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Submitted by RSimpkinuk57 on Sun, 2016-01-03 18:05

iryan wrote:

Otherwise how can you explain Ibsen Yamas being 200 years old (one lorebook mentions he was born in the year 944 yet the events in KOE supposedly happened in 1144).

Have you referred to the Dungeon Siege history compiled by LoneKnight and found in the Game resources section to the right? It does a great job of compiling the history of Aranna as referenced from DS2 and also Throne of Agony.

I've not found the in-game date mentioned anywhere in DS1 maps (though I've not looked at LoA lore-books for a while) so the 1144 is an inference and one I refuse to accept. The last date in any KoE lore-book is 994 so taking the story in isolation it could be set about 1002 (to go with the our-world 2002 publication date).

"Swords to Ploughshares" is hard to reconcile with the Seck Rebellion anyway, but if its 844 date be granted as accurate I've two possible ways round it. (1) We are reliving the farmer's heroics 300 years in the narrator's past (2) The farmer's story comes at the end of 300 years from when the imperial trade presence created a government over a century before the War of Legions.

The Utraean Peninsula affair of the townstones can be the further adventures of the farmer (imported from a completed SP game into MP veteran level) in which case the second campaign must and the first campaign should post-date the last entry in Guard Relran's journal but this still allows early 1020s when Ibsen Yamas is about eighty.

I never completed the Valdis campaign (beginning of Act III was as far as I got) and have no idea of what lore is in Broken World and Throne of Agony. Did they really go back to amplify Ehb's history from DS1? Or did Lone Knight get much of his material on Lord Hovart and the 2nd Legion from non-GPG sources (the LoU mod, perhaps)?

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[quote=RSimpkinuk57]<p><div class="bb-quote"><b>iryan wrote:</b><blockquote class="bb-quote-body">Otherwise how can you explain Ibsen Yamas being 200 years old (one lorebook mentions he was born in the year 944 yet the events in KOE supposedly happened in 1144).</p>

<p>Have you referred to the Dungeon Siege history compiled by LoneKnight and found in the Game resources section to the right? It does a great job of compiling the history of Aranna as referenced from DS2 and also Throne of Agony.</blockquote></div><br />
I've not found the in-game date mentioned anywhere in DS1 maps (though I've not looked at LoA lore-books for a while) so the 1144 is an inference and one I refuse to accept. The last date in any KoE lore-book is 994 so taking the story in isolation it could be set about 1002 (to go with the our-world 2002 publication date).</p>

<p>"Swords to Ploughshares" is hard to reconcile with the Seck Rebellion anyway, but if its 844 date be granted as accurate I've two possible ways round it. (1) We are reliving the farmer's heroics 300 years in the <strong>narrator's</strong> past (2) The farmer's story comes at the end of 300 years from when the imperial trade presence created a government over a century <strong>before</strong> the War of Legions.</p>

<p>The Utraean Peninsula affair of the townstones can be the further adventures of the farmer (imported from a completed SP game into MP veteran level) in which case the second campaign must and the first campaign should post-date the last entry in Guard Relran's journal but this still allows early 1020s when Ibsen Yamas is about eighty.</p>

<p>I never completed the Valdis campaign (beginning of Act III was as far as I got) and have no idea of what lore is in Broken World and Throne of Agony. Did they really go back to amplify Ehb's history from DS1? Or did Lone Knight get much of his material on Lord Hovart and the 2nd Legion from non-GPG sources (the LoU mod, perhaps)?</p>[/quote]

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