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Arkane Energy
Currency
Paper Money
The Grassland Empire primarily uses paper money as currency. The money features a number indicating the units of currency the bill is worth and an official treasury stamp (resembling a cc) that glows under a currency verifier. The color it glows is linked to the number of units the money is worth (but it’s not a direct exchange between the worth of the featured cc and the number of units on the bill). Knowledge of how the stamp is made is a strictly kept secret. Attempting to scry it causes it to fail, rendering the currency useless.
A unit of currency (CU) is equivalent to $2 USD.
Currency units are largely universal between empires, but the buying power of a unit varies.
CC Standard
Paper bills are based on the ‘CC Standard,’ named after an older version of currency that uses circular pieces of crystage (the size of a US silver dollar; weight is 1.81 ms or 3.28 g) with a hole in the middle as coins. Those coins (known as “crystal chips”) come in several varieties of crystage type (and color) that determine their value. These coins are produced by the treasury with a spell marker that causes the chip to glow when exposed to a verifier device. Knowledge of how the stamp is made is a strictly kept secret. Attempting to scry it causes it to fail, rendering the currency useless.
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A cc is worth 300 times the value of its raw material. The value of its raw material varies from empire to empire depending on the prevalence of that type of arka. In Northern Grassland, for example, chips are worth:
Note: There are decichips (1/10 of the cc’s value) and milichips (1/100 of the cc’s value). These smaller chips are in the shape of little beads (like ball-bearings).
CCs are still an accepted currency type in most areas today. Typically, normal stores in an empire only accept that empire’s chip type, but any bank will do chip type exchanges. Large companies can often take multiple chip types as well, and some will even give discounts for using rare chip types.
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Days of the Week
The six days of the week were originally named Islim, Sulim, Nunlim, Torilim, Kalim, and Senlim. Over time, their translation (oneday, twoday, threeday, etc.) has been translated or adjusted for pronounciation/spelling reasons. In Ibar, the days of the week are Easllim, Sullim, Nunlim, Torrillim, Kallim, and Senlim.
Clocks
Clocks are typically 20 myriblinks and analogue. Clocks are often themed with the sun on the top half and the moons on the bottom half. On the equinox, myriblink 1 is daybreak, myriblink 6 is noon, and myriblink 11 is nightfall.
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“#-# o’pal” is how they write time (ex. “6-54 o’pal”).
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