Passage of Time

Time keeps on ticking: it has ever since the beginning and will until everything ceases as the last star dies. While time itself remains constant, flowing and unchanging, the ways of keeping track of it differ greatly from place to place. Calendars on Tyrind mostly emerged as a way of keeping track of harvests and seasons, to mark special days and eventually as a way for all common people to have the same frame of reference when referring to time, context and chronology. According to myth, the calendar used by the vast majority of the world today was created by the Dawnfather himself. This accounts for the base months and days of the week, and while the specific names of the months and such vary from culture to culture, it's almost always the same basic arrangement.

As time has gone on, the main area of difference comes in the counting of years. Listed below are the most common ways of keeping track of time in the world of Tyrind.

Dharrenal Reckoning (DR)
Time in Dharrenal is centered around the event that changed the shape of life on the continent as they knew it: the escape of the Demon Prince and the Calamity War. The year 1 is marked at the Demon Lord's defeat. Time before that is marked with a negative value, much like in Seraphel. For example, five hundred years before the defeat of the Demon Prince would be marked at -500 DR.

The current year in Dharrenal Reckoning is: 413 DR.

Eleroth Reckoning (ER)
In the lands of Eleroth, time used to be kept based on the arrival of humans to the continent. However, that changed after the Great War. This event changed everything and there isn't a region on the continent that didn't feel the Great War's effects. The year 1 is based on the use of the Last Resort and the end of the war. Time before this event is marked as Before Last Resort (BLR), with the years counting down the closer they are to that event. Thus, humans first arrived in Eleroth in 2891 BLR and the Great War began in 164 BLR.

The current year in Eleroth Reckoning is: 102 ER

Seraphel Reckoning (SR)
Seraphel is known as both the First City and the Floating City, and was the home of the gods while they dwelled in our world. Time in Seraphel is measured based on two major factors: Before the Sundering and After the Sundering. Years before the Sundering are marked as a negative value, much like in Dharrenal.. Maezar, or at least Dar as-Sakhr, uses the Seraphel method of timekeeping.

The Current year in Seraphel is: 1495 SR