The Dean Lattice and Lemmist Timeline

The other day I mentioned in our No “I” in Writing podcast that I like to try to outsmart my copy editors by having very detailed timelines and the like. Below is an example of what I’m talking about.

For those of you who have read Host, you’ll know what the dean lattice is. Those of you who have not read Host can just marvel at this slightly obsessive list of 291 years worth of Deans from the University at Seal Tooth.

I created this list so that I could:

1. Make sure to get the timelines right
2. Slip my friends’ names — if not into the story — at least into the history.

Year (NE)	Ordinal	Name	Notes
6	1st	Lem Kersands	THE Lem, from Systemic
42	2nd	Mark Hill
50	3rd	Tatiana Kaminski
62	4th	Andrei Picorov	Was Lem’s attendant when he died
92	8th	Mika Gaithersburg	Once killed someone
95	9th	Sal Irving	Father was a baker
137	15th	Christy Scheuer
184	20th	Olya Patterson	Wrote the foundations for the Bridger movement
213	24th	Todd Lubsen	Had some wilderness survival skills
245	28th	Alex Wells	Dean when Sevv and Parr were students
253	29th	Aadrian Harrow	The Censor
281	31st	Edmund Khamis	Still acting dean when Reyan arrives
291	32nd	Sevvran Bital