Clock

A mechanical device of gnome construction. Due to Sola's constant shine and the slowly shifting orbits of the Island Ring's landmasses, measuring time can be challenging. Historically, the various populations counted the passage of years through crop cycles or perhaps the reappearance of a particular island overhead. The creation of The Scar gave a clearly visible marker to all inhabitants of the Island Ring. Of course, every island takes a different amount of time to orbit Sola based on its speed and height. With [Island Name]'s dominance in trade, all islands now count years according to [Island Name]'s crossing of The Scar. Increments of time are fractions of the orbit. This means that any clock must be synchronized with the master clock on [Island Name] to be completely accurate; any others may propagate errors. For this reason, any clock that breaks or stops is effectively useless. The only way to establish the correct time is to find another clock.