User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The Trials of Apollo Official Discussion/@comment-5984859-20151230193919/@comment-11512257-20160102045004

We know that The Blood of Olympus ended roughly a few days after August 1st, I'd say about the morning of August 4th or 5th, I forget which, the chapter where Piper and Jason have their rooftop chat. This is excluding the Leo chapter at the end of BOO, since no one knows when that takes place...

I think that The Son of Sobek, the first crossover, takes place a week or two after BOO.

Then the second crossover, The Staff of Serapis, takes place two weeks after SoS, so maybe late September.

The third crossover, The Crown of Ptolemy, takes place one month after TSOS, which would be late October. It makes sense and matches the weather that is happening in the short story.

So The Sword of Summer takes place the January after BOO (as confirmed by Riordan), which means it is also the January after the crossovers. TSOS (a lot of those abbreviations; I'll just use MC) is from January 13th to January 21st I believe. The quest took about a week.

Rick just said that The Hidden Oracle takes place roughly six months after BOO. Exactly six months would be February, which is right after MC. But roughly could also mean January. We don't know. But more likely than not, it is February.

So, that is the timeline.

But there's one thing that I can't seem to figure out. Annabeth told Magnus: "Recently I learned the hard way that I have to let other people do their own quests-even people that I care about." When has Annabeth ever had to do that? The closest situation we have that relates to that is when Percy stepped back to let Annabeth do her Athena Parthenos quest solo. And that's vice versa, so I'm confused. Annabeth's never had to do that, and if THC really takes place after MC....

Anyone have thoughts on this?