Community Suggestion: Eons and Periods
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
Currently the timeline feature lacks the ability to create sub eras, or eras in eras. This is a very useful feature for history and lore dense worlds which would benefit from such a feature. Our own real world has many eras that either over lap with one another or are smaller subsets of a larger era. It is because of that, that I propose that an upgrade is implemented to expand upon the eras feature and draw from the real world with Eons and Periods added. Eons would group eras together, and periods would be smaller pieces of an Era. This would allow us to be more in depth with our history and lore. I have had to work around this by timing certain events and tagging things to remember what period they are in rather than just putting them in their own era.
How does this feature request address the current situation?
It would allow us to not have to work around like I mentioned above, and be able to explore more freely and creatively with our world building.
What are other uses for this feature request?
Uses include:
Detailed timelines with immaculate historical data. For example, your world could have a timeline that has three stories in it. Each story could then have a period in the era of that world.
Biological history of your world timeline (ie think the Geological Time Scale)
Keep better track of D&D world history and your parties lore and actions in world.
The Team's Response
Thanks for the suggestion! We'll investigate ways to show hierarchies between eras in a future update, which should cover this usecase.33/300 Votes · +8800 points
Votes Cast
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by A Frightened Dryad
on 2025-11-22 16:08 -
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by Gregorian
on 2025-11-22 08:50 -
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by Deus-ex-mapping23
on 2025-11-18 14:17 -
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by Demodius
on 2025-11-17 19:50 -
+300
by Willow H.R. Harper
on 2025-11-14 15:18 -
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by A Filthy Kitten
on 2025-11-14 08:37 -
+100
by storyauthor
on 2025-11-14 02:42 -
+300
by Reliquar
on 2025-11-13 16:37 -
+300
by Gilgantuan
on 2025-11-10 22:42 -
+300
by Pantheon Arts PDX
on 2025-11-10 21:42 -
+300
by betterthanjimmy
on 2025-11-10 20:57 -
+300
by kalilinai
on 2025-11-10 16:23 -
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by Lortomas
on 2025-11-08 13:19This is a feature I actually would love and also need as I have written more than 10,000 years of history as well as begun writing the history of a species whose lifespans last eons on eons.
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+100
by kerahope
on 2025-11-05 20:47 -
+300
by Mme88
on 2025-11-05 08:53 -
+300
by halduron
on 2025-11-04 02:43 -
+100
by BurningGod
on 2025-11-03 19:50 -
+300
by Wobbix
on 2025-11-01 04:38As a user with an old world with messed up time, I am always in favor of more in depth features being added to the timekeeping systems
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+300
by Drawkill Dragon
on 2025-10-31 21:05 -
+100
by Ben Medrano
on 2025-10-30 21:20 -
+300
by yatenari
on 2025-10-30 21:16 -
+300
by zatek
on 2025-10-30 14:01 -
+300
by A Goodhearted Kobold
on 2025-10-30 03:30 -
+300
by HS GMs
on 2025-10-29 00:09 -
+100
by TheDoctor292
on 2025-10-28 22:17 -
+300
by AuraGuard
on 2025-10-28 20:26When working with speculative evolution, it would be preferred to be able to use the Geological Timescale, rather than broad headings. Personally, I would like to be able to follow the real-world's chronological timescale units, which are (in order of largest to smallest): Eon, Era, Period, Epoch, Age. This would make working with speculative evolution quite a bit easier to organize.
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+300
by ss2020
on 2025-10-28 17:39 -
+300
by DrowningBronto
on 2025-10-28 16:47 -
+100
by kaixabu
on 2025-10-28 08:59 -
+300
by nnie
on 2025-10-28 07:52I would love this. If not a new feature called a period or eon, then a parent event that could contain other events, linking the child events to the parent and vice versa.
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+300
by TheRealCheese08
on 2025-10-28 00:38 -
+100
by JoellaKay
on 2025-10-27 15:54 -
+300
by Ratha
on 2025-10-27 14:59 -
+300
by PTerry0710
on 2025-10-27 13:54
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