I have been pondering this for a while. Before I was trying to make Alagossia’s timeline so alien in comparison to Earth, that it stressed me out in figuring out how to even go about it. I pushed the thought of a timeline and how dates work in the world of Alagossia, to focus on everything else. I made a decision that will only make sense to me. Alagossia is basically Earth if I get rid of some of the things that happened on Earth. I can’t quite say it is an alternate Earth, it’s better to say it’s a fictional version of Earth, just with a different name, just following the same things.
Here are two things I want to make different:
When the dinosaurs came into play then died out on Earth, the Alagossian version will be the Saints crash landing on the planet, making it their own, a new celestial planet.
The birth of humanity and human civilization on Earth will be the Saints birthing and creating the lesser kin on Alagossia. Alagossia has different races that aren’t human.
Though the gripe that I do have to acknowledge is the fact the planet belonged to the Saints only, though they decided to birth other races in their image. So, when they make the planet suitable for the Lesser Kin or the Alagossians, they slightly alter the aether so that the Lesser Kin can breathe it in. I don’t need to be too realistic, yet I need to have this whole thing make sense to both me and future readers. I am overthinking it. Alagossia once belonged to the gods, who shared the world with the Lesser Kin, much later. The Alagossians “rebuild” the world to suit them to exist the way they needed to.
TL;DR: Alagossia is basically a fictional version of Earth done with my own twist and what I need to make it a bit different. I am struggling a bit.
Thoughts and feelings?
NOTE: Are there any history lovers and people who are fond of geography that can help me out just a bit on this site?
Okie dokie. First of all, which calendar are you using? Is a day still 24 hours / a week 7 days / etc? Is it one interpretation of time across the entire planet or do different regions / species have their own idea? Did the Saints wipe anything out when they landed? How long have the lesser kin been around?
No and here’s the tricky thing. The planet emptied, though for how long it’s been that way, unknown. Not diving too deep into why the Saint landed on a planet with a zero population…just yet.
The time period in which humanity came into existence, then around the time the human race built their civilization on Earth, that would be the time the Lesser Kin came and built the world for themselves for Alagossia.
Julian. I want to do my version of that…slightly. So, I need to understand why it no longer works for us anymore, yet how it can benefit Alagossia.
Yes, I just need to touch on that more. So, I need to research some things about Earth to help me understand how to build Alagossia.
Your pre-history sounds well enough, as too many details are not really needed. I agree that you should have extinction level events like the death of the Dino’s, but the whole Saints landing and claiming the world as their own is manageable in it’s concept…
For a calendar, I went with 12 months, 30 days in each, it is rounded and easier to figure in my head… I don’t really work with weeks in mind for Arillion, just days, months and years… It is enough for me to work with within my imagines world…
Sometimes it does not need to be too different, but if you wish to, you can. It would depend on how much extra work you’d need to fulfil that choice. And if you did, would you have special days of honour or holiday like days (4th of July and such)?
That makes so much sense, yet I am now realizing that. Thank you.
I understand. Although, because I am making it like Earth, I do have to keep in mind that the countries are NOT three times the size of Pangaea. Since Alagossia is just a fictional Earth or a version of Earth when the Saints landed onto the planet, altering EVERYTHING, the amount of countries that exist now aren’t that much. Yet that could change a bit.
I want to do thirteen months, each month has 30 or 31 days, and February does not have 29 days. I want to use the first letter of each month just to give it a different name, and that applies to the days of the week.
They can be modeled after those months and weekdays.
I did a similar thing with my months… I dropped either the first letter or the first few, and added a differing sounding to the rest of the letters… April became Prilgan, May became Ayonigan, June became Unedth… And so forth until I had all twelve months…
Okay earth time, that’s several MILLION years ago for when humanity came into existence. Civilization is currently under debate for 10,000 - 200,000. Ultimately this will depend on how you define civilization for your story
This calendar is actually still used by some people so there should be a lot of info for you to read up about it
It does sound like this particular thing is still very much in the works
Although, it depends on the Saints, sorta. It can be seven million years or ten million years old when the Saints created and built Alagossia in their image. However, when they wanted to create other races or the Lesser Kin (the ones dubbed Alagossians) around ten or eleven million years. So, when the Lesser Kin came into play the Saint “went away” to allow them to build their own civilization and all that for themselves. That can be 20,000 to 1,000,000 years after the Saints were doing their thing/living their lives on Alagossia, leaving everything to their Lesser Children/Kin.
Interesting to know. I did hear that the calendar is still used in some places. I also learn just how many different calendars are in various nations, which means more wiggle room to figure things out.
I am torn between Julian or the calendar system we use, the Gregorian Calendar.
Yes. I haven’t been able to do much writing, November was the most stressful month of my life because of life related things. I just want to write again.
I think it’ll come down to how easy you want to to be for the reader. If you use the one mostly in use, people are more likely to understand the timeline of your world
