The events of ESO start in 2E 582 Morning Star.

The events of Orsinium take place approximately in 2E 583 Rain's Hand, and the events of the Thieves guild and Dark Brotherhood take place after that.

So it takes the Vestige approximately 16 months to complete the home alliance quests, Fighter's and Mages guild quests, Cyrodiil, the Imperial City, the Main quest, and Craglorn, in that order. All of which take place before Orsinium.

Darn it, Ankael. I wanted to make that joke!

Anyway, there are two possibilities:

1.) The logical one is that we're supposed to consider other players as just people who're adventurers and travellers in teh world, no different than NPCs. And that the timeline follows our character in a way that's no different than a single-player Elder Scrolls game. Playing with PuGs/big guilds may break that illusion for you, though. Personally, I don't play with PuGs/big guilds, so it works for me.

2.) ESO exists in a Dragonbreak and none but the khajiit have the sugar to see it, people are giving birth to their own grandparents, we're fighting temporally-detached fragments... et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

The first option is the most likely. Hasn't poor Alkosh been KO'd enough by dim-witted Imperials already?

Axoinus wrote: »

Kinda odd for the war to carry on since no one dies. Everyone and everything respawns. So in theory, everyone is trapped in a time loop. As soon as you do something, anything, the event resets.

The war is actually one of the things that's persistent, and doesn't reset. No matter how long you go on for, even at the end of a campaign, keeps persist with their current owners and don't reset to the default.

I have been pondering on how M'aiq the liar was able to be at so many places at the same time.
Ouch!!, now my head hurts!