Year Counts

There are many methods of counting years in Glorantha

Solar Time

 * The Standard Method of Counting Years is Solar Time
 * This numbers the years from the Dawn which is considered to be 0 ST
 * Currently it is 1622 ST

Lunar Year

 * The Lunar Empire uses a dating system devised by Kana Por
 * The reference date is the year of the Red Goddess's ascension or 1247 ST
 * The years following that period are grouped into 54 year groups which are called Wanes.
 * Each Wane is numbered so that a given year is described by its wane number and its position within that Wane.
 * Hence 1622 ST is 7/51 or the fifty-first year of the seventh wane.
 * There is also a Zero Wane which only is only twenty-seven years long and is used to dates that took place when the Red Goddess was alive.

Plentonic Year

 * The Plentonic Dating System was invented by Plentonius
 * This uses a reference point of 1 YS, which marks the enthronement of Yelm and the start of the Golden Age
 * Through contrived calculations, Plentonius determined that the Dawn took place on 111000 YS
 * Hence 1622 ST is 112622 YS

Human Cycle Year

 * The Vithelans use a year count using the start of the Human Cycle or the Gray Age as a reference point.
 * A precise date has not been given for this system.
 * Hence 1622 ST is presumed to be 2622 HY under this system.

Brithini Year

 * Zzabur kept a precise count of the time that had elapsed since the start of the Storm Age
 * This is known to be 14,825 turnings of the Red Sands of Time.
 * If a turning is the same as a year and if this is used as a basis for the dating system, then the current year would be 16,447 Brithini Year.
 * However Zzabur may have used some other date as the start of his year count.

Abiding Book

 * The God Learners and the Rokari may date the years according to the revelation of the Abiding Book.
 * This was revealed in 646 ST
 * So 1622 ST may be 976 Abiding Years.

Loskalmi Year

 * The Loskalmi may date their years according to the start of the current age.
 * Dates in the Loskalmi First Age are reckoned from the Dawn.
 * Dates in the Loskalmi Second Age are reckoned from Gbaji's death or 450 ST
 * Dates in the Loskalmi Third Age are reckoned from the birth of Siglat, which is an unknown date after 1483 ST.

Regnal Years

 * Other societies may date the years according to an important enthronement.
 * Kralorela may reckon time according to the enthronement of Godunya or 1124 ST
 * 1622 ST would then be Godunya-498
 * For Vormain, it might be the years since the establishment of the Twenty First Imperial House, which was in 1189 ST
 * Thus 1622 ST might be 21-433.
 * Afadjann might use the foundation of the first Jann, which took place in 1518 ST, making 1622 ST the 104th year of the Janns.
 * Fonrit in general might use the date of Garangordos's conquest of Fonrit which is said to have been in 500 ST.