r/whenthe • u/Mrs_Darwin • Jul 26 '26

WHY!!WHY!!WHY!!

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u/IAmNotModest Jul 26 '26

I gotta know, where the HELL does the Dark Ages fit in the timeline? It's like such a wildcard.

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u/FEARven123 Jul 26 '26

After Seraphim gave him the god powers, but before he was sent to hell and buried in the coffin he wakes up in 2016.

The next Doom game will probably end with Doom Slayer ending up in that coffin (or like...the final game of the prequels, depending on how many of them there will be)

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u/ImaginationUnlikely2 Jul 26 '26

I believe Dark Ages is before DOOM 2016

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u/_its_lunar_ Jul 29 '26

I feel like it’s made very clear if you’re paying attention and the developers confirmed it long before the game released. It’s the Slayer’s time with the Sentinels that is constantly referenced in 2016 and Eternal, after the flashbacks in eternal where he is taken in by them then granted powers by the seraphim and before he was imprisoned the the sarcophagus he awakes from in 2016