Charper Posted March 19, 2014 Posted March 19, 2014 (edited) Kaladin Celebrates his 20th year in this book. According to WoR the storms go through a 2 year cycle of 1000 days. That would make on year in Roshar 500 days, which would make Kaladin ~27 years old ( by our notion of time). Are the days/nights there shorter, or do they just mature and develop slightly slower than a regular human? Edited March 19, 2014 by Charper
Aonar he/him Posted March 19, 2014 Posted March 19, 2014 (edited) I believe the days are slightly shorter. I can't remember exactly how much shorter, and I don't really feel like calculating it, but we know one Rosharan year is equal to about 1.1 Earth years. So Kaladin is around 22. There's a comprehensive list of Stormlight Archive character ages from Aether over here. Edited March 19, 2014 by AonarFaileas 3
Charper Posted March 19, 2014 Author Posted March 19, 2014 (edited) Oh wow, that is really interesting and surprisingly in depth- thanks! Edit: According to it being 1.1 earth years then each day is only 19.272 hours... huh. I suppose that's sort of reasonable. Edited March 19, 2014 by Charper
king of nowhere Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 the rosharan day is 20 hours, with a rosharan hour roughly equivalent to a earth hour. So the scadrial year is equivalent to 1.14 earth years. It may also interest you to know that the gravity on roshar is 0.7 g and the atmosphere is richer in oxygen (we don't know by how much) 1
PeterAhlstrom he/him Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 The Rosharan year is 1.10 Earth years. The Rosharan hour is a little bit shorter. 10
name_here Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 (edited) Let me guess: it's 50 minutes. E: no, just checked on calculator, apparently it's 57.816 minutes. Edited March 20, 2014 by name_here
Charper Posted March 21, 2014 Author Posted March 21, 2014 I love how in depth all of this information is, BS really created a rich universe!
Delightful Posted March 21, 2014 Posted March 21, 2014 I love how in depth all of this information is, BS really created a rich universe!And that's just the understatement of the year .
Zizoz he/him Posted March 21, 2014 Posted March 21, 2014 But it's 50 Rosharan minutes. I was just thinking about this... Does this mean that a Rosharan second is .02 Rosharan minutes, or about 1.4 Earth seconds? Also, why use "minutes" and "seconds" in that case? Seems needlessly confusing.
name_here Posted March 21, 2014 Posted March 21, 2014 I was just thinking about this... Does this mean that a Rosharan second is .02 Rosharan minutes, or about 1.4 Earth seconds? Also, why use "minutes" and "seconds" in that case? Seems needlessly confusing. It's only terribly confusing to people who want to do high-precision mathematics. Generally it's good enough to just know the rough lengths and relative values of the units of time.
Zizoz he/him Posted March 21, 2014 Posted March 21, 2014 Well, it's still slightly weird to realize that any time the word "second" was used it must have actually meant 1.4 seconds. But I recall now that units have not always had their current standard definitions, so there's real-world precedent. For instance, the length of an hour used to vary with the length of the day. It does seem that "seconds" have always been essentially the same length (although they're now defined based on radiation of cesium-133, since days are slowly lengthening so "1/86400 of a day" isn't precise enough.)
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