> 一つの時代の積み重ねが新たな伝説を生み、ここにまた一人のヒーローが誕生した。ロックマン
> ([source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiH35lzjXTc))

Here are two translations I have:

> _The culmination of one era gives birth to a new legend, and here again
> another hero is born._

> _The efforts of an era gave birth to a new legend, and here again another
> hero is born._

I'm not sure if を生み is supposed to be を生み出した. Nor do I know what tense it
could possibly mean exactly.

Is it "gave birth", "gives birth", "will give birth", "has given birth", or
"produces a new legend", "created a new legend"?
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What is the correct tense for を生み?
As Japanese, を生み has no tense at all. Tense for this only exists when
translating into a language that requires a tense.

In your given context, を生み occurs within a longer statement that ends with
誕生した -- past tense, and the only tense in the entire sentence. So if we were
forced to translate を生み here into an expression that has tense, the past tense
might be appropriate. That said, I personally like
@[A.Ellett](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/users/4875/)'s suggestion of
side-stepping the issue, and using _" giving birth to"_, a construction in
English that itself doesn't really have tense.
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