Units System (Ayrwll)

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The nation of Ayrwll employs several non-metric systems of measurement. Though in the North of the country, especially in the capital Araniil, the metric system is swiftly displacing the native one, but the old one has held out in some less modernized places.

Please note that these terms are the translations of the native Tharell words.

(PS: And no, I'm not converting these into imperial system or anything else. The purpose is to translate fictional, medieval-style units into modern ones, not into another equally outdated system. :P)

Weight

  • grain: the smallest unit, about 0.5 g
  • ounce: 25 grains, or 12.5 g
  • lod: 8 ounces, or 100 g
  • bag: 10 lodes, 1kg
  • sack: 50 bags, 50kg
  • boulder: 100 sacks, 5 tons.

Length

  • hair: 2 mm.
  • knuckle: 10 hairs, 2 cm.
  • elle: 15 knuckles, 30 cm.
  • ped: 5 elles, 1.5 meters
  • stretch: 12 peds, 18 m
  • walk: 12 stretches, 216 m
  • stral: ´12 walks, 2.592 km.

Currency

Ayrwll uses the Ayrwll Silver Crown as its national currency. Refer to that article for more information on coinage.

  • rhul - 1/144 of a crown
  • denar - 1/12 of a crown
  • perin - 1/2 of a crown
  • crown - 1 crown
  • mentin - 5 crowns
  • ran - 25 crowns
  • elar - 100 crowns
  • lyr - 5000 crowns