Ferrelon: Isle of Light

Ferrelarean Units of measure:

Length:

• Nick: A tenth of a thumb
  
• Thumb: The width of King Alarik’s thumb (just slightly less than an inch
  
• Span: The width of King Alarik’s reach from thumb to little finger (just less than 10 inches)
  
• Klick: 1000 spans (827 feet; 1/6 mile)
  

Weight:

• Grave: A one cubic thumb of water (1.6 oz.)
  
• Bar: Ten grave
  
• Stone: Ten Bar (ten pounds)
  
• Truck: 100 stone (1000 pounds)
  

Money:

Money is measured by cut lengths of standard cord. This cord is extruded gold wire rolled through extremely intricate embossing rollers at the Royal Mint in Primulon. The resulting gold cord is distributed as sealed spools to Royal Coil Cutting Parcelers, whose offices are in the District and City Judicatures. Parcelers use Inspected Coil Cutters to cut the coil to an accuracy of a thousandth of a nick. Large sums of money are paid with spools plus measured lengths of cord.

Normal business used coins made of stamped coils of cord. These were standardized cuts that were tightly coiled into an embossing stamp and sealed by locking the coil into place with the stamp, which listed the length of cord in the coil. An official stamp would only hold exactly the correct length. If shorted, the coil would have a notch in the edge. The resulting coins showed the coiled lines of gold on the back with an official seal on the front. Businesses commonly had their own official stamps with the royal imprimatur on the center of the bottom edge of the design to indicate their official size in tenths of a nick.

• Nick: A tenth of a cut
  
• Cut: A thumb of cord
  
• Cord: A span of cord (approximately a day’s wages; about a quarter of an ounce of gold)
  
• Spool: A hundred spans of cord
  

Time & calendar:

• Beat: A little longer than a second.
  
• Moment: 100 beats, (1.67 minutes)
  
• Watches: 100 moments. Ten watches per day starting with the first watch at 6:00 am (set at Spring Equinox)
  
• Days: Anseday, Melday, Wanday, Twaday, Troday, Quaday, Qiday
  

Sections: Approximately a third of a season.

Every Season has three parts: Early which begins 30 days before solstice, equinox or midsummer; the actual season of 31 days, which starts at solstice, equinox or midsummer; and Late which varies. Late Winter is 30 days, Late Spring is 31, Late Summer is 31, and Late Fall is 30 days for three years and then 31 on the fourth year to adjust the year to the solar year.

Seasons: Four; Winter, Sowing, Summer, Harvest

Years: Age is determined by number of winter solstices.

All children born in a year are one winter old that solstice. Nonliving items like buildings, etc. are dated by winters, sections and days. For example, a building finished for late harvest 30 would be dated two years later in Spring 24 as 2 winters 4&24
Calendar: All winters are counted from the death of AnsÄlèn which traditionally happened on Winter Solstice in the Year of Our Lord. Years after that date are numbered with an AD suffix (which stands for AnsÄlèn’s Dominion). Years before that date use a BA suffix for Before AnsÄlèn.
Ferrelär: Official years in Ferrelär begin with Coronation of Cyril Fendrale on Summer 1. Official years are written with an PC suffix for Post Cyril or an AC for Ante Cyril.