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

[angel_of_death]

Let's just say I'm used to a certain degree of isolation back home. It's just the way things are.

[On the upside, he's made actual friends here in this world. So the world that a lot of people seem vexed by... isn't so bad to him. It's a fixer-upper with a couple of assholes that need to be removed from the equation if at all possible, but it's not totally unsalvageable.]

[whiteofcrime]

[ Unexpectedly, he finds himself empathising with that. He has friends, but only one or two whom he can trust with his personal worries - and his mother isn't one of those. ]

Do you consider anyone here a friend? Doesn't have to be me.

[angel_of_death]

I've [There is a second of hesitation to his writing that anyone watching at the time will be able to notice.] made a few friends, actually.

[Hence why he made the quip about his co-workers thinking he'd gone insane if they found out. Not one, but multiple friends? The very idea would have seemed ludicrous to even him a year ago.]

It's [There's another pause.] different.

[whiteofcrime]

Different because you're no longer on your own?

[angel_of_death]

[He's not exactly sure what Kaito means when he writes "on your own". He didn't exactly live alone.

Maybe it was one of those normal people things.]

Just different. I don't know a way of explaining it that doesn't involve me going into the details of my background.

[whiteofcrime]

If you don't want to here then I won't ask.
As long as it's not a bad different, that's the main thing.

[angel_of_death]

It isn't a bad different.

[whiteofcrime]

Good.
Now that we've settled that, we should all have a house party sometime. ^^ As your friends.

[angel_of_death]

[Yeah, he's going to stare at the page for about a solid minute. A house party? As friends?]

I suppose doing something lively will help improve morale.

[whiteofcrime]

Yep! We're overdue a bit of fun after everything that's happened.

[angel_of_death]

I won't disagree with that.