Talk:Timeline

Typo

"4013-4169

   * Rofellos fights Phyrexians in Yavimaya while Davvol overlaps it with Rath.
   * Urza meets Lyana of the Soltari.
   * Croag murders Davvol for his failures and his plans to kill Croag himself. "

What ? There's a typo out there :-/ - Groffskithur, 4 mai 2010

Article name

Currently, the article name is "Timeline". I have tried to understand reasons and possible reasons as to this move, from Timeline of Magic storylines; but, there are very few reasons for this move. On the basis of searching, no one will search for "Timeline" any more likely than they are to search for "Timeline of Magic storylines". Moreover, the title now is nondescript and imprecise. What timeline is written of in this article? It is not immediately obvious, nor is there any cogent or valid reason for this retention of the current article title, "Timeline". According, please move this article, leaving a redirect if it pleases you, to something more appropriate. --Magic Mage (talk!) 07:10, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

For the record

This article is now without a category. --Hunter61 (talk) 07:26, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Origins

What about the events in Origins and the Planeswalker's back stories? Should include Jace's time on Vyrn, no? Kudit (talk) 20:57, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

Yes. Please go ahead --Hunter (talk) 19:08, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

I'm not sure _when_ that happens, just that it's sometime when Emmara Tandris was alive on Ravnica (I think that indicates it's post-mending, no?) Kudit (talk) 20:57, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

The Planes of Magic Origins article seems to indicate that Jace planeswalked to Ravnica prior to the events of the first Ravnica block (despite the fact that the Guildpact was supposed to prevent planeswalkers from visiting Ravnica), which would almost certainly place the Decamillenial at some point post-Mending. Blue mages have magic that can grant extended lifespans, but Jace is a telepath, not a time manipulator or a Simic biomancer.--124.150.83.11 19:06, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

Battle For Zendikar and Shadows Over Innistrad

The events of the Battle For Zendikar and Shadows Over Innistrad blocks are not yet on here. Could someone please add them? Dracofulmen (talk) 14:25, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

Date inconsistencies in the Artifacts Cycle

I have been reading through the Artifacts Cycle and am puzzled by some date references. In chapter 5 of Planeswalker, Ratepe says that Urza was born "three thousand, four hundred and thirty-seven years ago" (page 68). If Ratepe (and author Lynn Abbey) is correct, that means the primary (non-flashback) events of Planeswalker take place in 3437-3438 AR. But in chapter 9 of the following book, Time Streams, the dates given for the establishment and destruction of the Tolarian Academy are 3285 and 3307 AR, respectively (page 122), despite the fact that those events must take place after the conclusion of the events of Planeswalker. Either the authors made a mistake, or (arguably, in-universe) the teachers who taught Ratepe were incorrect. The timeline here on mtgsalvation clearly trusts the dates given in Time Streams, but it would be nice if there were some kind of comment clarifying the date that is clearly given in Planeswalker. It should probably also be noted on the Timeline page that the graphical time line presented just before chapter 1 of Planeswalker is also inconsistent in some ways with the actual events and dates recorded in Planeswalker (for example, the graphical time line says that Urza and Xantcha met in approximately 1700 AR, which is in stark contrast to what is said in chapter 5, which strongly suggests that they met in approximately 300 AR). It seems some additional notes are needed on the Timeline page to clarify some of these apparent discrepancies. If I can figure some of this out more definitively I will happily edit the page myself, but if anyone knows some of these details better than I do, I'd be grateful if they would add some further commentary. --Mtgqualitycontrol (talk) 03:38, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Post-mending dates

So according to the recent Magic story podcast, the Mending in fact happened about 60 years before Kaladesh block. I want to edit the timeline to account for this, but I'm not sure how to resolve it with the contradictory information that's already there. Any ideas how to solve this? Thank you! Sniffnoy (talk) 05:15, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Yeah, I saw your earlier edit and was contemplating this. Thank you, by the way: I don't have the patience for podcasts myself! I don't see any references around that segment of the page, so yours definitely takes precedence over what amounts to undocumented guesswork. I think the least disruptive change is to assume the date for the Mending is correct for now (in 4505), append the most recent events under a heading for 4565, and then shift the dates for everything in between to make sense. Also, update the Tarkir time travel bit, which is known to be 1280 years before the present... I should go dig up that reference. --Corveroth (talk) 06:37, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Arena edits

Are these dates given explicitly in the text? Also, did you intent to remove the existing entry placed at the year 4050? --Corveroth (talk) 23:16, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

The dates aren't given, but the time period between the events is known, starting from the ascension of Greensleeves in 4077. We know that the Time of Troubles happened eight years before, the Night of Fire twenty years before that, and that Galin was five at the time. Since the Festival in Arena is the 998th, we can find the date for the first Festival. (the 4050 date was a blunder on my part, sorry, I've corrected it). --Firebead elvenhair (talk) 11:08, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. Too many of these entries don't have sourcing of any kind, and you deserve thanks for improving that. =) --Corveroth (talk) 16:31, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

The Thran timeline

Following Squirle's advice, I too think that the dates of the Thran history are too precise. I would put them all under the -5000AR, using the Thran-Phyrexian War as a fixed point, and putting the precedent events accordingly (for example, 7 times before Thran-Phyrexian War) as they are given in the Thran novel. However, before proceeding I wanted to ask if someone is against this change (obviously I'll change the other Thran pages linked to this change).--Firebead elvenhair (talk) 19:01, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

The timeline here is largely Squirle's creation in the first place. I see no problem with trying to maintain this page to parallel his work elsewhere. --Corveroth (talk) 19:23, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

Agreed --Hunter (talk) 06:02, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Random Timeline Stuff

So based on some evidence I found in stories and books (rtr, kaladesh, ixalan, and aoa) I have figured out these dates. The Gatewatch is in Kaladesh in about 4564, and Jace ends up in Ixalan about 4566. Liliana was born around 4335, and Jace about 4540 (which means he was with Alhammarret between 4553 & 4555) and planeswalked to Ravnica in about 4555. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Hanami1426 (talk • contribs).

Excellent! Can you write up your argument for those dates somewhere so that we can cite that source? --Corveroth (talk) 00:36, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

Sure! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B0wzGiLYS2Iet393bNY3on93WK_Qtfl6DNWY0Ctqi4E/edit?usp=sharing

I'm probably wrong about a couple of these, but I thought I'd see if I could find anything. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Hanami1426 (talk • contribs).

Planes

Since the events on the timeline comes from almost every plane, I think it can be a little confusing as it is now. Wouldn't be better to put the name of the plane to which it refers before the event? --Firebead elvenhair (talk) 14:58, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

I think there's room to improve on a lot of things here. Do you just want to start off each bullet point with something like ''Ravnica'':? That could work, but there might be a lot of redundancy. Especially earlier in the timeline, there's probably a chunk that could just be "Dominaria unless otherwise stated". If you want to try it, you could copy the page over to Timeline/sandbox and iterate over there.

There are also bigger questions about the page that should be resolved at some point, and I'm not sure if they're worth addressing before going about tagging each event with a plane label. The quality of citations, the rationale for many dates, the criteria for including an event in the list... I don't have good answers for a lot of this. --Corveroth (talk) 00:08, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

Yes, I don0t want to seem too redundant. What you proposed it exactly what I had in mind. I wanted to put a plane before the bullet point only when the event is mixed within other planes. In occasions like the Brothers' War or the Dark Age, a "Dominaria" near the title can suffice, I think. Another one of my intentions is to put sources for the events when available, but I fear that will take years...

Azor, Sarkhan, Ugin

3265 Ugin and Azor meet to discuss a plan

3285 Sarkhan arrives in the past of Tarkir to see the dragon battle

3390 Azor travels to Ixalan (date approximate)

Hey, this doesn't make sense. Azor should have traveled to Ixalan between 3265 and 3285. Azor was on Ixalan and prepared to teleport Bolas from Tarkir to Ixalan if Ugin would have sent the signal. --Tuamir (talk) 22:56, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

How I read the story was: Ugin and Azor plan -> Azor travels to Ixalan and build the sun -> Ugin lures Bolas to Tarkir and fight him, but get defeated and saved by Sarkhan - Yandere Sliver 23:35, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

(Story) I don't think we can be entirely certain that the fight that Sarkhan witnessed was the same as the one in which Ugin intended to signal Azor, but I think we're intended to draw that conclusion. Yes, I would swap the order of the last two events. --Corveroth (talk) 00:07, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

Then you agree with me that the "Azor travels to Ixalan" date should be changed. --Tuamir (talk) 22:23, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

Correct. I have no useful knowledge regarding the exact numbers, but the order currently posted appears to need a change. --Corveroth (talk) 06:42, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Dack Fayden

I just realized that the exploits of Dack Fayden are absent from the timeline... does someone know where to put him? --Firebead elvenhair (talk) 23:01, 12 March 2018 (UTC)