History WMG / TheSharingKnife

* The description of how demons evolve through various hosts in ''Paladin of Souls'' has quite a few similarities to the description of the way malices evolve through various moults, although there are significant differences. But if the Sharing Knife stories take place long after the Chalion stories, it might be that demons have changed tactics after many, many centuries of failure. Or that the apocalypse that destroyed the old world has changed them in some way.

* The Sharing Knife takes place in North America. The Chalion series takes place in the same world/time in Europe. However, you may remember that the Bastard's Day, which seems to be a leap day equivalent, takes place every 2 years rather than every 4, implying that the planet the Chalion series occurs on has a slightly larger orbit than Earth's. But maybe Earth's orbit was deliberately moved in order to reduce the effects of global warming. Hmm...I bet a project like that would take a huge amount of energy. A prerequisite to such a project might be developing something that could absorb energy ("ground") rapidly and indiscriminately from its environment. Something like that would be really dangerous if it got out of control and started trying to do its thing in a populated area, wouldn't it?

* The Sharing Knife takes place in North America. The Chalion series takes place in the same world/time in South America. However, you may remember that the Bastard's Day, which seems to be a leap day equivalent, takes place every 2 years rather than every 4, implying that the planet the Chalion series occurs on has a slightly larger orbit than Earth's. But maybe Earth's orbit was deliberately moved in order to reduce the effects of global warming. Hmm...I bet a project like that would take a huge amount of energy. A prerequisite to such a project might be developing something that could absorb energy ("ground") rapidly and indiscriminately from its environment. Something like that would be really dangerous if it got out of control and started trying to do its thing in a populated area, wouldn't it?

* The Sharing Knife takes place in North America. The Chalion series takes place in the same world/time in South America.

** I thought this was canon, honestly. The map of the world looks like North America and they mention legends of lands across the seas if you could only get a big enough ship to sail that far, they talk about a big war that melted the miles-wide cities into glass craters (nuclear bombs), some of the highways are made of strange black rock that is all one piece and doesn't erode (asphalt)... I entirely agree with you, and I think it's the author's intention.

* Or they really DID discover a 'magic' or supernatural/psionic ability/power. (Maybe it's even an alternate-world history, with magic overtaking science in the Renaissance, but inaccessible to Farmers.)

The world of ''The Sharing Knife'' is post-post-apocalyptic, as in gone back to nature, mostly. The major river from ''Passage'', the Grace, has been compared to the Mississippi in [[WordOfGod author notes]]. The big dead lake on the north end of most maps was said to have once been a chain of lakes, with 'straight' roads around them made by the sorcerer-lord Precursors. I keep coming back to the suspicion that this world is actually the post-apoc version of the North American Midwest, around about Ohio and Indiana. The Ogachi Strand is the ruins of Chicago, and like other modern major cities, was easily several miles across. Michigan is buried in the crater of the Dead Lake, or was destroyed in the blast that merged the Great Lakes. The malice-blight is easily seen as a form of radiation, leeching life-energy from the land. Lakewalker magic is easy to justify, depending on your favored flavor.

The world of ''The Sharing Knife'' is post-post-apocalyptic, as in gone back to nature, mostly. The major river from ''Passage'', the Grace, has been compared to the Mississippi in [[WordOfGod author notes]]. The big dead lake on the north end of most maps was said to have once been a chain of lakes, with 'straight' roads around them made by the sorcerer-lord Precursors. I keep coming back to the suspicion that this world is actually the post-apoc version of the North American Midwest, around about Ohio and Indiana. The Ogachi Strand is the ruins of Chicago, and like other cities, was easily several miles across, like many modern major cities. Michigan is buried in the crater of the Dead Lake, or was destroyed in the blast that merged the Great Lakes. The malice-blight is easily seen as a form of radiation, leeching life-energy from the land. Lakewalker magic is easy to justify, depending on your favored flavor.

The world of '''The Sharing Knife''' is post-post-apocalyptic, as in gone back to nature, mostly. The major river from '''Passage''', the Grace, has been compared to the Mississippi in [[WordOfGod author notes]]. The big dead lake on the north end of most maps was said to have once been a chain of lakes, with 'straight' roads around them made by the sorcerer-lord Precursors. I keep coming back to the suspicion that this world is actually the post-apoc version of the North American Midwest, around about Ohio and Indiana. The Ogachi Strand is the ruins of Chicago, and like other cities, was easily several miles across, like many modern major cities. Michigan is buried in the crater of the Dead Lake, or was destroyed in the blast that merged the Great Lakes. The malice-blight is easily seen as a form of radiation, leeching life-energy from the land. Lakewalker magic is easy to justify, depending on your favored flavor.

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