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Brenigin
Learned Scribe
New Zealand
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 Posted - 22 Mar 2006 : 08:56:19
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Simple question (I hope) - how familiar would most Realms folk be with the Roll of Years? For example, would the fact that 1373 DR is the "Year of Rogue dragons" going to be common knowledge, known to educated folk or something you'd need to make a Knowledge (History) check for?
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 22 Mar 2006 : 11:25:51
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| Realmsfolk use the Roll of Years to keep track of time. Certainly, the average person won't know the entire Roll, but they will use the names to track recent years. "'Twas the Year of the Prince when I put that wall up, about a tenday before Midsummer, I recall." |
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Kajehase
Great Reader
Sweden
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Posted - 22 Mar 2006 : 11:55:54
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| Of course, in the interest of never making things simple, it should be added that there are local variations to the "official" Roll, so it's possible that the Year of the Prince is known as the Year of Much Barley in some part of the Realms. |
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Asgetrion
Master of Realmslore
Finland
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Posted - 22 Mar 2006 : 17:56:36
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Originally posted by Kajehase
Of course, in the interest of never making things simple, it should be added that there are local variations to the "official" Roll, so it's possible that the Year of the Prince is known as the Year of Much Barley in some part of the Realms.
I think the Roll of Years is known and used explicitly throughout the Realms, although some major areas/kingdoms (such as the North, Cormyr, etc.) use it alongside their own Reckoning system (but still using the name of the year). Maybe some "backwater" hamlet might refer to a year as "the year when the fields yielded much barley, which was the Year of the Prince" - but I don't think they would use their "own Roll of Years".
Isn't each year named at Candlekeep during Hammer (as prophecied by the great trance-seer Auglas-Or-Something-Like-That the Mad) and then proclaimed officially? |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 22 Mar 2006 : 21:24:06
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Originally posted by Asgetrion
Isn't each year named at Candlekeep during Hammer (as prophecied by the great trance-seer Auglas-Or-Something-Like-That the Mad) and then proclaimed officially?
No, I believe the names on the Roll are already known, well in advance. |
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Faraer
Great Reader
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Posted - 22 Mar 2006 : 22:37:26
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| since they're drawn from the prophecies of Augathra, Alaundo and others, made centuries past. |
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scererar
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 23 Mar 2006 : 02:58:08
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| I would say that general history information would be commonly known, in the region an average person grew up in and resided. However, I would not think that the average person would be knowlegable about fearunian history, exept from a few stories/ myths/ rumors and would normally be circulated. I would think that someone would have to be educated first, maybe from a larger city, an adventurer, or a sage of some sorts to understand or have knowledge of what we have as gamers with regards to the roll of years |
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Faraer
Great Reader
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Posted - 23 Mar 2006 : 03:18:03
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| Yes, I'd think so. The average Faerūnian knows a great many stories about where she lives, but not timelines and exact literal history. Of course, this oral lore is no less valid than the learning of sages. |
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Brenigin
Learned Scribe
New Zealand
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Posted - 23 Mar 2006 : 08:08:33
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| Thanks, all. I thought along similar lines too. |
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Roll of Years and Character knowledge
