Time Lapse in Dale Reckoning vs Arelith Reckoning

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https://wiki.nwnarelith.com/Time

Arelith is set in the Forgotten Realms setting in 3rd edition D&D with some flavors from 3.5. The Arelith timeline diverges in early 1372 DR: Bane has been resurrected, but Lolth has never gone silent. This puts the setting after the Time of Troubles but before the Spellplague.

Cool, I like it. It's been that way since forever and it doesn't need fixing.

I do have one question however, it's 184 AR and every year that passes by that number evidently goes up, but DR does not. Is it ALWAYS 1372 in the DR calendar? I don't mean in terms of lore advancement in FR, that's the whole point of freezing the date. I mean more so in Arelith Canon Timeline.

IE, say I make a character from Neverwinter, he was born twenty years ago as of 184 AR, would he have been born in 1352 DR, or 1536 DR? It's an odd example but sometimes dates of FR happenings are brought up in relation to certain things and then it gets weird figuring out how long ago that was.

Also Elminster is still in hell, screw that guy.

[Inordinate]

On that same page:

The offset between Arelith Reckoning and Dale Reckoning is 1200 years (ie.: 173 AR is the same as 1373 DR).

You can see the current year in full using the -date command in game (currently it is 1384 DR). Lore is locked to 1372 DR but the date still advances outside of that lore 'bubble', even as the events in the subsequent years are not occurring. Basically look at it like this
After 173 AR the DR year advances when the AR year does. Don't worry about anything before that.

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There are some bits of FR lore after 1372 DR that was ran by DMs. A version of "Year of Rogue Dragons" happened in Arelith. But that's the only one that I could remember off the top of my head.

Dragons raging everywhere almost wrecking Wharftown, dragon cultists visiting the isle disguised as astronomers then shooting "something" to the king killer star causing it to glow brightly, which caused the isle wide event.

It doesnt mean we're at 1373 now though. FR time we're still 1372, but in setting lore of Arelith have may have some sprinkles of events in FR beyond 1372.

Just think of it as Arelith being its own time capsule.

[Kuma]

It is currently 1384DR but no canon events past midway through 1372DR have happened. We 'forked' into our own timeline. Do not attempt to backdate events before 1372 from AR to DR or vice versa.

Only a few select things have been confirmed to have happened per the official timeline- the fall of the Iron Throne, for example, resulting in the Arelith remnant being one of the largest remaining, with little mainland influence. Other events have happened that diverge from this timeline- the Lords' War, for example.

But basically, plot- and setting-wise, we are in perpetual 1372DR, even if time marches on. Try not to focus too hard on things like the king of Cormyr being a baby for a decade, or the fact we've had Banites for nearly two hundred years and he's only 'recently been reborn'. It just isn't worth attempting, and is best to handwave.

Advancing the timeline any further is unlikely to happen beyond select, specific events, rather than entire years' worth of them. Hope this makes sense.