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Lord Zeb 05-01-05, 04:13 PM	Hi all, one of my groups' side campaigns (when only two of us can meet) has recently been updated to 3.5 and has the backstory rearranged slightly to fit into the Ancient time of Faerun. (I have talked, and gotten some help, about this before - if you are curious (http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?t=388510) ). The two heroes are elves, and they have been stuck out on the planes for quite a while. The next adventure will get them back home (pre-fix this was an undetermined elven kingdom, now will be Miyeritar on Faerun). When they arrive, Miyeritar will have just been destroyed, and while evading/fighting the Vyshaanti forces the few refugees will escape via portals and the like to Evermeet and Cormanthyr. Once in Cormanthyr, there will be some detective work as a demon (Maurezhi from FF) has infiltrated the upper echelons of power, working for some Yuan-ti (and likely Sarrukh) cause. Anyway, one of the plot hooks while on the planes will be the PCs finding a ("modern") History of Miyeritar, which will delve into the Crown War leading up to the destruction of their homeland. I'd like to provide some dates to the PCs, but -10,000+ DR doesn't really work .... so the question: What year do the elves consider it to be back then, and also currently? Is 1374 DR something like 31,374 Elven Reckoning? Making the Miyeritar tragedy 31,074 ER or thereabouts? Thanks - I know it's minor, but I'm really curious - appreciate it. Zeb
Kuje31 05-01-05, 06:29 PM	Dale Reckoning didn't exist until the Standing Stone was raised. I'm sure the elves probably have a dating system but what it might be, I don't think it's ever been detailed. Even so at -10,000 years ago that's ancient history in modern times that there is probably no set dating system for it..... Ed or Steven Schend are probably the only two who can answer this fully.......
Krash 05-01-05, 08:10 PM	My understanding is that elves have an internal dating system based upon realms and reigning monarchs. The reigns are called 'rysars' and something happens in "the twelfth year of the third rysar of Miyeritar" etc. Of course, this is problematic in the sense that most elven kingdoms are dead and gone now. As an alternative you can use founding dates of the longest lived elven settlements on Faerun, at this point in time being Evermeet or Evereska. This can be done in the sense of "in the four hundredth year since the founding of Evereska ..." etc. -- George Krashos
Lord Zeb 05-01-05, 09:03 PM	Thanks for the replies guys! I like the "in the year of X of Y" as a nice way of putting the elven dates. Something like "in the eight hundredth year of the rule of Aryvandaar in Miyeritar ..." (fill in the blank, like "the Dark Disaster destroyed Miyeritar") Thanks! Zeb
Borris 05-02-05, 09:59 PM	Since one year is way too short for elves, they have aeloulaev, a four-year period that begins and ends at Shieldmeet. The reign of an elven ruler is called a rysar. All elven civilizations mark time by the reigns of their rulers, so one event could be listed as having occured in the 71st aeloulaev of the 197th rysar (betwen the 281st and 284th years of the 197th ruler's reign).
Lord Zeb 05-03-05, 01:06 PM	Since one year is way too short for elves, they have aeloulaev, a four-year period that begins and ends at Shieldmeet. The reign of an elven ruler is called a rysar. All elven civilizations mark time by the reigns of their rulers, so one event could be listed as having occured in the 71st aeloulaev of the 197th rysar (betwen the 281st and 284th years of the 197th ruler's reign). Cool - like the flavor of using the elven words - thanks!