Days of The Week:
The week has seven days. They are:
- Moonday
- Thisday
- Wenday
- Ferday
- Sixtay
- Coralday
- Kew
The Year:
Since Year One, the years have gotten slightly longer. The number of days in a year has risen from 305 in that year, to 319 in 1544. This phenomenon has never been recorded before. (The days also became very slightly longer, which means the actual length of the year has gone up even more, but this is not perceptible with modern timepieces.)
This change in the annual cycle has resulted in various local calendars shifting away from one another as different regions deal with the changes in different ways. According to the timekeepers in Marino, the year now has ten and a half months, with a new short month “Darus” inserted at the end of the year.
Marino Calendar:
The
Marino House Cycle Calendar (MHC) is the primary calendar for our purposes. In some places the month, or even the year, may be listed differently on the local calendar. The Marino House Calendar retains the traditional lengths of all existing months, adding a new month at the end, and breaks down as follows:
Marino House Calendar
- Mender: 30 Days.
- 1 Mender is New Year’s Day.
- 1-14 Mender is Winter Festival.
- 15 Mender is Midwinter’s Day, “Midwinder”
- Doren: 31 Days
- Calen: 30 Days
- 30 Calen is the observation of the Spring Equinox
- Queran: 31 Days
- 4 Queran is the actual Spring Equinox
- Cinquen: 31 Days
- Heyan: 30 Days
- 15 Heyan is Midsummer’s Day (Observed), “Midsomer”
- 21 Heyan is Midsummer’s Day (Actual)
- Sewin: 31 Days
- Ochen: 30 Days
- 30 Ochen is the observation of the Autumnal Equinox
- Neren: 31 Day
- 10 Neren is the actual Autumnal Equinox.
- Menlen: 30 Days
- Darus: 14 Days
Tenpin Calendar:
The Highlands, specifically the Dearworth Valley, don’t abide the extra month, and instead have added “fair days” to the other months. So the
Tenpin Celestial Ordinance (TCO) Calendar agrees with Marino only during the month of Mender, and even that is not a guarantee.
Tenpin Celestial Calendar
- Mender: 32 Days.
- 1 Mender is New Year’s Day
- 1-14 Mender is Winter Festival
- 15 Mender is Midwinter
- Doren: 33 Days
- Calen: 30 Days
- 30 Calen is the Spring Equinox
- Queran: 32 Days
- Cinquen: 32 Days
- Heyan: 32 Days
- 15 Heyan is Midsomer
- Sewin: 33 Days
- Ochen: 30 Days
- 30 Ochen is the Autumnal Equinox
- Neren: 32 Days
- Menlen: 32 Days
The Tenpin Calendar has two advantages over the Marino Calendar: it preserves the ancient dates for the four corners of the year (Midsomer, etc), and it eliminates the artificial extra month, Darus. However, you’ll note that this calendar totals only 318 days, thanks to a difference of opinion on the actual length of the year, so it gradually moves off-cycle with Marino, and the Tenpin scholars quietly re-adjust it every few years.
The TCO (Tenpin Celestial Ordinance) is often shortened to “TC,” which most people claim stands for “Tenpin Calendar.”
Eriksens Stave Calendar:
Tenpin also has the Eriksens Stave Calendar, or ESC, which attempts to give a reliable number value to each day of the year by dividing it into 32 “staves” of ten days each. So, 1 Mender is Stave 1, Day 1, or “ESC 1:1.” Midwinder is Stave 2:5, the Equinox is Stave 10:5, etc.
Casper Eriksen devised this calendar as an attempt to reconcile the various world calendars into a common framework. By eliminating months and simply numbering the days, he hoped to eliminate the confusion suffered when different cities try to communicate dates.
Despite its apparent utility, the ESC can be quite confusing in practice and has not been widely adopted. One will note that this calendar also does not line up perfectly with the MHC, as it totals 320 days.
To convert an ESC day to its actual day number in the year, subtract 1 from the Stave value, multiply by 10, and then add the day value. For example, Stave 4:7 is day number 37.
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