Re: Time on Fantasy worlds

Jacey Bedford <lookinsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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<MSGID_2=3A240=2F2199.13=40fidonet_3ff5b71a@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Tina
Hall <Tina_Hall@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes

In the trilogy, I've now temporarily decided on a number of
'arrows', several per one minute (figuring an arrow takes some
time if you shoot it as far as you can, and that being common
enough to end up as a rough time-unit). Don't know whether I like
it, but it's better than minutes.

'Arrows,' as a term, doesn't sound very practical to me. Arrows
will fly at different velocities and distances depending on the
bow technology and skill if the archer.

'Arrows' could work if it was changed to the number of arrows it was
possible to release in a minute (quite a few, I believe), and there
was a standard of training, as in old England times. If everyone was
required to keep up to a certain standard of bowmanship, it could
serve as a practical measure of both time and distance. Though it
might have a certain martial flavour when such was not intended.

e.g. In the time it took to loose a single arrow, he had crossed the
floor to ask her hand in marriage.

Rob Kerr
--
"It's impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making
some other Englishman despise him."
-- G.B.S., "Pygmalion"
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