Jonah Ghul
28 Nov 14 - 20:44
So I thought I would cross post this over here to the forums, because I figured you guys might be interested in it! I wanted to figure out more regarding Faquarl's timeline. What's interesting about the bartimaeus chronology is that while there is are dates set in stone, the actual historical events as they align to ours are a bit different. I don't need to tell you that though; there's a timeline for the series over here.
If you're interested in comparing bartimaeus universe dates to ours, there are timelines available over at the met museum that you can use. For any holes in your own historical knowledge, I'd suggest either khan academy or crash course history if you want to get the basics.
WARNING: there be spoilers, and this gets loooong. You have been warned!
3015 BC, Jericho: Faquarl first summoned.
2900 BC + Sumer: Clashes with Bart, as each is employed by various warring city states throughout the southern Mesopotamia, helping to conduct campaigns against their rivals. Notable early cities include: Ur, Kish, Eridu, and Uruk.
2551 BC Egypt: Khufu becomes pharaoh. Bart is involved in construction of Khufu's great pyramid, and suspects Faquarl's involvement when a bit of it falls on him.
2000 BC (???): Faquarl is in Crete.
Herodotus estimated that Cadmus lived sixteen hundred years before his time, or around 2000 BC; however this chronology conflicts with most of what is now known or thought to be known about the origins and spread of both the Phoenician and Greek alphabets. Despite this, since the timeline in bartimaeus's world still incorporates many of these legends, I'm going to go with the date from Herodotus for Cadmus. If this is the date for Cadmus, then this is the date for his sister Europa. If this is the date I'm using for her, than so it will go with her son Minos, the king present in the myth of Icarus.
Something also worthy of interest; if you continue to go by Herodotus, Europa was kidnapped by these Minoans in order to seek revenge for the kidnapping of Io from Argos.
Something else to be aware of is that Jabor worked in "Phoenicia" though its not specified exactly where, or to whom. Hell, we don't even get a "when."
Going by this dating scheme, from 1600 to 900 BC, we'll say this is the time period of early Phoenician (Canaanite) impacts on the Greeks.
The Phoenicians had been trading with the Mycenaeans who emerged about 1600 B.C. on the Greek mainland and islands. These interactions exposed the Mycenaeans to Phoenician innovations in areas such as shipbuilding, stonemasonry and the purple dye used in coloring cloth, all of which were of great interest to latter-day Greeks. Remember that Faquarl is still in Mycenae. Proof:
1350 BC: Bartimaeus was in Egypt, during the reign of Akhenaten and Nefertiti.
1500 BC Atlantis: a Mycenaean outpost on Santorini, is destroyed in this year by a powerful spirit. Bart hears the explosion hundreds of miles away in the Egyptian delta. If Bartimaeus hears it, then Faquarl most likely does as well.
1274 BC: Battle of Qadesh between Egyptians and the Hittites, which Rameses wins. Bart and Faquarl take part in this battle. Two hundred years later, the battlefield is still a blackened waste, a field of bones.
1200? BC Fall of Troy: Faquarl claims to have been present on this occasion, and to have given Odysseus the idea for the Trojan Horse. Bart is skeptical, but can't prove anything, as he is Egypt at the time.
Around this time Faquarl is in his pomp, known far and wide as Faquarl of Sparta, scourge of the Aegean. Bart recalls him as a 'slate-black giant crushing hoplite armies beneath [his] heels.'
950 BC: Events of The Ring of Solomon
970s-940s BC: Israel: Solomon the Great is king of Israel. Solomon wields great power with his magic ring, one of the most powerful talismans of all time. Bart is one of many spirit slaves working for Solomon's magicians, and he undertakes much construction work in Jerusalem.
Note: "In my view the people of Babylonia were the tastiest, owing to the rich goat's milk in their diet. Faquarl preferred a good Indian." Faquarl was in India sometime before the events of ROS, unless Bartimaeus is being facetious.
680s BC Nineveh, Assyria: Bart is sent here by Babylonian magicians to slip arsenic in Sennacherib's food, only to be spotted by Faquarl who is working for the king. Bart and Faquarl have the 'mother of all food-fights' until Bart fells Faquarl with a ham bone and escapes. Their relationship goes rapidly downhill from here.
200s BC Rome/Carthage: Bart meets the afrit Naeryan during the Scipio campaigns. Likely, it's this Scipio. Faquarl is not mentioned; however, Faquarl is mentioned later to have been in Rome during the empire as you'll see, so this is worth noting.
126 BC Egypt, Alexandria: Bartimaeus meets Ptolemy.
124 BC: Ptolemy sends Bart to fight against Barbary pirates and desert raiders. He fights against the jackal-headed djinni Jabor, and takes part in the Battle of the Cataracts. Afterwards, Ptolemy gives Bartimaeus a week off - his first experience of pure free will on Earth. Ptolemy visits the Other Place and is seriously weakened. Later that year Ptolemy is assassinated by Roman magicians. Affa, Penrenutet and Teti are also killed. Bartimaeus survives.
0 Rome: Around this time, Bart befriends Julia, a Vestal Virgin, with whom he watches chariot races at the Circus Maximus. He meets the afrit Naeryan again.
475 Fall of Rome: The last Western Emperor, Romulus Augustulus, falls to revolution among the people and barbarian invasion. Bart apparently hides in the catacombs below Rome during the invasion, but is spotted by two foliots who pass on the news to Faquarl. Remember, this is the fall of the Western half.
610-641 Byzantium. Reign of the magician-Emperor Heraclius in Constantinople. Bart is in his employment for a time. He meets Naeryan there. Possibility of Faquarl's presence too, since they were both present in the Western half of the empire before it fell.
800 Baghdad: With the reign of the great caliph-magician Haroun al-Rashid, the Arab Empire is at its peak. Bartimaeus is there, but no idea on Faquarl. The story of Asmoral and Ianna occurs here though.
1200s -1400s Great Zimbabwe, Southern Africa: The city of Great Zimbabwe is continuously built between the 11th and 15th Centuries, when it is abandoned. Under the name N'gorso the Mighty, Bartimaeus works here for a time, as does Faquarl.
1227 Mongolia: Death of the warlord, Genghis Khan. Bart and Faquarl engineer it by putting poison grapes in his tent.
1480 - 1540s Germany: The magician Johann Faustus is active. Bart serves him at some point.
This means that by 'thirty-two' Bartimaeus is referring to the year 1532.
A note; Jstroud has not read Goethe's Faust, but he has read Marlowe. (source)
This is also sort of funny since there is in fact a 2013 german novel with a modernist take on the Faust legend, where "Doctor Heinrich Faust" goes to the University of Heidelberg in the year 1508.
From 1560 (with only small interruption) to the fall of Prague in 1868, Bartimaeus is somewhere in the Holy Roman Empire. Faquarl was most likely working somewhere else; there is a high likelihood that he was not in Europe. Bartimaeus would have mentioned something in the Golem's Eye, because that is how transparent he is.
Something of interest; there is no mention of Napoleon in the chronology. I also saw no mention of him in the books either.
This is important because in our version of history, Emperor Francis II dissolved the Holy Roman Empire on August 6, 1806, after their defeat by Napoleon at the Battle of Austerlitz. Here though, it is Gladstone that invades. Both our Gladstone and theirs lived from lived from 1809 to 1898. With the change in William Ewart Gladstone's role in history, a lot came with it. For example;
1867 London: The magician Gladstone takes over the British Government in the infamous Night of the Long Counsel. Prior to this, Britain was governed by 'the Old Parliament', made up of commoners.
This is interesting because on our timeline, what's notable of Gladstone in the year 1867 is the reform act of 1867 instead.
Whatever is going on with french history, its different for sure.
1914 - 18: The Great War (Our WWI)
In this universe, the "Great War" is between Britain and its territories in Europe. Which is a bit cleaner then the messier affairs in our universe; another thing to remember is that if the Americas participated, they did so while still British Colonies.
There is a question though regarding the Ottoman Empire; it most likely existed, but considering how different things have gotten already, there's some question of whether or not the dissolution that occurred in our universe occurred here after this war. We know that there is something that exists that is referred to as an "Arabian Confederacy." This is from Ptolemy's Gate:
2000: Events of AOS
2002: Events of Golem's Eye
2003-4: War in America continues, while unrest spreads across the Empire. Rebellions and riots break out across Europe. During this period Bart works almost continuously for John Mandrake.
2005: Events of Ptolemy's Gate; The Magicians' Government falls. The New Interim Council meets for first time and announces British withdrawal from America. Bartimaeus is finally dismissed. Faquarl is dead.
A thing to remember is that it's 2005 and World War II has yet to occur. America has only recently gained its independence. Something else to consider is that it's taking longer for the western powers to colonize and enact genocide on the native populations in the northern continent; apparently the nasty diseases the Europeans brought over were most likely taken care of early on. Possibly because those guys can summon spirits too? I would assume, anyway.
Things didn't go so well in South America though.
Other Notes: I couldn't find anything on whether or not Faquarl had a presence in the Americas like Bartimaeus did. Certainly he was aware though, and was able to recognize the particulars of Bartimaeus's disguise in PG. Some worldbuilding things from these very same bartiforums:
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If you're interested in comparing bartimaeus universe dates to ours, there are timelines available over at the met museum that you can use. For any holes in your own historical knowledge, I'd suggest either khan academy or crash course history if you want to get the basics.
WARNING: there be spoilers, and this gets loooong. You have been warned!
3015 BC, Jericho: Faquarl first summoned.
wrote:(ROS) By his account, Faquarl's first summoning was in Jericho, 3015 BC, approximately five years before my initial appearance in Ur. This made him, allegedly, the 'senior' djinni in our partnership. However, since Faquarl also swore blind he'd invented hieroglyphs by 'doodling with a stick in the Nile river-mud' and claimed to have devised the abacus by impaling two dozen imps along the branches of an Asiatic cedar, I regarded all his stories with a certain skepticism.
2900 BC + Sumer: Clashes with Bart, as each is employed by various warring city states throughout the southern Mesopotamia, helping to conduct campaigns against their rivals. Notable early cities include: Ur, Kish, Eridu, and Uruk.
2700 BC (???) Sumer: Bartimaeus is responsible for a great flood, which occurs when he builds a dam across the Euphrates river for a bet. Faquarl is aware of it, brought it up in ROS, was most likely still in Sumer.wrote:(ROS) We'd first crossed paths in Mesopotamia, during the interminable wars between the city states. Sometimes we fought on the same side; sometimes we were ranged against each other in battle. This in itself wasn't a big deal - it was par for the course for any spirit, and a situation quite outside our control, since it was our masters who forced us into action - but somehow Faquarl and I seemed to rub each other up the wrong way.
2551 BC Egypt: Khufu becomes pharaoh. Bart is involved in construction of Khufu's great pyramid, and suspects Faquarl's involvement when a bit of it falls on him.
wrote:(PG) There was the time when a small section of Khufu's Great Pyramid collapsed upon me one moonless night during the fifteenth year of its construction. I was guarding the zone that my group was working on, when several limestone blocks tumbled down from the top, transfixing me painfully by one of my extremities. Exactly how it happened was never resolved, though my suspicions were directed at my old chum Faquarl, who was working with a rival group on the opposite side. I made no outward complaint, but bided my time while my essence healed. Later, when Faquarl was returning across the Western Desert with some Nubian gold, I invoked a mild sandstorm, causing him to lose the treasure and incur the pharaoh's wrath. It took him a couple of years to sift all the pieces from the dunes.
2000 BC (???): Faquarl is in Crete.
I say 2000 BC, because King Minos from the Icarus myth was Europa's son. Europa was a princess who was supposedly abducted by the god Zeus from Tyre, and brought to the island of Crete. Cadmus, her brother was among the many of her siblings who went out to look for her. According to the Greeks, it was Cadmus who brought them the Phoenician alphabet and who ended up founding the city of Thebes.wrote:(GE) [...] As exemplified by Icarus, an early pioneer of flight. According to Faquarl, who admittedly wasn't the most reliable of sources, the Greek magician Daedalus constructed a pair of magical wings, each one housing a short-tempered foliot. These wings were tested by Icarus, a fey and facetious youth, who made cheap remarks at the foliots' expense while at several thousand feet above the Aegean. In protest, they loosed their feathers one by one, sending Icarus and his witticisms plummeting to a watery grave.
Herodotus estimated that Cadmus lived sixteen hundred years before his time, or around 2000 BC; however this chronology conflicts with most of what is now known or thought to be known about the origins and spread of both the Phoenician and Greek alphabets. Despite this, since the timeline in bartimaeus's world still incorporates many of these legends, I'm going to go with the date from Herodotus for Cadmus. If this is the date for Cadmus, then this is the date for his sister Europa. If this is the date I'm using for her, than so it will go with her son Minos, the king present in the myth of Icarus.
Something also worthy of interest; if you continue to go by Herodotus, Europa was kidnapped by these Minoans in order to seek revenge for the kidnapping of Io from Argos.
Something else to be aware of is that Jabor worked in "Phoenicia" though its not specified exactly where, or to whom. Hell, we don't even get a "when."
I mention this because it is implied that both Bartimaeus and Faquarl had met Jabor previously. Besides Egypt, we know that Bartimaeus clashed with him when he was sent out by Ptolemy in 124 BC "to fight against Barbary pirates and desert raiders." We do not have such definite information on Faquarl, which opens several possibilities.wrote:(AOS) He just wanted to get his claws on my essence, to rend me like one of his victims from old Ombos or Phoenicia.
Going by this dating scheme, from 1600 to 900 BC, we'll say this is the time period of early Phoenician (Canaanite) impacts on the Greeks.
The Phoenicians had been trading with the Mycenaeans who emerged about 1600 B.C. on the Greek mainland and islands. These interactions exposed the Mycenaeans to Phoenician innovations in areas such as shipbuilding, stonemasonry and the purple dye used in coloring cloth, all of which were of great interest to latter-day Greeks. Remember that Faquarl is still in Mycenae. Proof:
1350 BC: Bartimaeus was in Egypt, during the reign of Akhenaten and Nefertiti.
Therefore, Faquarl was still present in Mycenae.wrote:(ROS) Reminds me a bit of Nefertiti.'
'Never met her,' Faquarl sniffed. 'I was in Mycenae then, if you recall. Anyhow, who cares? I'm hungry.'
1500 BC Atlantis: a Mycenaean outpost on Santorini, is destroyed in this year by a powerful spirit. Bart hears the explosion hundreds of miles away in the Egyptian delta. If Bartimaeus hears it, then Faquarl most likely does as well.
1274 BC: Battle of Qadesh between Egyptians and the Hittites, which Rameses wins. Bart and Faquarl take part in this battle. Two hundred years later, the battlefield is still a blackened waste, a field of bones.
wrote:(ROS) Battle of Qadesh: major engagement between the Egyptians under Rameses the Great and the Hittites under King Muwatallis back in 1274 BC. Faquarl and I had fought in separate divisions of the pharaoh's armies, and helped carry out the final pincer movement that drove the enemy utukku from the field. Many great deeds were done that day, not all of them by me. Two centuries later, the battlefield was still a blackened waste, a field of bones.
1200? BC Fall of Troy: Faquarl claims to have been present on this occasion, and to have given Odysseus the idea for the Trojan Horse. Bart is skeptical, but can't prove anything, as he is Egypt at the time.
His master appears to have been Odysseus.wrote:[...] This ignorance would have upset Faquarl, as it happens, who often boasted how he'd given Odysseus the idea for the wooden horse in the first place. I'm sure he was lying, but I can't prove it because I wasn't at Troy: I was in Egypt at the time.
Around this time Faquarl is in his pomp, known far and wide as Faquarl of Sparta, scourge of the Aegean. Bart recalls him as a 'slate-black giant crushing hoplite armies beneath [his] heels.'
950 BC: Events of The Ring of Solomon
970s-940s BC: Israel: Solomon the Great is king of Israel. Solomon wields great power with his magic ring, one of the most powerful talismans of all time. Bart is one of many spirit slaves working for Solomon's magicians, and he undertakes much construction work in Jerusalem.
Note: "In my view the people of Babylonia were the tastiest, owing to the rich goat's milk in their diet. Faquarl preferred a good Indian." Faquarl was in India sometime before the events of ROS, unless Bartimaeus is being facetious.
680s BC Nineveh, Assyria: Bart is sent here by Babylonian magicians to slip arsenic in Sennacherib's food, only to be spotted by Faquarl who is working for the king. Bart and Faquarl have the 'mother of all food-fights' until Bart fells Faquarl with a ham bone and escapes. Their relationship goes rapidly downhill from here.
wrote:"Ever since the royal kitchens at Nineveh, circa 700 B.C." Faquarl has always been hanging around kitchens.
[...] "Lots of nice sharp weapons in kitchens."
200s BC Rome/Carthage: Bart meets the afrit Naeryan during the Scipio campaigns. Likely, it's this Scipio. Faquarl is not mentioned; however, Faquarl is mentioned later to have been in Rome during the empire as you'll see, so this is worth noting.
126 BC Egypt, Alexandria: Bartimaeus meets Ptolemy.
124 BC: Ptolemy sends Bart to fight against Barbary pirates and desert raiders. He fights against the jackal-headed djinni Jabor, and takes part in the Battle of the Cataracts. Afterwards, Ptolemy gives Bartimaeus a week off - his first experience of pure free will on Earth. Ptolemy visits the Other Place and is seriously weakened. Later that year Ptolemy is assassinated by Roman magicians. Affa, Penrenutet and Teti are also killed. Bartimaeus survives.
Bartimaeus mentioned Ptolemy to Faquarl, or as he put it, "was always going on about." I would say that Faquarl is most likely in Rome, or somewhere else close by.wrote:(PG) [...] That brat from Alexandria you were always going on about at one time, Bartimaeus. He'd have approved, wouldn't he?
0 Rome: Around this time, Bart befriends Julia, a Vestal Virgin, with whom he watches chariot races at the Circus Maximus. He meets the afrit Naeryan again.
475 Fall of Rome: The last Western Emperor, Romulus Augustulus, falls to revolution among the people and barbarian invasion. Bart apparently hides in the catacombs below Rome during the invasion, but is spotted by two foliots who pass on the news to Faquarl. Remember, this is the fall of the Western half.
610-641 Byzantium. Reign of the magician-Emperor Heraclius in Constantinople. Bart is in his employment for a time. He meets Naeryan there. Possibility of Faquarl's presence too, since they were both present in the Western half of the empire before it fell.
800 Baghdad: With the reign of the great caliph-magician Haroun al-Rashid, the Arab Empire is at its peak. Bartimaeus is there, but no idea on Faquarl. The story of Asmoral and Ianna occurs here though.
1200s -1400s Great Zimbabwe, Southern Africa: The city of Great Zimbabwe is continuously built between the 11th and 15th Centuries, when it is abandoned. Under the name N'gorso the Mighty, Bartimaeus works here for a time, as does Faquarl.
Both most likely present ALSO during decline.wrote:(AOS) [...] Going places very soon. We're talking days here. And the Amulet is vital to his success."
"Maybe, but will we share his success? I've heard all this type of guff before. The magicians use us to gain more power for themselves and then simply redouble our bondage! What do we get out of it?"
"I have plans, Bartimaeus -"
"Yes, yes, don't we all? Besides, none of this changes the fact that I'm bound to my original charge. There are severe penalties -"
"Penalties can be endured!" Faquarl slapped the side of his head in frustration.
"My essence is still recovering from the punishments Lovelace inflicted when you vanished with his Amulet! In fact, our existence - and don't pretend to apologize, Bartimaeus; you don't care in the least - our existence here is nothing but a series of penalties! Only the cursed magicians themselves change, and as soon as one drops into his grave, another springs up, dusts off our names and summons us again! They pass on, we endure."
I shrugged. "I think we've had this conversation before. Great Zimbabwe, wasn't it?"
Faquarl's rage subsided. He nodded. "Maybe so. But I sense change coming and if you had any sense youd feel it too. The waning of an empire always brings unstable times: trouble rising from the streets, magicians squabbling heedlessly, their brains softened by luxury and power...We've both seen this often enough, you and I. Such occasions give us greater opportunities to act. Our masters get lazy, Bartimaeus - they give us more leverage."
1227 Mongolia: Death of the warlord, Genghis Khan. Bart and Faquarl engineer it by putting poison grapes in his tent.
1480 - 1540s Germany: The magician Johann Faustus is active. Bart serves him at some point.
Something interesting I found:wrote:(PG) Faquarl, you are a generous friend! I apologize for that incident in the copse, and for our fights over the Amulet, and for that Convulsion from behind I got you with, back in Heidelberg in 'thirty-two" - I hesitated - "which I see you didn't know was me."
This Faust went to a Heidelberg University.wrote:Dr. Johann Georg Faust, also known in English as John Faustus, was an itinerant alchemist, astrologer, and magician of the German Renaissance. His life became the nucleus of the popular tale of Doctor Faust from circa the 1580s, notably culminating in Christopher Marlowe's play The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus (1604) and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's closet drama Faust (1808).
This means that by 'thirty-two' Bartimaeus is referring to the year 1532.
A note; Jstroud has not read Goethe's Faust, but he has read Marlowe. (source)
This is also sort of funny since there is in fact a 2013 german novel with a modernist take on the Faust legend, where "Doctor Heinrich Faust" goes to the University of Heidelberg in the year 1508.
From 1560 (with only small interruption) to the fall of Prague in 1868, Bartimaeus is somewhere in the Holy Roman Empire. Faquarl was most likely working somewhere else; there is a high likelihood that he was not in Europe. Bartimaeus would have mentioned something in the Golem's Eye, because that is how transparent he is.
Something of interest; there is no mention of Napoleon in the chronology. I also saw no mention of him in the books either.
This is important because in our version of history, Emperor Francis II dissolved the Holy Roman Empire on August 6, 1806, after their defeat by Napoleon at the Battle of Austerlitz. Here though, it is Gladstone that invades. Both our Gladstone and theirs lived from lived from 1809 to 1898. With the change in William Ewart Gladstone's role in history, a lot came with it. For example;
1867 London: The magician Gladstone takes over the British Government in the infamous Night of the Long Counsel. Prior to this, Britain was governed by 'the Old Parliament', made up of commoners.
This is interesting because on our timeline, what's notable of Gladstone in the year 1867 is the reform act of 1867 instead.
Now in 1868 in the bartimaeus timeline, Gladstone "invades the Holy Roman Empire, heading to Prague by way of Paris and Cologne." Meaning by then he had already taken France. In our historical timeline there's supposed to be a Napoleon III there somewhere, among other things.wrote:The Representation of the People Act 1867, 30 & 31 Vict. c. 102 (known informally as the Reform Act of 1867 or the Second Reform Act) was a piece of British legislation that enfranchised part of the urban male working class in England and Wales for the first time.
Whatever is going on with french history, its different for sure.
1914 - 18: The Great War (Our WWI)
In this universe, the "Great War" is between Britain and its territories in Europe. Which is a bit cleaner then the messier affairs in our universe; another thing to remember is that if the Americas participated, they did so while still British Colonies.
There is a question though regarding the Ottoman Empire; it most likely existed, but considering how different things have gotten already, there's some question of whether or not the dissolution that occurred in our universe occurred here after this war. We know that there is something that exists that is referred to as an "Arabian Confederacy." This is from Ptolemy's Gate:
It is apparently independent to the British Empire. So make of that what you will.wrote:(PG) The hotel manager was a small, amply padded lady of middle age. Her bone-gray hair was swept back and fixed in place by a piece of polished whalebone. She received her visitors with polite reserve. "You are from the Sheban Embassy?"
I made a courteous bow. "That is correct, madam.Your perspicacity is beyond compare."
"Well, the girl just told me. But I was not aware that Sheba was an independent state. I thought it was part of the Arabian Confederacy."
2000: Events of AOS
2002: Events of Golem's Eye
2003-4: War in America continues, while unrest spreads across the Empire. Rebellions and riots break out across Europe. During this period Bart works almost continuously for John Mandrake.
2005: Events of Ptolemy's Gate; The Magicians' Government falls. The New Interim Council meets for first time and announces British withdrawal from America. Bartimaeus is finally dismissed. Faquarl is dead.
A thing to remember is that it's 2005 and World War II has yet to occur. America has only recently gained its independence. Something else to consider is that it's taking longer for the western powers to colonize and enact genocide on the native populations in the northern continent; apparently the nasty diseases the Europeans brought over were most likely taken care of early on. Possibly because those guys can summon spirits too? I would assume, anyway.
Things didn't go so well in South America though.
wrote:[...] the Aztecs (a regular engagement for Nouda this; in the end he discovered an ambiguity in Montezuma's summons - as a reward, Nouda ravaged Tenochtitlan and left it defenseless against the Spanish). He was a formidable customer, in other words, hungry and not sympathetically inclined.
Other Notes: I couldn't find anything on whether or not Faquarl had a presence in the Americas like Bartimaeus did. Certainly he was aware though, and was able to recognize the particulars of Bartimaeus's disguise in PG. Some worldbuilding things from these very same bartiforums:
- What's Up With America
- What Happened with Technology
- More on colonial America
- More on the Alternate History
- More Worldbuilding
- Religion, Guns, and the Great War
