I mean, the timeline is kind of... weird in Neopets lore. At the beginning of The Darkest Faerie, Tormund and his sister are re-enacting the fight between Jeran and Lord Darigan. I don't think we meet Jeran in The Darkest Faerie, so we don't know if he's still around. It could be that that happened in the distant past, and the fight with Darigan has become a legend at this point, which explains why kids are so carefree about re-enacting what must have been a pretty harrowing event... but Skarl is still alive?

Then you have to factor in that Jeran and his sister are actually from the distant future, and got teleported to the past somehow, which only further confuses about what the neopets timeline even is at this point.