Lore Timeline?

[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.

[Jandor]

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

It doesn't matter that no time passes in Springfield because there is no story, no overarching plot, things just happen whenever and the order doesn't really matter. It makes no difference that it's always the same year.

FFXIV experiences a linear passage of time, things happen, they take time to happen, they lead to other things happening and all these things happen in a specific order. It eventually becomes rather ridiculous that the year never changes.

-----

Honestly, the time bubble sucks. We get threads like this quite often, variations of 'how much time to you think has passed' and it could be interesting to talk about but instead the replies always become about the time bubble and the damn Simpsons of all things.
They've outright admitted that the bubble only exists in order to lighten their workload but people still treat it like something that's supposed to be taken seriously when discussing the lore, setting, story, etc. despite being an inherently ridiculous concept.