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Posted on September 30, 2020

From time to time, I find this old chart of mine useful for getting perspective on the passage of Time in Glorantha:

  • Present year 1627
  • 10 years ago – Lunar Empire invades Hendrikiland
  • 25 years ago – Boldhome falls to the Lunar Empire
  • 50 years ago – Battle of Grizzly Peak
  • 100 years ago – Apotheosis of Sartar
  • 300 years ago – Belintar unites Holy Country
  • 500 years ago – the Dragonkill War (1120)
  • 1000 years ago- the Kingdom of Dragon Pass. After this came the EWF.
  • 1500 years ago – the Second Council. The Theyalans dominate Genertela and war with the Pelorian horse people.
  • 2000 years ago – I Fought, We Won, and the Unity Battle. After this, came the Heortling kingdom, which lasted about 800 years (until Gbaji destroyed it).
  • 2500 years ago – The Chaos Age, which lasted until the Unity Battle.
  • 3000 years ago – the Ice Age (when Valind’s Glacier conquered much of the world.)
  • 5000 years ago – the Vingkotlings
  • 10,000 years ago – Orlanth kills Yelm

I then compare this to a Greek at the time of Alexander

  • 10 years ago – Philip founds Philippopolis (330 BC)
  • 25 years ago – the Sacred War
  • 50 years ago – Battle of Leuctra (371 BC)
  • 100 years ago – start of the Peloponnesian War
  • 300 years ago – fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
  • 500 years ago – the neo-Assyrian Empire
  • 1000 years ago – the Trojan War
  • 1500 years ago – height of Babylon
  • 2000 years ago – Sargon and the Akkadian Empire
  • 2500 years ago – Gilgamesh is king of Uruk
  • 3000 years ago – Menes units Egypt (first dynasty)
  • 5000 years ago – Neolithic cities like Catal Huyuk and Jericho
  • 10,000 years ago – beginning of Neolithic age

This goes to one of my big bugaboos in materials that get submitted to me – small details from a fifteen hundred years before the book’s present are described at length, while more pertinent things from the last generation or two are ignored. I consider that part of the legacy of Tolkien, where Aragorn can show up a thousand years after the line of Isildur ended and be recognised as the legitimate king based on that distant ancestry.

I use an ancient world example because we belong to a literate society with a long tradition of extensive record-keeping. We know far more about Sargon than Alexander ever could have.

Jeff Richard

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