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One of the amusing aspects of Game of Thrones is that while constructing an intricately detailed timeline going back thousands of years, George RR Martin then leaves clues that the timeline may be off by thousands of years.

https://books.google.com/books?id=tYUsrknjhbEC&pg=PA46#v=one...

"Past a certain point, all the dates grow hazy and confused, and the clarity of history becomes the fog of legend." - Hoster Blackwood, to Jaime Lannister

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GRRM does love his unreliable narrators. Jon and Sam have an interesting conversation about how many Lord Commanders there were before him, and there's a few fan theories spun off out of that. And A World of Ice and Fire is a "historical" document written by an in-universe character who presents the history through his own biases.

I'd be interested in speculations on the impact of an off timeline. Surely it affects the "mundane" very little - most people likely do not care about anyone outside living memory (probably a couple hundred years, since a lot of time is reckoned from genealogy).

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