About The Passing Of Time And Its Measuring,

[Laurir'leh 2]

Nearly a decade has passed since the flee of Aegis, and timekeeping has not been properly curated. The following is an essay about the Aegisian timekeeping systems and how they must be used in Asulon, as well as determination of subdivisions to help on science researching in the Scholar Mali'aheral City of Haelun'or and all Asulon. The first chapter is about the systems before the Great Escape and their origin. The second one treats the possibility and need of adaptation of them, and the third describes the invention of new ones. In the end, a table of conversion and a symbol glossary are annexed.

Chapter 1: Aegisian Timekeeping systems

Aegis was ruled by a Day/Night-cicle, as Asulon is nowadays. Such allows for a researcher to divide the Aegisian systems in two main groups. On the one hand, those derived from the abovementioned cycle. On the other hand, systems whose origins do not rely upon it, but upon culture, nature, or beliefs. This part is based on some scholars' help the author got in Laurelin, so part of its information may be misleading.

1.1 Cycle-based timekeeping systems

The Passing, a Common word usually used by humans, or karin(ah), as the Old Elves liked to call it, is the basic measure of time, since it's the one that is more visual and obvious. Its duration was that of one cycle.

Although there is no word for it, a seven-Passing system was used by Aegisians, who used a single word to describe each of the seven days. These seven words, organized from first to last are: Ahad, Itnan, Tolta, Irba, Kamees, Joma and Sabet. Further investigations in Haelun'or's library seem to indicate a Dwarven origin to this setting, but not much is mentioned.

Five of these seven-Passing groups constrict a Seed, also determined by humans, thus situating thirty-five Passings in a Seed. Eight Seeds make a Year. Each of these Seeds has a name too. They are the following: The First Seed, The Second Seed, The Grand Harvest, Sun's Smile, The Amber Cold, The Deep Cold, Snow's Maiden and Malin's Welcome.

Divisions of a Passing exist too. The Old Elves of Aegis used a measure of time that divided the Passing in sixteen taliman (Singular: talima). The talima system is a very interesting one, and the most complicated yet. A talima is a sixteenth of a Passing, and the day is divided in four: taliker (Midnight), karinah (Sunrise), talikarinah (Noon) and ker (Sunset). An hour is described by saying the last of these sections followed by how many taliman have passed since it and the word talima. For example, a talima before sunset (that is, three taliman after noon) is karinah hael talima ("Noon three talima ). The four sections' exact times are just called the name itself (not four hours after the last).

1.2 Non-cycle-based timekeeping systems

The shortest one is the Fortday. This was, funny enough, established by dwarves. Their seventh King noticed that his people (as most creatures of Aegis) had an odd sleeping cycle that didn't adhere to any change in Aegis. After some research, he determined a Fortday to be two Seeds and five Passings. The Old Elves found about this and called it a karim. Afterwards, its use expanded to all of Aegis.

Orcs noticed that approximately every four years, the extreme temperatures of the desert went even hotter or colder (although Krugmar was still hot in these times). They called each of this cycles a Season.

The days when Malin, Father of the Elves, lived in Laurelin, establish the maximum length of a High Prince's or Princess' reign. This is called a Malin's Year.

Last, but not least, is the Long Week or Elven Week. This was established by Malinor and is a group of seven Fortdays. This term is on the last position because it has led to the use of the word Elven to describe this section of time systems. Therefore, the terms Elven Day, Elven Month and Elven Year are correspondant to Fortdays, Seasons and Malin's Years.

Chapter 2: Adapting of Aegisian timekeeping systems to Asulon

((The Passings in Asulon are longer in relation to real life, and so become the systems derived from them. Most systems work from here, but I have felt the need of change of the talima system.))

This system now divides the day in fifteen, not sixteen, taliman. Each one is divided in 41 irem, which in turn are divided in 40 talirem. That makes each talima 1640 talireman long. This will lead to easier science time-measuring.

Annex 1: Symbols

For an easier organization of scientific demonstrations, the following symbols will be used for representing the different time-measuring systems:

Y: Aegian Year

y: Asulonian Year

My: Malin's Year

S: Aegian Seed

s: Asulonian Seed

Os: Orcish Season

Ew:Elven Week

P: Aegian Passing

p: Asulonian Passing

Fd: Fortday

T: Aegian talima

t: Asulonian talima

i: irem

ti: talirem

Annex 2: Changing table

*A table is attached to the end of the book*

((https://docs.google....S3NaTkhHcnVHN1E))

[Sporadic 2844]

A very interesting read indeed, Laurir'leh. I will find this work quite useful as a way to relay a quantity of time to others. Not to mention the power of the word 'talirem' when I need to ask for a moment.

Where in the library will I able to find a copy of your book?

[Laurir'leh 2]

((I haven't able yet to put it there. I will this weekend, probably.))

[steelersfan1221 300]

Moved to the Great Library. It shall be sorted into appropriate category shortly.