How much time has gone by...

[Nestama]

Until the Elezen twins starting ageing (or any of the Doman kids who arrived/left Mor Dhona), I think it's safe to assume a year hasn't even passed, yet. Maybe a month or so?

[Iscah]

Until the Elezen twins starting ageing (or any of the Doman kids who arrived/left Mor Dhona), I think it's safe to assume a year hasn't even passed, yet. Maybe a month or so?

That's part of the time bubble - nobody ages. There's no way all the events of the three games (or even just HW/SB) could actually take place within the space of a month.


Also the lorebook says that Elezen don't mature until around age 20, so if you want to believe that time is passing, it's reasonable that Alphinaud and Alisaie (16 in the 'time bubble') still look young at this point, even if you assume something like a year per major expansion. (It's harder to explain the Doman kids, of course, so just don't think so hard about that.)


My main issue with the time bubble is that it gets a bit confusing when people talk about how long ago things happened - eg. one of the NPCs at the Doman Enclave saying it's been a year since the failed uprising (ie. what caused Yugiri and the other refugees to travel to Eorzea). Does that mean it's been a year since the post-ARR events when the refugees arrived there, making the rebellion concurrent with ARR? Or was Doma destroyed a year prior to that?