08-23-2011, 11:36 PM
The following is a mess of dates, numbers, novel references, and lore geekery. You have been warned.
Previously, for our racial timelines, we've been using the unofficial timeline from Wowpedia, here: http://www.wowpedia.org/Timeline_%28unofficial%29
However, this timeline is rather imperfect, due to a lot of issues relating to the events of Rise of the Horde and not using the official dates. For one thing, Grom's age is entirely messed up in this timeline (Grom in WC3 is stated to be 46. If Rise of the Horde ended at -19, he'd have been 2 years old for the drinking of the blood in Rise of the Horde...clearly far too young.) The problem is that this timeline, while more inclusive, has some dates spread too far apart and messes up the lifespans of certain lore characters.
So, we're going to use the official timeline, here: http://www.wowpedia.org/Timeline_%28from...e,_2007%29
This timeline, however, is also problematic, in similar spots of history. So we're going to have to do some creative guessing.
You'll notice, for example, the timeline has two different dates for Rise of the Horde...one for the in-game book events, one for the novel events. This doesn't make sense, as they cover the same thing. The -45 date for the Shadow Pact doesn't work for the same reason that it doesn't work in the other timeline: Grom would be too young. In addition, this would mean that Durotan and Draka would have had Thrall in their 60's, as Thrall was born on either year 0 or 1.
However, year -1 also doesn't work as a date, as the events of Rise of the Horde take place over the course of several years. So, the best guess I can gather, from this source and others, is that -1 would be the time for the climax of the book, which would be the clan chieftains drinking the demon blood and then sacking Shattrath City. This would place the first attacks on the draenei a few years earlier, approximately year -5, and Durotan's befriending of Orgrim Doomhammer at around year -10.
Other nice factoid: Orcish adulthood is at age 20, not age 15. Oops!
If I have time soon, I'll try to construct my own timeline based on this. I imagine that the other dates for the novels are similar, displaying the time of the climax of each book. Which means year 18 would be the year that Thrall broke the orcs out of the internment camps and sieged Durnholde.
Previously, for our racial timelines, we've been using the unofficial timeline from Wowpedia, here: http://www.wowpedia.org/Timeline_%28unofficial%29
However, this timeline is rather imperfect, due to a lot of issues relating to the events of Rise of the Horde and not using the official dates. For one thing, Grom's age is entirely messed up in this timeline (Grom in WC3 is stated to be 46. If Rise of the Horde ended at -19, he'd have been 2 years old for the drinking of the blood in Rise of the Horde...clearly far too young.) The problem is that this timeline, while more inclusive, has some dates spread too far apart and messes up the lifespans of certain lore characters.
So, we're going to use the official timeline, here: http://www.wowpedia.org/Timeline_%28from...e,_2007%29
This timeline, however, is also problematic, in similar spots of history. So we're going to have to do some creative guessing.
You'll notice, for example, the timeline has two different dates for Rise of the Horde...one for the in-game book events, one for the novel events. This doesn't make sense, as they cover the same thing. The -45 date for the Shadow Pact doesn't work for the same reason that it doesn't work in the other timeline: Grom would be too young. In addition, this would mean that Durotan and Draka would have had Thrall in their 60's, as Thrall was born on either year 0 or 1.
However, year -1 also doesn't work as a date, as the events of Rise of the Horde take place over the course of several years. So, the best guess I can gather, from this source and others, is that -1 would be the time for the climax of the book, which would be the clan chieftains drinking the demon blood and then sacking Shattrath City. This would place the first attacks on the draenei a few years earlier, approximately year -5, and Durotan's befriending of Orgrim Doomhammer at around year -10.
Other nice factoid: Orcish adulthood is at age 20, not age 15. Oops!
If I have time soon, I'll try to construct my own timeline based on this. I imagine that the other dates for the novels are similar, displaying the time of the climax of each book. Which means year 18 would be the year that Thrall broke the orcs out of the internment camps and sieged Durnholde.