macdicilla:

Mort is set during Snapcase’s Patricianate and I’ll prove it

But Manny, you say, doing an internal chronology of the Discworld books is a fool’s errand! Sir Terry said so! That’s why he invented the history monks!

Ah, I say, but I happen to be the greatest fool that ever lived!

Here’s the support for my claim

-The city is active at night, so it’s not during Winder’s reign, because he had a curfew

-The Whore Pits have not yet been renamed the Entertainment District, so it’s not during Vetinari’s reign

-The three muggers that accost Mort threaten to kill him, so this is before the Thieves’ Guild is established and regulated

-The conga line in the palace for the Patrician’s 10 year anniversary. Ask yourself, could you picture Vetinari in a conga line with a swamp dragon? Oh, you could? You’re doing it right now? Well there goes my whole theory then. Never mind.