Arknights Endfield How It Fits into the Arknights Universe Timeline and Lore
Arknights: Endfield is set on Talos-II, a distant moon colonized by Terrans from the original Arknights world (Terra), in the far future of the same universe rather than a separate continuity. It uses new locations and factions but is explicitly framed as a spin-off taking place after the events of mainline Arknights.
When and Where Endfield Happens
- Talos-II is a frontier moon reached via a dimensional portal called the Æthergate, used by pioneers from Terra roughly 152 years before Endfield’s main story.
- The Æthergate was later destroyed during the First Aggeloi War, cutting Talos-II off from Terra and forcing the colonists into a self-sufficient, isolated society.
- Community timeline breakdowns place Endfield well after the current Arknights main story (around years 1098–1102 on Terra), though the exact year gap is not fixed and might be even larger than 152 years.
So Endfield is effectively “Arknights in the future, on another world,” not a reboot.
How Terra and Talos-II Are Connected
- Terrans from the Arknights world opened the Æthergate and used it to travel to Talos-II as pioneers, establishing new settlements and industrial projects.
- A major conflict (the First Aggeloi War) shattered the gate and trapped the colonists, creating Talos-II’s current frontier, corporate, and survival setting.
- Lore commentators and interviews describe Endfield as an expansion of the same universe’s history, following what happens after spacefaring and interdimensional travel become viable for Terran civilization.
In-universe, Talos-II is a later chapter in the technological and political trajectory that starts in Arknights.
Reconveners and “Returning” Operators
- Endfield introduces Reconveners, special individuals linked to familiar operators from Terra.
- They are created from data fragments held in a First Originium crystal that was brought to Talos-II through the Æthergate, containing information and memory data about Terra’s operators.
- During the First Aggeloi War, that data was corrupted and trapped in an “Assimilated Universe”; when fragments are later decrypted and instantiated, they manifest as new people who resemble former operators in appearance and abilities, but have distinct personalities and identities.
This lets Endfield reuse fan-favorite faces and powers while making clear they are not literally the same individuals from Terra.
Thematic and Narrative Links
- Thematically, Endfield inherits Arknights’ focus on survival in hostile environments, Originium-derived phenomena, and organizations navigating political and existential threats.
- On Terra, Catastrophes and Originium shape geopolitics and powers; on Talos-II, analogous forces like Corruption/Blight and Aggeloi distort environments and underpin abilities and crises.
- Both stories center on specialized organizations (Rhodes Island vs. Endfield Industries) facing off against world-scale disasters and opaque entities, but in different eras and locations.
Endfield is written to stand alone, yet its core concepts clearly echo and extend Arknights’ worldbuilding.
Do You Need Arknights to Follow Endfield’s Lore?
- Lore explainers and community threads emphasize that Endfield is a spin-off that can be read as its own starting point, with enough in-game exposition to understand Talos-II, Reconveners, and Corruption.
- Having Arknights context mainly enhances:
In short, Endfield fits into the Arknights universe as a future-era, off-world chapter: Terra came first, its people opened the way to Talos-II, the gate was destroyed, and now Endfield’s story explores what that distant frontier looks like decades or centuries beyond the mainline game.
