Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-31763506-20170717113624

And no, I don't mean YhiliniMatch.com.

I mean a way of determinimg when things happened relative to one another. Part of the reason the BCE/CE chronology is almost universally used is that trying to run multiple chronological systems in tandem is a good way to go totally insane.

So far, IIRC, we've seen one and only one date in game:

"Thaumaturgical Academy Founded in 877 by King Ristlin VII"

This conveys surprisingly little information, though. We can safely assume it was 877 years after something important, but we have no idea what. Maybe the founding of Ardoheim. We can also safely assume that there were at least six kings of Ardoheim prior to this, and we know there was at least one after Ristlin VII, namely King Alonon. (It's also a fair bet that Alonon is Alonon I, since nobody ever refers to him with a number.)  Since Alonon was king for a meaningful part of the first war against the Arsehole of Arclent, which ended 30 years before the events of the game, the lowest year that it could possibly be in game is ~910. It could be significantly later though.

So instead of referring to "30 years before the start of TLS" or similar, and barring clarification from SL on the internal timeline, we should adopt a dating system based on major events in the world of the game for reference in the wiki. So here's a list of such anchor points.

1. Date from the Birth of Simon. (BS/AS)  That'd mean the Invasion of Arclent occurred in 15 AS and ended in 25 AS, with Simon being implanted with the shard in 55 AS and the Battle of Yhilin occuring in 56 AS and the Third Arclent War beginning in 57 AS.

2. Date from the Invasion of Arclent by the Arsehole. (BIK/AIK)  Simon would have been born in 14 BIK, the invasion would have begun in 1 AIK and the war would have ended 10 or 11 AIK. Simon would be implanted in 40 or 41 AIK, and the Battle of Yhilin would occur in 41 or 42 AIK, with the 3rd Arclent War beginning in 42 or 43 AIK.

3. Date from Simon's Implanation as the Doom King. (BDK/ADK (Or BRM/ARM for "Anno Rex Malum", if you insist.))  Simon would be born in in 54 BDK, the invasion would be 39-29 BDK, the game would begin in 1 ADK, with the Battle of Yhilin being 2 ADK.

4. Plagiarize Star Wars and date BBY/ABY based on the Battle of Yhilin. So 55 BBY for Simon's birth, 40-30 BBY for the previous Arclent war, 1 BBY for the shard implantation and 1 ABY for the Battle of Thilin with the 3rd Arclent War beginning in 2 ABY.

Discuss. 