The Age of Waves
The Eldorian calendar dates the crowning of the first Eldorian Emperor as year 1. It denotes all dates before the crowning by the total number of years before crowning, or BC. The system denotes all dates after the crowning by the number of years after the crowning, or AC. There is no year 0. Elynthi and Soulmeliti calendars do not have a separation date. They count upward throughout their written history. Year 1 for both of them occurs when Trilliodorus Naltryhim penned the first Scroll of Years. Khadric calendars count upward through the current Clan Chief dynasty. If a new dynasty begins, they reset to year 1. The Nerrid maintain calendars. They are, however, undecipherable. For the sake of simplicity, I have converted all events in the following history to the Eldorian calendar.
— Professor Xeerix Zenzorax, University of Karradone, from The Abbreviated History of Tarien, 479 AC
A Bridge Along the Imperial Highway between Karradone and Phelandria
Before and After Crowning
By arbitrarily setting year 1 as the year when Emperor Kern d’Uthar I was crowned in Eldoria, DuMare coined the terms Before Crowning (BC) and After Crowning (AC) to describe the years. Years Before the Crowning are counted backwards. Thus, the construction of Phelandria in 197 BC occurred 197 years before Emperor Kern I’s crowning. Years after the crowning increase with the passage of time. Thus, when Eldoria granted Yaty home rule in 301 AC, it was the 301st year of the d’Uthar dynasty. DuMare made one mathematical error when standardizing the years. He labeled year 1 AC, not year 0, as the year of crowning. A year 0 does not exist either After the Crowning or Before it. Eldorians therefore, have a misleading system insofar as it labels the first year of Kern’s reign as the first year After his Crowning, when in actuality it is the year of his Crowning. While this difference means little to the average humanoid, many scholars have debated its ramifications for years.