The currently releasing #saythewords videos for each of the Radiant orders are in-universe entries by an apprentice of Hoid. The Windrunner entry is dated "Sixth Epoch, year 31, [43rd day of the Rosharan calendar]". It's unlikely to be an offworld dating system given it uses the Rosharan names for month/week/day. But this leaves me with a question:
The year is supposedly 1174 by RoW. So has the dating system retroactively been restarted at the Everstorm, or will it change at whatever event ends the next book, 31 years before this Hoid apprentice makes this observation of the orders? Either way this epoch six deal is new — we've never actually gotten an explanation for what event happened 1170 years-ish before the books started (it would be a while after the Recreance, but before the Hierocracy).
To say there have been six total epochs... would that include things like the Dawnsinger era, or pre-Shattering history?
I guess it's also possible that this date is thousands of years before the books begin — perhaps the sixth epoch began with Aharietiam, and the knights would have still been around to study.
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The currently releasing #saythewords videos for each of the Radiant orders are in-universe entries by an apprentice of Hoid. The Windrunner entry is dated "Sixth Epoch, year 31, [43rd day of the Rosharan calendar]". It's unlikely to be an offworld dating system given it uses the Rosharan names for month/week/day. But this leaves me with a question:
The year is supposedly 1174 by RoW. So has the dating system retroactively been restarted at the Everstorm, or will it change at whatever event ends the next book, 31 years before this Hoid apprentice makes this observation of the orders? Either way this epoch six deal is new — we've never actually gotten an explanation for what event happened 1170 years-ish before the books started (it would be a while after the Recreance, but before the Hierocracy).
To say there have been six total epochs... would that include things like the Dawnsinger era, or pre-Shattering history?
I guess it's also possible that this date is thousands of years before the books begin — perhaps the sixth epoch began with Aharietiam, and the knights would have still been around to study.
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