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second mystic arte • {voice/action for Violet}

[There's the small clearing of a throat, before Jade launches straight into business talk. He's looking for answers to a few of the odd little mysteries of this world...]

Pardon me, I don't wish to be a bother but I've discovered a bit of a discrepancy between this world and the home world I've come from.

I apologize if this does sound a bit silly, but what is the purpose of that three hundred and sixty-sixth day every four years? I'm a tad surprised that this world has such a short year cycle, but I've failed to reach a conclusion on why there is that last day. That and... Months. Is there any reason why they've been broken into days as they have?

[Why aren't your calendars standard and orderly, Pokéworld?]

Time seems to pass the same way. I guess my world just circulates differently to this one.

[Private to Dist]

I'm sure you've noticed the difference with the amount of days in a year in this world. How are you accounting for it?

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Roman emperors... I'm assuming the rulers of your world in the past?

Edited 2012-07-09 04:02 (UTC)

That's right. As it stands now, the internationally-accepted calendar is the Gregorian calendar, which follows this rule:

"Every year that is exactly divisible by four is a leap year, except for years that are exactly divisible by 100; the centurial years that are exactly divisible by 400 are still leap years."

Simple, isn't it? And to think, that's the reformed version.

You're right, that is quite simple. Just going off the number of years themselves as opposed to possibly changing or reoccurring natural events makes it much more orderly.

However, why not years divisible by an exact hundred? Is there an explanation for that?

There is. The calendar we'd been using prior, the Julian calendar, measured the length of a year at 365 and 1/4 days. The trouble is, that wasn't quite precise enough in terms of measuring the actual length of a year. The amount of time it was off works out to around three days every four centuries, so the reform suggested we drop the years exactly divisible by 100 to compensate.

Ahh. So in turn that regulates a stabilization of the seasons to account for the years where the math doesn't properly add up. That clarified quite a bit. Thank you.

I assume that the calendar you use is vastly different from the one I'm describing, then?

Immensely. Our months are twice as long, with the addition of a thirteenth. Our year consistently accounts to 756 days.

The differences are almost startling.

And the way you measure it lines up precisely with the solar year?

Indeed. The seasons always land around the same time since the beginning of the score. Outside of normal physics, I do believe the physics natural to only Auldrant aid in stabilizing the yearly revolutions.

Would that be the "fonons" your protégé was mentioning to me?

Luke, a protégé? Hardly.

But yes, those are indeed the fonons. Essentially, the fonons are the particles which compose just about everything on Auldrant. While in equal balance, everything runs normally.

Oh? You certainly seemed to take a guiding hand with him.

And at the risk of begging the question, what happens if they're not all in equal balance?

I can assure you that it was completely unintentional. [Oh gross, he seems attached.]

If they're not in balance, we risk the destruction of a city or a world. It hadn't happened until recently, luckily. But most of the occurrences were foretold.

[Funny how that happens when you act in a mentoring capacity to a loveable idiot.]

Foretold? You mean some sort of prophecy?

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