Stephen Tempest wrote:
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>
> >The Orlanthi use the practical method of dating since the Dawn,
> giving us the familiar 162X dates.
>
> Is there a reason why this system has to be "Orlanthi" in particular?
> As far as I understand it the Dawn, the birth of linear Time, and the
> final separation of the Middle World from the God Planes wasn't a
> local event that only affected people in the Theyalan highlands. It
> was a *worldwide* paradigm shift of universal significance.
>
Yes, I'd imagine a lot of cultures will use it. The Hrestoli, of course,
have a double reason for doing so, and since theirs was the first
organised Malkioni Church, I could see it (and use it in Book of
Glorious Joy, among others) as a sort of standard calendar, even where
they do also have something more local. The Brithini are a slightly odd
case, refusing to stop using their traditional calendar just because of
anything as trivial as the universe changing around them - that they
won't have had any reliable way of measuring the passage of time during
the Darkness is just a minor inconvenience.
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Trotsky
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