Not Enough Time To Talk About Time
Where would I be without too many projects to work at once? My readthrough/playthrough of the Witcher novels/games goes apace, but I got stuck on something I had issues with years ago - when trying to create a chronology, dates are not lining up. However, I think I've come up with a breakthrough of sorts, based on this: Sapkowski has stated that he originally was going set this in Earth's prehistory (a la Tolkien, I'm guessing) but decided against it. Which is fine, as we have instances where universe-hopping Ciri visits our world... The start of each (human) month appears to be a new moon. The elves divided the year into eight portions of the same length. The humans divided it into twelve. What does this tell me? Two things: 1) Each human month is actually 30 days in length exactly. 2) This matches the lunar cycle, so that the start of each month is a new moon. This solved a lot of the timeline issues I was having. We'll see if it hangs ...
