History Recap / LabyrinthsOfEcho

The series of the stories about various LSIF members told by themselves in the coffeehouse Max resides during his stay in Shamkhum, The City in the Mountains her imagined himself, after he had to leave Echo in ''The Quiet City''.

** ''The Elusive Khabba Khen'' Sir Max's story about how he, not being the most well-adjusted man from the start, almost lost it after losing the King Monin' sword, and how he tried to learn some self-control to find the titular Khabba Khen, Juffin's old friend who could only be found when you need him, but don't want to meet him. The old ritual of Ulviar's Exchange finally allows Shurf and Max to exhange their characters for a while, allowing Max to learn the Shurf's famous self-control and Shurf to get less ComicallySerious.

** ''The Grief of Mister Gro'' The story told by sir Kofa about the earlier days of SI, right after the adoption of Codex. The Echo is under an outbreak of strange deaths, and groups of mystrious kids are seen where the the deaths occur. Somehow this is connected to sir Kofa's old pal, Echos' famous pediatrician Gabba Gro and his strange granddaughter. Also, the ghost of his father sir Khumkha finally makes an appearance, still being the same InsufferableGenius, but in the end they finally make up.

** ''The Tuburian Game'' Sir Numminorikh's story about him being sent to Tubur, where one of the Kings bodyguards, a professional Dream Guard, mysteriously disappeared, with His Majesty and her great-granfather, her predecessor on this post, being worried. The weird and wonderful customs of Tuburian dreamers and Sleep Riders are thoroughly explored, an annual summer game is won, and the dangerous magical artifact is reformed, which finally allows Sir Max to return to Echo. Also, sir Numminorikh, being TheHeart of the SI, removes the curse on the perennial {{Butt Monkey}}s of the series, the Izamonians.

** ''The Elusive Khabba Khen''
** Sir Max's story about how he, not being the most well-adjusted man from the start, almost lost it after losing the King Monin' sword, and how he tried to learn some self-control to find the titular Khabba Khen, Juffin's old friend who could only be found when you need him, but don't want to meet him. The old ritual of Ulviar's Exchange finally allows Shurf and Max to exhange their characters for a while, allowing Max to learn the Shurf's famous self-control and Shurf to get less ComicallySerious.

** ''The Grief of Mister Gro''
** The story told by sir Kofa about the earlier days of SI, right after the adoption of Codex. The Echo is under an outbreak of strange deaths, and groups of mystrious kids are seen where the the deaths occur. Somehow this is connected to sir Kofa's old pal, Echos' famous pediatrician Gabba Gro and his strange granddaughter. Also, the ghost of his father sir Khumkha finally makes an appearance, still being the same InsufferableGenius, but in the end they finally make up.

** ''The Tuburian Game''
** Sir Numminorikh's story about him being sent to Tubur, where one of the Kings bodyguards, a professional Dream Guard, mysteriously disappeared, with His Majesty and her great-granfather, her predecessor on this post, being worried. The weird and wonderful customs of Tuburian dreamers and Sleep Riders are thoroughly explored, an annual summer game is won, and the dangerous magical artifact is reformed, which finally allows Sir Max to return to Echo. Also, sir Numminorikh, being TheHeart of the SI, removes the curse on the perennial {{Butt Monkey}}s of the series, the Izamonians.

*** Sir Max's story about how he, not being the most well-adjusted man from the start, almost lost it after losing the King Monin' sword, and how he tried to learn some self-control to find the titular Khabba Khen, Juffin's old friend who could only be found when you need him, but don't want to meet him. The old ritual of Ulviar's Exchange finally allows Shurf and Max to exhange their characters for a while, allowing Max to learn the Shurf's famous self-control and Shurf to get less ComicallySerious.

*** The story told by sir Kofa about the earlier days of SI, right after the adoption of Codex. The Echo is under an outbreak of strange deaths, and groups of mystrious kids are seen where the the deaths occur. Somehow this is connected to sir Kofa's old pal, Echos' famous pediatrician Gabba Gro and his strange granddaughter. Also, the ghost of his father sir Khumkha finally makes an appearance, still being the same InsufferableGenius, but in the end they finally make up.

*** Sir Numminorikh's story about him being sent to Tubur, where one of the Kings bodyguards, a professional Dream Guard, mysteriously disappeared, with His Majesty and her great-granfather, her predecessor on this post, being worried. The weird and wonderful customs of Tuburian dreamers and Sleep Riders are thoroughly explored, an annual summer game is won, and the dangerous magical artifact is reformed, which finally allows Sir Max to return to Echo. Also, sir Numminorikh, being TheHeart of the SI, removes the curse on the perennial {{Butt Monkey}}s of the series, the Izamonians.

** ''The Woe of Mister Gro''

** ''Volunteers of Eternity''. Max temporarily ends up in charge of SI when Juffin and Shurf are PutOnABus for a few weeks. During this time, Max has to deal with a threat of a ZombieApocalypse, coming to believe that only "holy water" from his own world can help. Upon arriving back to our world, however, he finds himself unable to return and wanders around for many years, eventually [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis relating his adventures to a local writer]], before returning to Echo [[NarniaTime a few days after he left]].

* Volume VII

* '''''Master of Winds and Sunsets''''' (2014). Max returns to Echo after a six-year TimeSkip and is reinstated in Secret Investigations, not as Juffin's deputy, but as the specialist for saving the dreamers -- people from other worlds who dream so deeply, they can actually interact with Echo, at the cost of being unable to wake up. Max's first case is a mysterious artist who stuns Echo with breathtaking illusions of colorful winds and multiple sunsets a day.

!!! ''Chronicles of Echo'' series:

** ''Dorot, Lord of Manukhs''. All inhabitants of Max's palace (including his "wives") are turned into plush dolls, which turns out to be the work of an ancient Mouse King, whom Max and Shurf pursue to the Dark Side and even beyond to undo his magic. Max is impaled by the magical sword of King Mönin, rendering him immune to all charms and illusions, and Melifaro later marries one of Max "wives".

** ''Cell #5-Khokh-Au''. After the seventh inmate in the past few years dies in the eponymous cell of the magical prison [[TheAlcatraz Kholomi]], Juffin orders Max to investigate... by doing time in that very cell. Luckily, Max manages to sneak in Shurf as backup. In the aftermath, Max acquires his signature poison spit ability and receives the title of Death in King's Service.
** ''The Stranger'' (alternative translation: ''Outsider''). A spree of brutal non-magical murders makes Max and Juffin suspect that a deranged serial killed has found his way to Echo using the same Door Between Worlds as Max did. The circumstances of Max's transition to Echo are explained.

** ''The Debut in Echo''. Max arrives to Echo and gradually adapts to his new life under Juffin's guidance. When a magical horror invades the house of Juffin's neighbor and nearly claims Melifaro's--Max's future colleague--life, Juffin calls in Shurf Lonli-Lokli to deal with it, while Max comes up with a creative solution for his first Secret Investigations case.

** ''White Stones of Kharumba''. The Grand Magister of the Order of the Seven-Leaf nears the end of his life and requests that Max escorts him to Kharumba, the magical city of TheUndying on Uanduk. To deliver him safely, Max has to sacrifice the Sword of Mönin.

** ''The Return of Ugurbado''
** ''Swamps of Gugland''

** ''The Secret of the Oak Leaf Club''
** ''A Talkative Dead Man''
** ''A Bequest for Lonli-Lokli''
** ''The Book of Burning Pages''

** ''White Stones of Kharumba''
** ''Labyrinth of Mönin''
** ''The Quiet City''

** ''Dorot, Lord of Manukhs''. All inhabitants of Max's palace (including his "wives") are turned into plush dolls, which turns out to be the work of an ancient Mouse King, whom Max and Shurf pursue to the Dark Side and even beyond to undo his magic. Max is impaled by the magical sword of King Mönin, rendering him immune to all charms and illusions, and Melifaro later marries one of Max "wives", Kenlekh.

** ''Green Waters of Ishma''
** ''Sweet Reveries of Gravvi''

** ''The Shadow of Gugimagon''
** ''Simple Magical Items''

** ''The Dark Vassals of Glenke Taval''
** ''Dorot, Lord of Manukhs''

** ''The Foxes of Magakhon''
** ''A Ship from Arvarokh and Other Bad News''
** ''Bakki Bugvin's Glasses''
** ''Volunteers of Eternity''

** ''The Debut in Echo''
** ''Juba Chebobargo and Other Nice People''
** ''Cell #5-Khokh-Au''
** ''The Stranger'' (alternative translation: ''Outsider'')
** ''King Bangee''
** ''Victims of Circumstances''
** ''A Trip to Kettari''

** ''Forelock of the Land'' [[hottip:*:The English title is the literal translation of the Russian title ''Чуб Земли'', but the pun on the Russian "пуп земли", which means "omphalos", i.e. center / most important place of the world, is lost]]

** ''Crow on a Bridge'' [[hottip:*:Among Russian nursery rhymes, there is an endless one which goes: "Еду дальше, вижу мост, на мосту ворона сохнет. Взял ворону я за хвост, положил её под мост - пусть она помокнет. Еду дальше, вижу мост, под мостом ворона мокнет. Взял ворону я за хвост, положил её на мост - пусть она подсохнет." This rhyme mentions a crow being put endlessly on a bridge to dry or under a bridge to soak. The book deals with the founder of the aptly named Order of the Water Crow.]]

* ''Nests of the Chimerae'' (1997, largely rewritten in 1999). Max is summoned into another world, [[BroughtDownToNormal stripped of his powers]], has wild adventures, and returns to back to Echo to discover that [[NarniaTime mere seconds passed]] since he left. It is believed to occur somewhere during the penultimate chapter of ''Labyrinth''.