Varana wrote: »

HappyTheCamper wrote: »

Also we may have finally received (unintentional) confirmation from Mike Finnigan that the events of ESO are over 10 years in-game, meaning the events all don’t take place in 582??

That was, kind of, always the case.
Every character can start everywhere, so the events seem to be placed in 2E582, as that is where each character starts. But as you quest on that character, time goes by, so other events will happen later. They just can't put an "official" date on them because there is no canonical sequence in which they take place, and are different for each character.
Though it's possible that they may stretch out official dates at some point, creating a canonical version of events that may be different from what your character experienced.

Nope, they literally said before that all the events taking place were happening within the same year, and it was always ridiculous. And using the "we want players to play in whatever order" excuse was always a lame one because it's been shown time and again in the TES universe that time is FAR from linear. It's how Dragon Breaks exist, for example. They could have been saying from the start that time has been passing ingame regardless of where you start quest or zone-wise, with the explanation of "these events just haven't happened for you yet".

They do that as part of a certain guy's quest if you finish that Summerset quest before finishing the Planemeld main quest (it could be the opposite way, it's been so long since I've done either quest idr the order lol). It's like "why don't you remember me even tho we met before" and his response is roughly "things that have happened for you haven't happened yet for me" or something along those lines. (And now I'm remembering the book you can find at the end of the quest during the party and have made myself sad.)

Myself and a bunch of other people (especially use RPers) have been considering the time having passed ingame the same as irl, which is to say we've already been saying it's like 293 or whatever lol, whether they're going to start referring to that lorewise or not.

Varana wrote: »

HappyTheCamper wrote: »

Also we may have finally received (unintentional) confirmation from Mike Finnigan that the events of ESO are over 10 years in-game, meaning the events all don’t take place in 582??

That was, kind of, always the case.
Every character can start everywhere, so the events seem to be placed in 2E582, as that is where each character starts. But as you quest on that character, time goes by, so other events will happen later. They just can't put an "official" date on them because there is no canonical sequence in which they take place, and are different for each character.
Though it's possible that they may stretch out official dates at some point, creating a canonical version of events that may be different from what your character experienced.

I personally have always agreed with that but it’s now nice to have it said out loud. The timeline was becoming very silly otherwise: https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Second_Era