Thread:YardIHS/@comment-24487726-20161026011838/@comment-24487726-20161027033631

Hi, YardlHS. :-)

Waaay back on Feb 27, 2014, when I was just starting to post on the Wikia,  I asked (on your wall)   if Mystic Items would be an acceptable place to put strange and/or magical items. Tracking those seems valuable since, like Characters, some of them appear in more than one story in the saga.

 I can certainly provide citations or references for the "some argue" claims...although every timeline is based on speculation of where a story should go. A great example of this "argument" is the chronology-table from that very wikia entry: each timeline lists the novel occurring prior to a different story/novel.

Granted, the Grey and Jordan placements are close to each other, temporally, but the deCamp timeline is numerous stories (aka years) later in the character's life. DeCamp not only places the trilogy after the last Zamora-thief story (his own pastiche "Halls of the Dead") but also after his placement of "God in the Bowl" and "Rogues in the House". In Victorious and Unconquered, Conan rises to quasi-captain status of a smuggling vessel on the Vilayet operating out of Turan, then joins a militia in "Hand of Nergal", and thereafter the Turanian army. DeCamp "argues" that Conan is older than the Offutt trilogy says he is. My "some argue" had not (yet) been revised to state that explicitly.

My own timeline can be found in my Profile, btw (although it only lists stories up to ...Outcast at the moment).

Regarding Continuty Errata, comparing how a character in a Conan story behaves against Howards portrayal of his character, at a similar point, is an established area of discussion by Dale Ripke, Don Herron and other Conan scholars and reviewers online and in print. Continuity Notes seems a fairly close fit for where differences from Howard's character could be noted.

But I'm trying to inform, not hijack the wikia, so I can certainly put Continuity Errata (vis-a-vis Howard) elsewhere. I can Blog it in my account section, or put it in the page discussions (if I can figure out how to find it...shouldn't it be at the bottom of each article?).

Let me know what you'd prefer and I can revise (all) my other articles to reflect it (for consistency).

Thanks, again.

-Wapitikev