Here Y/you can find some basic information about gor. The money system, the time
system, animals and plants.
      
Money exchange
(it is helpful to know that a person can live for a year on 5 gold tarns in places
such as Torvoldsmark)
double tarn = one tarn
one tarn = 10 silver tarsk
silver tarsk = 100 copper tarsks
copper tarsk = 8 tarsk bits
Weights and measures
Weights
one Weight = 10 stone
one Stone = 4 Earth pounds
Produce measures
huda = 5 tefas
tefa = 6 tefs (also a small basket)
tef = a handful
liquid measure
talu = 2 gallons
distance measure
pasang = .7 miles
ah-ral = 10 ah-il (or 180")
ah-il = 18" (or the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger)
Foot = 10 horts (12-1/2 earth inches)
hort = 1-1/4 inches
Time and the days
a gorean year has 12 months.
a gorean month has 5 hands (week), then comes the passage hand.
a hand has 5 days.
a gorean day consists of 20 Ahn (hour).
an Ahn has 40 Ehn. (minute)
an Ihn has 80 Ihn (second)
The Gorean Calendar
This calendar is just the basic/main events of Gor. There are many other events,
please e-mail ~hope~{BH~P} if you would like something added.
- En'Kara
- The first month of the Gorean calendar, that of the vernal equinox, which is the Gorean
new year; roughly equivalent to the Earth calendar month of March
- Camerius
- The third month of the Gorean calendar (in Ar and some other cities)
- Selnar
- The third month of the Gorean calendar (in Ko-ro-ba and some other cities)
- En'Var
- The fourth month of the Gorean calendar, that of the summer solstice, roughly equivalent
with the Earth calendar month of June
- Se'Kara
- The seventh month of the Gorean calendar, that of the autumnal equinox, roughly
equivalent to the Earth calendar month of September
- Se'Var
- (noun; lit. 'second resting'): the tenth month of the Gorean calendar, that of the
winter solstice, roughly equivalent with the Earth calendar month of December
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- Kajuralia
- A festival, similar to the Feast of Fools, is which slaves trade places with their
masters and have much freedom to play tricks on free persons; celebrated in most cities on
the last day of the 12th Passage Hand, but in Ar and some other cities on the last day of
the 5th month, the day before the Love Feast
- Love Feast
- Common name for the 5th Passage Hand, occuring in late summer, which time is the
greatest period for the sale of slaves, esp. slavegirls
- Sardar Fairs
- Huge fairs held 4 times each year at the foot of the Sardar Mountains; they coincide
with the equinoxes and solstices (En'Kara, En'Var, Se'Kara, & Se'Var); for the during
of the Fair, the area is neutral territory: no one may be enslaved at the Fair (though
slaves captured elsewhere may be sold), & no blood may be spilled; serves as a trading
point for information and merchandise; every Gorean is required to visit the Fair at least
once before the age of 25
- Waiting Hand
- The 5-day period between the 12th Passage Hand and the beginning of the New Year, which
begins on the Vernal Equinox
Caste Information
(these are the "high castes". to view all the castes, please go here)
Caste of Initiates: (WHITE) First of the High Castes.
Caste of Scribes: Second of the High Castes.
Caste of Builders: Third of the High Castes.
Caste of Physicians: Fourth of the High Castes.
Caste of Warriors: Fifth and lowest of the High Castes
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