Birthdays in Oots

[mrponeis]

So, I don't really know if this is the best method to ask something to the Giant, tough figured that could give it a try...

Are there official birthday dates in the Order of the Stick? Sure they use an alternative calendar to displaying the events, have holidays and sure the Oracle mentioned a 'in comic' year co-related with 365/366 gregorian calendar that we use nowadays...

I'm trying to elaborate this, but maybe the ideal is to keep it simple... You see, it´s a hobby of mine researching this type of factoids (zodiac, birthdays, bloodtypes & etc), so I would like to open a topic to discuss in what dates the characters were born and how they affect (or not) their personalities...

It would be a lot better if the Giant himself could give some fanservice and give us some official data... but I'm good with any kind of answer for know...

thanks for your attention

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mr.poneis

[Jaxzan Proditor]

I would try using the "contact us" link at the bottom of this page if you want to speak directly to the Giant.

[Tiiba]

But the information would be useful to the whole community. I think this is the right way.

[Sylthia]

The only one we might be able to narrow down someone from the comic as far as I can remember, is Roy's. After he died, I remember him having had a birthday.

[jere7my]

But the information would be useful to the whole community. I think this is the right way.

How on earth would getting Rich to provide the birthdays of the characters, which he has almost certainly not worked out (even if he's worked out the world's calendar) because it has no impact on the story, benefit the community?

[Sylthia]

How on earth would getting Rich to provide the birthdays of the characters, which he has almost certainly not worked out (even if he's worked out the world's calendar) because it has no impact on the story, benefit the community?

Lots of people care about these things for works of fiction. I know that each character from the Harry Potter Universe has an official birthday, even though it doesn't matter for 90% of the characters.

[allenw]

How on earth would getting Rich to provide the birthdays of the characters, which he has almost certainly not worked out (even if he's worked out the world's calendar) because it has no impact on the story, benefit the community?

While I don't think it would benefit the community much, Rich is on record that characters die of old age at 12:01 am on their birthday. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=16564021#post16564021)

Plus, Belkar's next birthday is prophesized to be his last (although we don't know that it hasn't already happened).

[Bavarian itP]

How on earth would getting Rich to provide the birthdays of the characters, which he has almost certainly not worked out (even if he's worked out the world's calendar) because it has no impact on the story, benefit the community?

Because THIS community makes dozens of threads out of the most insignificant details, and we're gonna need this threads during the long, long end-of-book-hiatus :smallfrown:

[Rogar Demonblud]

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Point for you.