Guild Wars 2

What exactly is the difference I am meant to be noticing between the calendars?

The GW2 wiki page for the Mouvelian calendar is almost identical to the GW1 page – and we use the Mouvelian calendar because this is Tyria, not Cantha or Elona.

There are 5 extra days mentioned that aren’t on the calendar. :p

Personally I chalk that up to idiocy.
That is quite literally the writers not knowing how to deal with the fact that Tyria has a couple fewer days than Earth and deciding to change it because they either didn’t want to do the maths or just didn’t understand how astronomy worked.

(Also it isn’t a massive change, it’s not as though it alters how we understand Tyria and I think we can safely ignore it for the sake of the betterment of the lore. I’m not willing to concede that somehow an Asura is just infinitely more intelligent than every single previous Tyrian astronomer.)

I don’t understand why they didn’t just come up with something about how the dragons awakening shifted Tyria’s orbit slightly and because it was further away from the star they gained an extra couple of days. Infinitely more believable/less offensive to the lore community.

Naetell.3815:

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Well about the magic articles, that’s 80% because no one bothered fleshing out the GWW magic article.

The only new stuff about magic, really, is related to Elder Dragons and ley lines.

FlamingFoxx.1305:

I don’t understand why they didn’t just come up with something about how the dragons awakening shifted Tyria’s orbit slightly and because it was further away from the star they gained an extra couple of days. Infinitely more believable/less offensive to the lore community.

Reminds me of the norn in Hoelbrak talking about how the auroras in the sky had altered when Jormag rose, becoming darker and some such.

Well it really sounds like they should have used that as an explanation then.

Lol…

Then each dragon [awakening] added an extra day to the orbital period of Tyria. But that means when Mordy wakes up, it will be 366 days in a year. :O

F*** that, Garbage Story!

Thalador.4218:

Lol…

Then each dragon [awakening] added an extra day to the orbital period of Tyria. But that means when Mordy wakes up, it will be 366 days in a year. :O

F*** that, Garbage Story!

He can be the leap year dragon.

FlamingFoxx.1305:

(Also it isn’t a massive change, it’s not as though it alters how we understand Tyria and I think we can safely ignore it for the sake of the betterment of the lore. I’m not willing to concede that somehow an Asura is just infinitely more intelligent than every single previous Tyrian astronomer.)

I don’t think it was the Asura being smarter than every previous astronomer, it was more of the Asura realizing a certain Asuran date was coming up and they were completely unprepared. Instead of admitting they had goofed off when they should be working, they instead fabricated evidence of additional days believing the other races wouldn’t care in the slightest.

The length of a year pretty much depends on the size of the planet’s orbit. The further away a planet is away from the star the longer the year. Mass also have something to do with it but that doesn’t matter.

The number of hours in a single day depends on the planet’s spin speed.

A planet’s year can be anything. So I don’t know what is all the fuss about that.

I’m going to agree with the general idea here that the calendar change was handled in a less than optimal manner.
It’s a small change though, and one I’m not entirely sure of it was even necessary.

It was made clear to me there are people who do feel the new information on magic somehow diminishes what we already knew about magic.
I’m not sure it does, to be honest. The role of the humans gods has certainly changed, but I feel that was an inevitable change given GW2’s multi-faceted story focus.

CHIPS.6018:

The length of a year pretty much depends on the size of the planet’s orbit. The further away a planet is away from the star the longer the year. Mass also have something to do with it but that doesn’t matter.

The number of hours in a single day depends on the planet’s spin speed.

A planet’s year can be anything. So I don’t know what is all the fuss about that.

Exactly, if THAT was the explanation they went with it would be fine.
But they changed it. There were originally 360 days in a Tyrian year, but recently they changed it to 365.

We KNOW that there have been Astronomers in Tyria for a long time. e.g. the Jotun, and also the observatories in Elona etc. etc. blah blah blah. – It would be remarkably bizarre if every single one of those Astronomers had somehow managed to plot Tyria’s orbit incorrectly and had missed 5 days.

So it went from Tyria having 360 days, which would suggest a slightly smaller orbit than our Earth, to 365 days – except that to our knowledge the orbit has not changed, some Asura simply discovered that there were extra days in the year (which makes zero sense from a scientific viewpoint considering the number of people who had plotted celestial events and Tyria’s orbit in the past.

@Naetell, I agree completel,y it is a very minor change. But I think the uproar/fear has to do with the idea that if they are willing to change that then they’re probably willing to change other things. There was no reason to change it, and it doesn’t make sense to have changed it, and the change was handled so poorly. So yeah, people are worrying that the writers are just going to start backtreading allover the lore and leaving it in a mess of footprints.