((Ooc)) Elven Year?

[Lail_Ravengem 9]

A friend and I were discussing this earlier. I wanted to know how Elves count their years. IE, if an Elf is 200, is he/she 200 HUMAN years, or 200 ELVEN years?

Thanks,

Lail

[Aerinyes 402]

A friend and I were discussing this earlier. I wanted to know how Elves count their years. IE, if an Elf is 200, is he/she 200 HUMAN years, or 200 ELVEN years?

Thanks,

Lail

All in human years.

An elf reaches adulthood at 15-20 years.

Middle age at around 500 (also become infertile at this age)

And live to be about 900-1200ish

They do not grow old however. An elven girl who is 900 looks like she's in her 20s, just more tired looking and weaker.

[Bawg 494]

In my opinion if a elf is 200, he looks as if he was 20 year old man with pointy ears.

[susitsu 871]

Elven time is an RP method of comparing real life time to MC time. An Elven day is an RL day, though you may have been talking about their aging. I do hope if you meant otherwise, this information still helps you.

[Aerinyes 402]

I don't think we have an elven day. Seed is the term for that. But other then that an Elven Week is a RL week, or seven seeds.

[Elindor 666]

Seed is the incorrect use for it. The correct term for a real-life day is a 'Fortday' and was established by the dwarves. The wiki is a useful source of information.

[Aerinyes 402]

Well in Laurelin we use seed and have been for a while.

I think its just been adopted, why would elves use Dwarven terms?

[Yuln 265]

Well in Laurelin we use seed and have been for a while.

I think its just been adopted, why would elves use Dwarven terms?

because it more clear, if we make things cryptic it would be easier to use dwarven terms.

[Aerinyes 402]

because it more clear, if we make things cryptic it would be easier to use dwarven terms.

Everyone on the Council uses the term seed as does the Vanguard, Wardens, and Royal Guard. As well as most my character interacts with.

Could be just a GMT -5 to -8 thing though. I don't see some of you around usually.

[Alan 1815]

I am GMT -5, and I use the word seed.

So yah, maybe it is a timezone thing.

[bungo 3965]

Well in Laurelin we use seed and have been for a while.

I think its just been adopted, why would elves use Dwarven terms?

Seed refers Month out of character. As two are named after seeds, although they are all seeds. Fortday is used worldwide and as is Elven Week/Year.

[Aerinyes 402]

My character doesn't travel very much and doesn't have a reason to use the term fortday(have yet to hear the term even used in Laurelin). As there hasn't been a calender marked down ICly, she's going to use the terms that she and the ones she associates with all know and currently use.

Think of it like September, October, Novemeber, and December used to be months 7, 8, 9, and 10. Hence their names. But that changed over time to something different.

Seed might have meant month, but now beginning to mean 72 days. This isn't something I made up myself. The council uses it as well as some others in authoritative positions in Malinor. My character is only following along.

With a world being as young as Aegis is, timekeeping isn't going to be accurate or even consistent even within nations. The characters are going to improvise.

[bungo 3965]

My character doesn't travel very much and doesn't have a reason to use the term fortday(have yet to hear the term even used in Laurelin). As there hasn't been a calender marked down ICly, she's going to use the terms that she and the ones she associates with all know and currently use.

Think of it like September, October, Novemeber, and December used to be months 7, 8, 9, and 10. Hence their names. But that changed over time to something different.

Seed might have meant month, but now beginning to mean 72 days. This isn't something I made up myself. The council uses it as well as some others in authoritative positions in Malinor. My character is only following along.

With a world being as young as Aegis is, timekeeping isn't going to be accurate or even consistent even within nations. The characters are going to improvise.

These are basically OOC terms that are able to be used IC. They were always there and if you change them up, that will confuse most people and they won't have the same purpose that their used for. You cant really change things in one place as people travel around a lot and definitely will spread to you in one way or another.

[VonEbs 1224]

I have traveled far, and people ig always seem to say elven day or week... seed is also common. I have yet to hear fortday.

[Albirich 14]

I also have yet to hear fortday. Anyways, fortday isn't really practical IMO because it is too close to fortnight which is 20 IG days or about 4.5 hrs if i'm not mistaken.