I'm working on a project, right, and I'm attempting to put into context with the history of the Flanaess. So I was looking at the timelines and calendars when I started thing about something that never jumped out to me--the Baklunish calendar is called the Baklunish Hegira. For those not familiar with the word, hegira means something like "exodus", "migration", "flight", etc.
So, what does this have to do with the Baklunish Calendar? Is the starting date of the calendar (2659 BCY--that's "Before Common Year") marking some great migration or exodus of some sort of the Baklunish people or is marking some religious journey of some sort? Is there anything in the canon that elucidates on this, or is this something I can just make up wholecloth?
"Hegira" does have the meaning you stated. The Hegira Calendar sets as "Day 1" the day that Mohammed fled Mecca. Obviously the term is borrowed for the Baklunish(big pet peeve of mine to so literally cut-n-paste something from the real world, especially something like this). For the Baklunish, the terms "Hegira", and "Hegira Calendar" would refer to this:
"He [Azor'Alq] is first mentioned in the mythic tale of the Hegira, in which he defended the [Baklunish] royal family from the minions of Darkness that assailed them in the flight from their defiled homeland across the desolate western mountains."
--- "Blood of Heroes", Living Greyhawk Journal #5, page 9
So, with regards to the the Baklunish calendar, "Day 1" refers to the day that the Baklunish fled their homeland in the far west, and it is indeed Day 1 of the Baklunish Calendar. I do wish that people could...oh....make stuff up more often for a fantasy world though. _________________ - Moderator/Admin (in some areas)/Member -
Last edited by Cebrion on Tue Apr 03, 2012 1:38 am; edited 1 time in total
Interesting. Thank you, Cebrion. Cookies for you! :)
Hmm... Given that the Baklunish Empire prior to the Twin Cataclysms extended well west of the present Baklunish holdings, it seems that the only possible "western mountains" would be some part of the northern half of the range that bisects Western Oerik. And this is a migration thousands of years prior to the Great Migrations of the 5th century BCY. I think I can play around with this.
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