Grili (Li / Metre)
Aliases: Grili
- Type
- Unit of distance on the Galentya continent
- Conversion
- 1 grili = 1000 gri-metres; grili = li
- Origin
- From the elven 'mag' — the gap between two horses in formation
Description
Inherited from the magical-civilization era. The original 'mag' was the distance between two horses in an elven light-cavalry formation; mages renamed it gri-metre. Two thousand years on, gri-metre is just 'metre' in common speech and grili = li.
How it works
The grili is a unit of distance on the Galentya continent. One grili equals a thousand gri-metres. Over two thousand years everyday usage simplified things considerably: a gri-metre came to be called simply a metre, and grili and li are one and the same. During the siege, the Kemmes forces were camped 'one grili' from the walls of Rockcastle.
Origin
In the most ancient elven age the basic measure of distance was the 'mag' — the gap between two horses in an elven light-cavalry formation. Later, in the age of the magical civilization, the mages renamed the 'mag' the gri-metre and built their whole system of measures upon it. Though the magical civilization itself perished long ago, its units survive to this day — if in a simplified, everyday form.
