So, I’m trying to do a Captains Log to keep track of events for my guild. However, I have no idea what the year in World of Warcraft is. I’ve tried looking, but found nothing other then a server specific timeline for Moonguard. Is there anything like that for WRA, or is there something official for the game itself?
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There is the ‘unofficial timeline’ on Wowpedia that I think most refer to when making references to what year it is. I find that to be the easiest way to do it. (Note, we are about to skip forward a few years timeline-wise come DF launch.)
If you want to get into the nitty gritty of the calendars, I suppose you could use the King’s Calendar. In the Warcraft 1 manual, it mentions the use of “King’s Calendar” where they reference the first war starting around 592 KC. I believe (and I could be wrong) we are around 630 KC currently, though we are about to skip a few years ahead.
I love the idea of doing a Captain’s Log, so much fun! It sounds like you might be a pirate-y bunch (could be wrong there too lol) Always loved some good pirates!
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According to a recent blue post, we are nearing the end of Year 36, and then when the timeskip happens (at Dragonflight pre-patch launch) we will be in year 40 after the Dark Portal.
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Thank you both! I appreciate the information.
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I fanon that the different cultures across Azeroth have unique calendars of their own based on significant events that affected their people. It makes sense that the Eastern Kingdoms, specifically the humans but maybe even dwarves and gnomes follow a unified calendar system.
Yet, long lived races I always imagined didn’t follow the same logic when it came to tracking time, especially since one year matters less to someone that is immortal or several thousand years old. So these long lived races centered their calendars around important events and consolidated long periods of time between them.
Taking the Kaldorei for example: perhaps they consolidated everything to a pre sundering timeline. With major events used to define certain spans of time, like the twin empire wars and the Sundering and the attack on Hyjal and so on and so forth.
Draenei, I fanon that they break things up into Eras. They have the Argus era, their golden age basically followed by the Legion invasion and a dark era fleeing their homeworld and the travel amongst the star. Then a short era on Draenor followed by their arrival on Azeroth as the start of a new era and now perhaps a new one with the defeat of the Legion. It’s also funny to have Juspion tell people he’s 7 years old or something since I go a bit meta and use the TBC launch year to count years lmao.
Anyway it’s fun to think about but also not something I want to fuss over. Was chatting in discord a few days ago about detailing out your age and height in TRP profiles and I just can’t be bothered with that stuff. It’s the most unfun stuff I don’t want to get into. So with the way time is presented in this game I just try to avoid it or meme it like saying Juspion is 7 even thow he’s probably like some 20,000 year old immortal lol.
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"Shadowlands began in the year 35 after the opening of the Dark Portal, and Dragonflight will begin in the year 40.
Given that the events of Shadowlands took place over the course of two years,"
From the Blue post, just wanted to add the length this was mentioned for clarity.
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So Shadowlands started in 35 and finished at the end of 36. Which means that 3 years pass - the years 37, 38, and 39, offscreen.
I think that’s what Axiann was saying.
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Possibly, it could also be seen as Shadowlands started late 35 and ended late 37 giving us 2 years of a skip. Which is kinda cool for flexibility but having roughly a year of debate I can see causing some issues for long term groups!
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I appreciate all the input. I’m sure others will find this useful too. For myself, I’m looking for something a Gilnean would probably use.