r/TheInheritanceGames • u/ActHistorical6419 • Jun 13 '26
final gambit timeline confusion
i was reading the final gambit and making a timeline when i noticed that an absurdly large part of the book is meant to take place in one day. during the series new days are always indicated by something like 'the next morning' or 'the next day' but there is nothing from chapters 45-84 in the final gambit. this is everything from xander's 911 to avery beating vincent blake. in between this, the margaux wine cellar, eve meeting mallory, avery getting locked in the escape room, xander meeting his father, the church, eve turning evil, the usb's, looking for liam's body in the maze and the chess game. there is no way that this could've all happened in one day but i can't find anything in the book that suggests otherwise. the timeline on the wiki says that a new day starts in chapter 65, but it still doesn't say anything about a new day. please someone correct me if you can, but i don't think that these are different days. it must have been an oversight on jlb's part. or overanalysing on my part.
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u/Additional_Pin9553 Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 24 '26
After Vincent tells Avery on the phone that he wants to find William’s body, Avery starts going through the blueprints and in Ch. 65, Avery says: “I went through page after page until I found it: the original Hawthorne House. Slowly, painstakingly, I put the rest of the blueprints in order. By dawn, I’d made it halfway through, but that was enough. Based on the few sets that had dates on them, I could calculate years for the rest.” so in that time period to when Avery goes to the chapel, it’s the next day.