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Battal Universal Standard Time
As it's name suggests, this is the Standardized time which allows peoples across the width and breadth of Battal to co-ordinate their activities. BUST (as it is often abbreviated) is perhaps greatest legacy of the Vampyre Lord Vhadxi. Consistently frustrated by cultists showing up late to meetings of the Cult of Dark Destruction due to disagreements between the clocks of varying villages, Vhadxi declared that the time as displayed upon an old pocketwatch in his nightstand at Blackest Minathok would be the only true time.
This system proved so effective that it was kept in place and adopted throughout Battal even after his eventual downfall.
| Is this fan-fiction? As The Definitive Saga Timeline notes, "accurate time measurement is an almost completely unknown science to all within the ELotH:TES universe." It seems to contradict the variability of the Elim, which is Battal's unit of time. Perhaps I'm just missing something... did Vhadxi come up with the Elim itself as well as the amazing ability of timekeeping devices all over Battal to make a day always equal to 400 Elim, no matter how long the day actually is? |
| Actually the timeline refers to accurate measures of dates, not the hour of the day. Vhadxi standardized the method for tracking the Elim so that schedules could be coordinated on a day to day basis. |
| Indeed, and in fact it would often be the case that Vhadxi's pocketwatch (which was infrequently wound) would display a time radically disagreeing with the time anywhere else in Battal; still it was convenient to always have an absolute arbiter on matters of when. |
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