Storm Valley I-III

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The dwarven term, Sturmag Ray, means "Storm Valley". This is the name given to the valley in which everyone lives and contains the calendar of the known history of the region. It is currently just a few years past 300cy, meaning that the first inhabitants of the valley arrived 300 years ago. By arrive, massive magical storms roll through the valley, mostly in the spring, and deposit travelers from other worlds. Sometimes one person, other times two, once an entire army and their follower camp.

The arrival of so many inhabitants have made the valley a bit of a melting pot. The spoken Languages of Sturmag Ray are diverse, but the official language of New Rome is latin.

The valley is surrounded by mountains. Large populations of goblinkin as well as sizeable numbers of other creatures, like ogres and giants, can be found there.​ Vicious, seemingly-magical winds blow in the mountains. This inhibits the ability of man or beast to fly out of the valley, over the mountains that ring it.

Scholars and mages have reported that while teleportation functions within the value, the ability to teleport or gate out the valley fails. It is questionable though whether mages within the valley have the ability to perform such high feats of magic.

It should be noted that until 261cy, the name Sturmag Ray was used to describe the world... That is until a pair of dragonborn adventurers arrived with tales of a coastal city across a great desert. At that time, Sturmag Ray was changed in the common vernacular to simply refer to the valley and the name Dragansídhe was adopted as the name of the world.​

The calendar of Sturmag Ray is assigned and held by the dwarves of Guthlu Gumzuzudûn. The various peoples of the valley use that calendar for a common reference. Years are noted as 'cy', meaning 'common year', though originally it meant 'current year'.​

calendar:

Dragansídhe has a year that is 364 days long. In the Sturmag Ray Calendar there are twelve months of thirty days each, with the equinoxes and solstices each having a day that falls outside of a month. ​The weekly counting in Sturmag Ray is a Tenday.

moons:

The larger, reddish moon, called Kharbrien has a consistent twenty-six day cycle, always in a full moon on the summer festival. The second moon, Fionaren, is about half the size of the first, has an orbit of thirty and one-quarter days, and is in full moon on every solstice and equinox.​

The timeline marks events across multiple kingdoms and times, all reconciled to the common year (cy). The common year marks time tracking by the arriving of the first dwarves to the Storm Valley and is the common calendar of the valley.

Strongshield reckoning (sr) is the dwarven calendar of Clan Strongshield. Events noted from that timeline are generally pulled together from the personal journals of the dead of Clan Strongshield as the Scions of Fire destroyed all official records of Clan Strongshield.
1sr = -1212cy

Ancient Krymatar year (aky) is the reckoning of the calendar of the Undying King and the Undying Queen. Official records of this calendar no longer seem to exist. Events here have mostly been pieced together from two people from that time: Aurora or Tharral Strongshield.
1aky = 755sr = -457cy

Krymatar year (ky) is the currently reckoning of the country of Krymatar. 
1ky = -101cy