Quote Originally Posted by BrokentoothMarch View Post
That would be... a horrifically bad timeline. If I'm to understand Final Days/Dragonsong War/The Ala Mhigan Conflict all happened in a year, none overlapping and instead happening back-to-back, that's a horrifically amateur way of constructing a story.

Even so, I was led to believe the time spent in the First before we were sent here was 2 years, albeit it only accounting for far less time in the Source. But now time in both are synced? They're doing a poor job of explaining this. I suppose it would be up to you to deliberate on whether 'compressed time' (spending a large amount of time in an ecosystem, only to leave it for another where far less time passed in comparison) counts towards age or not. It's all a bit confusing, I admit, and I subscribe to compressed time counting towards your age because, at least by my assumption, if you were to live out your age as an old man in the First, you would probably stay an old man coming to the Source.
We need XIV lore experts in here. :P

I really wish they would just give everything a defined time tbh. Not only then would we be stuck in a time bubble where no one ages, but I feel like it'd make it easier on the devs. RuneScape 3 did something to where they just labeled quests by their in-game lore year.. (.."this quest takes place in the past before big X event happened") to give some sense of chronology to it.

But yeah, it's incredibly poorly explained, likely intentionally so to avoid having continuity errors. Having no real "time skip" happen in the First though explains why the Scions haven't aged a smidge in the Source, imo. I think they say something like 1 hour in the Source = 1 year in the First, or something like that. So yeah synced.. but not synced. God this crap is confusing lol.