Internal Chronology/Mad/Great Pumpkin Conjecture

Internal Chronology>Internal Chronology/Mad>Great Pumpkin Conjecture

[[Image:Pumpkin01.png]] Originating events
Von Mekkhan states the boys were off from the castle due to some giant vegetables. So this fixes the time of the Castle explosion events at harvest time. For the sake of drama lets suppose they were up against Charlie Brown's Great Pumpkin. The horrific events took place on All hallows eve. Klaus Barry died technically that day. This puts his birth nearly on the autumnal equinox for 1872. That gives some very nice bookends to the 407 days. It also puts Klaus's banishment at the summer solstice. Echo's of Shakespears Midsummers night dream. Klaus gets to play Bottom the chump.

Agatha birthday falls somewhat near Holy Childs Day in December or January.

And Lucrezia's resurrection in current events falls around Mothers day in May.

I think this gets us very close. So day zero becomes

In Vrin's account Lucrezia is shown to be visibly pregnant and dressed in winter clothes. This suggests Agatha's birth was in late fall, winter or early spring. The story starts just before spring (Pisces) and sees three full moons without a mention of a birthday for her. So we eliminate early spring on that basis, concluding the story happens in 1892 and not 1893. For the sake of drama and because we know the tellers are notorius recyclers we guess that Agatha was born on Kaja birthday. We hold this guess lightly. Any birthday between the eighteenth anniversery of the castles destruction and beginning of the story would lead to the same conclusion of 1892.

Current Events
Agatha meets von Pinn. Von Pinn checks her watch at 3 minutes to 5 in the sign of pisces. We see three full moons before Agatha enters Mechanicsburg. Indeed the third comes before she battles the Baron in Strumhalten.