Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-11095278-20140307183832

Greetings all,

I just wanted to touch base regarding the setting for Elder Scrolls Online. When I went to the offical pre-oder site ( http://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en/ ) where one can pre-order the game, I also took a look at the "Game Guide" mouse over menu and clicked "Story". This sent me to a nice little page that offered up a brief explination of the setting with some lovely screen shots.

To the side here is just a screen shot of the top half of page that begins to describe the basic setting. In the text below that inital picture is says;

"Four years ago, in 2E 578 an arcane explosion of energy in the Imperial City set off mystical aftershocks that swept across Nirn."

That being the case, it would seem that Zenimax and Bethesda have set Elder Scrolls Online to start in year 582 of the Second Era.

A friend of mine tells me that Talos (later named Tiber Septim) was born in 2E 830, putting the child's birth 248 years after the start of ESO going live. These leaves me with the realization that the god Talos does not exist in Elder Scrolls Online, and that he is unlikely to come into existance within this MMO since even with an increased rate of time passing in the game (four game days for every real life day is it?) it would take some 61.75 years or real life time for the game engine clock to get to the year Talos was born.

So help me out here folks, am I off my rocker here? Is it correct that baby Talos, eventual Emperor Tibus Septim, was born in the 830th year of the Second Era?

Thanks,

G.A.C.

PS - a little larger print of the website's text from whcih my question arises

 