My World Monday, Thera time and Marka
Just gonna jump right into it. Reason I keep saying this is because I don't know how else to introduce the idea and feel weird for just blurting it out without warning, but it's also scheduled so I'm technically not doing that… Anyway, Theran time.
Sorry if this is hard to follow.
The Theran day is the equivalent of 25 Earth hours and the Theran hour is equivalent to 1.25 Earth hours. So an hour and fifteen minutes is how long a Theran hour is. And the Theran day consists of 20 Theran hours. You with me? If not, feel free to blast me with comments or asks. 😅
Unlike Earth that has time zones for every hour, Thera has time zones for kingdoms. So the time zone are as follows, Hummes time, Estes time, Solara time, and Kares time, each zone consisting of 5 hours. Marka is referred to as the time keeper and here's why.
The city is built like a type of sundial. There are pillars that mark each hour and are labeled as H1, H2, etc for Hummes, E1, E2, etc for Estes, and so on. There are unique markings on each pillar so when the suns are behind the pillar, it'll shine through the designs and people can see what hour it is. And in the center is the grand castle meant to house the royal family of Marka, long since abandoned when the last Marka royal disappeared.
Since Marka has a perpetual sunset, the city is always awake. People will get a job and instead of requesting to work something like morning, midday and night, they say the time zone of their preferred hours. These places are literally open all day long. Well, there are some that are only open on certain days, but in that case, they start at H1 (consider Japan on Earth) and close at K5(consider Hawaii on Earth). Oh, and this goes counter clockwise because the planet spins counter clockwise. Isn't that unique. 😆 I forgot to mention that when building the planet. Oh well!
Sidenote: While Thera has little to no tilt, the planet didn't go completely unscathed when colliding with the other rocky planets to form into one, which is part of the reason is spins backwards.
Other sidenote: I thought it was clockwise until I got to a certain scene in Second Fragment and realized that if it was clockwise, the sun wouldn't be visible because it'd be behind the mountain. And that wasn't how it was supposed to be in the story. So for the suns to rise over the kingdom of Solara, it had to set behind the mountain which completely reversed the direction Thera spins. Also affected Echoes of Stag (which I'd written before Second Fragment) because I had the suns traveling clockwise. Yeah, had to go back and fix that whole thing. 😑
More time related stuff, so here we go. Theran weeks have 6 days named Sunday, Moonday, Skyday, Theraday, Freeday, Funday. Funday is essentially their weekend. Then, there are 200 days in a year, and 999 years in an era. They say it's 1,000, but technically it's 999. They still call 100 years centuries, but since their years are shorter, people often make it to their 130s to 150s and beyond where living to be a century old is more rare. Their dates are written EEE.YYY.DDD or Era.Year.Day. For example, Stag was born 086.903.196 and Deshi arrives at Stag's time on 086.936.042. I have a whole calendar that I keep track of… Remember, I'm a nerd for this stuff, okay? No judgment.
That also means that Stag is 33 when Deshi arrives, but it translates to 18 in Earth years. I have a formula… Feel free to message me if you'd like to know your Theran age. (I'd recommend messages so that other people don't know your age and if you'd like me not to know either, you can give me a range. Sorry, but I'm not handing out the formula. Mine. 😉 You could probably come up with your own approximate formula just with the information here though, but there are hidden things not listed. XP)
Here's something interesting. To my knowledge so far (and I'm not entirely sure these are the most updated notes on this) the story of Krystar takes place over the span of 30 eras, or 29,970 years, or 17,094 Earth years. The timey wimey stuff is quite vast.
So of course I have a calendar.
And that's it for My World Monday! Any questions?
Next My World Monday posts, unless I receive an ask:
**I know it seems like I keep putting off the Hummes/Solara conflict, but I feel it's best understood after more of the world is built. And I keep putting off the magic system because it's in the book. In great detail. All throughout the Fragments. So to me it feels like it'd be repetitive… And it may contain spoilers because it's in the books, so I'm putting it off until I can't think of anything else to talk about on Mondays. 😖
-The Council of Marka
-Economics of Thera
-Dynamic of Hummes (a deeper explanation of the city and the royals that run it)
-Dynamic of Kares
-Dynamic of Marka
-Dynamic of Estes
-Dynamic of Solara
-Theran specific words
-Hummes/Solara conflict
-Magic system
Have a great day, everyone! 💙
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