The upcoming spinoff Outlander: Blood of My Blood will serve as a prequel to Claire and Jamie’s story, but how long before the central series is it set? Outlander is coming to a close with season 8, but this franchise has already begun to expand with a brand-new series. Blood of My Blood is expected to premiere 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. Still, the timeline is a bit more complicated.
Outlander is a time travel series, so it makes sense that Blood of My Blood would continue the original series’ trend of jumping between centuries. The spinoff will follow Jamie and Claire’s respective 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 precise years that Blood of My Blood will be set are unclear, but we have some significant hints.
Outlander: Blood Of My Blood Is Set About 28 Years Before Claire Meets Jamie
The Spinoff Jumps Back About 3 Decades In Both Timelines
Outlander 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. Though we don’t know what years Outlander: 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. It can be assumed that Jamie’s parents’ story will pick up around this time.
Henry Beauchamp and Julia Moriston’s marriage year is uncertain. However, the Blood of My Blood trailers clearly show that their story unfolds during World War I, which lasted from 1914 to 1918. 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.
Outlander: Blood Of My Blood Will Likely Continue Outlander’s Parallel Timelines
Jamie & Claire’s Timelines Are 202 Years Apart
When Claire stepped through the stones in 1945, she landed precisely 202 years into the past. Later in Outlander, when she returned to the future, the same amount of time had passed in the 20th century as in the 18th. The same was true when Claire returned to the past to be reunited with Jamie again. Time travelers can technically travel to any time using standing stones, but this 202 year gap remains a constant within Jamie and Claire’s stories. 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 the year that Brian and Ellen were married (1715), then the parallel point in the future (202 years) would be 1917—a year before Claire is born.
If Blood of My Blood season 1 picks up in the year that Brian and Ellen were married (1715), then the parallel point in the future (202 years) would be 1917—a year before Claire is born. This is quite a coincidence since it seems that, though 200 years apart, Jamie and Claire’s respective parents met their significant others and married around the same time on Outlander’s parallel timelines. This is sure to all come into play in Outlander: Blood of My Blood as the spinoff series explores how Jamie and Claire were always meant to find one another.