Conventions

Dates

• January - Longsleep
• February - Last Dream
• March - The Awakening
• April - Skymourn
• May - The Kindling
• June - Everlight
• July - Devilsky
• August - Fever's End
• September - The Surrendering
• October - Grimlight
• November - The Darkening
• December - Neverlight

Seasons

• Spring - Sangor, Season of Blood
• Summer - Chola, Season of Fire
• Autumn - Melanus, Season of Gloom
• Winter - Phlegrian, Season of Void

Units of Time

• Year - Turn
• Month - Phase
• Third-Month - Trisk
• Day - Sleep

• Bells - Hours
• Chimes - Minutes
• Ticks - Seconds

Times are written as: 17 bells; 13 chimes or 17;13 (24 hours/day; no AM/PM)

Dates are written like so: ​Skymourn, Day XIX, Turn CDXIX

There are no days of the week and no weeks to speak of, just 30-something sleeps per phase.

A trisk is about ten days long, or roughly a third of a phase; they are not mentioned when writing dates, but are referred to as an approximate unit of time.

Units of Measurements

On the wiki, measurements are done in imperial/metric measurements for sake of comprehension, but Nodd has its own system as well.

(Note: This is still a bit of a WiP; we may define these a bit more rigidly later.)

Distance:

• Igg - About one centimeter or just under half an inch
• Pindle - Average height at which one is generally considered micro, 9" or 22cm
• Trinch - Roughly a nurk's average height, around 3' or 1m
• Skeel - Average insider height, around 9' or 3m
• Vyle - Average height at which one is generally considered a kaiju, 100' or 33m roughly
• Pleade - Roughly the width of the city when traversed directly

Volume:

• Fip - A drop
• Squinch - A dollop
• Splunt - A couple pints or an insider's mouthful, average size of insider's orgasm ('splunt' is slang for cum)
• Pilge - A couple gallons, roughly an insider's bellyful ('pilge' is slang for puke)
• Belleum - Enough to fill an insider's bath or a public fountain
• Quald - A pond's worth

Weight:

• Nib - A few grams or a tenth of an oz, roughly the weight of a claw or tooth
• Krott - About sixty grams or several ounces, a hearty bite of meat for most insiders
• Grunch - About eight pounds or just under four kilograms, the size of an average insider meal
• Rugg - About 40 pounds or 18 kilograms, the weight of a full pack as well as that of the average nurk
• Ludge - Around 400 pounds or 180 kilograms, the weight of an average insider
• Trond - Roughly a ton or 900 kilograms, the average weight of a miggwitch