#ultimate timeline

I appreciate the ask, lil Anon! So the spreadsheet timeline is something @lloydgarmadone and I have been whipping up for... A pretty long while. Years. It’s been a few years. I’ve lost a lot of hours of sleep over this and lots of sheets of paper. This thing is massive and only getting bigger and improved upon every time I go into it. Lots of revision and editing has gone into this, and a lot more will continue to go into it.

This is the Ultimate Timeline of the Canonverse.

We use this to map out the ages of all of the characters during the years, mark when seasons are occurring, write down just how old characters are when these seasons are (ex. in the first picture, it says Pilot (25) which shows that the pilot occurs in Year 25 of the Ultimate Timeline, and that these ages listed under it are the ages of the ninja during the time of the pilot. Year 25 is also listed in the second image, showing that within that year, characters are turning from one age to another.) The timeline also includes age gaps, birthdays, exact dates of seasons and other big events, and also other little things to help us keep track of the plot.

The colors also help keep track and help separate characters. The top rows in the second image are the people who are mostly involved in the Elemental Alliance, or are at least older than the ninja to be included within this age range. The colors also can help note just who gets what powers, as Kai and Ray are both a red for Fire, Cole and Terra are purple for Earth, Jay and Nora are their darker blue for Lightning, and so on. (Let it be noted that Casey, Ronin, Deoksu, and Hector - most of which are OCs - have colors but don’t have powers. The colors, in this instance, aid in helping us keep the characters and ages all separated.)

The second area are the Ninja, the main story that this whole thing is mostly revolved upon. They age through the years in our Canonverse and we like to keep track of pretty much everything to keep it all as stable as we possibly can.

Since we haven’t placed Sons of Garmadon and Hunted down yet for their years, we haven’t placed the Next Gen kids in the Ultimate Timeline yet, so they will be placed in soon!

As for that last tab titled Duality? Well, let’s just say that ties in with the Prequel Prequel of the series... Way before the Elemental Alliance. It’s our own season that we’re making, so be on the look out for stuff on that!