Timeline

Think of this as a hub-page to help get around. Dates within the timeline correspond to one of three date systems: the B.G.A. System, the A.Y. System, and the A.D. System.

A complete Timeline of Course Books:

Antiquity (35 or 45 thousand years)

Antiquity is everything that proceeds the Age of Darkness. Roughly 4800 B.G.A. and back to the beginning of time. In the third Course Book, Jason translates an inscription saying how long Antiquity lasted as first 25 thousand years and later 35. Cindy points out his mistake, but she is quickly dismissed and he changes the subject. Which time he misspoke is never made clear.

• Antiquity can be divided into two periods: Antiquity and Classic Antiquity. Classic was actually the later period, right before the Age of Darkness. The Classical period is known to have lasted for 10,000 years, so if Antiquity was another 25,000 years before that, the second number would be correct.

The Age of Darkness (1,100~ years?)

The Age of Darkness is indeterminate, thanks to very poor record keeping (people had to learn how to make paper again); but is roughly estimated from ~4800 B.G.A. to ~3700 B.G.A. , with the Fall of Roads sometime within the 47th century Before Golden Age.

The Mage Wars (3,700~ years)

The Mage Wars lasted from 3700 B.G.A. to 0 B.G.A., which is also Year 0 of the Golden Age according to the A.Y. System

The Ages of the Alliance (5,914 years)

The Alliance began before the end of the Mage Wars and invented the A.Y. System. It ran from B.G.A. 6 to A.Y. 6910. Refer to the A.Y. System and B.G.A. System for those dates to make sense. The Alliance would exist for six Ages before the Long Night.

The Age of the Dragon (50 years)

The name 'Age of the Dragon' describes a tumultuous half-century, the twilight of the Alliance. Using the A.Y. System, the Age of the Dragon lasted from A.Y. 6910 to A.Y. 6960. The Age of the Dragon is never identified as the Sixth Age, and dates within it that use the A.Y. System refer to it as still a part of the Sixth Age. However, formal dates use the Age of the Dragon name, for example 'Year 10 of the Age of the Dragon'.

The Long Night (3115 years)

The Long Night followed the Age of the Dragon and adopted a new system counting forward, with Year 50 of the Age of the Dragon being Year 0 of the Long Night. The Long Night is also called the 'Age of Dawn' and 'After Dragon', and dates within it typically use the A.D. System.

The Age of the New Day (?)

The Age of the New Day follows the Long Night and lasts for as long as I feel like writing out a history.