Difference between revisions of "Roshar"

The Rosharan calendar is divided up into ten months, with ten weeks each. Both the months and the weeks are named after the numbers on the [[Ars Arcanum]], and are sometimes combined into abbreviations. Such abbreviations have the full name of the month and two suffixes, for week and day. Each week is five days, so the year in Roshar is 500 days, ultimately defined by the time between two [[Weeping|Weepings]].{{book ref|sa2|46}} Although the Rosharan year is 500 days long, these days are shorter than on Earth - coming in at 20 standard hours {{wob ref|8928}} - and a Rosharan year is equivalent to 1.1 Earth years.{{wob ref|3781}}{{17swob ref|post|49011|Length of Roshar days and years|date=12 February 20137833}} As an example Chachel means it's the third day of the week.{{book ref|sa1|46}} Interestingly, Kaladin, who gets paid once a week, refers to payday as "third pass"{{book ref|sa1|14}}. Presumably, this means that another way to talk about days of the week is by saying first, second, third, fourth or fifth pass.

There are two other telluric planets in the [[Rosharan system]]: [[Braize]] and [[Ashyn]].{{17sau ref|post|62323|Correct spellings (by Eric)|date=09 August 2013Roshar}} Both of them are currently inhabited. The remaining celestial bodies in the system are ten gas giants, named after Vorin numerals, which are separeted from the telluric planets by an asteroid belt.{{au ref|Roshar}}