Talk:Hilstara/@comment-68.8.150.120-20200814043858/@comment-31763506-20200818024935

There was some spec on this topic and a bit of chronological confusion. Also, remember that nearly three and a half to three and three quarters years of in game time have passed since Hilstara gave her age as 41 in Ch1 when the meeting with the entity happens.

I theorized at one point that the only way to explain the discrepancy between Hilstara's stated age in Ch1 and her service in the Zirantian campaign at the time of Wendis' death was that when Hilstara lied and said her age 39 before Yarra drawing her out to admitting she was really 41 was that she was STILL LYING, and was actually in her late 40s when the game started.

Sierra Lee officially Jossed that theory, but a conversation got rewritten in Ch3 which had previously implied Hilstara knew Wendis before she and Simon were married, when she was only 5.

Note that the overwhelming majority of the dates on the Timeline page before the game starts are ranges, because I can only make approximations based on the information given in game, the bare bones chronology SL posted in Patreon comments, and the bounds of probability. So the possible dates that are given for the campaign in Zirantia are bounded by Wendis dying in 1128 AE (when Hilstara was 16) and 1123 AE, the first year after the official end of the war. It might have started in 1123 and dragged on for 5 years until Wendis was killed at the end, but the likelier theory is that the IK launched his amphibious attack on what is now Zirantia in 1128 AE, and Hilstara served as a 16 year old with Simon and Wendis for a few months prior to the latter's death.