hey again! so to my understanding there's like a 2500 year gap between the sin war books and demonsbane..I could be misinterpreting it but I'm just curious. us there any lore or anything to fill in this gap? does anyone know if any future books that will further expand on Kalan and his progression thru necromancy.? any help is much appreciated! thanx!
hey again! so to my understanding there's like a 2500 year gap between the sin war books and demonsbane..I could be misinterpreting it but I'm just curious. us there any lore or anything to fill in this gap? does anyone know if any future books that will further expand on Kalan and his progression thru necromancy.? any help is much appreciated! thanx!
The exact amount of time between the Sin War and the present is unknown. There are several gaps that must be bridged before we can know how much time has passed:
The Sin War
Probably between 50-500 years The Mage Clan Wars
? The Dark Exile
~200 years Present
The time between the Dark Exile and the present is clearly established in Blizzard's own timeline on battle.net and need no discussion.
The time between the Mage Wars and the Dark Exile is wholly unknown.
That leaves us with the time from the Sin War until the Mage Wars, which we get some hints about from the Book of Cain. It says that in the decades following those events, the land around Kehjan started to rebuild and distance itself from the events of the Sin War, and that the mage clans "soon counted thousands of active sorcerors". It seems implied that the mage wars kicked off within this same period, but it's not really definitive.
But I'd say at least 300 years and maybe as much as 1,000.
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And now I feel really stupid, since it clearly says on the back of Birthright that it happened 3,000 years before Diablo. Which does place it some 2,500 years before Demonsbane as well if I recall correctly. Which means my estimate above is totally off.
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I was thinking it stated somewhere it was 3000 years, I just didn't wanna correct you because I couldn't remember the source and I figured you usually have a better memory than me.
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The Sin War
Probably between 50-500 years
The Mage Clan Wars
?
The Dark Exile
~200 years
Present
The time between the Dark Exile and the present is clearly established in Blizzard's own timeline on battle.net and need no discussion.
The time between the Mage Wars and the Dark Exile is wholly unknown.
That leaves us with the time from the Sin War until the Mage Wars, which we get some hints about from the Book of Cain. It says that in the decades following those events, the land around Kehjan started to rebuild and distance itself from the events of the Sin War, and that the mage clans "soon counted thousands of active sorcerors". It seems implied that the mage wars kicked off within this same period, but it's not really definitive.
But I'd say at least 300 years and maybe as much as 1,000.