Talk:History of Osirion

Conflict: Osirion's Second Age

Just found this in Occult Mysteries 6:

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Osirian civilization has enjoyed three distinct peaks of power and prosperity. The shortest of these periods, the Second Age, lasted only 67 years.

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So -1498 AR to -1431 AR exactly coinciding with the reign of the Pharaohs of Ascension.

This is new to me as I had thought the Second Age lasted -1498 AR to 1532 AR ending when Pharaoh Menedes XXVI is deposed by forces of the Padishah Empire of Kelesh leading to the Keleshite Interregnum. This is confirmed in the main text for Osirion, Osirion, Legacy of Pharaohs 4:

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Sensing Osirion’s weakness, the nation of Qadira, the westernmost satrapy of the mighty Empire of Kelesh, seized control of Osirion in a bloodless coup in 1532 AR and forced the last Garundi pharaoh of the Second Age, Menedes XVII, into hiding.

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This is conformed by the Osirian time line on p. 6.

Has anyone else spotted this? The thing is normally I'd take the main and, in this case, modern work on the country to be the authoritative source (especially as one of our own wrote parts of it!). However, here we have another modern source written by some of the most authoritative writers on Golarion contradicting it, plus making a very convoluted mathematical point about why it is of a particularly short length in years.

So which is it? And, if it is only 67 years, what is the vast period from -1431 AR to 1532 AR called?

A number of pages will need updating and made consistent if OM wins. --Fleanetha (talk) 19:01, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

And further evidence in Lost Kingdoms 17 of the shorter Second Age: --Fleanetha (talk) 15:45, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

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The downfall of the Four Pharaohs in –1431 AR, however, brought about the end of the Age of the Black Sphinx, issuing in once again an era of decline overseen by self-righteous and incompetent pharaohs.

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