So how does it work? Do we do seasons in RP or does big towns like Stormwind have summer all year around? Would certainly explain all the skin showing ladies.
Give me your thoughts, do we have some seasonal “rules” or is it every man for themselves? What does the lore say?
Azeroth has no axial tilt, as shown by the titanic replicas…
Seasons work per usual. Arthas had to put down his horse because it slipped over an icy road during winter because he was riding too fast. The pond in Stormwind freezes over and the children go ice skating in the winter. Arathi Highlands suffers from blizzards.
I wish Blizzard gave the months actual in-game names; it’s so weird to say, “It’s August” in RP, when there’s no Augustus in the lore.
We also have seven day weeks without Babylonians and their calendars from 2100 BCE, so it’s best not to think too much about it. Not to mention the English language in general being used, and the origin of every single word ever
I always kinda reference seasons, in that recognising that the game world is static in that regard of being like spring or summer time. However we know there are holidays celebrated around Azeroth to mark seasonal occasions. So now and then like I do in real life, comment that it’s a little cold or warm lately in random small-talk.
Honestly, in every game I just use our own calendar. I mean, they even have one ingame, so might as well.
My solution to that is usually to say:“The seventh of the fifth month.” for example. Not perfect but feels better than saying the month name to me.
I do the same thing since saying thursday for example (named after a norse god) is very strange to me.
They did, they just happen to all be the same as ‘earth’ months.
It’s pretty fair if you RP a human (and by extension races with ties to humanity, like dwarves or helves) considering their Vrykul ancestry and the existence of Thorim and whatnot. Less so for outright alien species like orcs or draenei.
Did they really? I’m not sure I’ve seen them refer to the names of the day in lore at all.
And yes, I get there’s the day names in the calender, but that’s more of an OOC tool to help players keep track of resets and raid invites.
Feels like a bit of a stretch since the Keepers are not exactly worshipped by humans at large, but fair enough. I didn’t think about that.
https://wow.gamepedia.com/Kirin_Tor_Monthly
https://wow.gamepedia.com/Journal_of_Archmage_Antonidas
These two mention months (specifically March, May, October and November). While, yes, the other 8 months could have different names, do we think they’re going to? Nahhh.
https://wow.gamepedia.com/Shadowy_Executioner This guy mentions both Monday and Wednesday as day names.
https://wow.gamepedia.com/The_Collector%27s_Schedule And this item mentions Sunday and Wednesday as day names.
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Yeah, but it’s the kind of headcanon I can jive with so we don’t have to go “the twenty-fifth day of the second month of the year …” or if you want to take it even further “the third day of the second week of the tenth month of the year …” and so on. For the months I like numbering them this way, but for convenience’s sake using the regular names for days is just easier.
It’s kind of a weird situation where if we know 12 months = a year, somebody will have named them, seeing as someone has clearly named the seasons (MidSUMMER Fire Festival, WINTER Veil etc). It just doesn’t make sense to number them without also giving them names, so whatever works.
Thanks! I didn’t know of these!
Honestly, that’s a shame imo.
I use the giantbrained Tolkien method of assuming that our characters aren’t actually speaking English at all but a completely different language in the ‘reality’ of the RP, so the day we know as Thursday has an entirely different name to our characters.
also means we don’t have dumb Elder Scrolls days like Turdas
Yeah, that’s a cool idea that also works. I think I just stay away from using the weekdays to get more of a fantasy feel, since scheduling something for a wednesday sounds rly ordinary / like i’m at work.
Way back in vanilla some guildies and I actually made up a Night Elf calendar (by just renaming our standard months with some NElf-Pagan mashups) to try and avoid a bit of the weirdness.
I’ve since learned that calendar has somehow found its way into use with some other NElf guilds in the US, which is nice. I don’t think it’d catch on in human RP, but maybe if a certain large community came up with one and distributed it…