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gina
@ootheca.net

>elf makes fun of me because human narrative art takes place over a hilariously short span of time, from the perspective of their long-lived race >i read an elfish book >its just a normal book but every chapter starts with '100 years later'

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@0m3g45n1p3r4lph4.bsky.social

I love introducing Bionicle's timescale by summarizing the intro of the 2nd book I owned - Legacy of Evil. "This guy is walking down stairs and reminisces about what lead to him reaching these stairs... CHAPTER ONE: 60,000 YEARS AGO"

Gus 𐘹𐘂𐘵𐘗
@gustyphon.bsky.social

It's been years since I've read the books but that was my favourite from the Legends series, because of the Zaktan finds out about the Plan part. I always wonder why these leaps, maybe they needed the gaps to use for later stories. But these aren't centuries, they're ten thousand years 😩

Gus 𐘹𐘂𐘵𐘗
@gustyphon.bsky.social

Exactly, 2001-2008 was a year long. 2006 was a couple of days, I think (or a month, or few weeks since the Piraka arrive on Voya Nui). 2007 was less than 24h, 2008 probably not much more than that... I bet the Bara Magna saga run for a month at best. The difference is too long to be taken seriously.