Time

The Passage of Time is primarily recorded in Falls by the people of Faugresh. Each Fall consists of many years. Falls are calculated by determining the amount of arcane energy that has been lost from The Primordial Source, with a year being one orbit of Rou around Millina. The events of The Lesser Rights take place during Fall 476 year 28, with Fall 1000 as the theoretical end of magic. Due to its significance, time across Faugresh has been recorded using this method despite the conflict between its people. Wistergradt and Corrapaise used Primordial Source Falls before the Migration, and continued to do so in the following years throughout the Corrapaise-Wistergradt War.

For some cultures of Faugresh, many different methods of recording the passage of time may be employed.

Calculation
Determining the current Fall is done by calculating the remaining arcane energy within the Primordial Source and subtracting that value from 1000. For example, the Primordial Source has lost 524 primordiations in the time from the start of the multiverse to Fall 476. The Primordial Source is thought to have contained an initial 1000 primordiations (PMD) at the start of its existence at the dawn of the multiverse. Primordiations are the unit that magic from the Primordial Source is measured. Standard units of magic, Arcane Units (AU), are not commonly used to measure the Primordial Source due to the inconveniences of working with numbers of such a massive size as one PMD is approximately equal to several trillion AU. When a change is measured in the remainder of energy of the Primordial Source, it is the end of the current Fall, and a new Fall begins.

Usage
Once a new Fall begins, the year is reduced to zero and counting begins again. The number of years to an Fall is varied, with 250 years being the average. The longest Fall was Fall 51 which lasted approximately 3,000 years, and Fall 223 being the shortest, lasting only 6 years.

One year is the uniform length of time it takes for Rou to complete one orbit around Millina. One year is made up of 288 days, the length of time it takes for Rou to rotate once about its axis. Years are divided into four 72 day seasons beginning with Spring, then Summer, Autumn, and Winter at the end of the year.

Dates are written with various methods each depending on the writer's preference or culture. Some examples of expressing the date on the 34th day of Summer of the 28th year of Fall 476 are: Some prefer to omit the Fall from dating items that are not intended to be preserved beyond the current Fall to save time in writing. Other time saving methods are to write the day as the total days passed in the year and omit seasons. Each of these date formats are understood and used by the people of Faugresh, but the more information given is considered to be more formal.