A Guide to Eorzean

[byheartandblade]

[ Syhr'd been fortunate enough to Echo the information correctly enough to infer, she believes. So she's going to do this for others there. ]

Eorzea is my world. So I figured I'd give a quick guide so you lot can understand what's being said.

Ilm seems to translate to inch.
Fulm would be foot.
Yalm is yard.
Malm is mile.

We use bells, not hours.

Our year is about three hundred eight-four suns.
Suns are days.
Moons are months.
An epoch is a measurement of twelve years, as opposed to a decade.

We say nameday instead of birthday.

Onze instead of ounce.
Ponze instead of pound.
Tonze instead of ton.

I can answer any questions you have, if you have them.

Comments

[oneformisery]

Most of these words are strange to me. I understand your references to time and birthdays but what are the rest?

[bloodyashes]

An inch is about the length from the tip of your thumb to the joint. A foot is... Well, about the length of a foot from heel to toe, standardized at twelve inches. A yard is a pace or so, or a little over half my height - three feet. A mile is a long-distance measurement of about 500 yards.

Weights are a little harder - sixteen ounces is a pound, two thousand pounds is a ton. The rice is all in ten-pound sacks, I know one of your roommates got some.

[oneformisery]

Those all sound like very unreliable methods of measurement. Not all men have the same stride, or the same length thumbs and feet.

How are ounces measured?

[bloodyashes]

Those are approximations - the actual measurements are standardized.

[He draws an inch long line and labels it.]

[oneformisery]

I see.

[ Bit of a pause here. ]

But why Then somehow, your world, and this 'Eorza' the first writer speaks of, use the same measurements under different names? That is an incredible coincidence.

[bloodyashes]

Well, I imagine the Eorzean measurements probably come from the same root. Humans from Auldrant and Hyur seem to be about the same size, if the small sample we have here is representative.

[Mind the two Eorzeans he's seen that aren't Hyur are GODDAMN CRAZYTALL, but still.]

And I don't know if they're precisely the same.

[oneformisery]

Humans appear to be a constant no matter what world is being spoken of. It makes me wonder if there exists any world in which humans are not 'human'.