Thread:Roboartitec/@comment-4547267-20140414144707/@comment-5912473-20140415040110

It's an assumption. He was absent because he had lost his memories - when he finally regained them he was incarcerated and joined the Seven Deadly Sins. When he met Ban, he was already immortal. It wasn't until after the Sins were framed that he found out the forest had burnt down.

Not to mention we never see the hunter's grandson again (unless it's the man King's cradling, though he could be a distant descendant given that King thought he was his grandfather), the village is exponentially bigger when Helbram destroys it and Danafor's Holy Knights have more or less only been shown in uniform. Besides, the Sins were pardoned by King Liones (which I assume means they were all held by Liones), it makes sense that King was captured by Liones Holy Knights.

Also - if Helbram started killing people 500 years before he was reunited with King (let's say for the sake of argument that he started immediately after the incident and forget that fairies perceive time differently), that would put Meliodas in the 200's, not the 500's as you claim.