Even factoring in the weird way that years work on a flat earth there's still ages and ages of shit going on.
Wheelbreaker should be viewed as a sort of historical fiction and the reader should proceed with the understanding that, like our understanding of real history, elements of the "lore" are not strictly true but rather there exists enough reliable attestation of truthfulness that a consensus is (mostly) achieved regarding what happened when. This consensus reality is not true, nor is it even mostly true. Frankly it is mostly incomplete with lots of things that aren't known at all. But it is true enough for the people alive at any particular point in history to make enough sense of their place in the world to live their lives.
However, it is important to note that not all of Wheelbreaker's history is open for narrative exploration. There exist periods that are not mutable where narrative exploration could not effect consensus reality in any way. Some periods simply lack reliable attestation of any sort and are only knowable through that lack of attestation while other periods of time have left such a monumental mark on history that consensus cannot be meaningfully changed.
And finally there is the most current era, an era that can be considered the narrative present. This should not be taken to mean that it is the most important era. Rather it should be understood that the history of the setting, for now at least, simply ends here.
A generally accurate timeline is as follows:
| Prehistory Orks and cats exist before the universe did. Other stuff happened too I guess. |
| The Age of Exploration Everyone is leaving their home worlds in spaceships for the first time. This takes forever. |
| The Ethnostate Wars Everyone wonders if you can run an eternal empire on racism so they have a bunch of wars about it. They ball so hard they kill a few gods and decide not to be racist. |
| The Kobold Slave Revolts We already did wars about whether or not racism was cool, time for a war about whether or not slavery is cool. Turns out the answer is no even if you used blood magic to grow your slaves. |
| The 3rd Orken Holy War Orks don't want to be racist anymore but they do still want to do war and their war god won't physically manifest anymore so they march right up to their war god and murder him. The new god also declines to manifest and they lose motivation. |
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| Golden Age of Navigation Now that there's 3 more species in space and everyone stopped using the full force of their interstellar economies to make power armor for god there's plenty of time to do what really matters. Repairing the mass transit lanes. |
| The Final Void War Can we use space to do war? Yes. Should we? No. Are we going to do to again after this time? Yeah probably but we'll be coy about it. Also ocean goo is here and they're friendly-ish. |
| Silver Age of The Forge Ocean goo fun times forever. Monks are thriving but not the monks that everyone was expecting to thrive. |
| Killing the Violence God Tee hee :P |
| The Computer Age Don't tell anyone, but we're just calling them computers. |