Getting tired of these posts, yet? Just one more.
I've been thinking a lot about the old calendar and I think I've come up with a way for it to work:
Each date is broken down into three terms. The first is a number. The second is a noun. The third is a noun which is sometimes modified by an adjective.
Here's how I think it works:
Instead of being broken down into months, the calendar of the Cath Bruig goes by fortnights (the numbers range from one to fourteen). The phases of the moon would be divided into waxing and waning portions, each of which gets a fortnight.
The first term is the actual date, the second term is the name of the fortnight in question. The third term is variable and describes the year (much like the Chinese calendar: year of the dragon becomes year of the skull, and so on). Those years with adjectives would be special event years, such as the year the Myrkridia were captured, the year an emperor was crowned, etc. "Stalking", "Burning", "Bloody" would suggest warlike years; "Jewelled" and so on would suggest peacetime events.
What's missing is an actual number for the year--but I think I can be forgiven for this since the narrator of the levels doesn't name years, either (except to specify which year the war is in, back in TFL).
Any thoughts, suggestions, complaints, evidence that blows this out of the water?
