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The Calender, Seasons, and Time
By: Rognvaldr Date: October 21, 2014, 9:26 pm
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The Yellow Rose Calendar is the most widely used system in
Faerun, although hundreds of different systems exist throughout
the world of Abeir. The Yellow Rose Calendar accounts for 364.25
days every year, with 12 months of 30 days. Four days fall
between months to mark the changing of season, with Shieldsmeet
added every 4th year.
Although years are numerically recorded, most peoples have
regional names for years. The year 1488YR, for example, is
called the "Year of Rognvaldr's Accession" by the people of
Grand Halen, as this was the year that Rognvaldr was voted their
king. Year 0YR is the Year that Grand Dik Haeffnar I created the
Yellow Rose order on Mount Garnet, the site where the Monastery
of the Yellow Rose was constructed.
There are very few ways to measure hours or minutes accurately
in the world, sundials are about as accurate as technology can
get. Arcane methods have been developed in the past, but there
are few applications for precise measures of time. Most people
break up the day into ten large slices—dawn, morning, highsun
(or noon), afternoon, dusk, sunset, evening, midnight, moondark
(or night's heart), and night's end. Dozens of conventions for
naming these portions of the day exist, and cause no little
confusion for travelers in foreign lands. These customary
divisions are only approximations, and one person's late
afternoon might be another's early dusk. Local customs dictate
the general length of each portion of the day. Each of these
customary periods lasts anywhere from 1 to 4 hours, so highsun
is generally accounted to be noon and an hour or so on either
side. Few people have cause to measure an hour (or any length of
time shorter than a day) with any great precision. People are
accustomed to gauging time by intuition, the movement of the
sun, and the activity around them. Two merchants might agree to
meet at a particular tavern at dusk, and chances are both will
show up within 15 or 20 minutes of each other. In large cities,
the tolling of temple bells replaces the more casual accounting
of the day's passage. Several major faiths attempt to measure
time more accurately, these faiths usually use arcane skills or
divine signals to determine time accurately.
The monthly calendar as written by Grand Dik Haeffner as is as
follows, although many other common names are used frequently
for each month:
1st month: Hammer - Deepwinter
Annual holiday: Midwinter
2nd month: Alturiak - The Claw of Winter
3rd month: Ches - The Claw of the Sunsets
4th month: Tarsakh - The Claw of the Storms
Annual holiday: Greengrass
5th month: Mirtul - The Melting
6th month: Kythorn - The Time of Flowers
7th month: Flamerule - Summertide
Annual holiday: Midsummer
8th month: Eleasis - Highsun
9th month: Eleint - The Fading
Annual holiday. Highharvestide
10th month: Marpenoth - Leaffall
11th month: Uktar - The Rotting
Annual holiday: The Feast of the Moon
12th month: Nightal - The Drawing Down
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