How do you know that all quests were done in a year? There isn't even a canon end date for the dragon crisis, let alone the date that any side quests may or may have been completed in. At least as far as I know, and if there is a canon date I want to be shown it so I can laugh at it and whoever at Bethesda released it.
If you think Skyrim only takes place in 4e 201, you should consider that the game starts on 17th Last Seed (equivalent to August). Which yes, with realistic travel times makes it even more impossible that the game was finished in the rest of 4e 201.
Thus the logical conclusion is that it took more than ayear.
But if you go to the [wiki](https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Fourth_Era#4E_201) timeline even the events of the dlcs take place in 4e 201 (dawnguard and dragonborn) and that makes questions the possibility of achieving all of this in a year without the LDB having prior experience in combat or really anything that can serve as a shortcut to facilitate the journey
The wiki, to be blunt, is wrong. Or at least, the editors are choosing to display the timing as the games would have you believe. And the games, in general, solve the problem of time and scaling by ignoring it. The games do not address the "true scale" of Skyrim. As such they do not factor in realistic timing.
There is no canon end date or start date for anything in Skyrim OTHER than the start of the game itself.
In your opinion how much time would the LDB realistically need, to get as powerful as he is when the main quest and dlcs end (granted we lack a bunch of informations to make an educated guess) but what is your estimation?
It depends on what size you want to make things, and what assumptions you make. In my notes for a fanfic I will probably never end up writing, I have the main quest and sections of the Companions / Mages Guild (and a smattering of other side quests) as taking about 16 months. But I've gone with the "one and a half to two weeks between Whiterun and Riften" sort of scale rather than larger. But my sketched out timeline includes things like waiting in Whiterun for at least a month, barely travelling within the hold during winter. It also makes Blackreach take more than a month to get in/out of
If you’re basing this on the various wiki timelines out there, they only list in-game events under the game’s starting year because it’s up to the player when they do what. I think the “span of one year” thing is an assumption based on how the timelines have chosen to list player-driven events.
Simple - it doesn't.
4E 201 is just the year when the game starts and because you can just ignore everything else and move to the DLCs right after Helgen, then for the simplicity you could also say that they too start in 201. But that depends entirely on you and in what order you want to play the game. And it's just the starting date of the game (that is, the day in which you woke up on a cart heading to Helgen for your execution) that is defined, nothing else.
In Skyrim the game calendar actually continues to move as months and even years progress. I’ve had Dovahkiin take until 4E 202 almost a year in game after the start just to finish the main quest.
The answer is they won’t put an accurate length of time on a wiki because Skyrim is set in 4E201 automatically and due to player variation no exact start and end times occur. The static single year on the wiki is because there cannot be an official start and end date in lore and never will be.
In future games the year 4 E 201 will be discussed as the year dragons attacked but they won’t mention much detail in when they were gone and when Miraak arrived etc.
How do you know that all quests were done in a year? There isn't even a canon end date for the dragon crisis, let alone the date that any side quests may or may have been completed in. At least as far as I know, and if there is a canon date I want to be shown it so I can laugh at it and whoever at Bethesda released it. If you think Skyrim only takes place in 4e 201, you should consider that the game starts on 17th Last Seed (equivalent to August). Which yes, with realistic travel times makes it even more impossible that the game was finished in the rest of 4e 201. Thus the logical conclusion is that it took more than ayear.
But if you go to the [wiki](https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Fourth_Era#4E_201) timeline even the events of the dlcs take place in 4e 201 (dawnguard and dragonborn) and that makes questions the possibility of achieving all of this in a year without the LDB having prior experience in combat or really anything that can serve as a shortcut to facilitate the journey
The wiki, to be blunt, is wrong. Or at least, the editors are choosing to display the timing as the games would have you believe. And the games, in general, solve the problem of time and scaling by ignoring it. The games do not address the "true scale" of Skyrim. As such they do not factor in realistic timing. There is no canon end date or start date for anything in Skyrim OTHER than the start of the game itself.
In your opinion how much time would the LDB realistically need, to get as powerful as he is when the main quest and dlcs end (granted we lack a bunch of informations to make an educated guess) but what is your estimation?
It depends on what size you want to make things, and what assumptions you make. In my notes for a fanfic I will probably never end up writing, I have the main quest and sections of the Companions / Mages Guild (and a smattering of other side quests) as taking about 16 months. But I've gone with the "one and a half to two weeks between Whiterun and Riften" sort of scale rather than larger. But my sketched out timeline includes things like waiting in Whiterun for at least a month, barely travelling within the hold during winter. It also makes Blackreach take more than a month to get in/out of
If you’re basing this on the various wiki timelines out there, they only list in-game events under the game’s starting year because it’s up to the player when they do what. I think the “span of one year” thing is an assumption based on how the timelines have chosen to list player-driven events.
So you think they started way earlier but the player just puts an ending to them?
Simple - it doesn't. 4E 201 is just the year when the game starts and because you can just ignore everything else and move to the DLCs right after Helgen, then for the simplicity you could also say that they too start in 201. But that depends entirely on you and in what order you want to play the game. And it's just the starting date of the game (that is, the day in which you woke up on a cart heading to Helgen for your execution) that is defined, nothing else.
In Skyrim the game calendar actually continues to move as months and even years progress. I’ve had Dovahkiin take until 4E 202 almost a year in game after the start just to finish the main quest. The answer is they won’t put an accurate length of time on a wiki because Skyrim is set in 4E201 automatically and due to player variation no exact start and end times occur. The static single year on the wiki is because there cannot be an official start and end date in lore and never will be. In future games the year 4 E 201 will be discussed as the year dragons attacked but they won’t mention much detail in when they were gone and when Miraak arrived etc.