of the Eldritch Navy
• establishment of several mining concerns in the asteroid belt
• establishment of an allied military base with the Chatcaava
• establishment of Faulfenzair embassy on Escutcheon
• first state visit of the imperial heir to Chalice

Minor events:

• Births: imperial heirs Raenor and Adaise Galare; Nase heir Aeremina Nase Galare; Imthereli's heirs Kolvin Lauvet and Niriel Lauvet Imthereli; Reese's firstborn (unnamed)
• Adoptions: Kirthander what was his name before into Imthereli; Tolden Tera Thavelfin into Imthereli; Guardkin Madoc, to Kirthander Nanech
• Deaths: Korval and Malavi Nase Galare; Bethsaida Emil Galare
• Assignments: Urise to the world of Chalice; Belinor to the world of Chalice

Meta

The books of the Fallowtide, in reading (and chronological) order:

• (end of) From Ruins
• Healer's Wedding
• Farmer's Crown
• Heartskein
• Fathers' Honor
• In the Court of Dragons
• Dragons' Fealty
• Scions' Flight

Note that In the Court of Dragons might have material relating to other periods.

Technically at least one story in Major Pieces, "Second Son," also occurs during the Fallowtide.