From Arcanet
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