-804 CY

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-5 -4 -3 -2 -1 -804 CY 2 3 4 5 6
In other reckonings: 421 SE • 645 OR • 805 OL • 1409 TC • 2151 FT • 2660 BH • 4463 OC • 5516 SD

Events

In this year[edit timeline]

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Around this year[edit timeline]

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Notes

The Scarlet Brotherhood p.64 states that the current year is 1395 OL, but that the Olman Lunar calendar began in -805 CY. However, this is inconsistent.

The current year of TSB is 591 CY or 6106 SD. (Page 18, "Faith", describes the start of 6016 SD in the past tense, but page 24, "Old Aerdy East", describes the start of 6107 SD in the future tense; the map concurs with a date of 591 CY or 6016 SD.) If 1395 OL is the current year, 1 OL (1394 years earlier) must therefore be equal to 4712 SD, or -804 CY.

The figure of -805 CY is therefore assumed to be a date miscalculation, which are common when using negative dates, even in official sourcebooks. A probable scenario is that an editor incorrectly calculated 591-1395 (rather than 591-1394, to get year 1), then subtracted another 1 to account for the lack of a year zero in the CY calendar to get -805. The alternative is that Olman Lunar started counting from a year zero, but this would be unusual and is not explicitly attested in any sourcebook.