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Why so many light words?

Long before the outside world bought watches and clocks to divide the days on Erudus, its people used light traveling over the mountains to mark time. The first glow of of the sun rising over a mountain ridge, the peak of the midday sun over the forests, and the first stars reflecting on the waters at night, could be understood by everyone. The Erudians naturally began to study the sun, light and the changes in the sky. Light became the basis for many of the words used for measurement.

It seems especially appropriate that light is used every day in Erudus. The ancients believed that light held magic, and the rise of the sun carried the day forward. Light was thought to bring about the unfolding of the world. Today, these beliefs still hold strong. The Erudians believe that without light that their world will cease to exist.

Times of Day

• FirstGlow - The first hint of light at dawn.

• Break Rise - Sunrise

• Blush - Early Morning

• High Light - late morning before the highest hint of the sun.

• Sun Peak - Noon

• Long Lite - just after Sun Peak

• Sun Fall - late afternoon

• Dusk Dip - Sunset

• After Ember - Twilight

• Night Plunge - Full darkness

• Moon Wake - Early Night

• Aurora Rise - Middle of the Night.

• Star Turn - Very Late Night

  

Pre Rise - darkness immediately before FirstGlow

More Precise

• 1 wave = an hour

• 1 chime - 1/2 hour

• 1 mark = 10 minutes

• 1 beat = minute

• 1 glimmer = second

Longer time

• One complete day = Bright

• Once complete Day/Night - Light

• A week - Seven Light

• One month - Moon

• Season - Light Shift

• A Year - Sol

• ten years - Glow

• Thousand years - Astral

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Other Night Terminology

Measurement

• Finger Mark - 1 inch

• Life Line - 1 palm

• Hand - 1 handspan

• Hoof - 1 stride

• Reach - 1 long step

• Byway - about 1 km

• Far Step - longer journeys

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Height, width and depth

• breadth — width

• rise — height

• drop — vertical distance downward

• lowness — depth

• fringe — circumference

• grasp — distance across something

• half peak - half day’s journey

• bright walk - day’s walk

• two break, etc. - two days, etc.

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Weight

• dust - tiny amount

• stonelet small amount

• stone - moderate amount

• barrow - larger amount

• burden - heavy amount

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Land descriptions

• Hearth - enough land for a dwelling

• Reach - Large hearth of land.

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The Four Seasons

• Spring - Greenwake

• Summer - Highsol

• Fall - Emberfall

• Winter - Silverdeep

Visit this link to see definitions of other people and things on Angelika Moonglenn’s Erudian home.

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