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industrious
2012-03-08, 10:45 PM
Quick question about Exalted's Timeline here. How long, roughly speaking, has it been since Creation?

TheCountAlucard
2012-03-08, 10:49 PM
Quick question about Exalted's Timeline here. How long, roughly speaking, has it been since Creation?Do you mean since the creation of Creation? :smallconfused:

No one has any idea how old Creation was before the Primordial War occured, so there's no way of knowing that. It may be thousands or even millions of years old, and the time before that was likewise immeasurable.

Xefas
2012-03-08, 10:57 PM
There's no hard answer. But IIRC, its been something like ~6000 years since the end of the Primordial War? Maybe? The First Age was several thousand years. The Shogunate was well over a thousand years. The official Second Age campaign starting time is in the ~764th year of the Realm.

Now, Creation has existed much longer than that. The Primordial War was long, and (once again, IIRC) the difficulty in documenting its length is exacerbated by the use of time distorting weaponry.

Before the Primordial War, the Primordials reigned peacefully for an unspecified amount of time. Long enough to populate Creation with all kinds of ridiculous creatures and fundamentally warp the way the cosmos functioned (introducing, for instance, linear Time). I'm not sure we even know anything about how long it took for them to create humans, or how long it took for mankind to turn traitor.

The timeline goes farther back than that, but I don't think trying to keep time in Zen Mu is a particularly worthwhile venture.

industrious
2012-03-08, 11:50 PM
That's really useful; thank you.