Talk:Luka/@comment-108.34.252.216-20150906002504/@comment-1661895-20150906110041

It's difficult to say. The games are never really given a specified modern day timeframe, the general setting is just 'present day'. Luka's exact age is also never given despite a birthdate, so it's hard to tell if he's just a younger looking middle-aged man. If he was born in the late 1970s that would make him at least nearing his late 30s if we were to take the 2010s as the setting for the modern day events. They could be set earlier and therefore make him younger, there's no way of knowing.

Another thing to keep in mind is that Rosa states it's been 20 years since she last saw Balder, not necessarily 20 years since Cereza was born. We don't know the exact time difference between when Cereza was born and when they were discovered (though it's assumed it was fairly early on since she is still a baby when they are punished). The pair of them could've met any number of times before the actual Clan Wars began since it's likely they didn't start immediately after Cereza was found. They could've then been driven apart for good thanks to the outbreak of fighting and then met properly after the Wars ended when Balder was tricked by the angels into spurring on the Witch Hunts. Cereza would've still appeared young because age has no meaning for the Umbra.

Of course, all of this is just theorycrafting at this point and doesn't really explain the large differences in time. The games have a small number of inconsistencies like this that are attempted to be glossed over by not giving all of the details or not being the focus of the story. I don't think we'd really know unless Kamiya himself answered the question.