Astronomy
Introduction
Apocrypha uses various systems for the measurement of time, and the categorisation certain periods.Calendars typically involve tracking the stars, sun, and moons, along with seasonal weather patterns.
These methodologies each have their own specific uses, and developed from various cultural influences.
Time periods are grouped into Eras, each falling into one of two Ages, called the Dawn and Mortal Ages.
The Mortal Edifice follows the Dawn Age, separated by the banishment of Deities from the inner planes.
Glossary
- Astronomy: The study of non-terrestrial bodies, such as the sun, moon, stars, and even weather.
- Calendar: A system for designating the number of days in each year, and organised into groups.
- Celestial: An astronomic term for things related to stars (origin of the term celestial beings).
- Dawn Age: Eras prior to the Veil of Severance, before deities were banished from Apocrypha.
- Dunamancy: A school of arcane study, which allows for the manipulation of space and time.
- Era: A grouping of years - usually thousands - divided by global or universe altering events.
- Horology: The study of time and its passage, including perception, and historical measurements.
- Lunar: An astronomic term for things related to Apocrypha's moons, or their respective deities.
- Mortal Edifice: Eras subsequent to the Veil of Severance, after gods were exiled from Apocrypha.
- Mydria: The larger and brighter of Apocrypha's two moons, often associated with the Moonweaver.
- Myosa: The smaller and dimmer of Apocrypha's moons, rarely associated with the Cloaked Serpent.
- Orrery: A spherical device, used to calculate the positions of the stars on any given day or night.
- Severance: When deities left the prime material plane, dividing the Dawn Age and Mortal Edifice.
- Solar: An astronomic term for things related to Apocrypha's sun, daytime, or its respective deities.
- Timeline: The progression of events, in the order that they occurred, within a given time frame.
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