***The following is a legend for the local systems and measurements commonly referred to in the True Realm. While it is a fair amount of information to take in, only a handful of terms will ever be used in any given situation and always with context, as to help the reader along toward understanding the jargon. In this regard, the following legend is not meant as mandatory reading toward better understanding but rather it is supplementary and just for reference. In other words, don’t feel obliged to know of all these names. I will probably forget many of them in time, just as you, since I won’t be using all of them all of the time!***
LEGEND
Dates
-1 year = 14 seasons
-1 season = 28 days
-4 weeks to a season:
-Week 1- Addra (Reception)
-Week 2- Nom (Worship)
-Week 3- Bilitzah (Prayer)
-Week 4- Jandrem (Celebration)
Seasons
Seasons on Rynn are based around spirituality, not the weather. Seasons are named for the Kaldasian system of diety worship, each season the name of the spirit worshipped. The Kaldans—the oldest recorded civilization—held true that the Creator, when burdened with the overwhelming task of building the world, sighed fourteen times, and from each breath came the Taryin—“ones of great tasks”. Each Taryin was assigned a specific duty to accomplish and oversee. There are fourteen Taryin in all (one for every season), and they are as follows:
Murdia – Ruler of water
Kallon – Ruler of earth
Trimas – Ruler of air
Vevorgy – Ruler of fire
Incros – Ruler of time
Astalam – Ruler of sound
Prundu – Ruler of smells
N’nvorziak – Ruler of sight
Bandell – Ruler of touch
Ojot – Ruler of tastes
Sarelo – Ruler of souls/spirit
Hunchas – Ruler of emotion
Vamphet – Ruler of knowledge
Zyxian – Ruler of the afterlife/death
Distance/Area
–Tear (“Tare”) = hundredth–pinch = width of a small tear in a page of papyrus
–Pinch = tenth–hand = average width of a finger (pinched between two)
–Hand = quarter–stride = average palm width
–Blade= average sword blade length (about 3 feet)
–Stride = shoulder width = average step length
–Bout = fifty-stride = average city block
–Leave = twenty-five bouts = close to a mile
–Kaldar = 100 leave
–Ovit = approx. the area of a finger tip
–Square-blade = an area one blade by one blade
–Ample = about an acre
–Blear (or bi-ample) = about a hectare
Weight
–Grain = Weight of one grain of sand from the Half-moon Beach in Voswun
–Bunch = Weight of an average handful of grains = about the weight of a large apple = about one pound
–Ample = Also called an ample-bunch, approx. 2 handfuls of grains = about 1 kilogram
–Tuller = quarter-cask = twenty-five bunches
–Cask or Carboy (depending on location) = Techatuller = roughly one-hundred pounds
–Ingon = ten-cask/ ten-carboy = roughly a metric ton (1000 kg)
Volume
–Drab = 1/100th quich
–Quich = approximately a thimble full of liquid
–Maker = about a ½ liter, approx. 500 quich (comes from the saying “meet your maker” which was used by the dwarves when they served a ‘maker’ of ale)
–Leric = approximately a bathtub full of liquid, approx. 150 makers
–Strade = 1000 leric, approx. 7.5 kL (average volume of a vat)
–Aquith = 50 strade, approx. 4 ML (average water tower)
Money (Credits)
Pargrav (1/10 grav)
Grav (1 full credit)
Atla (1000 grav)
Metin (1000 Atla)
Energetics
Energy (generic) = hets
Force (generic) = Sheqs
Amount of substance = Gog = 1.0 x 10^25 atoms = approx. number of atoms in a blade of iron (of weight 1 ample).
Temperature = melds (1 meld = 25 degrees Celsius, absolute zero = 0 meld. So room temperature (25 degrees Celsius) = approx. 12 meld (11.92 to be exact)).
Frequency (waves) = shyrads
Pressure = crushels
Density = Usu. grain/quich for small/less dense objects; cask/maker for larger/more dense objects,
Charge = Querel. microquerel, megaquerel etc.
Current = kors
Radiation = egarts. 1000 egarts = 1 rad = lethal dose for most cren
Resistance = tinns
Electrical Potential = vods
Capacitance = stors
Conductance = trads
Inductance = imms
Power = prevs
Magnetic Flux = thrize
Luminosity = brayts
Velocity/Speed = strides/second (slow objects), kaldar moment = 1000 kaldar (10^6 leave) per minute (very fast objects)
Heavenly Bodies (In receding order from Karayus (local star))
–Exfinity Array (shattered disc or corpse belt)
–Samiss, 4 moons: Zocho, Tromeid, Elydir, Anthrob Riem
–Ro, 3 prominent rings, 9 major moons: Kundus, CC98, Abrogg, Delian, Torstenix, J00-IV, Mual, Obleen, Kika-Ram
–Kaffet, one moon Brevis
–Rynn, two moons Kort and Lema
–Oretago, one prominent ring, no moons
-SCARAB research station
–Brakken VI, 5 major moons: Brakken A-E
–Thaphaestus A+B, Binary planetary system, one and two moons respectively: Titha, Linkye and Brutea
–Valerent, 15 major moons: Mineamua, Trote, Gelith, MX-41, Jappay, Eriel, Takun Mora, BOR-9, Kila-La, Kila-Le, Un, Reaven 872, Heckaby, Oooak, Cheru Gani
–Acke, 1 moon Fortis
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