On Worldbuilding: The Tablebreaker Calendar
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Dating System for Remnant:
Naturally there would be several calendars, but since the Tablebreaker faith is the largest and most widely established, their calendar would be the one most widely used. So, what's the Calendar?
Well. it's based on the Gregorian Calendar. In that calendar, AD/BC stand for:
Anno Domini ("In the year of our Lord" in Latin)
and
Before Christ.
RWBY came out in 2012 AD but I have put their date at around 2000 years after the Tablebreaker was born.
Thus:
The dating system is anchored not to the Tablebreaker's birth but for his most significant act, referred to as the Fractura Mensae (Breaking of the Table), the beginning of the path to unity and victory over the White Witch (Death and the ultimate Evil). For simplicity, we'll assume this event occurred 2000 years before RWBY Volume 1, marking the year as 0 AMF (Annus Mensae Fractae, Year of the Broken Table).
Naturally there would be several calendars, but since the Tablebreaker faith is the largest and most widely established, their calendar would be the one most widely used. So, what's the Calendar?
Well. it's based on the Gregorian Calendar. In that calendar, AD/BC stand for:
Anno Domini ("In the year of our Lord" in Latin)
and
Before Christ.
RWBY came out in 2012 AD but I have put their date at around 2000 years after the Tablebreaker was born.
Thus:
The dating system is anchored not to the Tablebreaker's birth but for his most significant act, referred to as the Fractura Mensae (Breaking of the Table), the beginning of the path to unity and victory over the White Witch (Death and the ultimate Evil). For simplicity, we'll assume this event occurred 2000 years before RWBY Volume 1, marking the year as 0 AMF (Annus Mensae Fractae, Year of the Broken Table).
- Before the Breaking: Years before the epoch are denoted as Ante Fracturam Mensae (AFM, Before the Breaking of the Table). For example, 100 years before the epoch is 100 AFM.
- After the Breaking: Years after the epoch are denoted as AMF. Thus, RWBY Volume 1 would be approximately 2000 AMF.