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A brief history of Vanherath

It is unclear how old this world is, but the current estimate is that it may be around 900 million years old. The planet itself evolved over long stages from the point of creation. At first it is believed that the world of Vanherath had been home to vegitative life only until about 50.000 years ago.

It is believed that the gods began experimenting with more interesting life out of boredom. Vegitation and general creation led to an interesting and habitable planet for a very diverse set of lifeforms. First came the animals, then the souls of higher beings were formed and plucked from the other worlds.

Over the long period of 50.000 years, at first the beastlike people emerged. This was followed by the fey descending and the creation of elves. At last the dwarves and humans emerged as well. In some cases the fey and elves can live up to 5.000 years of age which is a vastly longer timespan than any other race on average.

How does time work on this world?

The calendar

A calendar is most commonly denoted as ´Day - Season - Year - Cycle of Year´
1: 1-29
2: 1-29
3: 1-5
4: 1-30
5: 1-29
6: 1-5

On Velurebi the calender only denotes the day and season and the official New Zarus calendar considers each cycle a full year.

Years are usually counted in triple passes, a year is when the planet itself circles around the sun three times. (381 days)
This is because climates follow a three year cycle, where year three has the harshest scorch and snap.

The sun of this world has a three year cycle in which it grows and shrinks. It will grow considerably in size but not change its attraction, it does get hotter however. At its highest, a summer has a painful scorch.
At the end of the three cycle period, it will shrink back to its smallest size in a matter of around 45 days which coincides with a painful snap.

Time and calendar data

Orbital period
127.076 173 446 days.
In ancient times every 13th cycle would include an extra day, now in Itia every new years day the orbit is slowed down temporarily to achieve a perfect 127 days.

Seasons
Spring(1-29), Summer(30-58), Scorch(59-63) Fall(64-93), Winter(94-122), Snap(123-127)
Scorch and Snap are specially brutal, more so on a third cycle.

Current(ish) dates
Noredynn / Vil / Vynd / Nysol / Gynha: 7-4-2874-2 PW (Post Noredynn & Vynd war)
Velurebi: 7-33886 (Velurebi counts in seasons, this is 7-4-5647-2 on their calendar) (2773 revolutions later)
Burburin / Itia / Tepp / Tivoly / Kaldor / Leungit / Sandeul / Qabow / Dhaxan: 7-4-615-2 NC (New Calendar, established to create bonds and easier trading within these nations)
Akatun Theocracy: 7-4-944 NZA (New Zarus Age, their official calendar though it is often not used in private. In a three-cycle system it would be 7-4-314-2)

Global date
Taking into account the first time calendars were used, they almost unanimously used the three cycle system and were invented in Itia.
The count would be 7-4-7641-2 TO (Time Operandus) Whereas in that year at 2-18-1-1 TO the calendar was built and decided upon by a great researcher named Enard Kyou

The Climates

Given the special circumstances with the sun of Vanherath, the climates of the planet may alter the perception of seasons per continent or nation. On Velurebi for example, they only really feel the differences between a mildly warm climate and an extremely hot climate.

Due to the general extremities that this world experiences from time to time a lot of the wildlife and plantlife have adapted well over the millenia that passed. Intelligent life has been able to deal with the situations that arise from the more violent seasons for thousands of years already and unless caught outside they are not threatened.

The planet itself is only on a slightly tilted axle, it's orbit is eccentric with an eccentricity of 0.6. Given the planet takes an oval path with its focal point not set on the sun, the seasons are equally locked for the whole world, and not flipped by polar sides.