TIMELINE NOTES AS OF MAG 167
(as discussed with @soveryanon . thanks also to @sazandorable for their tma timeline that I love so much)
Okay okay so. I’ve seen a couple posts going around in this post-167 haze about how ‘the Michael timeline is fucked up.’
This is not entirely true.
In fact, Michael’s timeline is probably doing just fine. It’s the Agnes Montague timeline we need to be worried about here, but here, let’s take a closer look:
Albrecht von Closen mentions in a letter to Jonah Magnus that he and his wife Clara are unable to have children, specifically noting that this is why they are so close to their nephew
Jonathan Fanshawe, upon arriving at Albrecht von Closen’s estate, sees ‘a gnarled and ancient elm’ being burned to ‘death’ by a man with a torch, surrounded by a small crowd
The man specifically mentions that his “master wanted the tree dead”
Fanshawe also notes that Albrecht’s two sons are away at school
Walter Fielding buys Hill Top House
Alfred Fielding, Walter Fielding’s son, inherits Hill Top House
Gertrude Robinson is born
Raymond Fielding, Alfred Fielding’s son, inherits Hill Top House
Hill Top House is used as a halfway home by R. Fielding
The spiderweb table contains both parts and is in use for Webby business
Ronald Sinclair, age 15, moves in
He immediately dislikes Raymond Fielding, who he describes as not much older than 30
Three years later, Agnes Montague moves in at age 10 or 11, and saves Ronald Sinclair’s life from Raymond Fielding and the Web
she is described with brown hair
At some point between the above and the below
Agnes Montague and Raymond Fielding have a fight that leaves a scar on reality
It ties her inexplicably to Hill Top House
Hill Top House burns down; the locals all suspect Agnes Montague
Raymond Fielding’s skeleton, minus a right hand, is found in the remains
Ronald Sinclair has his first restful night since his near-death
Shortly after, Gertrude Robinson, aged around 25, finds locks of Agnes’ hair in the wreckage and constructs a binding ritual between the two of them with the help of the Web
Agnes ‘reaches adulthood’ and stops aging
Ronald Sinclair, now over 60, gives his statement
He mentions there are no records of a halfway house at Hill Top Road
He mentions he’s started dreaming again now that developers are moving on Hill Top House
Ivo Lensik is first contracted to work on Hill Top House
He meets Raymond Fielding, or at least someone claiming to be him. This man is notably young (20s), but his clothing is outdated. After he is let in, there is a burning, and Fielding has disappeared
Lensik then goes to hospital and meets nurse Anna Kasuma, who is in her fifties
She tells him about the history of Hill Top House
Ivo Lensik visits Hill Top House and cuts down the spider tree. He sees Father Burroughs there to exorcise the house, apparently at Anna Kasuma’s request
Agnes Montague and Jack Barnabas go on their last date
Agnes Montague, age 26, is found hanged in her apartment with what is likely Raymond Fielding’s right hand
Arthur Nolan reveals this was an intentional death suggested by Agnes herself and carried out by the Cult of the Lightless Flame
Eugene Vanderstock gives his statement
He brings news of Agnes Montague’s death, on Arthur Nolan’s behest
Ivo Lensik gives his statement
Jack Barnabas gives his statement
He describes Agnes as tall, with auburn hair
‘A couple of years before’ the incident with Hill Top House in 2009
Father Burroughs visits 89 Bullingdon, where Bethany O’Connors is staying, and finds a wall enscribed with the word ‘MENTIS.’ When he asks her about it, she seems confused
Followup to the statement indicated that no students were living at 89 Bullingdon, though Bethany claimed she was living there with six other students
The next day, Burroughs visits the John Radcliffe hospital (where Annie Willett works and where Bethany is hospitalized) for an exorcism for Bethany
He was called there on her behalf by Annie, who seems to be the same person as the Annie Kasuma Ivo Lensik met
Bethany dies in the process
Father Burroughs goes to exorcise Hill Top House on Annie Willett/Kasuma’s request, is nearly burned alive but the Desolation is stopped by a voice that takes over his body and says he is already marked.
He meets Ivo Lensik upon his arrival at the house
The next day, Father Burroughs is terrified by a false version of Father Singh, flees to the Oratory where he has visions of a supernatural Mass. He is arrested at 89 Bullingdon Road for the murder and cannibalism of Christopher Bilham and James Mann
Details in the followup suggest there may have been a second person there that night
Details in Burrough’s vision mirror aspects of many of the entities, including most prominently, the Spiral, the Web, and the Eye.
Arthur Nolan comes to gives his statement about Agnes’ death since the Gertrude-Agnes binding circle has been broken
Jason North accidentally disrupts Gertrude and Agnes’ binding circle
Anya Villette gives her statement
Anya Villette cleans Hill Top House
She notices the spider tree outside
She goes into the basement and gets sucked into a crack in the floor from which 8 legs extend, and wakes up in one of the chairs inside HTH
She says this took place two weeks before she gave her statement
She says her friends are off, don’t seem to know her. She can’t find her favorite coffeeshop. And she’s never heard of the Institute
The followup indicates that as far as records go, Anya Villette does not exist.
Jason North gives his statement
Jason North douses himself in petrol and sets himself on fire
Gabriel, The-Worker-of-Clay, sends a letter to Deborah Madaki, telling her he is working in a place called Sannikov Land and inviting her to join him
Deborah Madaki gives her statement
No earlier than October 4, 2009, no later than 2011
Gertrude takes Michael Shelley to Sannikov Land and sends him into the Distortion to stop the Great Twisting
Sarah Carpenter is liquified from the inside out by someone who is almost certainly Diego Molina, due to Emma Harvey’s machinations
If indeed this is the same circumstance as the event described by Basira in MAG 43 “Section 31,” then we can pin the date for all of these to have occurred in August 2011
Gertrude Robinson and Agnes Montague meet for the one and only time in their lives
Gertrude arranges for Emma Harvey to be burned to death, via Elias and Agnes
Father Burroughs gives his statement
It’s possible I missed some small thing or two, but here’s the stuff I find relevant. It’s not Michael’s timeline that’s strange, it’s Agnes’s, and Hill Top House’s, and the possible varying universes that collide there, at that rift in reality.
