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Post by raviolius on Jul 26, 2018 11:33:29 GMT
According to the books and GRRM months don't have names in the world of Ice and Fire, but can be referred to as such. More commonly are they referred to as "moons" and moon turns. Maesters say in example: "The twenty-second day of the fifth moon of the year 130 AC."
Now there is one thing that is changed in the later books: AL (After the Landing) is more commonly referred to as AC (After the Conquest) now (and the time before BC, meaning Before the Conquest. But due to game limitations this is unimportant to the mod). This was due to Aegon's Landing being two years prior to the actual beginning of the measurement at the end of the conquest.
I wanted to point out wouldn't it be more true to the lore if the mod were to use these names for months instead of our world's names and AC instead of AL?
• First Moon • Second Moon • Third Moon • Fourth Moon • Fifth Moon • Sixth Moon • Seventh Moon • Eighth Moon • Ninth Moon • Tenth Moon • Eleventh Moon • Twelvth Moon
GRRM also confirmed that months and measurement, albeit mostly nameless, are the same as in our world.
If this has been changed already (playing on an older version because of my saves), I want to apologize for the unneccessary inconvienience. I just thought this would add on to the immersion.
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Post by raviolius on Jul 26, 2018 11:34:36 GMT
For reference here is the link to the wiki page: awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Measurement
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Post by galrun on Jul 26, 2018 14:18:21 GMT
BTW: What really bugs me with time measurement in ASOIAF are „years“. What is a year in this world? In our world a year is a circle of the 4 seasons, so e.g. the time between the beginning of 2 winters. But as winter and summer are weird in the books world, how the hell are they measuring years? xD
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Post by simplicius on Jul 26, 2018 19:28:06 GMT
Switching to AC would me one couldn't play a game set prior to Aegon's Conquest. It would also be weird to play a game where you prevent or quickly overturn Aegon's Conquest but continue to refer to time in those terms. BTW: What really bugs me with time measurement in ASOIAF are „years“. What is a year in this world? In our world a year is a circle of the 4 seasons, so e.g. the time between the beginning of 2 winters. But as winter and summer are weird in the books world, how the hell are they measuring years? xD Years are solar years, as in the planet's orbit around its sun. This is according to GRRM. link
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Post by raviolius on Jul 28, 2018 12:07:26 GMT
Switching to AC would me one couldn't play a game set prior to Aegon's Conquest. It would also be weird to play a game where you prevent or quickly overturn Aegon's Conquest but continue to refer to time in those terms. BTW: What really bugs me with time measurement in ASOIAF are „years“. What is a year in this world? In our world a year is a circle of the 4 seasons, so e.g. the time between the beginning of 2 winters. But as winter and summer are weird in the books world, how the hell are they measuring years? xD Years are solar years, as in the planet's orbit around its sun. This is according to GRRM. link"After conquest" does not mean it was successfull, I think the change would be trivial at best. Either way, you can also prevent Aegon's Landing. It's really no difference other than the other one is now used more commonly.
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Post by raviolius on Jul 28, 2018 12:10:37 GMT
BTW: What really bugs me with time measurement in ASOIAF are „years“. What is a year in this world? In our world a year is a circle of the 4 seasons, so e.g. the time between the beginning of 2 winters. But as winter and summer are weird in the books world, how the hell are they measuring years? xD According to GRRM years are the same length as on earth. A year isn't a cycle of four seasons in our world, it is the time it takes for the planet to circle around the sun once, and it is the same in ASOIAF. I guess somehow Maesters can measure this. In the show it is implied they know the sun is at the centre of the system, so why not also in the books?
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