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I've also looked at official sites, and couldn't find anything definitive, but there was a link on one of the official sites to the DS2 Soundtrack site, where there's a button you can click "About the Game":

http://www.directsong.com/index.asp?game=dungeonsiege2

It says "It's been a generation since you vanquished the evil that plagued the land of Ehb, and now ... a new menace has awakened." (ellipses in original)

So, unless there's something official that denies that claim, I guess we have to go with "a generation later." Of course, "a generation" is defined in different ways by different people. 30 years might be one definition, though.

If we go with 30 years, it's not at all impossible that a DS1 character could still be alive.

But I wonder if GPG has a different view of the timeline. 30 years hardly seems enough time for schools of magic to restructure themselves so that Nature Mages, even those from Ehb, are no longer trained in (or able to use, without the necessary Combat Magic levels) Electrical spells. Yoren Glitterdelve (the NPC Fist of Stone party member in DS2BW) is from Ehb, and being a FoS, he's necessarily a Nature Mage, and on top of that, he's also apparently over 100 years old. Was there a mini-cataclysm 30 years ago that changed magic? If so, why is there nothing said about it in the historical books and dialogues in-game? I think it must have been longer than 30 years, and even longer than a generation (unless maybe we're talking about the Elven understanding of "generation"?).

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Giovanna