Timeline

The canon spans late Neolithic into the dawn of the Bronze Age (with internal winter-count dating). The Great Rest persists for decades, long enough for innovations to stack and for their second-order consequences to become visible.

Each seven-winter Cave Game is a checkpoint: patterns are told, witnessed, and marked so future people can reconstruct intent even when rituals drift.

Story Runtime

• Book: primary canon (the “source song”).
• Series: 12-episode adaptation layer (same events, different compression).
• Journals: first-person tone preservation; expands inner context between episodes.