[Edi]

Sombre, Saulot, the reason I place Ashen Empire after EA by preference is because when I once asked about this, Kristoffer said that it was supposed to have happened that way and things got complicated with the introduction of Broken Empire.

The gradual decline model messes with the continuity a lot more than the catastrophic fall, but it's the one we have to live with. The things is that people were asking WTF was up with the Ulm eras and I provided an explanation for it. Black Forest was always supposed to be after the Iron Kingdom just as Pythium was always Byzantium to Ermor's Rome. Ashen Empire and Broken Empire are originally parallel alternates and I think the idea of reclamation never occurred to Illwinter due to the work they had already done on BE in Dom2. So they made it a decline, which then has people asking all these questions about the continuity.

As far as Marverni goes, we have Kristoffer on record saying that Marignon is MA Marverni, meaning the nation changes drastically due to Ermorian influence when going from early to middle era.