Talk:Timeline/@comment-190.83.187.148-20171007203900/@comment-5480911-20180118170152

Maruyama did not say exactly that all the players in the new world arrivesd at the same time the game shut down. It is implied they all came from the game when it shut down.

To explain it better. Maruyama wrote a what if story that Ainz rather than stay in the guild decided to go out in the swamp area and celebrate its end with some in game fireworks. Than when it shut down, he arrived around 200 to 300 years earlier and somewhere in an unknown location were a country was in ruins and he met evileye.