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

[bloodyashes]

...Less than four hundred days?

Damn. That's an adjustment.

[byheartandblade]

I take it yours is longer?

[bloodyashes]

756 days.

[byheartandblade]

[ ...Give her a few minutes. ]

Seven hells, why are your years so long!?

[bloodyashes]

...Because that's the time it takes Auldrant to orbit Rem?

[Because they ARE what do you want from him.]

[byheartandblade]

Why does it take so long!?

[bloodyashes]

I could as well ask why yours is so short.

[sky_sharkling]

That's interesting, how things seem to match up even though they're called different names. Almost like it's a language thing rather than a world difference.

Earth's year is a little bit shorter. 365 days, except for every fourth year when it's 366. Those are called leap years. I think that happens because it technically takes 365 days and 6 hours to go around the sun, so every four years it adds up to another day.

[byheartandblade]

At least it doesn't drag on!

[byheartandblade]

Aye, I wanted to make it easier for people to understand what I'm saying.

Interesting. It doesn't seem too much shorter, at least.

[betterthangarlond]

Why do other realms feel the need to be so... complex?
There are perfectly fine words in Eorzean, and they think they're not good enough?

[byheartandblade]

It's not that it's not good enough, I don't think.

But now they can at least understand what we're saying.

[bloodyashes]

It only seems to drag on because you're used to the shorter one.

[bloodyashes]

Well, at least that explains why you're aging so quickly.

[betterthangarlond]

Let me guess - their measurements are more common then ours, as well? I already dislike this concept.

[sky_sharkling]

It's fun at least, learning all the different words for things!

Yeah, your world and mine must be fairly similar in their solar systems. Distance from the sun and all that. It's interesting, given how different this world is, assuming it's even working on the same principle.

[sky_sharkling]

Or maybe it's why you're aging so slowly. It's normal for me, after all.

[bloodyashes]

A coin has two sides. It's the same thing.

[angel_of_death]

I won't pretend to be a scientist, but I'm fairly certain the length of the year has little to do with someone's physical aging.

On the other hand, the growing season for your food crops must be simply amazing.

[bloodyashes]

Clearly it does, probably due to the world difference. You both look sixteen to me, but in Auldrant time, sixteen Earth years isn't even quite eight.

[angel_of_death]

Actually, there is another common measurement system on Earth, but it doesn't translate as precisely to the other measurements mentioned above as the writer claims the Imperial units do.

[angel_of_death]

We've had this conversation before, remember?

[You know, the one where you might not be precisely the same exact species? Or subspecies, not that Walter quite knows that exact term yet.]

[bloodyashes]

Yes, I was clarifying for everyone else reading.

[angel_of_death]

[Somewhere, Walter is sighing.]

Your aging hasn't changed here, has it?

[bloodyashes]

Not as far as I can tell.