Life and death and love and birth
I've been thinking about it and I think a Discworld year might be longer than ours. Consider: there are eight days in a Discworld week, Sunday-Saturday and an Octoday as well, because Discworld is all about eight. That's fifty-two extra days in the year, assuming there's still fifty-two weeks in the year. Discworld also has extra months as well- Grune is the only one I know off my head, but I know there's a couple others. Assumig a month is still thirty-ish days, the extra month is probably where those extra days go- so, all told, a Discworld year is about fifty-two days longer. And over time... that adds up. A Discworld character who is twenty years old in our years would be.... er.... well, somewhere in their mid-twenties, anyway, on Discworld. Or maybe it's the other way around?
Clearly I didn't think this all the way through. Hmmm...
(The real question, of course, is does their physical growth change to accommodate that, or do they grow at the exact same rate? Are seventeen year olds developmentally equivalent regardless of year length, or is a seventeen year old in one verse developmentally twenty or so in another?)
Clearly I didn't think this all the way through. Hmmm...
(The real question, of course, is does their physical growth change to accommodate that, or do they grow at the exact same rate? Are seventeen year olds developmentally equivalent regardless of year length, or is a seventeen year old in one verse developmentally twenty or so in another?)