Someone asked for a timelinelist. So I wrote one using all the canon material we’ve got so far. DMC timeline is a little bit tricky to find out and you need more then one medium to connect things but if you do, it will make sense. I will list this in years, so you can be sure this is Dante’s and Vergil’s age and I will add Neros in some parts.
So here we go:
(about -2000) Sparda defeated Mundus and closed the portal to the demonworld
(0) Vergil and Dante were born (never mentioned when Sparda and Eva met but they were married)
(8) Sparda disappeared(died) and shortly after Eva was killed by demons which were sended by Mundus
(17) Vergil visited Fortuna to search for tales and information about Sparda, and impregnated a human woman(Deadly Fortune novel)
(18) Nero was born
(18) DMC Manga
(19) DMC3(Nero was 1 year old)
(28) DMC1(Nero was 10 years old)
(At some point between 28 and 35)The Order of the Sword found Nelo Angelo’s broken armor and the broken Yamato(Deadly Fortune novel)
(29) DMC Animation(Nero was 11 years old, about the same as Patty(10)
(35) DMC4(Nero was 17 years old)
The timeline after DMC4 is not really confirmed yet, only that Dante was in his 40s so I wrote the things down I know so far
(42) DMC2
(Several years after DMC4 and I suppose shortly after DMC2, so 42-45) DMC5(so Nero is now 24-27 years old)
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