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Yearicle
A yearicle is a measurement of time which decreases in length, the more of them you have. Just one yearicle is 30 years in length, but if you have two yearicles then the second yearicle is 2 years shorter. The third yearicle is 2 years shorter than that, and so on. For example, "eight yearicles" is 30 + 28 + 26 + 24 + 22 + 20 + 18 + 16 = 184 years.
Since the length of a yearicle in years varies, and the length of a year in days also varies, and the length of a day also varies, the yearicle is a wholly intractable unit of measurement which is nevertheless used widely in ELotH:TES due to tradition and local custom.
Tonfeer's Quick Reference Guide includes this handy chart on the inside cover:
| 0 yearicles |
0 years |
| 1 yearicles |
30 years |
| 2 yearicles |
58 years |
| 3 yearicles |
84 years |
| 4 yearicles |
108 years |
| 5 yearicles |
130 years |
| 6 yearicles |
150 years |
| 7 yearicles |
168 years |
| 8 yearicles |
184 years |
| 9 yearicles |
198 years |
| 10 yearicles |
210 years |
| 11 yearicles |
220 years |
| 12 yearicles |
228 years |
| 13 yearicles |
234 years |
| 14 yearicles |
238 years |
| 15 yearicles |
240 years (an Eonicle) |
| 16 yearicles |
240 years (also an Eonicle) |
| 17 yearicles |
238 years |
| 18 yearicles |
234 years |
| 19 yearicles |
228 years |
| 20 yearicles |
220 years |
| 21 yearicles |
210 years |
| 22 yearicles |
198 years |
| 23 yearicles |
184 years |
| 24 yearicles |
168 years |
| 25 yearicles |
150 years |
| 26 yearicles |
130 years |
| 27 yearicles |
108 years |
| 28 yearicles |
84 years |
| 29 yearicles |
58 years |
| 30 yearicles |
30 years |
| 31 yearicles |
0 years (a Miracle Yearicle) |
Mathematically speaking, n yearicles is equal to (the absolute value of) 31x-x2 years.
Eulith theorized that every 240 yearicles there would be a Miracle Eonicle. This theory was further fleshed out by noted crackpot astrolonomer Orwin Gernal.
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