Counting and Currency

Base System of Numbers

The aes sídhe use a base twelve system of counting. They adopted this system from the tuath dé when studying the ruins of their parent race long ago. Thanks to the influence the aes sídhe have on the trade and culture of the other races, they also adopt a base twelve system. Thanks to the seclusion the fomoire and anito have from the rest of Hárronfall, they use a base ten. Though surprisingly, the jötun also had a base twelve system before contact with Hárronfall.

In terms of finger counting, children aren’t taught to use their fingers as a full set of ten. The fingers of one hand are thought as three parts of twelve, excluding the thumb. They count the knuckles of each finger by tapping the thumb to each joint. One finger held up is supposed to symbol three. To show five, the first finger is held up with the thumb pressed to the middle joint of the second finger.

Coins and Currency

The aes sídhe were also the first race coin after the fall of the primal races. They don’t use gold, silver, copper, or iron as metals to mint their coin, as these metals have sacred value. They are the symbols of the four Divine which are all equal. The aes sídhe wouldn’t go as far as to debase their faith by putting one of the four metals at higher value than the rest. Besides, these four metals have as much practical uses with aura in rituals and enchantments as crystals.

The aes sídhe use tungsten, platinum, chromium, and nickel. Thanks to their aura and technology, the aes sídhe and several other races are more than capable of mining these metals and shaping them into coins. For the aes sídhe, their coins are circular with a square hole in the center. One side is imprinted with sacred runes while the other side is imprinted with its value and year it was minted. Each coin comes in three sizes, standard, halved, and doubled. The doubled sized coin isn’t twice the size of the standard, just a little larger and thicker, but it has twice the value. The same rule applies to the half sized coin. One standard sized tungsten coin can be divided 144 times by a standard sized nickel penny.

Ljósálfar and álfar used a similar system to the aes sídhe though their coins had less buying power. Their coins had a circular cut out at the center. One side held the characters of their language with the name of their current ruler, while the other side had its value and minting year.

The dvergar and dökkálfar, being the lovers of mathematics that they are, changed things up a bit. Their highest valued tungsten piece can be divided 240 times by their lowest value nickel piece. 240 is a highly divisible number which gives them the power to mint more coins of different values. Their coins are solid, with no hole in the center. Coins could also be halved or quartered to give them less value. Dvergar also have gold coins of many different sizes, though the gold pieces aren’t used in the standard market. These gold coins are only to be used within the workings of their religion. Only those with religious titles use the gold coins and they guard their purpose and value.

The therianthrope started and kataw started with a bartering system. The kataw still use this system of trade with their own kind but welcome the currency any traveler uses when entering their territory. Therainthrope more or less adopts the coins used by whatever race that controls their land. In the modern era, the therianthrope fully use dvergar currency. Jötun, oni, and fomoire, still use bartering as their form of trade and don’t see the value in the currency of these other civilizations.