Ororran Calendar

The Ororran Calendar or Years of the Mother (MY) was for two centuries the official calendar of the church-state of Ororr, until it was replaced by the Modern Epoch. The Ororran Calendar was a revised form of the old EnSanni Imperial Calendar, except that it began a new count of years dating from the official founding of the Ororran state by the Great Prophet Therion in 52 ME.

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Many different calendars have been used during Helevos' long history. Most societies used individual calendars starting either with their founding, or from some religious or political event. This made comparative history a confusing subject, particularly with the passage of time.
and dating systems.

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The Great Prophet Therion, founder of the Church of the Mother.
from the West, had long since been dating documents from the very start of his military campaign twenty years earlier, in 29 MEplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigModern Epoch (ME)

The Modern Calendar is a dating system acknowledged throughout the Civilised World. It numbers years from the Modern Epoch, abbreviated ME and BME (Before Modern Epoch). It is also called the Modern Era.

Calendar

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, called Years of the Prophet (PY). Although these ardent followers of the Prophet were quite willing to enact a new dating system, it caused great confusion for the fledgling Ororran bureaucracy, with the westerners and military dating all documents in PY, yet church officials at Foratuna insisting on MY. In an attempt to stay out of the intense political wranglings between east and west, a minority of scholars continued to use the old Imperial dating, whilst the majority used the more neutral Hirerk Moonscale - though many continued to count years from the start of Beryl Epoch.

This appalling confusion was eventually resolved in 213 ME. Since many notable historian (amongst them Zinnober) when a series of reforms to the church-state instituted a return to the correct form of the Hirerk Moonscale, with the theological claim that 1 ME marked the birth of the Prophet. Trade with Hartheraplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigHarthera

The Hartheran Union, commonly named Harthera, is an imperialist maritime nation state dominating the northeast of Anásthias. It is one of the two great powers of the modern epoch, arguably the most technologically and militarily powerful nation in the world, only matched by the vast size and wealth of its neighbour, viridOrorrMEOrorrOrorrOrorrOrorr
encouraged the two to use the same calendar, and so it became mutually known as the Modern Epoch. In Ororrplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigOrorr

Ororr [o-ROARR, ɒ̝rɔ'ɾ], also called the Holy Motherland of Ororr, is a theocratic nation in Anásthias, one of the world's great powers. It the largest nation in the world, perhaps the largest empire in history, occupying the entire northwest of the continent between the mountains and the sea. Ororrlanguagelanguagelanguage
public documents are often dated “Year of the Prophet”, but today in practice that means ME.

 
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