User blog comment:Red Eyed Raven/just a quick thought/@comment-4829046-20131212101525/@comment-3424593-20131212170735

this is how it happens if anyone is confused
 * one year after the grand magic games of X791 frosch dies and rogue  goes into the dark side.
 * sometime in the next 6 years acnologia rules the world and somehow rogue creates Dragon manipulation magic.
 * said magic does not work on the Dragon king so seven years after X791, rogue travels through the eclipse gate and arrives bound  to take over the world
 * he manipulated hisui into creating the grand magic games in order to charge up the eclipse gate for 6 years. (x785-x791)
 * on x791, the eclipse gate is complete and the gates are opened, only to have 10,000 dragons appear.
 * future rogue controls them and they destroy mercurius (remember carla's vision)
 * as this all happens lucy falls unconscious and when she wakesup she travels back through the eclipse gate.
 * arrives on the 4th day of the games and the rest you know what happens