Lore Timeline?

[Shea715]

I was wondering if anyone would know the time between Realm Reborn and Stormblood.
I want to know how many years lore wise has gone by.

[Naria]

Officially? None. The year is 1 Seventh Astral (as of the end of ARR's 2.0 patch) and will be 1 Seventh Astral in perpetuity. 2.0+ exists in a Simpsons-style time bubble where a narrative is happening in sequence but time has in essence stopped. The time bubble is a narrative device to make things easier on the developers so they don't have to keep updating their reference points each expansion. The twins are a good demonstration for this--they haven't aged since their introduction. Elezan age slower than humans, but not that much slower (its something like 75%-80% the rate of humans). This is a topic that turns up pretty frequently here so if any mention was made of the year actually changing the we would have been all over it (or I would have been at least).

Unoffically, however long you feel like.

[Enkidoh]

I was wondering if anyone would know the time between Realm Reborn and Stormblood.
I want to know how many years lore wise has gone by.

None in fact, lore wise the story exists in a kind of time bubble where even though the player might seemingly grow with the passage of time gameplay wise, barely any time has passed storywise.

As an example, the development team confirmed that the time between the end of ARR patch 2.55's story and the start of Heavensward was merely a few days to a few weeks at most, and apparently barely more time than that passed between

Nidhogg-as-Estinien interrupting the peace conference at Falcon's Nest in 3.2's story and the end of the Dragonsong War at the Final Steps of Faith at the end of 3.4/

So most likely by Stormblood it's likely to have been barely six to eight months if that since the end of the Seventh Umbral Era. One of the loremasters would be able to clarify this further though, as I'm terrible with exact dates and times.

[Anonymoose]

I'm actually having a private little crisis about this RIGHT NOW.

Solus zos Galvus died in 1 Seventh Astral Era. (Born 1489, lived 88 years, died 5 years after 1572)
The Doman rebellion took place during the War of Succession.
As of Stormblood, NPCs repeatedly say Doma fell exactly 25 years past. (1552)
As of Stormblood, NPCs repeatedly say Ala Mhigo fell exactly 20 years past. (1557)
As of Stormblood, NPCs repeatedly say the Doman rebellion was 1 year ago.

...wat?

My 4.0 notes are still in disarray but ... wat?

Am I wrong about something here?

[Hinoto-no-Ryuji]

Perhaps enough time has passed since the Rebellion that people have casually taken to referring to it as a year, even if it hasn't actually been literally that long? Like maybe two or three seasons, or something, so it's still TECHNICALLY the same year even if we're getting to the end of it.

This is FAIRLY plausible - people will typically refer to something from 9-10 months ago as being "last year", and I don't think it's too much of stretch for the events of ARR and Heavensward to have occurred over the course of that time. It will obviously get less and less plausible as time goes on, but for now, we might still be okay.

[thegreatonemal]

I'd say its been about 2 years given everything that's happened The time bubble is just a matter of gameplay story segregation.

[Shea715]

I was just curious about it cuz I was wondering how old my character may have been if I were to say he was 20 at the start of Realm Reborn.
Seeing the Hyur look aged in the cinematic videos really made me wonder about it.

[Annana]

It's not unreasonable that the rebellion was a year ago. Now is as good a time as any to declare that the year is 2, 7A.

[Fenral]

But if it were 2 7A, then we'd be at 26 years since Doma fell, and 21 years since the fall of Ala Mhigo. That's what's bugging Moose, and now me.

Perhaps that's the real reason the Encyclopaedia Eorzea timeline cuts off at 1572...

[Chewy2nd]

You could just put that down to people rounding the number up.