So in the cosmology of the Wheel of Time, people always find themselves in the Third Age. This is because there's always one Age before the current one, the Se

So in the cosmology of the Wheel of Time, people always find themselves in the Third Age. This is because there's always one Age before the current one, the Second Age, the Age of Legends, that is remembered as distorted legends of the truth of what happened. And then there's the Age before the Age of Legends, the First Age, which is the remnants of the legends the people in the Second Age told about what happened before them, which have now fade to myth that is almost unrecognizable from anything that happened in truth. Atlantis and the Garden of Eden would be examples of the latter -- stories that people in our distant past told about their distant past.