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[Ulicus]

Just a quick question, really, that may or may not have already been clarified.  It may even be a stupid question.  I'm wondering whether there is a year "N:100 Age", (so, "8:100 Blessed", for instance). Does anyone know?

I'm asking because the codex says that each Age is "exactly" one hundred years, with the name for the next age being picked in the "99th year" of the current age. The Stolen Throne and the codex state that the Dragon Age was named in 8:99 Blessed, so one assumes that was the 99th year, so... uh, yeah. Was there an 8:100 Blessed? One assumes there isn't a Year 0, since 9:30 Dragon is specifically called the "thirtieth year of the ninth age".

Or are is it just that the Ages are 99 years?

I know it doesn't "actually matter" but, meh, thought I'd ask anyway.

[SilkyChicken]

Sounds like their should need to be an "N:0" year. So we would have 8:0 to 8:99 Blessed.

[Randy1012]

Since zero isn't a number normally used in dating systems, I think N:1 to N:100 would make more sense than N:0 to N:99 (looks better, too). There was no 0 BC or 0 AD, either. The first century AD was AD 1 to AD 100.

I don't think the name of one age being decided in the ninety-ninth year of the preceding age when there's still one more year to go is all that strange. It would make sense to know where the world is going in the next century, and people can spend the last year of the current age preparing for what's to come.

So people in 8:100 Blessed probably bought up a lot of dragonslaying materials.

[FlintlockJazz]

Randy1083 wrote...

Since zero isn't a number normally used in dating systems, I think N:1 to N:100 would make more sense than N:0 to N:99 (looks better, too). There was no 0 BC or 0 AD, either. The first century AD was AD 1 to AD 100.

I don't think the name of one age being decided in the ninety-ninth year of the preceding age when there's still one more year to go is all that strange. It would make sense to know where the world is going in the next century, and people can spend the last year of the current age preparing for what's to come.

So people in 8:100 Blessed probably bought up a lot of dragonslaying materials.

Aye, this sounds about right, and they'd need time to print out all those new calenders too!

There being no 0 AD is also the reason why the twentieth century actually ended at the end of 2000 and not 1999 when it was widely celebrated by most.

[Ulicus]

Yeah, I agree with you. To be honest, I only started to wonder after browsing the Dragon Age Wiki... which said stuff about each age being "approximately" a century, and talking about the "end" of the Glory Age in 2:99 Glory. Which made me a bit like, "eh?"



Heh. I guess I needed reassurance.



I'm also trying to work out character ages from the books, and I really didn't want to be a year out.