The Calendar

Intro §World § Campaign

This calendar is made for Verise and includes the yearly calendar as well as an explanation of basic holdays and day and time notes. A sample yearly calendar follows. Moon phases might be included at a later date.

WORLD CALENDAR

Days Per Year 421 Sample Year Length
Days on Calendar 414 First of Spring 1 day
Holidays Spring 138 Days
Beginning of Winter 1 The Last Day of Spring One Day
Ending of Winter 1 The First of Summer One Day
Beginning of Spring 1 Summer 138 Days
Ending of Spring 1 The Last Day of Summer One Day
Beginning of Summer 1 The Lost Day One Day
Ending of Summer 1 The First of Winter One Day
Lost Day 1 Winter 138 Days
Last Day of Winter One Day    
Seasons per Year 3    
Days per Season 138    

Weeks per Season 6
Days per Week 23
Hours per day 30

Day   Time
Dawn 1 75 seconds = 1 minute
Nobility Dawn 7 * 100 minutes = 1 hour
Noon 8 30 hours = 1 day
Dusk 16 3 000 minutes = 1 day
Night 18 1 week = 23 days (690 hours)
Midnight 25 1 season = 6 weeks (4 140 hours)
End of the Day 30 1 year = 2 630 hours
1 year = 947 250 seconds

* This is when the nobles wake up.

People sleep from the beginning of night to the end of day, which is 12 hours of sleep. Nobles and the other wealthy people prefer to get 19 hours, hence their own dawn.

Description of the Holidays:

Beginning of Spring: This holiday constitutes the ending of winter and is filled with much merriment. Many spend the next few days with headaches paying for such a holiday but it simply allows people to take a break and ignore the fact that the season of work was approaching.
Ending of Spring: After the work done during spring, a holiday occurs that allows people to visit neighbours and see how they have fixed up their homes and prepare for the harvests and other work during summer. In many cities, balls are held and many marriages occur around this time.
Beginning of Summer: This holiday just continues the ending of spring and often lasts a few days since most people have many neighbours to visit. Ending of Summer: After the summer harvests and merchant caravans, most prepare to face the winter. Before that, many travel out for a last chance to see other relatives and friends they may not get to see until next summer as well as indulge in feasts with the last of the truly fresh garden foods as well as fruits and vegetables from orchards. Many city people visit country relatives in order to taste fresh food before they have to eat carted food during the winter.
Lost Day: This day was added when a few people began to study the stars. Most of them were mages but eventually began calculations having to deal with the world and the sun. What they guessed was that the calendar used by Colnorath (and thus the other lands) was missing one day. By popular acclaim it was added in between summer and winter to increase the length of this holiday. Many jokes are played then and competitions are held to determine where the day came from and why we have it. Many awards are given for intricate and funny answers.
Beginning of Winter: This day after the lost day is very sober and reflective as people recover from feasting and other revels. Many children are born during this time since a baby is in its mothers stomach for two seasons and the beginning of spring and end of winter is often the best time to have a child, mainly that less heavy work is done during winter so the baby is less of a burden to the family. Unspoken is the knowledge that if the family did not do well farming or buying food, the baby will die faster in the cold.
Ending of Winter: The end of winter is a time for blessing the seasons and being very glad the cold is finally ending. Children cooped inside all winter finally get to play (much to the relief of the parents) and preparations are made for the nest day, the beginning of spring and a new year.

This is a sample seasonal calendar for the interested:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46
47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69
70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92
93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115
116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138

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