They do follow a chronological order. It starts before the fall of the Gods...then the Avatar trilogy changed the way that all of the other authors could write, because everyone had to accept that Cyric was the new God of Death and Murder, and everyone uses the "Time of Troubles" as it was called, to mark the passing of time, much like we use BC and AD...
Anyway, of course, some authors may decide to write about a particular unused time space in history, so they are allowed to break the "Time of Troubles" standard, but they have to remember not to change the history so dramatically as to not allow the events that already we have read about to become nullified.
So, in short...the authors are told thier limits, and thier stories are guided by what others have previously written. They are not allowed to contradict another novel. Does that help??? Or am I still lost at sea???
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