The Time of Heroes is said in general terms to run from the end of the Godtime to the Splitting of Irritaria. However, this period of almost 1000 years is further subdivided. The Age of Darkness is when the races became used to the withdrawal of the gods. Then from around 400OT, when the true Time of Heroes began for its is only around this time that stories of people like Biriel Brotherslayer, Zergoul Whitelightning and King Harar emerge.