Lore Timeline?

[Jaywalker]

We do know that actually, from the lorebook - they're slow to hit puberty (as their whole lifespan is 10-20% longer than average) and overtake Hyuran height around age 20.

That doesn't explain the "always five years since the Calamity" thing, or twenty since the fall of Ala Mhigo whether you're in ARR or Stormblood.

Whoop didn't hit that part of the lorebook yet, but fair point!

Five years since the Calamity/20 years since the fall of Ala Mhigo remains weird agreed. Twenty I could see rounding/figurative language involved maybe but five is too low a number for me to buy that.

[Seraphor]

Whoop didn't hit that part of the lorebook yet, but fair point!

Five years since the Calamity/20 years since the fall of Ala Mhigo remains weird agreed. Twenty I could see rounding/figurative language involved maybe but five is too low a number for me to buy that.

Simple, the entire plotline of ARR right through to whatever 6.0 or 7.0 is called, will always fit neatly into a time period of less than a year.

[Iscah]

Simple, the entire plotline of ARR right through to whatever 6.0 or 7.0 is called, will always fit neatly into a time period of less than a year.

True, but at the same time those events might have (and logically should have) taken longer. We might have spent a year in the events of ARR, a month hiding out at Dragonhead waiting to get in to Ishgard, three months travelling to Dravania, another two to resolve Heavensward, at least a month at sea traveling to Othard.... and still fit all of that and all our future travels into the space of a year.

It's time-bending logic. The bubble doesn't mean that everything happens simulaneously - there's a sequence to the events that happen in it, but that sequence of events can take longer than the amount of time that the bubble occupies on a broader timeline.

[Jaywalker]

Simple, the entire plotline of ARR right through to whatever 6.0 or 7.0 is called, will always fit neatly into a time period of less than a year.

I mean theoretically lol, but the pacing logistics of that seem a bit poop and would require Eorzean travel time on foot/boat/etc. to be so negligible that it raises weird questions about the rest of the lore. Not to mention character development and dynamics. XD Tbh we could also raise questions about how a billion days and nights pass as we're playing but no months turnover or anything. Are we just living a groundhog day-esque loop?

No one has to agree with me, but I'm personally just gonna plant my hand on the table so to speak and say it's comic book logic at work. We can probably adhere or ignore this bit of info because it's bizarre and doesn't entirely make sense.

[Jandor]

I think ARR, HW & SB all took about a year each.

People can say I'm wrong, I don't really care, having everything that has happened so far take place in less than a year makes the whole story a farcical mess and I simply cannot suspend my disbelief that much.

[Seraphor]

I think ARR, HW & SB all took about a year each.

People can say I'm wrong, I don't really care, having everything that has happened so far take place in less than a year makes the whole story a farcical mess and I simply cannot suspend my disbelief that much.

Don't overthink it.
It's the same reason the Simpsons have been the same age for the past 20 years.

[Jandor]

Don't overthink it.
It's the same reason the Simpsons have been the same age for the past 20 years.

The Simpsons doesn't have a long continuous main story though.

[Seraphor]

The Simpsons doesn't have a long continuous main story though.

But the Simpsons does have periods of time that pass.
The Simpsons have experienced several 'birthday's and several christmasses, but they don't age.

This is no different, as Iscah explained.
Time passes, but the calendar year remains the same, and the NPC's don't age.