B.G.A. System

The B.G.A. System or Before Golden Age System is a callender for establishing dates durring the Mage Wars and the Age of Darkness.

The B.G.A. System was not formally introduced until the early Second Age. Prior to it's introduction it was often sued informally by historians, however an exact concesus as to the exact begining of the Golden Age had not been established.

All B.G.A. dates count backwards from A.Y. 10, or Year 0 of the Golden Age(See A.Y. System). so B.G.A. 1000 would be 1000 years before Year 0 of the Golden Age.

B.G.A. dates are sometimes written as (year) B.G.A. or "years before Golden Age". Thos notation was most common durring the Second and Third Ages when most work on the Mage Wars was being compossed. Written historians from that time were being transcribed and translated, and entered into the new system.

Writting the date after B.G.A. did not become common until the Fourth Age, following a lengthy lul in archeologicial studies. Modern scholars of the time felt using the notation B.G.A. (Year) was more in line with the A.Y. (Year) system then in common use.

Both notations are acceptable.