I'm currently developing a medieval fantasy setting for a possible shared universe of different types of stories. I've come up with two basic kingdoms so far: one based on western Europe (England, for example) and one based on eastern Europe (Transylvania, for example). The former will be the setting for adventures (though I'm gonna keep it at low-fantasy level for the most part, I think), palace intrigue, etc.. The latter will be for more "Gothic horror" types of stories (vampires, etc.). The former will be more upbeat; the latter will be more downbeat and focus more on human misery.
I want to have some kind of creation story that deals with the deity(s) creating the world. While the various stories could take place at any point that I choose, I'd like your opinions on what would be a reasonable amount of minimum time from creation to place these stories for there to be multiple kingdoms (they split at some point in the past) with decent-sized populations (assuming the deity(s) didn't create a vast amount of people at the outset, which might be an interesting twist).
One factor that I'm having trouble with that ties into this is the calendar. I've been experimenting with a system of time where one of their seconds equals one of our seconds, but there are 100 seconds in a minute and 100 minutes in an hour. But then what about the number of hours in a day? The number of days in a month? The number of months in a year? I'd like to have the humans of my world live longer than the humans of Earth (those still roughly the same number of "years"), but I don't want it to be too insignificantly longer nor too obscenely longer. 10 hours in a day and 365 days in a year, for example, makes their average lifespan roughly 115% that of our average lifespan. I'd like to find a good balance.
I want to have some kind of creation story that deals with the deity(s) creating the world. While the various stories could take place at any point that I choose, I'd like your opinions on what would be a reasonable amount of minimum time from creation to place these stories for there to be multiple kingdoms (they split at some point in the past) with decent-sized populations (assuming the deity(s) didn't create a vast amount of people at the outset, which might be an interesting twist).
One factor that I'm having trouble with that ties into this is the calendar. I've been experimenting with a system of time where one of their seconds equals one of our seconds, but there are 100 seconds in a minute and 100 minutes in an hour. But then what about the number of hours in a day? The number of days in a month? The number of months in a year? I'd like to have the humans of my world live longer than the humans of Earth (those still roughly the same number of "years"), but I don't want it to be too insignificantly longer nor too obscenely longer. 10 hours in a day and 365 days in a year, for example, makes their average lifespan roughly 115% that of our average lifespan. I'd like to find a good balance.