Talk:Timeline/@comment-31763506-20170727061247

OK, I've decided that Wendis' death had to occur either 23 or 22 years before the beginning of the game, and that Hilstara must have known them relatively late in their married life. I've revised the timeline accordingly.

The exact words of the conversation in the bar between Simon and Hilstara at the bar in Yhilin imply that there were soldiers in their unit who knew them prior to their marriage, but not necessarily that Hilstara was one of them. (The wording is still incredibly confusing.)

Uyae and/or Captain Palina was the straw that broke the short chronology's back.

Basically, there are just too many references that make it impossible for Zirantia to have been founded anything less than ~22 years prior to the start of the game, assuming Uyae's age of 22 a bit less than two years after the game start is accurate. (There are several other indications though.) And since Robin implies that Zirantia didn't exist prior to the Incubus King's amphibious assault, Wendis' death and the beginning of Zirantia had to be about the same timeframe.

But the fact that a married Simon and Wendis carried on an affair with Palina's Aunt Linda while actively serving somewhere in Aram removes any serious possibility of their marriage taking place after the end of the official war. Simon brought back Linda's body when Palina was a child, and Palina witnessed him doing so, which would be a very strange sequence of events anywhere but Aram itself. Palina explicitly states that they were breaking their marriage vows in doing so.