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>Nothing about AOS actually requires anyone who's in any danger of dying from old age to survive so it could happen centuries after the reign of Franz.
When you think about it, most of the setup for the mortal realms could actually be reconnected back to a different time
>the creation of the realms happens in a parallel dimension between the real world and the chaos realm with the magical explosion of the great catastrophe instead of the one in the end times, and various races accidentally reach there and start as primitives
>sigmar reaches the mortal realms when he leaves the empire after his reign, he helps humans there and eventually starts making storm warriors to fight chaos
>the dwarfen ancestor gods reach the realms at some point during or after the cataclysm
>alarielle is actually just ariel and kurnoth is orion, and they walk back and forth from athel loren and the realms
>malerion is the near-literal shadow of malekith that detaches and is born in ulgu when malekith is burned in the flames of asuryan since he gets rejected/fails to burn himself completely
>morathi finds the realms via her demonic deals, snake-morathi splits from her as a result of making deals with slaanesh once (gave up a piece of herself, and then that piece escaped from slaanesh's gullet)
>the proto-fyreslayers arrive to the realms when dwarfs who followed grimnir in his quest to close the gate enter that gate together with him to seal it from there
>the kharadrons formed at the same time as the chaos dwarfs, roughly in the same location, but instead of digging deep and finding chaos, they found the realms and took flight with the resource there
>the idoneth were born during the sundering when much of ulthuan sunk, mathlann saved them, in exchange of a price that still weighs on them
>lumies were colonists that went east and then found the realms and remained there instead of going home with the sundering
>nagash found the realms when he last brooded in nagashizzar