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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