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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ace32" data-source="post: 3657060" data-attributes="member: 391">In establishing background for my homebrew (actually a joint homebrew created by players acting as deities over the course of 6 months), I decided it would be beneficial to come up with calendars used by various races. Considering that the world is young, I figured there could still be multiple calendars. Building solar and lunar calendars was easy, but then I ran into a problem...One of the world's races was created undergroud to live in the darkness. They have light sensitivity and a proficiency for shadow magic. They also live deep below ground. Under the ocean (though not in water). How the hell would these people tell time? Considering they have roughly bronze age technology, I cannot imagine them building complex gears for clocks or even necessary coming up with the pendulum. At the same time, they did not meet other races until later in their development and have never really seen the sky (its a long walk to the nearest surface access). So that leaves a few questions:What would a 'day' be to a person who does not have a sun to judge time by?What would a year be to somebody that does not mark time by the rotation of the sun, changing seasons, or even lunar phases? They may not even have years at all...Additionally, what clever ways could they have come up with to keep a consistent track of time?</blockquote>