Quote Originally Posted by LilaAquillina View Post
It feels a bit wonky for it to forever be five years. Will the time ever change?
So, as Anonymoose said, we Warriors of Light live in a time bubble. But a better way to imagine it is not as one big bubble, but rather a stream of bubbles instead, as nexas506 once described:

Quote Originally Posted by nexas506 View Post
I love the time bubble concept, however, I feel like every patch/expansion exists within its own bubble. And each of those bubbles line up to make a bubble stream.

(1) (2.0)(2.1)(2.2)....(3.1)(3.2)

The amount of time you spent playing exists in a "patch bubble" and they like up to make a smoothly flowing time line.

Back to the original question, I like to think the main games (ARR and hw) span 6 months and every patch exists over the span of 1 month.
Calamity- ARR =5 years. Arr=6 months. 5 arr patches =5 months. Hw=6 months. 3 hw patches=3 months.

So you've been traveling around for 1 year 8 months. So the calamity would be 6 years 8 months ago.

P.S. I'm probably completely wrong about this. I just like theory crafting.
In short, we are, each and every one of us, caught in a different time bubble, relative to our individual progress through the content. It's up to each player to hand-wave away in-game text that's not consistent with the way he or she experienced the passage of time.

In other words, it's your own story. Make it up along the way, if you have to, so that it makes sense to you.