I'm still working on rereading the novella to get all the dates.  There is a gap between the first scene (where Ros'ku finds the armor) and the expedition, and then the expedition itself takes a period of time. I'm putting, tentatively, the expedition beginning at around July Week 2 but I want to doublecheck some references to make sure that is good.

I'm not going to place every novella event in the timeline of course. I'll try and figure out an end date, though, so we know when novella-tied characters are 'back on the board'.  Shono's expedition, for example, could be really really long.  Sukune's is shorter than that. Yojiro's lasts about a week.

Thank her with some luxury play tokens and have fun.

I am really disappointed.

Here are the numbers I have for Rokugani demographics and the reasoning behind them.

https://craneclan.weebly.com/demographics.html
 
In times of full out warfare, you can probably add 4 times again the number of bushi Samurai listed here  in recruited Ashigaru, which starts to put you at the height of the Sengoku in terms of troop numbers.

Here's our interview with the author, David Annandale, for Curse of Honor:
 
 

Page 6.

Edited: Funny censoring.

In the CRB for L5R 5th Edition, Rokugan is stated to be sized total 900X600 miles. 

If that measure is true, you can use the map here to get travel distance and size comparison between points:
https://craneclan.weebly.com/map-of-rokugan.html
 
Use the hi-res map  linked.

Here's our interview with the author, David Annandale, for Curse of Honor:
 
 

I don't think you understood Hotaru in this story at all.

Please let me break it down.
 
If Hotaru took the Crane armies back to Kyuden Doji, it would be abandoning the Osari plains to the Lion, abandoning Kintani Valley, and making her, and the Crane, look like a terrible losers to all their enemies. 
If Hotaru took the armies to back up Daidoji Uji, she'd get in his way, imply that he and her brother weren't competent, and force her tired men into another full war.  As well as playing right into Matsu Tsuko's hands, because the whole point of why Tsuko is there is to kill Doji Hotaru.
If Hotaru, however, took her Armies to Toshi Ranbo, that reasserts the Crane Clan claim on both Toshi Ranbo and the Osari Plains,  makes it look like she is taking bold action, and having the right of being 'in Residence' when the Scorpion inevitably withdraw from the city, because they will, either because Shoju will need to consolidate power as regent, or  because he will need to weaken the Scorpion's position some so the clans are satisfied with him being Regent. 
 
Thus, she decides to take her armies to Toshi Ranbo.
However, she doesn't really want to /fight/ the Scorpion over Toshi Ranbo. If she did fight the Scorpion, she might look like she was going against Imperial Edict. Her men are exhausted anyway. And she'd make both the Imperial Armies AND the Scorpion as yet another set of enemies. This would be very bad for the Crane.
Therefore, her goal is to take her armies to Toshi Ranbo and winter there /without/ fighting or bloodshed. 
 
Originally, her argument, made through Tsume Itsuyo, was going to be, "We (Crane, Phoenix, and Tsume) think the Lion are going to turn and attack Toshi Ranbo like they did Kyuden Kakita, therefore, we have brought the Crane armies  here to stay so that the Lion Armies won't defeat the Imperial/Scorpion forces here".  A secondary, though unstated part of this strategy is to just have enough forces from enough clans that Yojiro just caves out of being intimidated. Her third backup plan is to engineer a situation where it's Yojiro's word against her own as clan champion, and claim that Yojiro either did something or said something that required her to take Toshi Ranbo.
However, in the negotiation, Yojiro pretty neatly dodged her traps.  He didn't let himself be intimidated, and he pointed out the weakest point in her argument against defending against the Lion....by countering that the Lion would be more likely attack Toshi Ranbo if she were there.  So she was in the process of looking for how to engineer the situation when she saw Kachiko.
Kachiko suddenly and unexpectedly provided a fourth way of capturing the city.  If Hotaru claimed Yojiro had captured Kachiko, and would duel him to free her, she could defeat or kill Yojiro, and then claim Toshi Ranbo because its magistrate was dead after dishonorably capturing the Imperial Advisor. All the plan needed was for Kachiko to play along, and Kachiko already indicated to Hotaru that it seemed she had been captured there.  This duel is /purely/ political gain for Hotaru...claiming the city honorably and without a big fight or going against the Imperial legions.   Shoju would have to play along, or have his own weaknesses exposed.

Kachiko did no play along, however, showing more loyalty to Shoju than to Hotaru by saying she wasn't captured.  She did, however, understand what Hotaru's position was, and realized having Hotaru there would make her own position much better too. Therefore she negotiated and got Yojiro to let Hotaru stay and keep command of the city, making it the best for both the Crane and Scorpion.

This is not saying that personal feelings weren't there, or that Hotaru would never do anything that would cause her to be manipulated by Kachiko.  But that's not what happened here.



Now, on the other matter.  When Hotaru burned Kachiko's confession, that doesn't suddenly make 'Hotaru a big traitor'.  First, attempted murder, in Rokugan, is not the same thing as in modern time. I mean, Toshimoko tried some attempted murder on Hotaru just for fun the night before.  While Kachiko has every reason to think Toturi didn't escape, Hotaru knows Toturi better, and may very well think that there is every possibility he did. Hotaru's job is not enforcing Imperial Law, and she is not obligated to report every criminal act she ever finds out, by either honor or law.  And finally, Hotaru is well aware of how it would destroy the Empire if she reports it.  Because then it would all come out. Reporting that the old Emperor had been murdered by the initial heir, destroying the divinity of the Hantei line? That'd shatter the faith in the Empire, which is why Kachiko was covering it up in the first place, and why Miya Satoshi agreed to it so easily. Showing that Kachiko used a body double and that Bayushi Shoju was using the body double in her place? That would shatter the Scorpion as well as every agreement Kachiko...or Shoju...ever brokered, undermining even moreso his legitimacy as regent.  It would defy the public order Shoju had given to his Scorpion...to keep Kachiko safe. Having it become public knowledge at all that Kachiko was in Toshi Ranbo (as opposed to known to just those few people in the room)? It would look /terrible/  for her to the Rest of the Crane, because it would look like she had gone to Toshi Ranbo just to rescue Kachiko. 

To protect herself, the Crane, the Scorpion, and the entire Empire, what Kachiko had done to Toturi needed to be kept secret.

The only thing wrong that Hotaru did, maybe, was not write  privately to Shoju to tell him Kachiko's confession. But why should she?  Shoju let one murderer...Sotorii...pass as is.  Why would he not hide the second one? (his, potential, wife)  Quietly reporting it to Shoju would just make it more likely Shoju would make Hotaru dead and put the Crane at a big disadvantage in the court.  Not so good.

You can love someone and still think clearly about things.

Court Games RPG Podcast:  https://open.spotify.com/show/2035IyUZAqYQQxmD233gMS
    This is focused on 5th Edition, and it follows the 5th edition fictions  and has a bunch of discussions on specific bits and pieces of the RPG ruleset, running L5R games, and also discusses Japanese cultural references when they are brought into the story.  It does talk about old lore, but primarily in context to new fictions, so pre-1122 Old Lore that looks to be consistent across both universes.  Each episode is generally between 35-45 minutes. It has interviews with the storyline writers and game designers for L5R as well.
Court Games Actual Play - Fortune and Strife:  https://open.spotify.com/show/1Is9EQwJ6838bIPz2a2Rct
   This is an Actual Play series for L5R 5th Edition. It has good drama, I think, but it's also intended as a teaching RPG so we leave in a fair bit of the dice rolling and mechanics rather than cut it all out.  Each episode is generally 1 hour, though the most recent one is 1 1/2 hours.
 
Court Games Actual Play - Crimson Gold Agonies: https://open.spotify.com/show/5LyBwPzyjXUo9DwhOEKhvt
  This is also an Actual Play series for L5R 5th Edition, but it has a different focus than Fortune and Strife. They remove most of the mechanics and focus on emergent game play, where the GM and Players (and the community) all contribute to the setting/story rather than the more traditional mechanics, similar to Powered by the Apocalypse.  Primarily it's a different kind of storytelling that other kinds of groups may prefer.
 
Dead Unicorn Games is working on a teaching set of Youtube videos (I attached the first one below) and has some decent content.
I hope this helps!
 

Part 2 of Beneath the Light of Jade is out.
The vote was close: Path of Courage won by 3 votes, according to Tyler.

https://images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com/filer_public/d0/8c/d08c3259-56a6-4823-acc3-e820ea8da8d9/op2_courage_dutys_cost.pdf

We did get the following confirmation today on Discord:
 
Later, Sam clarifies:
That's thursday, July 30.

We did get the following confirmation today on Discord:
 
Later, Sam clarifies:
That's thursday, July 30.

We did get the following confirmation today on Discord:
 
Later, Sam clarifies:
That's thursday, July 30.

We did get the following confirmation today on Discord:
 
Later, Sam clarifies:
That's thursday, July 30.

We did get the following confirmation today on Discord:
 
Later, Sam clarifies:
That's thursday, July 30.

Court Games RPG Podcast:  https://open.spotify.com/show/2035IyUZAqYQQxmD233gMS
    This is focused on 5th Edition, and it follows the 5th edition fictions  and has a bunch of discussions on specific bits and pieces of the RPG ruleset, running L5R games, and also discusses Japanese cultural references when they are brought into the story.  It does talk about old lore, but primarily in context to new fictions, so pre-1122 Old Lore that looks to be consistent across both universes.  Each episode is generally between 35-45 minutes. It has interviews with the storyline writers and game designers for L5R as well.
Court Games Actual Play - Fortune and Strife:  https://open.spotify.com/show/1Is9EQwJ6838bIPz2a2Rct
   This is an Actual Play series for L5R 5th Edition. It has good drama, I think, but it's also intended as a teaching RPG so we leave in a fair bit of the dice rolling and mechanics rather than cut it all out.  Each episode is generally 1 hour, though the most recent one is 1 1/2 hours.
 
Court Games Actual Play - Crimson Gold Agonies: https://open.spotify.com/show/5LyBwPzyjXUo9DwhOEKhvt
  This is also an Actual Play series for L5R 5th Edition, but it has a different focus than Fortune and Strife. They remove most of the mechanics and focus on emergent game play, where the GM and Players (and the community) all contribute to the setting/story rather than the more traditional mechanics, similar to Powered by the Apocalypse.  Primarily it's a different kind of storytelling that other kinds of groups may prefer.
 
Dead Unicorn Games is working on a teaching set of Youtube videos (I attached the first one below) and has some decent content.
I hope this helps!
 

We did get the following confirmation today on Discord:
 
Later, Sam clarifies:
That's thursday, July 30.

Sparrow Please....

Cool. This should make searching for text very easy.

Interestingly, I've scored New5R RPG materials, and I have only found 1 mention of gaijin pepper or gunpowder (unless you can find it elsewhere) and, where it is used, in the flavor text for 'cynicism', the speaker doesn't believe such stuff is real.  I don't know if it is really forbidden at all specifically, or if it is just considered unknown and gaijin in new5r. Its late though, so if you remember a better source, I'd appreciate it.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wEhIccleYFIsL_C0zKAV3gk4U7XIcjNXokEsuMBbBZM/edit?usp=sharing
Compiled by Kakita Kaori and Alphasquid.
Feel free to take a look and tell me what you think. This is just my best guess.
Methodology Notes:
In general, assumptions I tried to use. If there is an event related to a piece of very personal information that an important person would be able to know about, and would be at the forefront of their thoughts if they were aware of it, AND if that person didn't have those thoughts/awareness of the event AND that person would have regular communication from a mix of sources during that time, I was willing to go on a limb and say that that that event happened after the POV, or close enough before to be in the same week.   I tried to use seasonal references if I had them, which are obviously very broad.  
Though some, like Kurosunai Village, have a more defined seasonal reference like 'Soil baked dry after the long harsh summer' means it's going to be late summer, not early summer.   I generally assume that travel from any major place to a major place takes about a week. Toturi cuts it close a little.  
I also use gross numbers and figure most complex mechanations take about a week unless I'm told otherwise. So Kachiko tells Yojiro to rig the Emerald championship a week before the EC. It could be longer, but it certainly shouldn't be shorter. I also TRIED to bias against having more stories within a single week. I really did. I wanted them to be more spread out, so if given any possibility to do so, I spread them out.
The most awkward boundary was the '6 months ago' one in Children of the Empire. I fudged it a little. It's not exactly 6 months, it's probably more like 6 months + 1 to 2 weeks.
I thought that was fair.   In heart of the garden, the author has the month of Bayushi directly follow the month of Doji in her date planning, which doesn't make sense and blows the sequence of events way off (putting 6 mo ago after Satsume's death) so I think that may just be a mistake and Shiba and Bayushi got switched, which makes for a straight forward timeline. The Pure Land Stories and the Naga Stories are the most unlinked from the main timeline and you're free to shove those around a little to your liking.

It's been enough years, I'm making this my own.

This list started out as a list by @Maffster , found  Here.  But since he is not able to update it, I've taken it over for him.  Everything on this list appears sorted by the date of publication. As such, I've modified it from the original list where there are discrepancies.   If it is associated with a box or card pack set, it is associated with the date that product was released. If it was associated with a novel, it is associated with the date it went on sale on the market.
If you want to know when events occur relative to each other in time, you can find it here, at my New 5r Timeline.  Since events in the timeline often interweave each other or are functionally simultaneous, or contain flashbacks of various lengths, I suggest reading in order of release, rather than by timeline.  Also, this timeline has summaries of the fictions for you to refer to and other tools.
If you want to listen to an audio version of many of these stories, you can find them at https://the-table-is-yours.pinecast.co/.
The Great Clans - This flavor text is from the Box set but is a better introduction to L5R than any fiction, and is suggested to start here before launching into the fictions.
01 - Her Fathers Daughter
02 - The Price Of War
03 - The Rising Wave
04 - Dark Hands Of Heaven
05 - Risen From The Flames
06 - Curved Blades
07 - Smokeless Fire
08 - The World, A Stage
09 - An Empire In Turmoil ...........(PDF Version)
10 - A Season Of War ...........(PDF Version)
11 - A Most Suitable Teacher
12 - In the Garden of Lies (Part 1)
13 - In the Garden of Lies (Part 2)
14 - To The South (Part 1)
15 - To The South (Part 2)
16 - The Fate of Flames
17 - Better To Be Certain
18 - The Fires of Justice
19 - The Stories We Tell
20 - Blind Ambition  ...........(PDF Version)
21 - Service and Sacrifice
22 - A Difference Of Lanterns ...........(PDF Version)
23 - Beneath, Below, Beyond
24 - Family Duty ...........(PDF Version)
25 - Flying Chariot, Standing
26 - Court Games ...........(PDF Version)
27 - Honor, Loyalty, Duty
28 - The Bright Flame of the World's Glory ...........(PDF Version)
29 - Wildcats And Dragon Teeth
30 - Fireflies ...........(PDF Version)
31 - The Spectres of War
32- Repentance Does Not Come First
33 - The Sword and the Spirits
34 - Tempests and Tides ...........(PDF Version)
35 - A Crane Takes Flight
36 - Gaze Into Darkness ...........(PDF Version)
37 - Kurosunai Village
38 - Awakened ...........(PDF Version)
39 - Dreams of Shadow ...........(PDF Version)
40 - Outsiders
41 - Heart of the Garden
42 - Snow And Sun ...........(PDF Version)
43 - Between the Lines
44 - A Swift End ...........(PDF Version)
45 - Whispers of Shadow and Steel
46 – Tiger Stalks His Prey
47 - A Simple Test
48 - A Call to Stewardship - Unicorn Clan Letter
49 - A Call to Leadership - Lion Clan Letter
50 - A Call to Witness - Dragon Clan Letter
51 - A Call for Diplomacy - Crane Clan Letter
52 - A Call for Unity - Phoenix Clan Letter
53 - A Call to Investigate - Crab Clan Letter
54 - A Call to Duty - Scorpion Clan Letter
55 - Small Mercies
56 – Imperial Gifts
57 - Across the Burning Sands
58 – Children of the Empire Part 1
59 – Children of the Empire Part 2
60 – Children of the Empire Part 3
61 -Like Seeds on the Wind
62 – Rule from Horseback
63 – The Last Stone Played
64 – Tactical Maneuvers
65 – 2019 Clan Letters
66 – Falling Stars
67 – By the Stroke of a Brush
68 – Red Petals Scatter
69 – Two Swords Fall from Heaven
70 – Black and White
71 – Behind the Empty Throne
72 – Roar of the Lioness
73 – Wind Through Falling Leaves
74 – The Price of Failure
75 - The Eternal Knot
76 – Trust Me
77 – A Game of Promises
78 – The Cornered Lion Part 1
79 – The Cornered Lion Part 2
80 – Bloody Harvest
81 – Pine and Cherry Blossom
82 – We Strike First
83 – Beyond Reach
84 – What the Eye Cannot See
85 – A Night Storm Rages
86 – Cold Autumn Harvests
87 – Hidden Markings
88 - The Art of Matchmaking
89 - How the World Ought to Work 
90 - Caged Birds
91 - Violence Behind Courtliness
92 - Truth and Lies 
93 - Courtly Nets and Hidden Snares
94 - The Sea and the Sun's Shadow
95 - Heart of the Mountain
96 - A Missive from the Front - Lion Clan
97 - A Missive from the Front - Unicorn Clan
98 - A Secret Letter - Scorpion Clan
99 - A Discerning Eye and an Unyielding Resolve
100 - Daidoji
101 - Beneath the Light of Jade
102 - The Shadow of Glory
103 - Duty's Cost
104 - The Stained Cup
105 - Trail of Shadows
106 - The Last Leaf Falls
107 - When the Wave Strikes the Shore
108 - Questionable Shelter
109 - What Cost a Dream
`110 - An Impossible Task
111 - The Yogo Curse Part 1
112 - The Yogo Curse Part 2
113 - The Careful Gardener

We've reached #100.  Congratulations FFG!
 

I don't disagree. However, I would like to introduce you to the two words that are the true master of any freelance writer:
WORD COUNT
We writers are allowed to write to a particular word count for a story. In that word count, we have to deliver all the story beats, and accomplish all the dramatic goals, that are intended for the story. There are NEVER enough words to say all the things we would just love to say, or explain, or expand up, or whatever. The essential dramatic purpose of this passage was to show the reader that past "cruel, paranoid and destructive" Emperors had caused great mayhem in the Empire, and then imply that Sotorii could lead to the same thing. I think it accomplished that, but yes, we could have gone on with more explanation as to how Toturi knows that, how common that knowledge is, etc. But that would just be exposition, and worse, exposition that doesn't advance the plot or help develop the characters. And in a 3500 word story or whatever, you simply don't have scope for that, if it's not something absolutely essential to the story.
So, maybe think of it this way. It's not that that story was lacking that information; it's that this discussion, here, is a bit of value-added, a "bonus feature"...you know, like a movie that comes with a voice-over from the director and actors and such, explaining stuff about what you're seeing on-screen.