User blog comment:Cazorb/-MONSTER HUNTER SERIES- The Timeline/@comment-1475794-20140830015553

If you did watch the credits for MHP3rd you'll see Nyan Jirou (A black cat that can transport a hunter's items back home during a quest) travelling and passing by every village *save frontier* and giving letters to the residents.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QdUmKt2hsk)

And there is a video in MHP3rd where a celebration is held after you defeat Jinouga/Zinogre and village leaders from earlier games are invited to said event at Yukumo Village. You can see the village leaders soaking in a spa at 1:49

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkRQuJXMnaI)

To sum it up, the aforementioned states that Monster Hunter games all exist in the same timeline.

Now some might try to contradict my theory by saying that MH4 is exceptional.... but remember that MH4 has a travelling caravan that visits many villages, so it's not that uncommon for the hunter to face monsters from earlier generations. Add up to that that it was revealed in the latest MH4G/MH4U Preview that you can visit Dondruma Town, which is the Online village for MH2.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=cNojl-pqZtk)

Also the Desert in MH4G/MH4U is actually the Old Desert from the 1st Generation with changes for the MH4 engine and the map is the proof, even the music is the same!

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koI16NrnRcc&list=PLG9Vclgo7ASKmvzohCKzMp06JXoQl4Dhj&index=7)

Sorry to dash your hopes for an actual Timeline that seperates the games. I've said my share as a MH maniac XP