RPnarrative time periods

The seven options below are there to serve as a guideline for the time period your story is set in. These are not meant to limit your universe’s timeline to any specific chronology, rather they should be seen as stepping stones contextualised by our universe’s order of events. For example, Star Wars would be set in the Distant Future, Harry Potter in Current, and Game of Thrones in Ancient Times. Any diversions not represented by your choice of time period can be explored in the Aesthetics section.

Beginning of time: From the beginning of space-time up until the emergence of the first intelligent species (14bya - 2mya earth-time).

Ancient times: From the emergence of the first intelligent species to the first recorded use of ground breaking technology. E.g. gunpowder, electricity, or the printing press in earth’s timeline (2mya - 10th Century earth-time).

Old times: From the first recorded use of ground breaking technology to the beginnings of modern nation states (11th Century - 19th Century earth-time).

Current: From the beginnings of modern nation states to today (20th Century - current earth-time)

Near future: A period projecting either advancement or decline of the modern nation state’s pillars in culture, science, politics, medicine, agriculture, etc. (Latter end of 21st Century - 22nd Century earth-time).

Distant future: A new state of existence borne of the remnants of past decline or the fruits of past advancements. E.g. post-apocalypse, intergalactic travel, species extinction (23rd Century - onwards earth-time).

End of time: A period of time where the universe is slowly becoming incompatible with life (D22b AD earth-time).