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Notes for reading

Time Time is counted in hours, days, moons, and years. A year has twelve moons; a moon, thirty days; a week, six days (Youngday, Thunderday, Brushday, Mistday, Kindday, Sacredday).

Names of moons Winter: Purple - Darkness - Mud | Spring: Straw - White - Celestial | Summer: Gadflies - Redmoon - Wells | Autumn: Joys - Wolves - Squalls

Saïjits The saïjits (a group of twenty humanoid races) have a life expectancy of 80 to 120 years depending on the place.

Currency Half-nail (coin with a hole), nail, five-nail, dixclous (rhomboidal shape), coin of twenty-five nails, coin of half a siato, siato (100 nails or cents, a goldy), coin of five siatos, crown (20 siatos, a whitewheel); assignat of 1 siato, of 2, 5, and 20 siatos