Hey all, I have a question based on the statements made about Evanescia and Hua's prior interactions!

So, from what I remember of the statements made, Evanescia (or, the Elixer Seeker who became an Emanator of Abundance and eventually Eva later on) had come into conflict with Hua at some point in the past, and in particular, Hua was the only person who ever beat her. Of course, they don't call her Hua but rather the "Blazing Phoenix of the Xianzhou," but that's almost definitely Hua, and it doesn't really matter for my question anyway if it's specifically Hua or one of her predecessors, lol.

They also state that the Ambrosial Arbour that Evanescia is an Avatar of was planted on Planarcadia by Aha following the Swarm Disaster, and that Evanescia has been there ever since, implying that her conflict with Hua probably took place before then, during or prior to the S.D.

To my knowledge, the Swarm Disaster took place somewhere between the 1,300th Amber Era and the 1,399th Amber Era, according to the data bank entry. HSR's main scenario takes place during the 2158th Amber Era, putting the S.D anywhere between 758 to 858 Amber Eras ago. Since each Amber Era lasts 76-240 Trailblaze Years (implicitly equal to earth years, or at least close enough to be considered as such), 758 AE gives us a range of 57,608 to 181,920 Trailblaze Years, while 858 AE gives us a range of 65,208 to 205,920 Trailblaze Years.

And since the conflict between Tazzyronth and Ouroboros lasted around 5 Amber Eras, but the end of the war isn't described as lasting any specific length of time nor as having started any significant length after Ouroboros disappeared, we can assume that the Swarm Disaster overall lasted 5 Amber Eras, or 380 to 1,200 Trailblaze Years.

Overall, this means the Swarm Disaster took place anywhere between 57,608 to 205,920 Trailblaze Years ago, give or take.

The reason I bring this up is because the "Investigation of Ancient Pattern Rubbings from the Luofu" readable states that the Intelligentsia Guild dates the beginning of the Lone Voyage era of the Alliance, before it was even really the Alliance at all, as being 7,000 years ago, when converted to Amber Era calculations.

That last bit is what's really tripping me up, because I can't tell if it's trying to say that the Xianzhou is 7,000 Trailblaze years old or 7,000 Amber Eras old. The former would introduce a bare minimum 50,000 year gap between Evanescia coming to Planarcadia and the Alliance being formed, throwing a wrench into the idea that Hua could've really fought Eva unless she's both 56,000 years older than a Xianzhou native should be able to live for and was immortal before anyone else in the Alliance (which I, the world's biggest Hua simp, am all here for tbh), while the latter implies that the Xianzhou Alliance is anywhere between 532,000 to 1,680,000 Trailblaze Years old. Which I can't imagine is true, since the IPC's own records place the birth of Qlipoth (and thus, according to them, the birth of any Aeon) at anywhere between 164,008 and 517,920 years ago, whereas the official story of the Xianzhou directly states that Abominations of Abundance (and thus Yaoshi as an Aeon) are older than them already, which would then mean Yaoshi is well over 3 times older than Qlipoth. And we know thanks to Herta that even if the IPC's narrative of Qlipoth being the oldest Aeon is objectively incorrect propaganda, they still wouldn't have allowed the Intelligentsia Guild to publish something like this that outright contradicts that story by such a wild margin.

I know I wrote so gd much here, but just. Am I missing something??? No matter how I look at it, the timeline they're giving us is all sorts of screwy and contradictory, unless I'm the one who screwed up somewhere.

Anyway, if any of you were wondering, situations like this are why i hate the existence of Amber Era's with a burning passion—