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Inque
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Inque

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Does each real life year really correspond to one in-game year passing? Has 8 years really passed in lore? The only evidence I've found for exactly how much time has passed in-universe is from Sliske's Ramblings, which mentions days 1, 113, ~180, and ~200 of the Sixth Age. The thing is, these numbers of days don't add up with real-life dates. If we take March 4 2013 as the first day of the Sixth Age and add 113 days (the start of the Battle of Lumbridge), we get June 25...which can't be right, since the Battle of Lumbridge started on 22 July. Nor is day "one hundred and eighty-ish" correct for the end date of the BoL; it ended on 2 October 2013, which is 212 days, not 180 days since March 4. The only time frame Sliske got right was day "two hundred and something" for the start of The Bird and the Beast, which started on 11 December 2013, 282 days since March 4.

The book later says that the Easter Bunny hasn't delivered any chocolate to Sliske for 3 years. It's implied that like the Guthixians, the Easter Bunny is furious at Sliske and refuses to bring him chocolate anymore. At the same time, it isn't entirely confirmed whether he meant that he hasn't been delivered to for 3 years since the start of the Sixth Age because or that it's been 3 years since the Easter Bunny's last delivery from some unspecified date because of some other grievance.

Enough about Sliske. With or without his ramblings, has it been confirmed anywhere that Gielinor's time passes at the same speed as ours? Charos in Desperate Measures mentioned that we've been the world guardian for "several years"...but the word several is a vague term. For me, it refers to 4 or more items.
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10-Aug-2020 09:30:42 - Last edited on 22-Aug-2020 19:05:27 by Inque

Autumn Elite

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I do believe it was previously said that since the Sixth Age started, each year IRL was the same time passing in game however who knows if they consider it the same now as that would mean stuff like Seren’s council literally standing in a room for a year ect.

16-Aug-2020 21:58:38

Quael
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Hi, it is actually a theory out there that one year (guthix's death) irl is a year in the game. But; it was confirmed by the jmods in a developer livestream that time moves in-game only if something is done in-game which advances the RuneScape storyline, such as quests or holiday events. NPC dialogues and lores, among others, may provide dates that give an indication of when events have happened in-game on the calendar within the RuneScape multiverse.

So while the common practice among players (mostly the role-playing community) is that irl year passes in-lore year also. But do know this is only a theory practice, that is not confirmed true or false.

Also to respond to Elite's statement, no they could still return home, do their job as rulers or w/e and return when needed.

So by teh practice done by most players, we are in Year 8 of the sixth age. There is more information on this in the Runescape official Wiki site.
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17-Aug-2020 17:20:51 - Last edited on 17-Aug-2020 17:22:18 by Quael

A Mighty

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I've been advocating for years that one IRL year should equal one game year going back to the release of RS, including the 5th and 6th age..
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20-Aug-2020 06:40:46

Inque
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Quael said :
Hi, it is actually a theory out there that one year (guthix's death) irl is a year in the game. But; it was confirmed by the jmods in a developer livestream that time moves in-game only if something is done in-game which advances the RuneScape storyline, such as quests or holiday events. NPC dialogues and lores, among others, may provide dates that give an indication of when events have happened in-game on the calendar within the RuneScape multiverse.

So while the common practice among players (mostly the role-playing community) is that irl year passes in-lore year also. But do know this is only a theory practice, that is not confirmed true or false.

Also to respond to Elite's statement, no they could still return home, do their job as rulers or w/e and return when needed.

So by teh practice done by most players, we are in Year 8 of the sixth age. There is more information on this in the Runescape official Wiki site.

Very interesting, thank you. So basically the answer is no, because it hasn't been officially confirmed to be the case, but some players tend to treat time as if it were.
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22-Aug-2020 19:03:26

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Well excucumber my presence here and elsewhere, but more over here as i am. A something called common hunch i've been blessed/cursed with i would gather the existence of both RuneCape and RealRealm are far from colliding with one another, or, how you humans would phare out, irrelevant to one another. Or just, not same, to say simply. bleebloo Well yes the creators of RuneScape seem to originate from the RealRealm, but come now, you see what we mean kindly...

I miself has always tote the existence of RuneScape as some kinda storytell within my mind to loom over and under here and there uhhh, like the lineage of different adventurers--those disclaimers for certain quests declaring to be happensing during 5th or 6th age yeah those can narrow it for your imagination too, just as anything else for you to ultimately decide. I have played through many quests in numerous husks, but never really felt like they all were ventured by one and only adventurer!

The way one is given a path for glory and no other is rather blatant to my puny eye, mainstream and other what you call it, but surely feel free to approve this if you will, i'll have no issue unless you start telling me how should i play with my dolls do you. hopenot

10-Sep-2020 22:21:06

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