Kharndam Guide: Brief History

Kharndam: The Ages of Reason
Consider how the day is long to a child awaiting a parent and that is how long history truly reveals a world. Consider how the day is short to a child reveling in play, and that too is how short history spans a world. To view a world through only the [...]

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Manthar’s Notes: Kharndam Calendars (Part III)

The Low Race Calendars:
Dwarftime (DT), Rhamathreckoning (RR), Drakereckoning (UD/OD), Sovereignty Flight Years (BF/IF/AF), Impramark (IM), and Eaglereckoning (ER)

While there have been more than nineteen major calendars or ways to mark history by the many non-progenitor races, only six have any major relevance or dominant use on Dharual today (even to scholars). While the centaurs of [...]

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Manthar’s Notes: Kharndam Calendars (Part II)

[Continued—Calendars of Rokhal’s Progenitors]

Blazetime (BT) is the solar-calendar of the giants, started with the rise of First Kalsiddar on the continent of Shael. There is one Sunkeeper for each tribe or clan of giants whose sole job is to record history for that clan or state. Sunkeepers also map the sun’s changes and details and [...]

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Manthar’s Notes: Kharndam Calendars (Part I)

Manthar’s Note: “The matter on which you enquired I have excerpted from Volume the First of Ajra of Mnoll’s To Traverse the Rivers of Time: An Historia Rokhalica. Fascinating really—the provenance of the copy in Drakesfall’s Incandescent Library. Ajra himself wrote the books between 7870 and 7900 Aureckoning (see below, dear lad, and all shall [...]

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Kharndam Guide: Khotomak

KHOTOMAK
Khotomak translates as “test of heads” (Khot (test) o (of/among/between) mak (heads; maak singular)). The khotomak is a standard ogrish dance nee ritual combat in which both dancers maneuver and weave close to each other and eventually head butt each other fiercely. While female ogres do dance the khotomak, they rarely mix genders, as the [...]

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