Major necropost, but I am a bit curious - where did "bell" come from? I don't doubt it's part of game lore, but I can't for the life of me recall where it's from. I'm chiefly curious because I see roleplayers being corrected for using the term "hour" and all sorts of verbal acrobatics being used to avoid the terms "second", "minute", and "year", when "hour" and "year" are confirmed in the in-game handbook on time to be completely canon terms. And, well, if "hour" is canon... Why not minutes and seconds? They're all part of the same base-60 system and it's not like we're given any other term to use.
As I thought all this, I realized I couldn't for the life of me remember where "bell" even came from. A friend informed me that they seemed to think it came from some NPC dialogue in the Limsa-only beta and just sort of stuck with the RP community, but neither of us are positive about that. Does anyone remember the source? Which NPC / mission CS / quest has an NPC using the term? I'd like to go confirm its usage since I have a sneaking suspicion it's either slang, peculiar to a certain dialect, or perhaps does not even refer to hours at all, but is the Eorzean equivalent of "o'clock"; for example, from an IC perspective if it is now the eighth bell, then in two hours it will be the tenth bell.
I can't be sure of this, so if anyone can remember where the term "bell" came from and can point me to where it's used, I'd greatly appreciate it.
As I thought all this, I realized I couldn't for the life of me remember where "bell" even came from. A friend informed me that they seemed to think it came from some NPC dialogue in the Limsa-only beta and just sort of stuck with the RP community, but neither of us are positive about that. Does anyone remember the source? Which NPC / mission CS / quest has an NPC using the term? I'd like to go confirm its usage since I have a sneaking suspicion it's either slang, peculiar to a certain dialect, or perhaps does not even refer to hours at all, but is the Eorzean equivalent of "o'clock"; for example, from an IC perspective if it is now the eighth bell, then in two hours it will be the tenth bell.
I can't be sure of this, so if anyone can remember where the term "bell" came from and can point me to where it's used, I'd greatly appreciate it.
