3.56 MSQ Discussion (SPOILERS)

[Averax]

Maybe someone can clear this up for me. Which Yda do you meet in the start of the game in 1.0 if you picked Gridinia? Was it the same one all along?

Same one all along.

The 1.0 storyline that lead up to the calamity was canonically 5 years ago. The old Yda died 6 years ago.

[Vexander]

Same one all along.

The 1.0 storyline that lead up to the calamity was canonically 5 years ago. The old Yda died 6 years ago.

The Calamity was 5 years ago as of the -start- of A Realm Reborn. Unless -all- of ARR and Heavensward happened in a year, something is a bit funky here...

[Averax]

The Calamity was 5 years ago as of the -start- of A Realm Reborn. Unless -all- of ARR and Heavensward happened in a year, something is a bit funky here...

I'm only going along with the given timeline. They never gave any implication of what time 1.X 2.X or 3.X spanned across. They could have taken weeks, months, minutes, etc...

When you play the entire main story straight through, it doesnt feel like much time is passing as you're going along. But since we wait months between each patch, the story feels like it's taking place over a long time

[Rokke]

The Calamity was 5 years ago as of the -start- of A Realm Reborn. Unless -all- of ARR and Heavensward happened in a year, something is a bit funky here...

While I can't say anything about ARR for certain, in-game Heavensward's events came and went pretty quickly. If you talk to NPCs between MSQ you're told Estinien was only possessed for a few days.