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"Time
is a convenient explanation for why things do not happen all at
once."
-
Krotti
Forkbeard, Dwarven Adventurer
 
A day in Taranche is
reckoned from one sunrise to the next. To a Taranchean,
"tomorrow" doesn'’t start until the sun is up. "When a black
thread can be told from a white thread" is when the day
officially begins. Hours, minutes, and seconds are rarely kept
track of. Most people consider
there to be only five periods in a day: morning, highsun,
evening, sunebb, and night. "Midnight" is an imprecise time, and
is usually held to occur some five or six hours after sundown.
The Imperial Calendar
The following
calendar is in common-enough use to apply to all regions within
Taranche. The year consists 360 days: twelve months of thirty
days apiece. Further, months are then subdivided into three
weeks of ten days apiece. The months of the
year are listed below, with their corresponding Gregorian
calendar months. The first day of the year is reckoned as
the first day of Greengrass.
|
Imperial Month |
Gregorian Month |
Imperial Month |
Gregorian Month |
|
Greengrass |
April |
Harvest |
October |
|
Stormhome |
May |
Goldenleaf |
November |
|
Shieldmoon |
June |
Firetide |
December |
|
Summertide |
July |
Icinglace |
January |
|
Summer |
August |
Deepwinter |
February |
|
Summerset |
September |
Melting |
March |
The
Numbering of Years
Although the months
that make up a year are standardized, the system of numbering
years varies from place to place. Usually, years are numbered
from an event of great political or religious significance. Each
nation or region has cultures with unique histories and thus
different reckonings, usually based on the reign of a dynasty or
the current monarch, or since the founding of the country or
city. Most small towns use
the system of the nearest kingdom or city-state. Some nations
use the system of their neighbors if they share a cultural
heritage. The result is a hodgepodge of overlapping numbers that
serve to confuse the ordinary person and frustrate the
historian.
Imperial Reckoning
(IR) is the
default manner of numbering the years for all games. It is taken from
the year that the Taoric Empire was founded. To determine the
current game year, add 3150 to the current real world year.
(This means that the current game year is 5153 IR.)
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