So, here are the assumptions:
Note: The discrepancy about when the miqo'te were evicted from Eorzea and when they came back introduces a 500-year problem, because based on EE1 pp. 24-29, the time between the rise of the Allagan Empire, including Xande's death and resurrection, the downfall of the Empire from the Fourth Umbral Calamity, and the forgotten age that followed (which ends with the Fifth Umbral Calamity) is at LEAST 2500 years. But on EE1 pp. 29, the miqo'te are said to use icebridges created during the 5UC to return to Eorzea from southern Ilsabard, after they were "driven from Eorzea by the Allagan Empire almost two millennia earlier." Which means AT MOST, the miqo'te were absent from Eorzea for 2000 years.
So yeah, that's part of the reason I'm posting this, to see if information from later EEs or from in-game helps to straighten out this problem, and potentially give us more structure about the overall accounting of the 12000 years since the Sundering.
???? WU - The World Unsundered (WU), the Ancient era.
0 SW -> The Final Days, Hydaelyn axe-kicks Zodiark in the FACE, the star is sundered.
1 SW -> The Sundered World (SW) begins.
2000 SW -> The Thirteenth collapses, becoming the Void.
???? SW
1st Umbral Calamity
???? SW -> 1UE/AE 1
2nd Umbral Calamity
???? SW -> 2UE/AE 1
3rd Umbral Calamity
???? SW -> 3UE 1
5999 SW OR 6699 SW -> 3UE ends
6000 SW -> 3AE 1? <- Rise of the Allagan Empire, death of Xande, beginning of 300-year Golden Age
6700 SW -> 3AE 1? <- Miqo'te driven from Eorzea by the rise of the Allagan Empire
4th Umbral Calamity
7000 SW -> 4UE/AE 1 <- Azys Lla abandoned
8500 SW -> The Forgotten Age
5th Umbral Calamity
8501 SW -> 5UE 1 <- Seekers of the Sun return to Eorzea from Ilsabard via icebridges
8889 SW -> 5UE 388
8890 SW -> 5AE 1 <- Sanctum of the Twelve built in the Black Shroud
9190 SW -> 5AE 300 <- City-states arise in Eorzea
10139 -> 5AE 1250 <- The War of the Magi beings
10399 SW -> 5AE 1510 <- Mhach unleashes Diabolos on Amdapor, Diabolos sealed
6th Umbral Calamity
10400 SW -> 6UE 1
10422 SW -> 6UE 22
10423 SW -> 6AE 1
11995 SW -> 6AE 1572
7th Umbral Calamity
12000 SW -> 7AE 1 <- present day
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- Any time we're told "it's been X thousand years" we're just taking that number at face value.
- Umbral Eras are described as brief periods of chaos, while Astral Eras are longer periods of stability, so any UE cycle should be MUCH shorter than its corresponding AE. Notably, the 7th Umbral Era was only 5 years long, which appears to be pretty fast even as Umbral Eras go, since Lahabrea was apparently speedrunning the setup for the 8UC.
- Some rounding to get to whole numbers is gonna get done, just to make some of the numbers easier to grok.
- The current year is "the first year of the Seventh Astral Era" because timebubble.
- This is just a general framework that is intentionally rough, and is mostly using information from EE1, aside from the "12000" number that's been brought up post-Endwalker and the "10000" number in the Zero/Golbez narrative. Incorporating timelines from the First and the Ninth will probably come later.
Note: The discrepancy about when the miqo'te were evicted from Eorzea and when they came back introduces a 500-year problem, because based on EE1 pp. 24-29, the time between the rise of the Allagan Empire, including Xande's death and resurrection, the downfall of the Empire from the Fourth Umbral Calamity, and the forgotten age that followed (which ends with the Fifth Umbral Calamity) is at LEAST 2500 years. But on EE1 pp. 29, the miqo'te are said to use icebridges created during the 5UC to return to Eorzea from southern Ilsabard, after they were "driven from Eorzea by the Allagan Empire almost two millennia earlier." Which means AT MOST, the miqo'te were absent from Eorzea for 2000 years.
So yeah, that's part of the reason I'm posting this, to see if information from later EEs or from in-game helps to straighten out this problem, and potentially give us more structure about the overall accounting of the 12000 years since the Sundering.
???? WU - The World Unsundered (WU), the Ancient era.
0 SW -> The Final Days, Hydaelyn axe-kicks Zodiark in the FACE, the star is sundered.
1 SW -> The Sundered World (SW) begins.
2000 SW -> The Thirteenth collapses, becoming the Void.
???? SW
1st Umbral Calamity
???? SW -> 1UE/AE 1
2nd Umbral Calamity
???? SW -> 2UE/AE 1
3rd Umbral Calamity
???? SW -> 3UE 1
5999 SW OR 6699 SW -> 3UE ends
6000 SW -> 3AE 1? <- Rise of the Allagan Empire, death of Xande, beginning of 300-year Golden Age
6700 SW -> 3AE 1? <- Miqo'te driven from Eorzea by the rise of the Allagan Empire
4th Umbral Calamity
7000 SW -> 4UE/AE 1 <- Azys Lla abandoned
8500 SW -> The Forgotten Age
5th Umbral Calamity
8501 SW -> 5UE 1 <- Seekers of the Sun return to Eorzea from Ilsabard via icebridges
8889 SW -> 5UE 388
8890 SW -> 5AE 1 <- Sanctum of the Twelve built in the Black Shroud
9190 SW -> 5AE 300 <- City-states arise in Eorzea
10139 -> 5AE 1250 <- The War of the Magi beings
10399 SW -> 5AE 1510 <- Mhach unleashes Diabolos on Amdapor, Diabolos sealed
6th Umbral Calamity
10400 SW -> 6UE 1
10422 SW -> 6UE 22
10423 SW -> 6AE 1
11995 SW -> 6AE 1572
7th Umbral Calamity
12000 SW -> 7AE 1 <- present day
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