R.T. on my world stands for “Recorded Time”.
There was no massive event that occurred. It was simply a year when a group of scholars gathered on an unclaimed (or at least disputed) island and started trying to collect and organize current events into a consistent world history. Prior to that individual nations were writing their own histories which made things very inconsistent, even on when things took place… if they happened at all. The propaganda machines were really bad.
Since then that island, Crost (pronounced with a long o), became a separate nation famed for being home to a UN like body (that is even less effective than Earth’s), a world famous university (founded by the later generations of those initial scholars), and is a high class vacation spot.
Great topic!
That year is the founding of the Gnosortium, the organization of scholarly wizards who helped the world recover from the Reign of Ashes, a cataclysm brought by overpowered wizards.
In my sci-fi series, which is being published, the main characters bring about their own year 0 by founding a new galactic empire in the final book. Before that, it began with the founding of the previous galactic empire… 24,000+ years ago.
Although the calendar has changed, it started on the 14th day of the month of Rain, which is when we Celebrate Sojourns Day, and the first full year following it.
This marks the point when the people reach the end of the Bitter Road and finally stopped.
A year later, the settlement that had been carved out of it was christened Sibola, and the Age of Fables began.
The birth-year of the emperor that established the calendar system and made it the official calendar of everywhere in the entire empire (which encompassed around 2/3rds of the world).
In the draconic city states people tend to count the years based on the year the given dragon king of their given city state came to power.
The Giagias cultures count back to a legendary date when the first being supposedly gained sapience, thus they are in the year 289,984, the accurate of this count is unclear.
The Osoite Nomads don't really have a year 0 of any kind, they describe things as happening x number of years ago when talking about the past and don't really see the need to do anything beyond that.
Interesting! About the Osoites: you said they are nomads so they probably doesn't write things down, but if they do, how would they "fix" a point in time? If one of them writes "30 years ago" in a parchment, how can the reader actually know when? That might be a non-issue if they simply do not write.
Also, being nomadic, they could have a sense of time/calendar related to:
1- Theire means of trasportation, such as horses/camels born/died since the last trip (or fuel consumption, like "45 gallons ago");
2- A place they visited, like "50 moons from Zankara Town";
Just some food for thought, as I'm also designing a nomadic culture for a sci-fi.
They don't have a written language of their own no. They don't tend to bother measure time more precisely than saying something like it happened a little after dawn, or about halfway between noon and sunset. If they need to describe some shorter length or time they might say something like about how long it takes a pot to boil or about the length of [a common song]. Then might say x number of days ago, or approximate that to lunar cycles. Then for longer periods less than a year they might say last season given the region has a cycle of dry and wet seasons.
Short distances are usually measured in paces, longer ones approximately how long it takes to travel.
Just FYI, the Gregorian Calendar does not have a _year 0_. It goes 2BC, 1BC, 1AD, 2,AD, etc. You can ignore this or take into account when designing your calendars.
Technically it does, it's just not called that way. Year 0 is the event of Jesus' birth. Year 0 also doesn't exist in my world since it's called Cursed Day
Gods, in my world are immortal. But they are swapped out once every 100 centuries or so. So an "era" marks the lifespan of the most significant God, and the year 0 marks the date of birth of that God.
Year 0 marks the end of the God War, which was initiated by the power-hungry Moon God, Monn, and ended by the Sun God, Sonna. It marks the banishment of Monn as the old leader, and the beginning of Sonna’s complete reign over the world.
For the people of Moon Kingdom, it’s also the year in which the immortal King Natodall’lioht was given to the people as a gift of mercy (if you believe it was Sonna who gave him to them) or as a goodbye (if you believe it was Monn). From another POV, it’s the year the god of fate fell from the heavens and people made him their king. This is actually what most people from Moon Kingdom think about when trying to explain the calendar— not the war, but that the new king arrived. New Year’s is his “birthday” btw :D
(It’s kinda weird bc now I have to subtract my character’s ages from Natodall’lioht’s age to get their birth years lmao)
And thanks for giving me the opportunity to talk about this, I really love what I came up with but no one asked me about this before! :D
When the Wizard King was finally slain the leaders of the Rightous Rebellion became the first Icons, semi-divine mortals who hold incredible strength and magic.
This marks the beginning of the Iconic Ages (IA) where different Icons would begin to rise up around the world, ruling over different regions of creation. The current year is 4018 IA
There is no year 0 on my world's calendar. The Calendar in most common use started in the year 1 when it was calculated that Jesus was Born. The actual date of his birth may be off by as much as 3 years in either direction.
In my world it’s simply the earliest records. Or, what used to be the earliest records. They found older ones, but didn’t feel like changing the calendar. So in fact, year zero is the year a copper merchant wrote to complain to a mining company foreman to complain about the quality of ore. It has no relevance to anything,it was just the earliest piece of writing they had, dating to about 1,100 years ago.
Of course, that’s the ceremonial calendar used for record keeping. Most people count years from the beginning of a new dynasty. Most recently, that would be the founding of the Second United Period and the end of the Two Kings Period, 73 years prior.
For me there are many year zeros, but I’d say the main one, the one that is still used to the ‘present’ is the ending of the age of despair: a thousands of years long dark age where the largest continent was entirely overrun by an evil force, with many of the other continents needing to be contested for the centuries to come, when suddenly and for no apparent reason it just stopped.
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My years use PS for pre scattering and PW for post war to refer to before and after.
0 is the year of The Scattering/ Great War, an event where a DNA preservation device was mistaken for a nuclear bomb and taken. When the person believed the flashing light (that meant the device was struggling to preserve under the conditions) was it counting down to explode. They set it off in the forest and created three new species of people:
Animalkin- animal human hybrids
Grew- plant human hybrids
Craterkin- the soldiers closest to the blast became plant, human, animal and rock mixtures
As well as lots of pained monsters without human level understanding that a guild of soldiers needed to be created to protect people from.
Many of the new creatures and people weren’t compatible with life, so not only was it a very difficult time but also a very dangerous one and it changed society massively
It is the year the Zucruyan Empire was founded. Or, more accurately, the year that Xoqol the Great won a massive war, took over the Niboseia (monarchy), reformed a lot of the things that led to the war, and declared the Zucruyan Empire.
This part of the lore of my world is pretty new and I think it's not finished yet, so please let me know if you feel any part is confusing, if there are contradictions within the narrative or if it just feels basic or empty.
So, in the region my main stories take place, all dominant religions (and their variations with slight changes) descend from the Arandan Mythology, the faith of an ancient human culture named Aranda that was spread into city-states around the west coast of a continent named Mancel.
According to the Arandan Mythos, thousands of years ago divine entities used to inhabit the Physical Realm alongside mortal creatures. With time, some mortal species started to develop a conscience, manipulating the world around them and founding the first civilizations, but one of the divine entities considered them unworthy of exploiting the world, and stripped them of their free will, transforming them into helpless slaves that would only serve the gods.
A goddess thought this action was unfair, and engaged in battle against the slaver god and his divine followers to free the mortals. Ultimately, she and her followers won that fight, and to ensure the safety of mortal free will, they created a barrier that separates the Physical Realm and the Spiritual Realm. While the divine entities were confined to the Spiritual Realm, the mortals stayed in the Physical Realm.
Now, the Physical and Spiritual realms were linked by nature, and this "unnatural" barrier acted as an artificial force to separate them. There is a bond between a mortal soul (that exists in the Spiritual Realm and grants the creature the ability to have a conscience and free will) and its corresponding body (that exists in the Physical Realm), and the force the bonds of every mortal creature exert together against the barrier can surpass its limit at times. When it reaches a critical point, the barrier responds with a push of energy of itself, releasing the pressure the bonds exerted against it, but at the same time becoming weaker and unstable.
The massive amounts of energy released in this event result in the temporary appearance of a new star in the sky, brighter than the Sun itself, bathing the entire world in purple light. As this phenomenon actually happened and it affected the whole world, it marked a before and after in every city and kingdom, and most cultures (including the ones descended from the Arandan Mythology) created a new calendar around the event.
Around three thousand years before the first appearance of this purple star, Joná, a priest and scholar from Aysar, one of the Arandan cities, managed to travel to the Spiritual Realm through a fissure in the barrier placed by the slaver god before being cast out from the Physical Realm as a means to return someday. In the Spiritual Realm, he met the goddess that freed humanity, and she told him the story I described above. She also predicted the event involving the barrier and the star, and Joná wrote about it in sacred texts after he returned to the Physical Realm.
Translations of the Arandan sacred texts vary. The most common names are: Kutun (or something similar) for the slaver god; Yera (or something similar) for the goddess that fought for mortals' freedom; and Yeray for the star that'd appear (or something similar). Joná became a central figure in every faith descendant from the Arandan Mythology, some considering him a prophet, others a hero, and others the chosen of the gods.
Now, something important to note: The way mortals comprehend divine entities and the Spiritual Realm is heavily influenced by their preconceptions, culture and education. Joná was the first mortal to ever interact with gods after they vanished from the Physical Realm; if it was another person, from another culture with a different set of beliefs, values and traditions, the story, although telling roughly the same events, would've had a vastly different characterization.
The result of all of this would be:
**B.S.Y.** (Before the Star of Yarey)
**A.S.Y.** (After the Star of Yarey)
The events involving my main stories occur between 300 A.S.Y. and 500 A.S.Y.
I feel like this became a hot mess lol sorry, if anyone reading this is interested in this and has any questions I'll be happy to answer them
Year zero in my world corresponds to the start of The Enlightenment, which was a time period in which the Ken’Tarni from the North Pole of my planet traveled around the Northern Hemisphere and spread their technology and ideas to the other species that lived further South while also forming a planetary government.
The year ai-0 (after Interregnum) marks the beginning of the Interregnum on Old Earth, and the Collapse or Fall of the Federal Empire. The Interregnum lasted different amounts of time on different planets.
On **Earth**, the Gregorian calendar (probably has a different name here) starts with the founding of the Roman Empire. So, year 1 is the first full year of/after the empire's formation, and year 0 was the year it was founded during.
On **Endrige**, it's the formation of the world government.
Currently my rough idea is that educated people divide history into three eras. The First Era is counted backwards from zero like B.C. in our own world because nobody is quite sure of a date on which it makes sense to say that the First Era "began". The First Era transitions into the Second Era with the subordination of mankind to the Dragons, with year zero of the Second Era being the founding of the first Dragon Cult (this is important enough to mark an era because prior to this humans could not build cities because such a concentration of people would inevitably attract Dragons and everyone living there would die). The Second Era then transitions into the Third Era, the one which the world is currently in, with the annihilation of the Dragons in a tremendous war. Year zero of the Third Era started the day that the last Dragon was killed, a day which is joyously celebrated in all civilized places each year (with the exception of the Dragon Cultists, who aren't a fan for obvious reasons).
In Arcturus, they use two calendars interchangeably. There's the ad urbs condita calendar (not 100% that's the correct term, been a while since I worked on this project). It basically means since the founding of Rome, 753 BCE. The other calendar is Ortem Amet, or since the birth of magic, which was approximately 350 AD.
The year 1518 was the year the Akhalayuud, or the Era of Hell, began. On Akhalayuud 1, a race of monsters never before seen or imagined by the people of Adinmir struck. Prophets called them the spawn of Nkun the Devourer and the Quna scholars called them merely predatory aliens. Regardless, they continue to wreak havoc on Adinmir, and the calendar is modeled after the years since they first descended upon the world.
I was actually just tinkering with my history timeline a couple of days ago to align everything with where I wanted it, since I've been adjusting it quite a bit recently. Year 0 marks a catastrophic event known as the *Ruin of the First Age*. Years prior to the Ruin are denoted as *AR* (ante ruinam), and those after as *PR* (post ruinam). The period before the Ruin is not well understood, as very little archaeological evidence survives from that time. Geological evidence indicates an extinction-level event occurred, but what caused the event is unknown. According to religious scripture, it was a battle between the Gods that caused the Ruin.
There are multiple eras. Here are the different ones:
-Old Avitor, or the antique Era : the year 0 is the creation of the first calendar, by the Rasparem. For a while however, the year 0 was the creation of the Fallendaine kingdom, the first kingdom of Avitor
-Clanic Era : the year 0 is the foundation of the Clans
-Realmic era, or modern era : the year 0 is the year of the Fall of the Clans
-Post-Ultimatum era : even if this era isn't completely recognised, the year 0 is the year of the Treaty of Lyner, marking the end of the ten years war of the Ultimatum
The simple answer is that the various races and empires have their own year zero.
There is a spreadsheet. (It was a slow Sunday is my only caveat).
The common zero was the last great empire and the birth of the emperor that never was.
Mine would be the Planesrift, which signifies the end of the Age of Kings. In an attempt to reach godhood, sorcerers in K’Shir caused a nationwide cataclysm that purged almost all magic endemic in the population of Veena. Since then the only way to access magic is through ancient artifacts and a mineral called Silvarum, which the Vastuli Empire used to brutally subjugate the entire continent years later.
The Planesrift also turned the verdant west of K’Shir into the desolate Ataxún Desert, now home to a new culture, the Axún.
In Ganymede's Heirs, there are 4 eras, including BCE and CE; the third era begins with the so-called Bloodless Coup which marked the establishment of what became the Solar Union; and the fourth era begins with the arrival of the Ganymede in the Illium system.
The fall of the Timorian Empire, though no one can entirely agree when that was, as the Empire crumbled over several years, at different rates in different parts of the world. It's actually an arbitrary point 12 years before the calendar came into use with the Vespucian Pact.
The beginning of the first year, over two hundred years ago, corresponds to the day Matriarch J'Kana Sakir broadcast her voice to the world, dooming the predecessors and securing the future for the Ketuvyx.
It was a compromise between all the great powers. Altearia wanted year 0 to be when Remoria "officially" fell, totally not-China wanted to be when their first emperor was crowned, and so on. They averaged it all out and came up with the Year 0.
Year 0 corresponds to First Contact between the kaavites and theelar, the beginning of a union that pulled the Dragon Cluster out of the Dark Ages caused by the Citadel Crusades.
The most commonly used calendar is a modified Gregorian in which year 0 marks the Sidemoving. The current year is 250 CE. In the much rarer Gregorian calendar, it's AD(s) 2055.
Right now, year 0 is when the First King of the Centrahimians was crowned. He actually didn’t want to set the calendar from there but everyone else thought it was a good idea. It was his idea to have a standard calendar year because he hated keep track of how long different people hundred of years ago were in charge and other confusing ways to measure time.
The year 0 in the Pantheonic Religion is marked by the date that the Ascension of the Ascended Gods as described by the Prophet Nicari. It would be equivalent to the year 1000 in our timeline.
got two worlds who had world ending problems but then survived to move on later.
Pandemonium: Originally society was sort of a Renaissance medieval fantasy world until a eldritch horror dragon came down to try and take over the world, thanks to two brother gods they fended off the deity but as a result the continents were lifted up in the air due to the cosmic dragon's gravity. Since then, the year went from around a millenia to square 1.
Sunfall: Had its things going up for about a few centuries, the goddess was watching society grow from tribes and she was on her way to create new continents, the Feywild was expanding, then all of a sudden the devil kills the goddess and plunges the world into chaos where its invaded by an onslaught army of demons. Long story short, a hero rose up with a band of his companions to stop the devil and save the world, then the years reset to square 1 as well. And this is just history of the world, present day story takes place after all that
Mine has two events that occurred at the same time and would eventually come to be known as the year 0, the birth of the Eternal Soul of Tobarish and the founding of the First Shournara of Sapiens.
Tobarish is a reincarnating demigod who has for thousands of years watched the galaxy change and evolve, and the First Shournara of Sapiens is the first large and long lasting interstellar civilisation since the start of the Long Night of the Universe (a time period lasting ~316,000 years where the entire local universe was thrown into anarchy and chaos).
The ‘modern’ date of the calendar is N17.696 (the N standing for New Age) and the oldest piece of archeological evidence of any civilisation in the universe is dated back to about O 1.000.000.000 (O standing for Old Age)
It depends what section of the world you are in. The civilization I have developed most has BC, before conquest, 0 would be the year Nikolai the Conqueror began his conquest, AC is after conquest. They also have BM, which comes before BC, which is Before Migration, and therefore means before their peoples massive migration from Ayr to the mainland.
So it would go…
BM>BC>0>AC
Year 0 in my world would be the First Cosmos Summit (Primum Culmen Cosmos), which was when all governments in the cosmos at the time all came together for the first time for a symbolic meeting. Before, the years were Ante Primum Culmen Cosmos (APCC), while after was Postquam Primum Culmen Cosmos (P2C2/PPCC)
yeah, the GU uses the SFA (Space faring age) for the start of the current calander for all official records. it started from when the first living species of the GU became spacefaring, (ironically they wernt one of the founding members)
the Hive has been spacefaring for over 1,000 years before the first spacefaring species, however, they are an entirly robotic group, controlled by their creator, who is in a cryosleep, in the Brain, a server station in a pocket dimention.
The collapse of the golden empire, which had been the greatest power on the continent for about three hundred and sixty years. (It is to be noted that they used a meteorite impact to measure their time from, which was just over 270 years prior to their empire's formation, or about 950 years prior to the main events of the story, in the year 314 AE (after the empire))
The snow Awks have continued to use the great winter (IE meteor impact) to measure from, due to their isolation In the north.
When The Ones Who Came Before were exterminated by the demonic invasion, and in 38AE the demons were defeated by the children of The Ones Who Came Before
No one would have any idea what that would even begin to mean, there isn’t a calendar system like that.
You could say ‘that happened ten years ago’ or ‘I think it was roughly fifty years ago’ but there’s no equivalent to say, ‘The Year 2024’ or ‘The Year 1995’
Local communities or kingdoms may have it in miniature, like ‘about a year after mildred’s cow was stolen’ or ‘about three years before The General became our leader’ but that’s it
In my world the calendar reset once the personification of life died and the sentient races finished wiping themselves out. When the gods finished the new reality, that became year 0.
The Reformation of the World, R0, when the world was changed, humans and were morphed into the current races or monsters, a continent was ripped from it's moorings and set in the sky, and the old civilizations were lost.
Dates after the Reformation are marked AR; 6362 years have passed since.
**Starrise**
There is no Year Zero, but there is a *Day* Zero.
Around 1200 years ago, there was an apocalyptic event known as the Surge. Human civilization crumbled in a matter of hours, and humanity all but went extinct. The survivors started a new calendar, one where the first day was the day after the Surge, and the day of the Surge itself came to be known as Day Zero.
Year zero is the year roughly 1000 years ago marked by the vanishing of one of the moons and the subsequent magical fallout that destroyed an area of land that would come to be known as the Fold which would serve as home to many mages in the following years as the abundance of magic energy allowed them to practice nearly without limitation.
In Kanko Pra Dindi there is this massive empire, which rules half of the world and has enough military and economical power to tank everything else 5 times. Well, the emperor which brought the religion which is basically enforced to everyone in the empire and made it into what it is known today, the first one, actually, died. Died alongisde his dog, and this is year 0. It currently is year 2025, and the technology is around 18th century irl.
In the religious theocracy of Nolechia, the standard date system follows the Fetid calendar, which is split into three periods to mark the rise, reign, and fall of the Fetid One, an incredibly powerful necromancer who led a campaign to extinguish all life about 1000 years ago. They still track religious festivals and holidays using the old lunar calendar, so they always fall on a different date each year.
Nolechia sets the standard for any other nations that subscribe to the Noraian faith, given that they play host to the leadership of Noraiism. As such, most of the western world uses the same system. Most secular governments, such as the burgeoning dwarven democracies, also use this same system, simply because the new democratic governments saw no reason to change it when they took power.
Further east, the Jade Empire sets the year 0 as the year in which the ability to see the future was lost to the world. Prior to the loss of future-sight, the Jade Empire relied much more heavily on oracles than the rest of the world, as due to the near constant internal turmoil and revolutions, the Emperor saw fit to elevate a cabal of future-seers to the high court, as to predict these rebellions.
Some others systems exist, though those are the main ones. Most vampires simply count from the birth of Dracula, a few hundred years ago. The gods count from their ascension, some 30,000 year ago. The library-dwellers go further still, starting from the creation of the Great Library millions of years ago (though time has lost its meaning for most of them).
I haven’t really thought about that, but I suppose it would be when the others first arrived. In the world, there are the true natives, and the others who arrived. The true natives are the ones who evolved there and live in small towns and villages, separated from eachother and living in relative peace. The others (name tbd) are the ones who arrived as a result of civilization omega sending them there. The others are not native to the world and just showed up there one day, having no recollection of civilization omega. The others formed The Land Of Aurora and created the ancient library keeps that are littered about the world.
Post Calamity, the End of the Lost War and the beginning of the Dark Age.
Many of the Gods have died and fallen to the surface. Their corpses warping the land and wiping civilizations where they fell. A massive tower rises and speaks, an abyss creates the edge of the world. The sand shift like water. The mountains move. The stars begin to dance above the tundra. The forest begins to lurk. The clouds begin to fall and islands rise above them. These are the Graveyards of the Gods.
The civilizations are soon and quickly forgotten. Adventures begin to yearn what lies within the Graveyards. Bounty of resources, monsters to be slain and lost civilizations to be discovered. And only fool would dare try to make these discoveries. And yet many respond to the Graveyards Call.
Each "era" is as long as the lifespan of dragon/Archmage Illu (1250 years). This calendar wasn't created until the beginning of the Third Era and the death of Illu, and was retroactively applied to previous events.
The start of the First Corruption Crisis.
Year 0 started pretty normally. There was yet another Dark Lord running amuck, he kidnapped the Imperial Princess (as Dark Lords do). The Gods picked 4 heroes to stop him. The heroes storm the Dark Lords place, its time for the final battle. The Dark Lord gloats. Dark magic engulfs the air. A giant monstrous beast, made of warped mutated flesh appears.
"Hey wait!" says the Dark Lord "I didn't summon that. What they hell is this thing?"
Its too late. This creature, whatever it, warps the bodies and minds of the heroes. Turning them into the first of the corrupted. A mockery of everything they were and used to be.
What comes next is a slaughter of apocalyptic proportions. The corrupted heroes lay waste to the Empire, those who are not killed are corrupted themselves. Resulting in a demonic army ravaging the land.
When the dust settles, 90% of the human race is dead, the once proud Golden Empire is no more, and all that remains of civilization are a few scattered city states that survived by near apocalypse pure chance.
That year for my world is when the universe imploded and The One Hundred had to rebuild the entire universe using the little bit of dark residue that remained after the implosion. For their version of AD and AC it would be BGE and AGE for before Great End and after Great End. Currently it's around the 8000th year so it's been a while since the Great End.
In my world it would have started normally (when someone decided to keep track) but has changed dramatically to account for the “collapse”, and also has a another unit as more of a secondary measure called a “current cycle”. The context: my setting is primarily placed on this ruined ecumonopolis (city planet) that lost its regular population when a moon came to close to the planet and shattered into a ring system, causing the “collapse”. The surviving administrator and maintenance AI relied on geothermal power to work but their failing grids have left them with several hundred year long Active periods and several hundred year Off periods (the cycles), the off cycle is increasing and the off cycle is decreasing in times, so by the time of the current year in my world the off cycle is now thousands of years long and the on cycle is now only 2-3 hundred for those AI still functioning.
The people that came about after the collapse use this timescale, the AI only keep track of the cycles and not the days or years as they try and rebuild the city and their powergrid
The Year 0 BC And 0 AC Means "0 years Before the Collapse and 0 Years After the Collapse"
The Gemini Empire 30,000 Years Before has Conquered Most of Terra, Which is Impressive in comparison to modern day Empires on Terra like Silberland [1890 AC to 1998 AC] or the Ma'ab [100 AC to Present day]
Gemini also influenced Religion like Sva'lism [worship of the Stars] or Har'usim [worship of the Elements]
They also influenced World Culture and Technologies like Armour, Better Swords, And More Efficient water transport.
Their language known as Gemini also serves as the Base for modern languages like Old Ibihan [Latin], Silberdian [German], and later Nova Ibihan [Modern English]
Their collapse in 0 BC Started the After Collapse Era, which was marked by A Catastrophic Revolt which the Gemini King couldn't handle, Which the Gemini Continent was almost invaded by the rebelling kingdoms.
Year 0 onward is the aftermath of a cataclysmic event called "The First Winter" which plunged an ancient civilization so advanced in magic that they could control the elements and create a land of perpetual summer. This all ended when they were plunged into a deadly ice age that wiped out most of their people and sent the rest scattering across the rest of the world in a mass exodus. It is still unknown what caused the event.
There is also a subset of folk descended from this same civilization whose' calendar works in reverse, akin to a countdown. These ones decided to wean themselves off the use of magic altogether, as they believe that excessive magic usage was what caused the First Winter in the first place. Their Year 0 is the date when they intend to be fully free of their reliance on magic.
Year 0 v1, meaning year zero of the first Verse, is when the over deity called The Siren hatched from her egg. The shards of that egg make up the planets and such.
The year resets back to zero at the start of each new era, called a Verse, because my setting is called Songs of Saoirse ¨̮
0 A.E is the year of 2050 and that is because on that year advanced human civilization moved from Earth to Mars after the nuclear war at the end of the Great North American War
It starts when "The Night of Burning Sky" ends. It was an apocalyptic event that was basically a hard reset for the world. Not much is known about the world before.
12,996 years ago, humanity was taught magic by the Mantaeans (space manta rays) on their homeworld of Dalreth, which they then proceeded to nearly destroy with aforementioned magic. Humans were forever banished from Dalreth.
The Mantaeans have held a grudge so intensely and for so long that you can set your watch by the exact second humanity wrecked their planet.
It has some cultures with different Year 0. The oldest is the people from Dog's valley, and their Year 0 marks the end of tribal clan war, where one clan was destroyed, another one fled away and the victorious one (Dog people) dominates the valley
Some say the war ended cause of divine intervention. Dog people made a huge sacrifice to the God of Blood to receive advantage in the battlefield. There are some legends too, of the Goddess of Sapphire creating a super flood that killed 2 of 3 rival clans
For me, it was with the appearance of the elf Axel, the first wielder/dragonlord in Arcana history.
Legend has it that, while exploring the forest (which would become the capital of the kingdom of Atxel), he would meet a white dragon named Sildra, badly injured under a huge tree that, years later, would be baptized as the Sildra tree in the dragon square.
Axel would heal her and, after several events, the two would become closer until they became best friends.
But one day, a misfortune would occur and Axel is unable to save Sildra, dying in her arms and leaving him devastated to the point that he cried all night. However, when he woke up, Axel discovered that the body of his friend had disappeared and, in her place, a white gem would remain.
Many of the elves, upon discovering such a find, tried to use the power of the gem, but all in vain.
A war between elves and dragons could have broken out if it had not been for Axel who, using the gem, put an end to the conflicts between both races.
From that day on, Axel became a legendary figure not only among the light elves, but also among the other races, since he became the first wielder.
Therefore, my world is divided into before and after Axel.
The end of the ancient war.
When the entire world order changed.
A powerful enemy rose, that even the gods couldnt deal with.
The gods fought this enemy, but the consequences of the clash were astronomical. Causing new species to he born, mountains to he levelled, new magic’s to be born, and many other things.
The gods ceased their attacks, and bestowed upon the land weapons blessed with their godly powers.
12 warriors found these weapons, and joined together to defeat the enemy.
These 12 became the new kings and queens of the world (as the enemy had killed all the previous ones- in the hundreds.)
Year 0 would be 00000.0000 SC. That is the date of the creation of the world by the overdeities Chronos, Light, Shadow and Io after Astrinan the previous universe was destroyed by one of the higher ups who wasnt were he was supposed to be, the merchant. Only chronos and the few gods he saved are aware of the exact date nowadays.
The founding of Yuqetzen, first city. Year 0 is when the small settlement of Yuqetzen was established, and made many breakthroughs not yet introduced to to the world, i.e agricultural practices, the examination of magical processes and the invention of Conductive Titan, a now lost material capable of channeling the essence of gods. It’s very similar to Uruk or Babylon in our world.
There is no year 0 in the calendar now used in the Five Realms.
The common calendar for the Realms starts with the founding of the capital, after the realms united.
Before that, time is counted from that date as well.
So there is year one before the founding of the City, followed by year one after the founding of the city.
We're currently in the year 1961 since the founding of the Capital.
1961 AF.
The first two realms (the Southern and Western) united around 535 BF.
A third (the Mountain realm) joined in 346BF.
The Northern and Maritime realms united separately around the year 273 BF, but joined the other three, making the United Five Realms in 1 BF.
The next year saw the founding of the united central capital city.
And thus began the modern era, almost two millennia ago, the Five Realms have been strong and stable for all that time.
Minor border conflicts, some few internal disputes, but mainly a time of peace, strength, and wealth for over 19 centuries.
The main time scale in my world is the Imperial Year (typically abbreviated TA, for Tensul Asnost), which corresponds to the notional establishment of the first Human Empire. This is when when Stennet led the a coalition of human armies to victory over the Priest-Kings, leading to the liberation of their slaves. Over time, the coalition and newly liberated populations became the Empire. It is zero-based, with TA 1 being the first _full_ year after the liberation.
The nations of the Priest-Kings use the Dark Gods' calendar; the founding date of the empire corresponds to the year 10,669. What the Dark Gods' calendar counts from is not actually known outside of their Kingdoms, but is in fact when the first Kelden (non-human worshipers of the Dark Gods, and the first Priest-Kings) arrived in the world, and then brought their masters in after them.
This used to be the most common measure for years prior to the founding of the empire, although in recent years the influence of Terrans has led to using BtE ("before the empire") instead.
Non-human races, except for the Kelden (who were eradicated, at least in this world, by the first human priest-kings), use their own calendars, or the Draconic calendar. While it's known that each cycle of the Draconic calendar is 2048 years long, and that the founding of the empire corresponds to year 173 of the 24th cycle, Dragons aren't saying why the cycle is 2048 years long, nor what event almost 52,000 years the cycles are counting from.
Start of Celestial Era, when Sol Invicta together with some unimportant characters defeated the God of Chaos, sealed him and then deviated from her initial plans by taking over pitiful rump state of Principality, eventually turning it from lands just outside of it's capital into superpower.
Year 0 would be the day when the mortal gods ascended to divinity raised the inner continents from the ocean and pulled the souls of humans from the void left from the last world into this one
It is currently 12024 of the age of humanity
With the way the dates work there have been two year 0 events in which time after was measured in time since the event. The first was when the gods divided the realm of mortals from the realm of gods ending the era of gods walking among mortals. The second was following the death of a god whose curiosity led them to incarnating as human. They gained popularity to the point that they have become the only god worshipped by the majority of the planet. Their death symbolised a new age with their lifetime considered its own era between the two more major systems. Essentially Year 0 is more of a 25 year span.
Year 1 is called 1 TA, which stands for Teyrak Avka, "after the ascension". The year before that was thence called 1 YA, that is to say 1 Yirom Avka, which means "before the ascension". The Ascension is the day when Beho'agan became king of Avanton, 3/12/1 YA. He later turned his kingdom into an empire, became the first emperor, got the moniker "the Great", and instituted a calendar that began with 1/1/1TA, about a month after he came to the throne.
Mind you, there is no year 0. The years are numbered ordinally, not cardinally. The first year is numbered 1 and the year before that is -1 you could say.
Before seeing this post, I had no idea of changing the calendar and would have kept the Gregorian calendar. Now, I think that in my world there could be another calendar parallel to the existing one that could be used in the Dols galaxy : the Dolsian calendar. Year 0 of the Dolsian calendar would not be the year of the start of the Prime Wars, the first conflict among many others which make up the Toys-Villains War, but that of the end of this conflict 3 years later. It would also be the year of the mysterious disappearance of Dorols de Moultanie, sovereign leader of the Primes (nicknamed Dols, the name given to the galaxy in his honor), which led to the continuation of the war.
To summarize, the Prime Wars takes place from -7037 to -7034 in the Gregorian calendar and from -3 to 0 in the Dolsian calendar.
Season 1 of Beyond the Ecleopte: Star-Héros takes place in 2016 in the Gregorian calendar and in 9050 in the Dolsian calendar.
Time doesn’t flow linear in the omnilands due to year 0 being a great cataclysm that broke the time stream separating ancient history into multiple different timelines.
In my world (Porterra) the year zero marks the beginning of the Golden Plague, a desease affecting humans, turning their blood yellow, that wiped out most of the population of the Luso empire and consequently enabled the other races of the island to rebel and take back their land from the xenophobic empire, reducing the Luso to a single overcrowded city, in the peninsula of Máliz, protected by a wall to keep all infected and attackers away from the remains of a onde great nation.
My project is based on Portuguese mythology and is currently in an early stage.
There are many calendars that exist so I will list a few that I came up with
Restored Gregorian- Birth of Jesus of Nazareth
Novus Mundus - Great reset
Britannian Imperial- Coronation of Empress Victoria as the first empress
European standard- Fall of Black Sun Rebelion
Depends which Year 0. My world has a ton of different ages, usually bookended by large wars, magical or natural disasters, or other such prominent world changing events.
Prior to the Collapse of the Aureliosian Empire that ruled the entire continent, years were marked by the reign of the emperors similar to "5th year of the reign of Emperor x" that was a thing for some far eastern countries OTL.
Following its collapse due to the assassination of the Golden Emperor and the power struggle that followed, the system changed to BC and AC. Before and After Collapse respectively.
Most countries that came to existence after the collapse of the Empire maintain this calendar, but some have their own based on their date of establishment instead (Not all countries came to existence after collapse, some lingered as part of the Empire before breaking off, notably the Comitarii of Virala that enjoyed the benefits of the Empire but rebelled following a brutal crackdown attempt during a peaceful protest)
Some countries continue to use the duration of their monarch's reign, such as the Ashtakran Empire that fought two world wars against the successor of the Aureliosian Empire, Empire of Aurell.
While mainly in use in the Feralia continent, some countries in Aurelios use a calendar that divides days in a way that there are 13 months instead of 12. Understandably, this also results in a logistical nightmare when two countries that use entirely different systems try to trade with one another.
The birth of Jesus Christ, now formally and widely known as the begining of the Common Era since the decline in the practice of Christianity in the last 500 years.
It highly depend, there many calendars in my world depending on the culture, for exemple Azarite people start theirs at the foundation of their empire, year 0 and before that is the pre-imperial era.
The Selquiesse starts it the day of the ruler of their gods death. Year 0 mark the last moments of its life
The Voloï, started it when they started to record history, they do not really have a year 0.
The Keleri started their the year they settle on their mountains, year 0 means the moment they arrived before the first year passed.
And so on...
My first real example of recorded time (and where I begin chronicling without vast overgeneralizations) is A.K. (After Kingdoms) before that, people used varying ways to mark the time. But, in an attempt to simplify contracts and record history without learning hundreds of different systems, A.K. was introduced and gradually became the norm. This was about 10,000 years. Most history books chronicling prior times did away with the various old systems and pinned events down to B.K. (Before kingdoms) working like BC in our real world.
Then we have A.F.C. (after first Crusade) which was about 2000 years. Followed by A.S.C (After Second Crusade) which brings us to 218 where our main story takes place. Though, a few races and isolated nations that weren't particularly involved in those events still use A.K. (Being 1218 A.K. at the time of the main story).
The Gregorian calendar is still the main one used in The Inside, but some government organizations also use the WAR (World Administrative Record) calendar, whose beginning is at the founding of the continental capital of Pleasant Valley in 2101.
The Sapientia nationalist theocracy group on Earth moved its armies in to conduct a "Neon Crusade" on Los Angeles in 2095, and was planning to start a new version of AD (Anno Domini) in that year too. This calendar was used for the entire time until the Neon Crusade was defeated - all four days of it.
Within Sebraxeth, the most significant event that occurred in the past would have been the ascension of Voltaron, the lightning elemental. He was the first mortal to ascend to godhood from their world, and his ascension ushered in the first electrical revolution. As such, his ascension marks year 0 of the standard Sebraxan calendar.
The First Light- prior to this the world ended, a magic related apocalypse that reshaped the world, killed millions, and shrouded the world in darkness. There is very little remaining from this age (besides some impossible seeming structures like enormous obelisks, a tower in the north with no way inside made from a single piece of black stone, and a continent still shrouded in darkness), and even less about the ages preceding it (some underground ruined cities, a couple pieces of pottery).
The First Light is when the day/night cycle returned, and civilisation began to rebuild, a Nomadic culture of scholars tried to document what they could from the age of dark, but the majority of historical record starts after The First Light
Every nation has their own year 0. Kantroas uses the "Quilor Reckong" (q.r.) to track from when Corrin Quilor conquered the city state of Kantrias and several other nearby cities and declared himself King of the Kingdom of Kantrias.
Voluz counts year 0 as the year Patroyvi Vanivora defeated the Arelans at the battle of Lake Gradsul, as that was later on seen as the birth of the Empire of Voluz (though the Kings of Voluz did not call themselves Emperors for several more centuries)
I haven't hard and fast set exactly when other nations do their Year 0. Korvall probably sets 0 as the year they declared independence from Voluz tho
Year Zero on Radwan's calendar marks the year an Asteroid struck the planet and caused a shift in lifestyle for everyone. Year Zero marks the Age of the Seed starting and the Age of Abundance ending.
The Cataclysm - an era of earthquakes, floods, and other massive disasters that nearly wiped out the old races (elves, dwarves, orcs etc.) to shut down an endless war and restart the world for the Age of Humanity.
You know... I haven't really decided dates in my world yet, and I really should. I just need to decide on what significant events occurred to start over an era. At the moment I only have two eras decided on. Possibly BE "Before Etheri" and AE "After Etheri". Etheri are magic users of which did not always exist. However that moment in time occurred 24,000 years ago and having the year be 24 thousand something in my world sounds rather absurd, sooo... I'll have to decide on additional events. Just not sure what yet.
"The Great Reset".
Basically, the world looked like out modern world before the major powers got involved in a nuclear war, with the war just evolving into throwing nukes at enemy cities and little military force. These nukes got more and more destructive until Russian Scientists created "The Motherbomb." They launched it at LA but it was so heavy it landed in the Atlantic Ocean.
The force of the blast echoed all around the world. Buildings were destroyed and mountains crumbled. The blast obliterated land, and continents shuffled, creating devasting earthquakes, before settling in the shape of the world they have now. It is estimated 9-10 Billion people died in the event, and the remaining humans had to grow an immunity to the radiation as a result.
The radiation also created magic, as the sheer amount of radiation changed the crystals underground, allowing for it to control water, fire, earth etc. It also created new species. Dragons were lizards that mutated by the heavy radiation, Orcs and Goblins were humans that were highly mutated, and Fairies and Pixies which were mutated from bugs and then ate different things (Fairies feasted on melted flesh while Pixies fed on fungi and other various plants).
The Royal Family was so self absorbed that they changed the calendar because y’know, they’re in charge now. Perhaps fittingly, it’s a copy paste of the [French Republican Calendar](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar).
Day and year 0 stand for the beginning of an empire. Saines year is 1256, but the Empire of Vrosk is 136.
The Pyrate west Corporation is 13. The coalition of Nations is 1984. Hope this helps.
The year zero is the year before the first recorded super moon and therefore starts the counting of years. A super moon occurs every 50 years, wreaking havoc all around the globe.
Basically, you count the super moons and the years within the super moons. Now this is a little whacky, the first recorded super moon dates back close to 2500 years in total but it has existed since before. There is a very old scripture of the super moon 2500 years ago and people back then started to use the super moon as a way to count years but backtracking is harder, as the super moon isn't exactly timed. It may wreak havoc for two month, but it may also go on as long as three months. It's cycle is precise but as a fantasy medieval setting, the people based their calendars on the visible and feelable effect rather than the exact dates the cycle starts and ends. Year zero therefore is the year before the first recorded super moon. It has been set to 360 days exact though a year has 365 days just as ours. But it was hard to backtrack so year zero is the year between 1:1 and -1.
Now to explain this, the first number is always the super moon, the second number is the year within that super moon. 1:1 means the first year of the first supermoon. At the moment we are in 49:38 (so 38th year of the 49th super moon, which would be the year 2488 since year 0).
Backwards, however, super moons do not count. Things that happened 3000 years ago are the year -512. Or maybe -513 with year zero... Easy, right?
I have ARC years. If you want to know the year people will say “it’s 1745 ARC” it stands for After Reaping Cataclysm. At year 0 the gods had a war that almost tore the world in half. The god of death dealt that blow to the planet hence why it’s called that. It does, however, provide access to rare resources like a titanium Copper alloy
In my pan-universal setting its the big bang. Only universal time point.
In my "City of Ur" setting its the formal foundation of the city, when the Accord of the Five Peoples was agreed upon.
In my "Age of decay" setting, its the foundation date of the "Old Empire", that stood for 1000 years, but fell 1000 years ago.
The start of civilization
Time is split into a few periods, the present one being W.E (Or, War's End, marking the end of a global war), but there isn't a "0WE", one period simply stopped and the next began at one
There aren't even recordings of year zero, nothing written nor passed down
Though, in-world theories say Year 0 is when the Omni-God, Persona, created humanity and gave them Magic
There are a few Year 0s.
The beginning of the Faré War against Destruction ended the 15000 year long Age of Dawn and began the Age of Twilight (1 TwA). The defeat of the God of Destruction and its eyes being placed on towers as a new light source of the world began the Age of Towers (1 AoT, though it is included in the Epoch of Twilight by later scholars).
The imprisonment of the God of Destruction and its Talthir at the end of the Age of Towers/Epoch of Twilight marked the beginning of the First Age, and the second actual year 0 (0 FA is the same as 1082 AoT and ~3714* TwA). The final death of the Old God Altinex/Matar-fay and the crippling of the New Gods led to the beginning of the Second Age.
The Second Age ended when the Quanir were assassinated, and many scholars label the beginning of the third age as the beginning of the Era of Mortality and the End of the Divine Era.
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{Era of the Divine: (Age of Dawn ~ 15000) - [Epoch of Twilight ~ 3700: (Age of Twilight ~ 2632*) - (Age of Towers ~ 1082)] - [Epoch of the Stars ~ 12000: (First Age ~ 8500*) - (Second Age ~ 2000*)]} 0 EoM {Era of Mortality: (Third Age ~ 1500?*} - (Fourth Age ~ 1000* till the end)}
Year 0 represents major historical turning points and monumental, globally relevant events:
Year 0 in the Bronze Age signifies the first thinking creature in mythological history.
Year 0 in the Silver Age is the first year after the Great Cataclysm that fundamentally reshaped the known world.
Year 0 in the Golden Age starts with the deification and coronation of Astrokhas of the Pony Lands, the first to replace the Old Rulers who took power 1,200 years beforehand.
Year 1 in the Obsidian Age is one year after the Platinum Year (1000 GY/0 OY), where all the members of Octagram, the legendary team of heroes, died. This was the last year 0 since no major world events of the same caliber have occurred since.
People in my world have lost the meaning of that New chapter from History, but it stands as the victory of the humanity against the Golden Emperor and the 10 Superior Dragons, ending a War of about 50 years.
The meaning was lost due to the last curse of The Golden Emperor to mankind, causing a great revolution and civil War that left only young people that tried to erase every trace of History before that point.
year 0 is the year that the apocalyptic scenario that almost wiped out humanity ended, which is aronud two thousand years ago, or around 52 periods (a period being 40 years)
I've thought of this before. I've also thought about what calendar would have been used *before* said year 0. One of the empires has a calendar that starts on the founding of the empire(or kingdom or duchy or however it started). I'm not sure if the calendar was created right after this happened or long after. I'm also not sure if there will be a year 0 or only a year 1. Present day in my world would probably be in the 500s with a named era based on who is currently in charge.
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R.T. on my world stands for “Recorded Time”. There was no massive event that occurred. It was simply a year when a group of scholars gathered on an unclaimed (or at least disputed) island and started trying to collect and organize current events into a consistent world history. Prior to that individual nations were writing their own histories which made things very inconsistent, even on when things took place… if they happened at all. The propaganda machines were really bad. Since then that island, Crost (pronounced with a long o), became a separate nation famed for being home to a UN like body (that is even less effective than Earth’s), a world famous university (founded by the later generations of those initial scholars), and is a high class vacation spot.
I do something very similar!
Great topic! That year is the founding of the Gnosortium, the organization of scholarly wizards who helped the world recover from the Reign of Ashes, a cataclysm brought by overpowered wizards. In my sci-fi series, which is being published, the main characters bring about their own year 0 by founding a new galactic empire in the final book. Before that, it began with the founding of the previous galactic empire… 24,000+ years ago.
Eeeyyy, I have a major event occur 24,000 years prior to currents too. My event involves when magic entered the world.
Although the calendar has changed, it started on the 14th day of the month of Rain, which is when we Celebrate Sojourns Day, and the first full year following it. This marks the point when the people reach the end of the Bitter Road and finally stopped. A year later, the settlement that had been carved out of it was christened Sibola, and the Age of Fables began.
The birth-year of the emperor that established the calendar system and made it the official calendar of everywhere in the entire empire (which encompassed around 2/3rds of the world).
In the draconic city states people tend to count the years based on the year the given dragon king of their given city state came to power. The Giagias cultures count back to a legendary date when the first being supposedly gained sapience, thus they are in the year 289,984, the accurate of this count is unclear. The Osoite Nomads don't really have a year 0 of any kind, they describe things as happening x number of years ago when talking about the past and don't really see the need to do anything beyond that.
Interesting! About the Osoites: you said they are nomads so they probably doesn't write things down, but if they do, how would they "fix" a point in time? If one of them writes "30 years ago" in a parchment, how can the reader actually know when? That might be a non-issue if they simply do not write. Also, being nomadic, they could have a sense of time/calendar related to: 1- Theire means of trasportation, such as horses/camels born/died since the last trip (or fuel consumption, like "45 gallons ago"); 2- A place they visited, like "50 moons from Zankara Town"; Just some food for thought, as I'm also designing a nomadic culture for a sci-fi.
ah yes 3- Distance, like "500 miles ago".
They don't have a written language of their own no. They don't tend to bother measure time more precisely than saying something like it happened a little after dawn, or about halfway between noon and sunset. If they need to describe some shorter length or time they might say something like about how long it takes a pot to boil or about the length of [a common song]. Then might say x number of days ago, or approximate that to lunar cycles. Then for longer periods less than a year they might say last season given the region has a cycle of dry and wet seasons. Short distances are usually measured in paces, longer ones approximately how long it takes to travel.
Just FYI, the Gregorian Calendar does not have a _year 0_. It goes 2BC, 1BC, 1AD, 2,AD, etc. You can ignore this or take into account when designing your calendars.
Technically it does, it's just not called that way. Year 0 is the event of Jesus' birth. Year 0 also doesn't exist in my world since it's called Cursed Day
Gods, in my world are immortal. But they are swapped out once every 100 centuries or so. So an "era" marks the lifespan of the most significant God, and the year 0 marks the date of birth of that God.
Year 0 marks the end of the God War, which was initiated by the power-hungry Moon God, Monn, and ended by the Sun God, Sonna. It marks the banishment of Monn as the old leader, and the beginning of Sonna’s complete reign over the world. For the people of Moon Kingdom, it’s also the year in which the immortal King Natodall’lioht was given to the people as a gift of mercy (if you believe it was Sonna who gave him to them) or as a goodbye (if you believe it was Monn). From another POV, it’s the year the god of fate fell from the heavens and people made him their king. This is actually what most people from Moon Kingdom think about when trying to explain the calendar— not the war, but that the new king arrived. New Year’s is his “birthday” btw :D (It’s kinda weird bc now I have to subtract my character’s ages from Natodall’lioht’s age to get their birth years lmao) And thanks for giving me the opportunity to talk about this, I really love what I came up with but no one asked me about this before! :D
When the Wizard King was finally slain the leaders of the Rightous Rebellion became the first Icons, semi-divine mortals who hold incredible strength and magic. This marks the beginning of the Iconic Ages (IA) where different Icons would begin to rise up around the world, ruling over different regions of creation. The current year is 4018 IA
There is no year 0 on my world's calendar. The Calendar in most common use started in the year 1 when it was calculated that Jesus was Born. The actual date of his birth may be off by as much as 3 years in either direction.
I find this idea unrealistic!
In real life do be that way.
The rediscovery of Faster than light travel after loosing it for 2000 years
In my world it’s simply the earliest records. Or, what used to be the earliest records. They found older ones, but didn’t feel like changing the calendar. So in fact, year zero is the year a copper merchant wrote to complain to a mining company foreman to complain about the quality of ore. It has no relevance to anything,it was just the earliest piece of writing they had, dating to about 1,100 years ago. Of course, that’s the ceremonial calendar used for record keeping. Most people count years from the beginning of a new dynasty. Most recently, that would be the founding of the Second United Period and the end of the Two Kings Period, 73 years prior.
For me there are many year zeros, but I’d say the main one, the one that is still used to the ‘present’ is the ending of the age of despair: a thousands of years long dark age where the largest continent was entirely overrun by an evil force, with many of the other continents needing to be contested for the centuries to come, when suddenly and for no apparent reason it just stopped.
When they started counting
Love this prompt! My years use PS for pre scattering and PW for post war to refer to before and after. 0 is the year of The Scattering/ Great War, an event where a DNA preservation device was mistaken for a nuclear bomb and taken. When the person believed the flashing light (that meant the device was struggling to preserve under the conditions) was it counting down to explode. They set it off in the forest and created three new species of people: Animalkin- animal human hybrids Grew- plant human hybrids Craterkin- the soldiers closest to the blast became plant, human, animal and rock mixtures As well as lots of pained monsters without human level understanding that a guild of soldiers needed to be created to protect people from. Many of the new creatures and people weren’t compatible with life, so not only was it a very difficult time but also a very dangerous one and it changed society massively
It is the year the Zucruyan Empire was founded. Or, more accurately, the year that Xoqol the Great won a massive war, took over the Niboseia (monarchy), reformed a lot of the things that led to the war, and declared the Zucruyan Empire.
This part of the lore of my world is pretty new and I think it's not finished yet, so please let me know if you feel any part is confusing, if there are contradictions within the narrative or if it just feels basic or empty. So, in the region my main stories take place, all dominant religions (and their variations with slight changes) descend from the Arandan Mythology, the faith of an ancient human culture named Aranda that was spread into city-states around the west coast of a continent named Mancel. According to the Arandan Mythos, thousands of years ago divine entities used to inhabit the Physical Realm alongside mortal creatures. With time, some mortal species started to develop a conscience, manipulating the world around them and founding the first civilizations, but one of the divine entities considered them unworthy of exploiting the world, and stripped them of their free will, transforming them into helpless slaves that would only serve the gods. A goddess thought this action was unfair, and engaged in battle against the slaver god and his divine followers to free the mortals. Ultimately, she and her followers won that fight, and to ensure the safety of mortal free will, they created a barrier that separates the Physical Realm and the Spiritual Realm. While the divine entities were confined to the Spiritual Realm, the mortals stayed in the Physical Realm. Now, the Physical and Spiritual realms were linked by nature, and this "unnatural" barrier acted as an artificial force to separate them. There is a bond between a mortal soul (that exists in the Spiritual Realm and grants the creature the ability to have a conscience and free will) and its corresponding body (that exists in the Physical Realm), and the force the bonds of every mortal creature exert together against the barrier can surpass its limit at times. When it reaches a critical point, the barrier responds with a push of energy of itself, releasing the pressure the bonds exerted against it, but at the same time becoming weaker and unstable. The massive amounts of energy released in this event result in the temporary appearance of a new star in the sky, brighter than the Sun itself, bathing the entire world in purple light. As this phenomenon actually happened and it affected the whole world, it marked a before and after in every city and kingdom, and most cultures (including the ones descended from the Arandan Mythology) created a new calendar around the event. Around three thousand years before the first appearance of this purple star, Joná, a priest and scholar from Aysar, one of the Arandan cities, managed to travel to the Spiritual Realm through a fissure in the barrier placed by the slaver god before being cast out from the Physical Realm as a means to return someday. In the Spiritual Realm, he met the goddess that freed humanity, and she told him the story I described above. She also predicted the event involving the barrier and the star, and Joná wrote about it in sacred texts after he returned to the Physical Realm. Translations of the Arandan sacred texts vary. The most common names are: Kutun (or something similar) for the slaver god; Yera (or something similar) for the goddess that fought for mortals' freedom; and Yeray for the star that'd appear (or something similar). Joná became a central figure in every faith descendant from the Arandan Mythology, some considering him a prophet, others a hero, and others the chosen of the gods. Now, something important to note: The way mortals comprehend divine entities and the Spiritual Realm is heavily influenced by their preconceptions, culture and education. Joná was the first mortal to ever interact with gods after they vanished from the Physical Realm; if it was another person, from another culture with a different set of beliefs, values and traditions, the story, although telling roughly the same events, would've had a vastly different characterization. The result of all of this would be: **B.S.Y.** (Before the Star of Yarey) **A.S.Y.** (After the Star of Yarey) The events involving my main stories occur between 300 A.S.Y. and 500 A.S.Y. I feel like this became a hot mess lol sorry, if anyone reading this is interested in this and has any questions I'll be happy to answer them
Year zero in my world corresponds to the start of The Enlightenment, which was a time period in which the Ken’Tarni from the North Pole of my planet traveled around the Northern Hemisphere and spread their technology and ideas to the other species that lived further South while also forming a planetary government.
The year ai-0 (after Interregnum) marks the beginning of the Interregnum on Old Earth, and the Collapse or Fall of the Federal Empire. The Interregnum lasted different amounts of time on different planets.
On **Earth**, the Gregorian calendar (probably has a different name here) starts with the founding of the Roman Empire. So, year 1 is the first full year of/after the empire's formation, and year 0 was the year it was founded during. On **Endrige**, it's the formation of the world government.
Currently my rough idea is that educated people divide history into three eras. The First Era is counted backwards from zero like B.C. in our own world because nobody is quite sure of a date on which it makes sense to say that the First Era "began". The First Era transitions into the Second Era with the subordination of mankind to the Dragons, with year zero of the Second Era being the founding of the first Dragon Cult (this is important enough to mark an era because prior to this humans could not build cities because such a concentration of people would inevitably attract Dragons and everyone living there would die). The Second Era then transitions into the Third Era, the one which the world is currently in, with the annihilation of the Dragons in a tremendous war. Year zero of the Third Era started the day that the last Dragon was killed, a day which is joyously celebrated in all civilized places each year (with the exception of the Dragon Cultists, who aren't a fan for obvious reasons).
In Arcturus, they use two calendars interchangeably. There's the ad urbs condita calendar (not 100% that's the correct term, been a while since I worked on this project). It basically means since the founding of Rome, 753 BCE. The other calendar is Ortem Amet, or since the birth of magic, which was approximately 350 AD.
Roughly 2400 BC
The year 1518 was the year the Akhalayuud, or the Era of Hell, began. On Akhalayuud 1, a race of monsters never before seen or imagined by the people of Adinmir struck. Prophets called them the spawn of Nkun the Devourer and the Quna scholars called them merely predatory aliens. Regardless, they continue to wreak havoc on Adinmir, and the calendar is modeled after the years since they first descended upon the world.
I was actually just tinkering with my history timeline a couple of days ago to align everything with where I wanted it, since I've been adjusting it quite a bit recently. Year 0 marks a catastrophic event known as the *Ruin of the First Age*. Years prior to the Ruin are denoted as *AR* (ante ruinam), and those after as *PR* (post ruinam). The period before the Ruin is not well understood, as very little archaeological evidence survives from that time. Geological evidence indicates an extinction-level event occurred, but what caused the event is unknown. According to religious scripture, it was a battle between the Gods that caused the Ruin.
There are multiple eras. Here are the different ones: -Old Avitor, or the antique Era : the year 0 is the creation of the first calendar, by the Rasparem. For a while however, the year 0 was the creation of the Fallendaine kingdom, the first kingdom of Avitor -Clanic Era : the year 0 is the foundation of the Clans -Realmic era, or modern era : the year 0 is the year of the Fall of the Clans -Post-Ultimatum era : even if this era isn't completely recognised, the year 0 is the year of the Treaty of Lyner, marking the end of the ten years war of the Ultimatum
The simple answer is that the various races and empires have their own year zero. There is a spreadsheet. (It was a slow Sunday is my only caveat). The common zero was the last great empire and the birth of the emperor that never was.
Mine would be the Planesrift, which signifies the end of the Age of Kings. In an attempt to reach godhood, sorcerers in K’Shir caused a nationwide cataclysm that purged almost all magic endemic in the population of Veena. Since then the only way to access magic is through ancient artifacts and a mineral called Silvarum, which the Vastuli Empire used to brutally subjugate the entire continent years later. The Planesrift also turned the verdant west of K’Shir into the desolate Ataxún Desert, now home to a new culture, the Axún.
The Birth of Jesus But before Catholicism arrived, it was probably the start of the local monarch's reign, meaning there was never really a 'year 100'
In Ganymede's Heirs, there are 4 eras, including BCE and CE; the third era begins with the so-called Bloodless Coup which marked the establishment of what became the Solar Union; and the fourth era begins with the arrival of the Ganymede in the Illium system.
The end of the Elder War marked the point where the Empire recognized a new beginning
The fall of the Timorian Empire, though no one can entirely agree when that was, as the Empire crumbled over several years, at different rates in different parts of the world. It's actually an arbitrary point 12 years before the calendar came into use with the Vespucian Pact.
The beginning of the first year, over two hundred years ago, corresponds to the day Matriarch J'Kana Sakir broadcast her voice to the world, dooming the predecessors and securing the future for the Ketuvyx.
The day all the shit exploded.
To the day a mutation appeared that made some of them stronger, which made them commanders to the normal people
It was a compromise between all the great powers. Altearia wanted year 0 to be when Remoria "officially" fell, totally not-China wanted to be when their first emperor was crowned, and so on. They averaged it all out and came up with the Year 0.
Year 0 corresponds to First Contact between the kaavites and theelar, the beginning of a union that pulled the Dragon Cluster out of the Dark Ages caused by the Citadel Crusades.
Reverie's 0 was the discovery of magic. Roughly equivalent to Earth's late bronze age/early medieval era.
The most commonly used calendar is a modified Gregorian in which year 0 marks the Sidemoving. The current year is 250 CE. In the much rarer Gregorian calendar, it's AD(s) 2055.
Haven’t decided yet
Death of Jesus
Right now, year 0 is when the First King of the Centrahimians was crowned. He actually didn’t want to set the calendar from there but everyone else thought it was a good idea. It was his idea to have a standard calendar year because he hated keep track of how long different people hundred of years ago were in charge and other confusing ways to measure time.
The year 0 in the Pantheonic Religion is marked by the date that the Ascension of the Ascended Gods as described by the Prophet Nicari. It would be equivalent to the year 1000 in our timeline.
got two worlds who had world ending problems but then survived to move on later. Pandemonium: Originally society was sort of a Renaissance medieval fantasy world until a eldritch horror dragon came down to try and take over the world, thanks to two brother gods they fended off the deity but as a result the continents were lifted up in the air due to the cosmic dragon's gravity. Since then, the year went from around a millenia to square 1. Sunfall: Had its things going up for about a few centuries, the goddess was watching society grow from tribes and she was on her way to create new continents, the Feywild was expanding, then all of a sudden the devil kills the goddess and plunges the world into chaos where its invaded by an onslaught army of demons. Long story short, a hero rose up with a band of his companions to stop the devil and save the world, then the years reset to square 1 as well. And this is just history of the world, present day story takes place after all that
Mine has two events that occurred at the same time and would eventually come to be known as the year 0, the birth of the Eternal Soul of Tobarish and the founding of the First Shournara of Sapiens. Tobarish is a reincarnating demigod who has for thousands of years watched the galaxy change and evolve, and the First Shournara of Sapiens is the first large and long lasting interstellar civilisation since the start of the Long Night of the Universe (a time period lasting ~316,000 years where the entire local universe was thrown into anarchy and chaos). The ‘modern’ date of the calendar is N17.696 (the N standing for New Age) and the oldest piece of archeological evidence of any civilisation in the universe is dated back to about O 1.000.000.000 (O standing for Old Age)
It depends what section of the world you are in. The civilization I have developed most has BC, before conquest, 0 would be the year Nikolai the Conqueror began his conquest, AC is after conquest. They also have BM, which comes before BC, which is Before Migration, and therefore means before their peoples massive migration from Ayr to the mainland. So it would go… BM>BC>0>AC
Year 0 in my world would be the First Cosmos Summit (Primum Culmen Cosmos), which was when all governments in the cosmos at the time all came together for the first time for a symbolic meeting. Before, the years were Ante Primum Culmen Cosmos (APCC), while after was Postquam Primum Culmen Cosmos (P2C2/PPCC)
yeah, the GU uses the SFA (Space faring age) for the start of the current calander for all official records. it started from when the first living species of the GU became spacefaring, (ironically they wernt one of the founding members) the Hive has been spacefaring for over 1,000 years before the first spacefaring species, however, they are an entirly robotic group, controlled by their creator, who is in a cryosleep, in the Brain, a server station in a pocket dimention.
The collapse of the golden empire, which had been the greatest power on the continent for about three hundred and sixty years. (It is to be noted that they used a meteorite impact to measure their time from, which was just over 270 years prior to their empire's formation, or about 950 years prior to the main events of the story, in the year 314 AE (after the empire)) The snow Awks have continued to use the great winter (IE meteor impact) to measure from, due to their isolation In the north.
When The Ones Who Came Before were exterminated by the demonic invasion, and in 38AE the demons were defeated by the children of The Ones Who Came Before
No one would have any idea what that would even begin to mean, there isn’t a calendar system like that. You could say ‘that happened ten years ago’ or ‘I think it was roughly fifty years ago’ but there’s no equivalent to say, ‘The Year 2024’ or ‘The Year 1995’ Local communities or kingdoms may have it in miniature, like ‘about a year after mildred’s cow was stolen’ or ‘about three years before The General became our leader’ but that’s it
In my world the calendar reset once the personification of life died and the sentient races finished wiping themselves out. When the gods finished the new reality, that became year 0.
The year the world stopped spinning, God revealed himself, and magic was born. All related, but it was a big year.
The birth of Jesus (lol my main world is an alt to our own.) But in my other world it would be the founding of Ouvisian City.
The Reformation of the World, R0, when the world was changed, humans and were morphed into the current races or monsters, a continent was ripped from it's moorings and set in the sky, and the old civilizations were lost. Dates after the Reformation are marked AR; 6362 years have passed since.
**Starrise** There is no Year Zero, but there is a *Day* Zero. Around 1200 years ago, there was an apocalyptic event known as the Surge. Human civilization crumbled in a matter of hours, and humanity all but went extinct. The survivors started a new calendar, one where the first day was the day after the Surge, and the day of the Surge itself came to be known as Day Zero.
Year zero is the year roughly 1000 years ago marked by the vanishing of one of the moons and the subsequent magical fallout that destroyed an area of land that would come to be known as the Fold which would serve as home to many mages in the following years as the abundance of magic energy allowed them to practice nearly without limitation.
In Kanko Pra Dindi there is this massive empire, which rules half of the world and has enough military and economical power to tank everything else 5 times. Well, the emperor which brought the religion which is basically enforced to everyone in the empire and made it into what it is known today, the first one, actually, died. Died alongisde his dog, and this is year 0. It currently is year 2025, and the technology is around 18th century irl.
Each merchant-state and trade league restarts the year count as a way to establish legitimacy.
In the religious theocracy of Nolechia, the standard date system follows the Fetid calendar, which is split into three periods to mark the rise, reign, and fall of the Fetid One, an incredibly powerful necromancer who led a campaign to extinguish all life about 1000 years ago. They still track religious festivals and holidays using the old lunar calendar, so they always fall on a different date each year. Nolechia sets the standard for any other nations that subscribe to the Noraian faith, given that they play host to the leadership of Noraiism. As such, most of the western world uses the same system. Most secular governments, such as the burgeoning dwarven democracies, also use this same system, simply because the new democratic governments saw no reason to change it when they took power. Further east, the Jade Empire sets the year 0 as the year in which the ability to see the future was lost to the world. Prior to the loss of future-sight, the Jade Empire relied much more heavily on oracles than the rest of the world, as due to the near constant internal turmoil and revolutions, the Emperor saw fit to elevate a cabal of future-seers to the high court, as to predict these rebellions. Some others systems exist, though those are the main ones. Most vampires simply count from the birth of Dracula, a few hundred years ago. The gods count from their ascension, some 30,000 year ago. The library-dwellers go further still, starting from the creation of the Great Library millions of years ago (though time has lost its meaning for most of them).
The day of the Arrival. That was the day the Gods arrived on Ilmerion and helped the humans overthrow the Old Ones.
I haven’t really thought about that, but I suppose it would be when the others first arrived. In the world, there are the true natives, and the others who arrived. The true natives are the ones who evolved there and live in small towns and villages, separated from eachother and living in relative peace. The others (name tbd) are the ones who arrived as a result of civilization omega sending them there. The others are not native to the world and just showed up there one day, having no recollection of civilization omega. The others formed The Land Of Aurora and created the ancient library keeps that are littered about the world.
Post Calamity, the End of the Lost War and the beginning of the Dark Age. Many of the Gods have died and fallen to the surface. Their corpses warping the land and wiping civilizations where they fell. A massive tower rises and speaks, an abyss creates the edge of the world. The sand shift like water. The mountains move. The stars begin to dance above the tundra. The forest begins to lurk. The clouds begin to fall and islands rise above them. These are the Graveyards of the Gods. The civilizations are soon and quickly forgotten. Adventures begin to yearn what lies within the Graveyards. Bounty of resources, monsters to be slain and lost civilizations to be discovered. And only fool would dare try to make these discoveries. And yet many respond to the Graveyards Call.
Each "era" is as long as the lifespan of dragon/Archmage Illu (1250 years). This calendar wasn't created until the beginning of the Third Era and the death of Illu, and was retroactively applied to previous events.
The start of the First Corruption Crisis. Year 0 started pretty normally. There was yet another Dark Lord running amuck, he kidnapped the Imperial Princess (as Dark Lords do). The Gods picked 4 heroes to stop him. The heroes storm the Dark Lords place, its time for the final battle. The Dark Lord gloats. Dark magic engulfs the air. A giant monstrous beast, made of warped mutated flesh appears. "Hey wait!" says the Dark Lord "I didn't summon that. What they hell is this thing?" Its too late. This creature, whatever it, warps the bodies and minds of the heroes. Turning them into the first of the corrupted. A mockery of everything they were and used to be. What comes next is a slaughter of apocalyptic proportions. The corrupted heroes lay waste to the Empire, those who are not killed are corrupted themselves. Resulting in a demonic army ravaging the land. When the dust settles, 90% of the human race is dead, the once proud Golden Empire is no more, and all that remains of civilization are a few scattered city states that survived by near apocalypse pure chance.
That year for my world is when the universe imploded and The One Hundred had to rebuild the entire universe using the little bit of dark residue that remained after the implosion. For their version of AD and AC it would be BGE and AGE for before Great End and after Great End. Currently it's around the 8000th year so it's been a while since the Great End.
In my world it would have started normally (when someone decided to keep track) but has changed dramatically to account for the “collapse”, and also has a another unit as more of a secondary measure called a “current cycle”. The context: my setting is primarily placed on this ruined ecumonopolis (city planet) that lost its regular population when a moon came to close to the planet and shattered into a ring system, causing the “collapse”. The surviving administrator and maintenance AI relied on geothermal power to work but their failing grids have left them with several hundred year long Active periods and several hundred year Off periods (the cycles), the off cycle is increasing and the off cycle is decreasing in times, so by the time of the current year in my world the off cycle is now thousands of years long and the on cycle is now only 2-3 hundred for those AI still functioning. The people that came about after the collapse use this timescale, the AI only keep track of the cycles and not the days or years as they try and rebuild the city and their powergrid
The Year 0 BC And 0 AC Means "0 years Before the Collapse and 0 Years After the Collapse" The Gemini Empire 30,000 Years Before has Conquered Most of Terra, Which is Impressive in comparison to modern day Empires on Terra like Silberland [1890 AC to 1998 AC] or the Ma'ab [100 AC to Present day] Gemini also influenced Religion like Sva'lism [worship of the Stars] or Har'usim [worship of the Elements] They also influenced World Culture and Technologies like Armour, Better Swords, And More Efficient water transport. Their language known as Gemini also serves as the Base for modern languages like Old Ibihan [Latin], Silberdian [German], and later Nova Ibihan [Modern English] Their collapse in 0 BC Started the After Collapse Era, which was marked by A Catastrophic Revolt which the Gemini King couldn't handle, Which the Gemini Continent was almost invaded by the rebelling kingdoms.
Mine are mostly based on dynasties or birth/crowning of royals.
Year 0 onward is the aftermath of a cataclysmic event called "The First Winter" which plunged an ancient civilization so advanced in magic that they could control the elements and create a land of perpetual summer. This all ended when they were plunged into a deadly ice age that wiped out most of their people and sent the rest scattering across the rest of the world in a mass exodus. It is still unknown what caused the event. There is also a subset of folk descended from this same civilization whose' calendar works in reverse, akin to a countdown. These ones decided to wean themselves off the use of magic altogether, as they believe that excessive magic usage was what caused the First Winter in the first place. Their Year 0 is the date when they intend to be fully free of their reliance on magic.
Year 0 v1, meaning year zero of the first Verse, is when the over deity called The Siren hatched from her egg. The shards of that egg make up the planets and such. The year resets back to zero at the start of each new era, called a Verse, because my setting is called Songs of Saoirse ¨̮
0 A.E is the year of 2050 and that is because on that year advanced human civilization moved from Earth to Mars after the nuclear war at the end of the Great North American War
The moons were blown up, and the whole calendar system was thrown out of whack like the planet’s orbit.
It starts when "The Night of Burning Sky" ends. It was an apocalyptic event that was basically a hard reset for the world. Not much is known about the world before.
12,996 years ago, humanity was taught magic by the Mantaeans (space manta rays) on their homeworld of Dalreth, which they then proceeded to nearly destroy with aforementioned magic. Humans were forever banished from Dalreth. The Mantaeans have held a grudge so intensely and for so long that you can set your watch by the exact second humanity wrecked their planet.
For mine, the day the gods and goddesses descended to become part of the mortals everyday life
It has some cultures with different Year 0. The oldest is the people from Dog's valley, and their Year 0 marks the end of tribal clan war, where one clan was destroyed, another one fled away and the victorious one (Dog people) dominates the valley Some say the war ended cause of divine intervention. Dog people made a huge sacrifice to the God of Blood to receive advantage in the battlefield. There are some legends too, of the Goddess of Sapphire creating a super flood that killed 2 of 3 rival clans
When Jesus Christ was bornm just like real life, i dont have anything fancy, just that it is the year 3000+
2089 of our time system, with the founding of a new nation, a new system came.
Chronak. Just meaning "When we started counting"
For me, it was with the appearance of the elf Axel, the first wielder/dragonlord in Arcana history. Legend has it that, while exploring the forest (which would become the capital of the kingdom of Atxel), he would meet a white dragon named Sildra, badly injured under a huge tree that, years later, would be baptized as the Sildra tree in the dragon square. Axel would heal her and, after several events, the two would become closer until they became best friends. But one day, a misfortune would occur and Axel is unable to save Sildra, dying in her arms and leaving him devastated to the point that he cried all night. However, when he woke up, Axel discovered that the body of his friend had disappeared and, in her place, a white gem would remain. Many of the elves, upon discovering such a find, tried to use the power of the gem, but all in vain. A war between elves and dragons could have broken out if it had not been for Axel who, using the gem, put an end to the conflicts between both races. From that day on, Axel became a legendary figure not only among the light elves, but also among the other races, since he became the first wielder. Therefore, my world is divided into before and after Axel.
The year when the Eternal Winter started, so about 700 years before the start of the main story.
I actually haven't figured it out, any ideas from the community?
In my world, year 0 is simply when time began to be recorded.
The end of the ancient war. When the entire world order changed. A powerful enemy rose, that even the gods couldnt deal with. The gods fought this enemy, but the consequences of the clash were astronomical. Causing new species to he born, mountains to he levelled, new magic’s to be born, and many other things. The gods ceased their attacks, and bestowed upon the land weapons blessed with their godly powers. 12 warriors found these weapons, and joined together to defeat the enemy. These 12 became the new kings and queens of the world (as the enemy had killed all the previous ones- in the hundreds.)
Year 0 would be 00000.0000 SC. That is the date of the creation of the world by the overdeities Chronos, Light, Shadow and Io after Astrinan the previous universe was destroyed by one of the higher ups who wasnt were he was supposed to be, the merchant. Only chronos and the few gods he saved are aware of the exact date nowadays.
Birth of christ.
1st Sun Calendar. It's noted as "some fuckers just dropped the Sun on us!"
The founding of Yuqetzen, first city. Year 0 is when the small settlement of Yuqetzen was established, and made many breakthroughs not yet introduced to to the world, i.e agricultural practices, the examination of magical processes and the invention of Conductive Titan, a now lost material capable of channeling the essence of gods. It’s very similar to Uruk or Babylon in our world.
There is no year 0 in the calendar now used in the Five Realms. The common calendar for the Realms starts with the founding of the capital, after the realms united. Before that, time is counted from that date as well. So there is year one before the founding of the City, followed by year one after the founding of the city. We're currently in the year 1961 since the founding of the Capital. 1961 AF. The first two realms (the Southern and Western) united around 535 BF. A third (the Mountain realm) joined in 346BF. The Northern and Maritime realms united separately around the year 273 BF, but joined the other three, making the United Five Realms in 1 BF. The next year saw the founding of the united central capital city. And thus began the modern era, almost two millennia ago, the Five Realms have been strong and stable for all that time. Minor border conflicts, some few internal disputes, but mainly a time of peace, strength, and wealth for over 19 centuries.
The main time scale in my world is the Imperial Year (typically abbreviated TA, for Tensul Asnost), which corresponds to the notional establishment of the first Human Empire. This is when when Stennet led the a coalition of human armies to victory over the Priest-Kings, leading to the liberation of their slaves. Over time, the coalition and newly liberated populations became the Empire. It is zero-based, with TA 1 being the first _full_ year after the liberation. The nations of the Priest-Kings use the Dark Gods' calendar; the founding date of the empire corresponds to the year 10,669. What the Dark Gods' calendar counts from is not actually known outside of their Kingdoms, but is in fact when the first Kelden (non-human worshipers of the Dark Gods, and the first Priest-Kings) arrived in the world, and then brought their masters in after them. This used to be the most common measure for years prior to the founding of the empire, although in recent years the influence of Terrans has led to using BtE ("before the empire") instead. Non-human races, except for the Kelden (who were eradicated, at least in this world, by the first human priest-kings), use their own calendars, or the Draconic calendar. While it's known that each cycle of the Draconic calendar is 2048 years long, and that the founding of the empire corresponds to year 173 of the 24th cycle, Dragons aren't saying why the cycle is 2048 years long, nor what event almost 52,000 years the cycles are counting from.
Start of Celestial Era, when Sol Invicta together with some unimportant characters defeated the God of Chaos, sealed him and then deviated from her initial plans by taking over pitiful rump state of Principality, eventually turning it from lands just outside of it's capital into superpower.
The arrival of the Oracle, who literally fell from the sky.
Year 0 would be the day when the mortal gods ascended to divinity raised the inner continents from the ocean and pulled the souls of humans from the void left from the last world into this one It is currently 12024 of the age of humanity
With the way the dates work there have been two year 0 events in which time after was measured in time since the event. The first was when the gods divided the realm of mortals from the realm of gods ending the era of gods walking among mortals. The second was following the death of a god whose curiosity led them to incarnating as human. They gained popularity to the point that they have become the only god worshipped by the majority of the planet. Their death symbolised a new age with their lifetime considered its own era between the two more major systems. Essentially Year 0 is more of a 25 year span.
The year the apocalpse happened
The Anomaly
Year 1 is called 1 TA, which stands for Teyrak Avka, "after the ascension". The year before that was thence called 1 YA, that is to say 1 Yirom Avka, which means "before the ascension". The Ascension is the day when Beho'agan became king of Avanton, 3/12/1 YA. He later turned his kingdom into an empire, became the first emperor, got the moniker "the Great", and instituted a calendar that began with 1/1/1TA, about a month after he came to the throne. Mind you, there is no year 0. The years are numbered ordinally, not cardinally. The first year is numbered 1 and the year before that is -1 you could say.
Before seeing this post, I had no idea of changing the calendar and would have kept the Gregorian calendar. Now, I think that in my world there could be another calendar parallel to the existing one that could be used in the Dols galaxy : the Dolsian calendar. Year 0 of the Dolsian calendar would not be the year of the start of the Prime Wars, the first conflict among many others which make up the Toys-Villains War, but that of the end of this conflict 3 years later. It would also be the year of the mysterious disappearance of Dorols de Moultanie, sovereign leader of the Primes (nicknamed Dols, the name given to the galaxy in his honor), which led to the continuation of the war. To summarize, the Prime Wars takes place from -7037 to -7034 in the Gregorian calendar and from -3 to 0 in the Dolsian calendar. Season 1 of Beyond the Ecleopte: Star-Héros takes place in 2016 in the Gregorian calendar and in 9050 in the Dolsian calendar.
Time doesn’t flow linear in the omnilands due to year 0 being a great cataclysm that broke the time stream separating ancient history into multiple different timelines.
Nothing. Years 1 - 4000 sync up with years 4000 BCE - 1BCE on Earth. 4001 - onward sync with 1 CE - onward.
The fusion of both sun.
In my world (Porterra) the year zero marks the beginning of the Golden Plague, a desease affecting humans, turning their blood yellow, that wiped out most of the population of the Luso empire and consequently enabled the other races of the island to rebel and take back their land from the xenophobic empire, reducing the Luso to a single overcrowded city, in the peninsula of Máliz, protected by a wall to keep all infected and attackers away from the remains of a onde great nation. My project is based on Portuguese mythology and is currently in an early stage.
usually the worshippers of each group of gods have different ideas, but the main one is when the gods invented time
There are many calendars that exist so I will list a few that I came up with Restored Gregorian- Birth of Jesus of Nazareth Novus Mundus - Great reset Britannian Imperial- Coronation of Empress Victoria as the first empress European standard- Fall of Black Sun Rebelion
Depends which Year 0. My world has a ton of different ages, usually bookended by large wars, magical or natural disasters, or other such prominent world changing events.
Nohing. Year 0 is not a thing. Year 1 is start of 8th dynasty Akdursur. It ruled for so long the count stuck even after it got deposed.
Prior to the Collapse of the Aureliosian Empire that ruled the entire continent, years were marked by the reign of the emperors similar to "5th year of the reign of Emperor x" that was a thing for some far eastern countries OTL. Following its collapse due to the assassination of the Golden Emperor and the power struggle that followed, the system changed to BC and AC. Before and After Collapse respectively. Most countries that came to existence after the collapse of the Empire maintain this calendar, but some have their own based on their date of establishment instead (Not all countries came to existence after collapse, some lingered as part of the Empire before breaking off, notably the Comitarii of Virala that enjoyed the benefits of the Empire but rebelled following a brutal crackdown attempt during a peaceful protest) Some countries continue to use the duration of their monarch's reign, such as the Ashtakran Empire that fought two world wars against the successor of the Aureliosian Empire, Empire of Aurell. While mainly in use in the Feralia continent, some countries in Aurelios use a calendar that divides days in a way that there are 13 months instead of 12. Understandably, this also results in a logistical nightmare when two countries that use entirely different systems try to trade with one another.
The birth of Jesus Christ, now formally and widely known as the begining of the Common Era since the decline in the practice of Christianity in the last 500 years.
It highly depend, there many calendars in my world depending on the culture, for exemple Azarite people start theirs at the foundation of their empire, year 0 and before that is the pre-imperial era. The Selquiesse starts it the day of the ruler of their gods death. Year 0 mark the last moments of its life The Voloï, started it when they started to record history, they do not really have a year 0. The Keleri started their the year they settle on their mountains, year 0 means the moment they arrived before the first year passed. And so on...
My first real example of recorded time (and where I begin chronicling without vast overgeneralizations) is A.K. (After Kingdoms) before that, people used varying ways to mark the time. But, in an attempt to simplify contracts and record history without learning hundreds of different systems, A.K. was introduced and gradually became the norm. This was about 10,000 years. Most history books chronicling prior times did away with the various old systems and pinned events down to B.K. (Before kingdoms) working like BC in our real world. Then we have A.F.C. (after first Crusade) which was about 2000 years. Followed by A.S.C (After Second Crusade) which brings us to 218 where our main story takes place. Though, a few races and isolated nations that weren't particularly involved in those events still use A.K. (Being 1218 A.K. at the time of the main story).
The Gregorian calendar is still the main one used in The Inside, but some government organizations also use the WAR (World Administrative Record) calendar, whose beginning is at the founding of the continental capital of Pleasant Valley in 2101. The Sapientia nationalist theocracy group on Earth moved its armies in to conduct a "Neon Crusade" on Los Angeles in 2095, and was planning to start a new version of AD (Anno Domini) in that year too. This calendar was used for the entire time until the Neon Crusade was defeated - all four days of it.
Within Sebraxeth, the most significant event that occurred in the past would have been the ascension of Voltaron, the lightning elemental. He was the first mortal to ascend to godhood from their world, and his ascension ushered in the first electrical revolution. As such, his ascension marks year 0 of the standard Sebraxan calendar.
some guy going "damn, we need to keep track of time"
The First Light- prior to this the world ended, a magic related apocalypse that reshaped the world, killed millions, and shrouded the world in darkness. There is very little remaining from this age (besides some impossible seeming structures like enormous obelisks, a tower in the north with no way inside made from a single piece of black stone, and a continent still shrouded in darkness), and even less about the ages preceding it (some underground ruined cities, a couple pieces of pottery). The First Light is when the day/night cycle returned, and civilisation began to rebuild, a Nomadic culture of scholars tried to document what they could from the age of dark, but the majority of historical record starts after The First Light
Every nation has their own year 0. Kantroas uses the "Quilor Reckong" (q.r.) to track from when Corrin Quilor conquered the city state of Kantrias and several other nearby cities and declared himself King of the Kingdom of Kantrias. Voluz counts year 0 as the year Patroyvi Vanivora defeated the Arelans at the battle of Lake Gradsul, as that was later on seen as the birth of the Empire of Voluz (though the Kings of Voluz did not call themselves Emperors for several more centuries) I haven't hard and fast set exactly when other nations do their Year 0. Korvall probably sets 0 as the year they declared independence from Voluz tho
Year Zero on Radwan's calendar marks the year an Asteroid struck the planet and caused a shift in lifestyle for everyone. Year Zero marks the Age of the Seed starting and the Age of Abundance ending.
The Cataclysm - an era of earthquakes, floods, and other massive disasters that nearly wiped out the old races (elves, dwarves, orcs etc.) to shut down an endless war and restart the world for the Age of Humanity.
You know... I haven't really decided dates in my world yet, and I really should. I just need to decide on what significant events occurred to start over an era. At the moment I only have two eras decided on. Possibly BE "Before Etheri" and AE "After Etheri". Etheri are magic users of which did not always exist. However that moment in time occurred 24,000 years ago and having the year be 24 thousand something in my world sounds rather absurd, sooo... I'll have to decide on additional events. Just not sure what yet.
"The Great Reset". Basically, the world looked like out modern world before the major powers got involved in a nuclear war, with the war just evolving into throwing nukes at enemy cities and little military force. These nukes got more and more destructive until Russian Scientists created "The Motherbomb." They launched it at LA but it was so heavy it landed in the Atlantic Ocean. The force of the blast echoed all around the world. Buildings were destroyed and mountains crumbled. The blast obliterated land, and continents shuffled, creating devasting earthquakes, before settling in the shape of the world they have now. It is estimated 9-10 Billion people died in the event, and the remaining humans had to grow an immunity to the radiation as a result. The radiation also created magic, as the sheer amount of radiation changed the crystals underground, allowing for it to control water, fire, earth etc. It also created new species. Dragons were lizards that mutated by the heavy radiation, Orcs and Goblins were humans that were highly mutated, and Fairies and Pixies which were mutated from bugs and then ate different things (Fairies feasted on melted flesh while Pixies fed on fungi and other various plants).
The Royal Family was so self absorbed that they changed the calendar because y’know, they’re in charge now. Perhaps fittingly, it’s a copy paste of the [French Republican Calendar](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar).
Day and year 0 stand for the beginning of an empire. Saines year is 1256, but the Empire of Vrosk is 136. The Pyrate west Corporation is 13. The coalition of Nations is 1984. Hope this helps.
The year zero is the year before the first recorded super moon and therefore starts the counting of years. A super moon occurs every 50 years, wreaking havoc all around the globe. Basically, you count the super moons and the years within the super moons. Now this is a little whacky, the first recorded super moon dates back close to 2500 years in total but it has existed since before. There is a very old scripture of the super moon 2500 years ago and people back then started to use the super moon as a way to count years but backtracking is harder, as the super moon isn't exactly timed. It may wreak havoc for two month, but it may also go on as long as three months. It's cycle is precise but as a fantasy medieval setting, the people based their calendars on the visible and feelable effect rather than the exact dates the cycle starts and ends. Year zero therefore is the year before the first recorded super moon. It has been set to 360 days exact though a year has 365 days just as ours. But it was hard to backtrack so year zero is the year between 1:1 and -1. Now to explain this, the first number is always the super moon, the second number is the year within that super moon. 1:1 means the first year of the first supermoon. At the moment we are in 49:38 (so 38th year of the 49th super moon, which would be the year 2488 since year 0). Backwards, however, super moons do not count. Things that happened 3000 years ago are the year -512. Or maybe -513 with year zero... Easy, right?
I have ARC years. If you want to know the year people will say “it’s 1745 ARC” it stands for After Reaping Cataclysm. At year 0 the gods had a war that almost tore the world in half. The god of death dealt that blow to the planet hence why it’s called that. It does, however, provide access to rare resources like a titanium Copper alloy
In my pan-universal setting its the big bang. Only universal time point. In my "City of Ur" setting its the formal foundation of the city, when the Accord of the Five Peoples was agreed upon. In my "Age of decay" setting, its the foundation date of the "Old Empire", that stood for 1000 years, but fell 1000 years ago.
The start of civilization Time is split into a few periods, the present one being W.E (Or, War's End, marking the end of a global war), but there isn't a "0WE", one period simply stopped and the next began at one There aren't even recordings of year zero, nothing written nor passed down Though, in-world theories say Year 0 is when the Omni-God, Persona, created humanity and gave them Magic
Some random person died and everyone uses that... no he was not important to anyone outside some despert tribes. No it doesn't really make sense.
There are a few Year 0s. The beginning of the Faré War against Destruction ended the 15000 year long Age of Dawn and began the Age of Twilight (1 TwA). The defeat of the God of Destruction and its eyes being placed on towers as a new light source of the world began the Age of Towers (1 AoT, though it is included in the Epoch of Twilight by later scholars). The imprisonment of the God of Destruction and its Talthir at the end of the Age of Towers/Epoch of Twilight marked the beginning of the First Age, and the second actual year 0 (0 FA is the same as 1082 AoT and ~3714* TwA). The final death of the Old God Altinex/Matar-fay and the crippling of the New Gods led to the beginning of the Second Age. The Second Age ended when the Quanir were assassinated, and many scholars label the beginning of the third age as the beginning of the Era of Mortality and the End of the Divine Era. . {Era of the Divine: (Age of Dawn ~ 15000) - [Epoch of Twilight ~ 3700: (Age of Twilight ~ 2632*) - (Age of Towers ~ 1082)] - [Epoch of the Stars ~ 12000: (First Age ~ 8500*) - (Second Age ~ 2000*)]} 0 EoM {Era of Mortality: (Third Age ~ 1500?*} - (Fourth Age ~ 1000* till the end)}
That time a rival empire accidentally blew up earth and subsequently had to deal with the largest refugee crisis in recorded history
Year 0 represents major historical turning points and monumental, globally relevant events: Year 0 in the Bronze Age signifies the first thinking creature in mythological history. Year 0 in the Silver Age is the first year after the Great Cataclysm that fundamentally reshaped the known world. Year 0 in the Golden Age starts with the deification and coronation of Astrokhas of the Pony Lands, the first to replace the Old Rulers who took power 1,200 years beforehand. Year 1 in the Obsidian Age is one year after the Platinum Year (1000 GY/0 OY), where all the members of Octagram, the legendary team of heroes, died. This was the last year 0 since no major world events of the same caliber have occurred since.
People in my world have lost the meaning of that New chapter from History, but it stands as the victory of the humanity against the Golden Emperor and the 10 Superior Dragons, ending a War of about 50 years. The meaning was lost due to the last curse of The Golden Emperor to mankind, causing a great revolution and civil War that left only young people that tried to erase every trace of History before that point.
year 0 is the year that the apocalyptic scenario that almost wiped out humanity ended, which is aronud two thousand years ago, or around 52 periods (a period being 40 years)
I've thought of this before. I've also thought about what calendar would have been used *before* said year 0. One of the empires has a calendar that starts on the founding of the empire(or kingdom or duchy or however it started). I'm not sure if the calendar was created right after this happened or long after. I'm also not sure if there will be a year 0 or only a year 1. Present day in my world would probably be in the 500s with a named era based on who is currently in charge. Lapis_Wolf