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[AwesomeSaucer]

A bit different than the Greater War hype, but I wanted to bring this up.

Since Jesus (obviously) doesn't exist in Taijitu, what spawns the modern Taijituan calendar that begins in the year 0 CE?  Another famous religious figure?  A new empire?  A new calendar being invented?  A revolutionary piece of technology?

In other words, what makes the year "0" so special in Taijitu?

[Omsarim]

You know, I was just thinking the same thing while writing the historical summary for my recent thread.  That's approximately the time that Omsarim achieved religious unity, but Omsarim never had the political, cultural, or religious dominance to make such an event affect everyone else's calendars.

[Delfos]

We don't have to create christ to mimic the "christian" greg's calendar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrian_calendar#Astronomical_and_mystical_aspects_of_the_calendars

[AwesomeSaucer]

We don't have to create christ to mimic the "christian" greg's calendar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrian_calendar#Astronomical_and_mystical_aspects_of_the_calendars

We don't have to, but the year 0 has to mean something.

[Delfos]

We don't have to create christ to mimic the "christian" greg's calendar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrian_calendar#Astronomical_and_mystical_aspects_of_the_calendars

We don't have to, but the year 0 has to mean something.

The eruption of a great volcano that blackened the skies, a meteor hit and made tsunamis.

[St Oz]

How about it's just the year that some solar calendar was invented by someone whose country forced it on natives or trade just made it common.

[Khem]

How about it's just the year that some solar calendar was invented by someone whose country forced it on natives or trade just made it common.

Colonialism would make it sensible.

[AwesomeSaucer]

How about it's just the year that some solar calendar was invented by someone whose country forced it on natives or trade just made it common.

Works for me. 

[Omsarim]

So who gets to be the lucky imperialists who invent the calendar?

[Orristania]

Or year 0 could mark the date that some old, evil empire fell.

[Bustos]

So who gets to be the lucky imperialists who invent the calendar?

I would presume Eluvatar or Oz as they were the major colonial empires that most of us branched off from.

[Omsarim]

Or year 0 could mark the date that some old, evil empire fell.

The Ardharin, formerly Haradrim, fell centuries before that, so we'd need someone else.

[Khem]

Or year 0 could mark the date that some old, evil empire fell.

The Ardharin, formerly Haradrim, fell centuries before that, so we'd need someone else.

I'd propose Pelagean as the empire as they were our roman facsimile, no longer relevant aside from historically.

[Delfos]

I think Oz is the most global at that point, considered Khemish pre-classical expansion and classical Pelagian Empire (is it like the old Pelagian stuff?), Oz ought to be the rising faction by the end of the classic era, Eluvatar follows a bit later right?

[St Oz]

It could be the Pelagian Empire, Ozia, or possibly Eluvatar.

Ozia doesn't really take over things until the 1000s, but they do have a strong commercial presence in the area and an early mathematics/philosophy tradition. Likewise the same with Eluvatar I think? The Pelagian empire stretched pretty far in the 0s time, again I think?

Need to consult Myroria/Eluvatar