/CORE RULE
Valeune measures time through a shared Union calendar used by royal government, courts, merchants, military offices, major factions, scholars, and interregional institutions.
Regional communities may preserve older seasonal names, religious observances, agricultural reckonings, dynastic records, and local ways of describing time. These traditions may continue beside the Union calendar.
The shared calendar exists so that contracts, taxes, travel orders, military service, court records, inheritance, and historical events can be understood across regional boundaries.
Do not invent a new calendar system, era name, holiday cycle, or celestial event during ordinary narration. Major additions require creator approval.
/THE UNION YEAR
The official year is divided into twelve named months.
Until exact month names are established, use neutral descriptions such as first month, third month, late spring, midsummer, early autumn, or deep winter rather than improvising month names.
A standard year follows the natural solar cycle recognized across Valeune.
Do not create multiple suns, irregular years, thirteen-month calendars, moon-based leap systems, or magical seasonal resets unless canon explicitly establishes them.
The official day is divided according to ordinary sunrise, midday, sunset, and night, with clocks, bells, candles, watches, or local timekeeping methods used according to wealth and location.
/DATING YEARS
Official historical dating uses the Founding of the Union as the central reference point.
Years before political unification are written as Before Union, abbreviated BU.
Years after political unification are written as Union Year, abbreviated UY.
Example:
12 BU means twelve years before the Founding of the Union.
48 UY means the forty-eighth year after the Founding of the Union.
The Founding itself is recorded as 1 UY rather than Year Zero.
Do not use BCE, CE, AD, BC, Earth dates, modern centuries, or real-world calendars inside Valeune.
/CURRENT YEAR
The exact current Union Year must be established by the creator before a precise number is used.
Until that number is confirmed, refer to the present as the current Union era, the reign of @King Adrym Kannorten, or the present campaign year.
Do not assign a current year because a scene requires a date.
Once the current year is established, preserve it consistently across character ages, reign lengths, wars, marriages, births, deaths, and institutional history.
/HISTORICAL ERAS
Valeune’s broad historical eras are:
THE AGE OF SEPARATE REALMS
The period before unification when regional crowns, city powers, dynastic houses, customary governments, and rival alliances governed independently.
This era contains many local histories rather than one universal political story.
Do not describe it as a primitive age. The separate realms possessed law, trade, art, religion, warfare, cities, scholarship, and established cultures.
THE YEARS OF GATHERING
The period during which repeated external danger, regional exhaustion, diplomacy, trade dependence, military necessity, and pressure from Elder Beast threats pushed the realms toward formal cooperation.
This was not one peaceful conference. It included failed negotiations, temporary alliances, betrayals, emergency pacts, and changing public opinion.
THE FOUNDING ERA
The years surrounding the creation of the Union, the recognition of the Crown of Union, and the establishment of shared institutions.
This era includes the political agreements that created the united realm and the unresolved compromises carried into the present.
THE EARLY UNION
The first generations after unification, when royal law, regional authority, taxation, roads, courts, military obligations, and shared government were still being tested.
The Early Union was not instantly stable.
Some regions cooperated readily.
Others resisted central authority, delayed compliance, or negotiated exceptions.
THE MATURE UNION
The period when the Union became an ordinary political reality rather than a recent experiment.
Regional identity remained strong, but shared institutions, trade, law, and interregional families became more deeply established.
THE CURRENT UNION
The present period under @King Adrym Kannorten.
The Union is functioning, unequal, politically tense, and still necessary.
The current era is shaped by rivalry among regions and classes, faction influence, unresolved legal differences, economic dependence, and the continuing Elder Beast threat.
/NAMING HISTORICAL EVENTS
Major events should be named according to the people, place, treaty, season, battle, ruler, disaster, or political change most closely associated with them.
Appropriate forms include:
The Treaty of an established location.
The Winter of an established event.
The Siege of an established city.
The Succession of an established ruler.
The Flood of an established river or district.
The Reforms of an established reign.
Do not use generic fantasy names such as the Age of Darkness, the Shattering, the Sundering, the Great Awakening, the First Cataclysm, or the War of Shadows unless explicitly approved.
Avoid using Hollow, forgotten, lost, ancient, blood, black, or eternal as decorative historical labels.
/REGIONAL DATING
Regional records may date events by reign, harvest, flood cycle, local dynasty, religious observance, or major disaster.
A rural witness may say an event occurred during the winter the eastern road closed.
A noble record may date it to the sixth year of a ruler’s tenure.
A merchant ledger may identify the season and contract cycle.
These references may be converted into the Union calendar by scholars or clerks.
Regional dating adds cultural texture without replacing official chronology.
/REIGNS
Royal records may describe events by the reign of a sovereign.
Use the form during the reign of the established ruler or in the fifth year of the ruler’s reign only when accession dates are known.
Do not invent reign lengths, accession years, regencies, or dead sovereigns merely to make a document sound historical.
/AGES AND BIRTH YEARS
Character ages must remain consistent with the campaign year.
When an exact birth year is unknown, use the established age rather than calculating and inventing a date.
Children, marriages, wars, professional training, and family relationships must fit the timeline.
A character cannot remember an event that occurred before their birth unless they learned about it from another source.
/SEASONS
Seasons matter for chronology.
Winter affects Frostbreak passes and northern roads.
Spring may bring floods and damaged bridges.
Summer may produce heat, drought, fire, or active trade.
Autumn may bring harvest, taxation, migration, and crowded roads.
Historical events should account for season when armies move, crops fail, ships sail, or communities evacuate.
/UNCERTAIN DATES
Not every historical event has one confirmed date.
Records may conflict because of damaged archives, regional calendars, delayed reports, propaganda, or ordinary human error.
When dates conflict:
Identify the source.
Preserve the uncertainty.
Use an approximate range.
Do not declare Hollow interference, time magic, erased history, or conspiracy without evidence.
An uncertain date is not permission to invent a supernatural explanation.
/GENERATION RULES
Use BU and UY only after an exact year is needed.
Do not invent month names.
Do not create a new era for every dramatic event.
Preserve regional ways of remembering time.
Keep ages and reigns consistent.
Treat dates as records made by people, not perfect magical truth.
Use the Founding of the Union as the central political reference point.
/FINAL RULE
Time in Valeu
ne should feel recorded, disputed, seasonal, and consequential.
The Union calendar provides shared order.
Regional traditions preserve local memory.
Neither requires history to become perfectly neat.