Spoilers for Death Gate Cycle
The inconsistencies in the text and the footnotes are starting to bother me. Some of them are clearly just the authors misremembering certain events: footnote in book five saying an event took place in book one vs. book two - footnote in book three misidentifying it as book four.
Others seriously complicate the timeline (which already doesn't make much sense. The time between the Sundering and when the Sartan started to fail is incredibly vague, that's fine. Samah, in Serpent Mage says they've been Sleeping for nearly a thousand years. But, if the Patryns were in the Labyrinth for a thousand years, then it can't have been long after the Sundering when the Council of Seven went to sleep.
However, Alfred's timeline doesn't match up. He doesn't remember the Sundering, which means his people on Arianus had time to have new generations and he was a young adult when they went to sleep.
Now, this can be answered by time differences between dimensions, which is fair, but no one in the text or the appendices implies that is the case and actions taken in one realm appear to affect others simultaneously, eg. Haplo entering Death's Gate in book one activating the tytans on Pryan and they have to travel enormous distances to reach our protagonists in book two.
Of course, the appendices complicate a lot of things. Book five, specifically. Haplo at the beginning of book six concludes that he will not come back to Arianus and the text backs him up with the sealing of the Labyrinth and Death's Gate in book seven. However, the appendix on the Brotherhood says he got his hands on Ciang's document about the Cursed Blade with no explanation HOW. He must have come back, because Hugh didn't give it to him. Alfred's writings imply he went to Pryan during his "years of traveling Death's Gate" however, Alfred only enters the Gate in book three, gets sent to the Vortex in book four, and doesn't resume traveling Death's Gate until book seven, at the end of which he closes the Gate. Note: I may not fully remember the events but seven is next for me and that may clear things up.
Furthermore, books one though five take place over one year - Alfred didn't have time for years of travel in less than one year.
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