Re: Time on Fantasy worlds

The setting of my fantasy WIS has five seasons rather than four.

I didn't ever explain this. I used the season-names (Eastwind,
Southwind, Westwind, Darkwind, Northwind) when they came up and gave
some hints as to which was which ("It was the hottest Southwind she
could remember" followed by a description of everyone dressing as
lightly as they could). I carefully avoided using spring, summer,
autumn, winter even in metaphors (that was a little harder).

No one who's read the manuscript ever commented at all, so apparently
this is invisible enough.

It's a complication, and maybe not a necessary one, but in all the
years I've known that setting it's always had five seasons, and I
think of it that way--changing to four felt like a small but real
loss. It also fits the theology, where gods tend to come in sets of
four-and-one.

Mary Kuhner mkkuhner@xxxxxxxxxx
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