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Dremora Stormcloak wrote: Mabian wrote: Chara falls down in 201X. The game takes place much later. Oh. Thanks. No problem.

There's actually a lot of theorizing about the timeline currently. The best one I've seen posits that the game takes place in 211X (i.e. 100 years in the future). I can't locate it at the moment, though, but you might be able to search for and find it.