Template talk:Alpha and Omega Fictional Character

Policy question. There are no dates given in Alpha and Omega but it reads as if its starts in the year of publication (2019). Therefore, for things like DOB, DOD, etc. should we assume 2019 as the base line? For instance, Eric Katz is described as being in his forties so his DOB would be the 1970s. One complication is that we do not get seasons or other indications of the passage of time. However, to take down the two Muslim shrines and then build the Third Temple plus the events afterwards would take several years. Again nothing specific is given.

As a side note, Trump is mentioned by name twice, once a character comparing his lack of wealth to Trump's, the second a snide comment by a (Jewish) character that the gaudy gold leaf on the Third Temple's reconstruction, echoing Herod's, must have been done by a Trump architect. We also have a speech by an unnamed American President denouncing the dirty bomb attack on Tel Aviv with no description that would match Trump (aside from the POV thinking he wasn't a good speaker or very bright). AH? Or just Turtledove not wishing to acknowledge the weird AH we are living in? ML4E (talk) 22:05, July 24, 2019 (UTC)