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Many cultures have created or modified calendars through the millennia. Some calendars are less accurate than others, prone to drifting through the centuries or subject to periodic correction. The major calendars are detailed here.

For the sake of convenience, we use the Takvim calendar for the Adventure Log.

For notes on the moons, Heaven’s Bridge, and other planetary phenomena, see the page on the Material Plane.

Blossom Rhyme (seasonal reckoning)

The calendar today known as the Blossom Rhyme is ancient, and countless variants are used among most primitive people across the world. It has four months, calibrated to start on the solstices (Summer, Winter) and the equinoxes (Spring, Autumn). Most communities observe a week of seven days (Lunasday, Gormsday, Iounsday, Seasday, Leafday, Sunsday, Earthsday). Two extra weekdays are added as needed (Starsday, Bridgeday) to make sure that each Lunasday falls when Luna is full.

The Blossom Rhyme only counts years since the conclusion of the last illumination of Heaven’s Bridge, so it is not ideal for long records. An added reference (last bridge cycle, two cycles ago, etc.) can be added for clarity, but there is no “year zero” from which to count.

Example: Gormsday, Winter 71, Year 10 (Gormsday the seventy-first day of winter, ten years since Bridgeglow’s end)

Shavalelain (elven reckoning)

For day-to-day purposes, elves count the days in each season (the months of the Blossom Rhyme), but they also use their own strange, Ioun-based calendar for recordkeeping. They count the number of Ioun-months since the end of the last Bridgeglow, and each of these Ioun-months have 94-95 days. These elven “years” are tracked in a “long reckoning” which, if taken at face value, would suggest that the elves have kept this calendar for more than three hundred thousand years. Few scholars take this possibility seriously.

Shavalelain does not name its months, and has no weekdays. It is common, however, to call the day of each full Luna “lunasday,” each full Gorm “gormsday,” etc. Anniversaries are celebrated by bridge reckoning (an elven year), or by rhyme reckoning (a solar year)

Example: day 1 of Ioun 36 (of Bridge 5848), day 71 of Winter

Takvim (Ghinoran reckoning)

It is said that the Takvim reckoning dates to the hoary days of Ghinor’s height. It is observed to varying degrees of accuracy throughout much of the southern extent of the Wilderlands. It is a tidy solar-lunar calendar with 365 days in each year, seven-day weeks, and thirteen 28-day months and one (occasionally two) intercalary days added to the end of the year to align with the sun.

There are seven days in the Takvim week, which never change: Forebodingday, Cleansingday, Altarsday, Vigilsday, Fastingday, Marvelsday, Gloryday.

Takvim observes thirteen months of 28 days: Drowning, Dearth, Stirring, Opening, Striving, Boasting, Strife, Rushing, Gathering, Bursting, Winnowing, Downpour, and Persistence. An additional “month” called Balancing is added to the end of each year, but it is only a day or two as needed to align the calendar with the sun.

Ghinoran reckoning is used with minor variation (translating or replacing month and day names) among many different communities. These communities sometimes replace or annotate the year number with another year number that is more relevant (city founding, coronation, etc.).

Example: Cleansingday 1 Drowning 5060

Karanhath (Viridian reckoning)

The Viridian reckoning is little more than a very old local variation of the Ghinoran reckoning. The names were translated into Auld Viridian, and some months were re-named or re-ordered to better reflect Viridian climate and religious observance.

The weekdays are: Kanhazgats’umori (foreboding), Aryunnarut’yunori (bleeding), Zohaberut’yanori (sacrificing), Hangstut’yunori (stillness), Tsomapahut’yanori (fasting), Hrashaliori (wonder), and P’arravorri (glory).

The months are: Khonavut’yan (dampness), Pakasut’yun (dearth), Zart’vonk’i (stirring), Karmut’yun (opening), Dzgetel (striving), Partsank’i (boasting), Martakan (clashing), Shtapum (rushing), Jakhjakhel (bursting), K’amel (winnowing), Hashvarrum (accounting), Ts’yel (fallows), and Ts’avpatcharrel (harrows), followed by the one-or-two-day month of Havasarrakshrrum (balancing).

Karanhath and Takvim maintain their alignment with the solar calendar, so they observe the same New Year’s Day.

Example: Aryunnarut’yunori 1 Khonavut’yan 4384 (Bleedingday, the first of Dampness, 4384)

Commoners’ Calendar (Tharbrian reckoning)

The Commoners’ Calendar is well-established in the Roglaras, and its use stretches from the northern reaches of Viridistan deep into the Pazidan Peninsula. Its origins have been lost to history.

Tharbrian reckoning follows the solar calendar, and pays little mind to the nuances of any of the moons. It has twelve months, each with 30-31 days, and constant seven-day weeks. A day is added to the end of the calendar (almost) every four years. Various attempts to keep the calendar aligned with the sun have resulted in minor discrepancies in reckoning between different communities.

The days of the week are: Blackday, Redsday, Brownsday, Whitesday, Greenday, Bluesday, and Goldsday.

The months of the year are: The Snow Leopard, The Howling Winds, The Crocodile, Portly Pomp, Yellow Moon Dog, Midsummer’s Eve, Vineyard Bounty, Crimson Dragon, The Regal Serpent, The Silent Scream, The Sky Woman, and The White Wolf. The intercalary day is called The Ice Vigil.

Example: Whitesday 20th of The Snow Leopard, 4433

BCCC (Alryan reckoning)

About 400 years ago, adventurers in the City State of the Invincible Overlord uncovered an ancient obelisk beneath the City State. Sages concluded that it was a king list from Orichalan times. The Overlord ordered a commission of priests and sages to study the stone, and their studies prompted them to create a new calendar. Their system, named after the Overlord who sponsored it, is Balozkinar’s Corrected Commoners’ Calendar (BCCC). They reconstructed the pattern of weeks and months used on the obelisk, resulting in a calendar quite different from the other major reckonings of the time.

Alryan reckoning is solar-based, with five weekdays and eighteen 20-day months and an intercalary week. It does not quite align with the solar calendar, losing about one day every four years.

The weekdays are: Airday, Earthday, Fireday, Waterday, and Spiritday.

The months are: Thawmist, Dewsnap, Flowerbloom, Sweetrain, Meadowlark, Longrass, Warmshade, Sunstrong, Thistleburn, Harvestime, Goodgrove, Blackmoon, Willowind, Redleaves, Maggotfeast, Coldrain, Shadowrath, and Gloomfrost. The intercalary week is called Year’s End.

Example: Spiritday 1st of Thawmist, 4433

Gou Lun (Karakhan reckoning)

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Kazdruin (dwarven reckoning)

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