Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-184.166.113.144-20141219123942/@comment-72.74.78.185-20141224211127

Well, Nirn doesn't orbit arround the sun because it's in the center of the universe. Therefore the amount of time it takes for the sun to orbit arround Nirn is equil to a year. On average, each month on Nirn has about 30 days, same as months in real life. So presumably the years are almost equil to years in real life. Here is where it gets confusing though. Skyrim came out in the year 2011 and took place in the year 4E (fourth era) 201. So right now it would be the end of 4E 204. Oblivion took place in the year 3E 433, which was the last year before the fourth era began. So we have to go back 201 years from 2011 and subtract one to get to the time of oblivion. That puts us at the year 1809, back when the napolionic wars were going on. To get to the beginning of the third era and the conquest of Tamriel by talos, we have to go back 433 years, which puts us at 1376 in real life. Talos conquored Tamriel in 2E 896. So by subtracting 896 years from 1376 equils 481, just after the fall of rome, which is ironic because it's the fall of the Reman dynasty in TES universe. Now we come to the first era, which is by far the longest (2920 years). subtracting 2920 by 481 would get us to 1E 2439, the TES date of the (supposed) birth of christ. So the begining of the first era would be 2439 BC, which is like centuries before the pyramids were built. I'm not sure if any of these calculations are 100% correct, so just look them over if i'm wrong.