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I dunno if it's a major lore issue. We knew that Arclent was a puzzling mix of entrenched poverty and sufficiently advanced magic, so the reveal that the lower orders of society don't have time to keep track of their birthdates shouldn't be that surprising. We already have met one PC who hasn't kept track of her age in Vhala.

One thing that has just struck me is that the issue of basic education and literacy hasn't been dealt with for any species other than orcs, so we don't really know how much of the non-orcish population is actually literate. If the average hovel dweller is not literate, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that they don't read their calendars (which they don't have).

There's also lots of areas of technology that just aren't addressed. We know that sea and land trade are much less prevalent than on Earth owing to monsters, and the number of libraries there are in game strongly hints that a printing industry exists, magical or otherwise, but cartography is probably not as advanced late medival Europe going by Aka's comment on the map at Simon's house.