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Studies on the Trine Myth: The First Epoch
In the Old Epoch of Royan mythology, humanity communed with the universe through the sun and the stars to discern how the world worked. because of this harmony, their lands remained warm and abundant.
But at the end of that epoch, a great calamity triggered quakes that tore the earth. The world plummeted into a frozen abyss, and the deity Sol, who once guided humanity’s dialogue with the cosmos, was likewise swept away by surging tides and trapped high above the sky. Thus, the Roya lost their medium of communion, becoming like travelers lost in endless snow, unable to find their way.
Legend hold that Sol’s pupil fell from the firmament as a meteorite. Known to the Roya as the “Eye of Sol” or “Sunstone,” it is said that this relic allowed the Roya to discen the sun’s direction even when blizzards smothered the sky.
Field investigations suggest that the Eye of Sol is actually Luxite, and ore whose pecular optical properties reveal the spatial relationship between the holder and the Reactor Drive. Research archives further record that fragments of the Exostrider’s outer armor were once found embedded within Luxite deposits…
Sunstone and Luxite, Sol and the Exostrider… the threads binding myth and reality weave a veil of ever-deepening mystery over the history of the Roya.
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The Roya maintain two distinct calendar systems: the Baldur Calendar for Daily life and the Sol Calendar for ritual observance.
The Baldur Calendar originates from the Roya’s long-term observation of the Reactor Drive. By tracking the Core’s four chromatic states, the Roya divide each day into a golden day and a dark night, and each year into the tranquil Bluedeep Year and the turbulent Redheave Year. Because this calendar reflects fluctuations in the Core’s operational state, it has been widely adopted by the roya to guide agriculture, herding, and all forms of production.
The Sol Calendar, in contrast, is regarded as one of the Roya’s greatest inventions. It was born from their ancient observations of the sun’s path, dating back to when they still lived on the surface. In that era, it guided their long-range nomadic migrations. Today, though its rhythms bear little relation to the life in the underground, the Roya preserve it for ceremonial and religious purposes.
According to the author’s investigation, even after leaving the surface and living underground for generations, the Sol Calendar now deviates from the Solaris Standard Calendar by only a handful of days. In other words, the astronomical precision achieved by the ancient Roya was already astonishingly high.
The Baldur Calendar and the Sol Calendar differ not only in their annual day counts, but also in the frequency of their annual cycles. Yet, over vast spans of time, the two calendars inevitably realign on the same date—a moment designated in the Roya’s Trine Myth as the day one epoch ends and another begins.
According to observations from the Solisylum, the final days of the Second Epoch have now begun to overlap with the dawn of the Third.