Everything Fans Need To Know About Outlander Spinoff Blood Of My Blood

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Outlander fans have been eagerly waiting to see when the spinoff series Blood of My Blood is set, as the trailer has dropped some major clues on the setting of the show
As Outlander is coming to an end, it’s left fans wondering how long it will be before the upcoming spinoff.

Outlander: Blood of My Blood is a prequel to Claire and Jamie’s story and the franchise is set to premier its first 10-episode season during the summer of 2025, so the audience can get familiar with this new story before Outlander season 8 wraps up the central series.

The historical drama on Amazon is continuing the original series trend of jumping between centuries, so it would make sense for Blood of My Blood to follow this pattern and there have already been some hints dropped with when it will be set.

The spinoff will follow Jamie and Claire’s parents as they meet and fall in love. Brian Fraser and Ellen MacKenzie (played by Jamie Roy and Harriet Slater in the spinoff) will have their story play out in the early 18th century, while Henry Beauchamp and Julia Moriston (played by Jeremy Irvine and Hermione Corfield) will fall in love in the early 20th. The exact years that it will be set are unclear, but there are some significant hints.

According to Screen Rant website, Blood Of My Blood is set about 28 years before Claire meets Jamie and the sp inoff jumps back about three decades in both timelines. It picks up with the end of World War II in 1945, which is when Claire first slipped through the stones of Craigh na Dun and met Jamie Fraser in 1743.

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Even though right now it’s not clear what years Blood of My Blood will jump between in season 1, the Outlander books revealed that Brian and Ellen Fraser were married in 1715, 28 years before Claire arrived in the past, so it can be assumed that Jamie’s parents’ story will pick up around this time.

The trailer also offered some hints, as it shows Henry Beauchamp and Julia Moriston’s story unfold during World War I, which lasted from 1914 to 1918. Screen Rant detailed, “Claire was born in 1918, so it can be assumed that her parents’ story in the new prequel movie will begin a few years earlier. This would make sense since Claire and Jamie’s stories begin at parallel points across the two centuries in Outlander.”

It’s likely that the spinoff will also continue Outlander’s parallel timelines – as Jamie and Claire’s timelines are 202 years apart. When Claire stepped through the stones in 1945, she landed precisely 202 years into the past and when she returned to the future, the same amount of time had passed in the 20th century as in the 18th.

The 202-year gap remains constant in Jamie and Claire’s stories and based on the settings of Blood of My Blood, it seems the same will be true for these Outlander protagonists’ parents. If Blood of My Blood season 1 picks up in 1715 – the year Brian and Ellen were married, the parallel point in the future (202 years) would be 1917 which is a year before Claire is born.

While it all remains unclear still, it will all come out in the spinoff and will explore how Jamie and Claire were always meant to find eachother.

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