Time & Measurements
The Typical Year on Wyrlde starts the day of the Spring Equinox. The Midyear is celebrated on the Summer Solstice. A year is 364 days long, divided into 13 months of 28 days each. Each month has four weeks. That year has four seasons over much of the world, two in the tropics. These are marked by the solstices and equinoxes. The year is set by the moons and their passage through the firmament. Twice a year (Meadow 1st and Harvest 1st) there are nights with only new moons, called Blacknights. They are holidays. Seasons are 13 weeks long.
There are 13 months, each consisting of 28 days, each year. The last day and the first day of each year are given to the New Year Festival, throughout the Bright Lands, often called the Empire.
The four solar events are celebrated broadly over a three-day period each, even in the Dread Lands and Hyborian lands. These are the High Holy Days. The celebrations are always the day before, the day of, and the day after. There is usually an honoring of the patron deity of the area on these dates.
Not too coincidentally, an awful lot of people celebrate birthdays around these times.
There are an assortment of local festivals and events that can vary, but a few are common enough to be worth marking. These festivals happen pretty much everywhere. The Fresh Festival is typically an Easter like event, the Heart Festival is a lover’s holiday and a time to recognize parents, and the Closing festival is about closing for the worst of winter. They are scattered throughout the year and often joined by more local festivals and celebrations.
This does exclude holidays particular to different Powers That Be.
Calendar
Holy Days
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Celebration |
Date |
Type |
Description |
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Spring Equinox |
Rest 28th to Stir 1st |
High Holy Day |
Spring festival, usually to celebrate belonging, New year’s festival. |
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Summer Solstice |
Sunny 8th |
High Holy Day |
A time to relax and attend to needed personal things. A day for self-care and reflection, growth, and passages. |
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Autumn Equinox |
Vine 15th |
High Holy Day |
The day of preparation for storms and challenges, gratitude, Harvest festival |
|
Winter Solstice |
Frosty 1st |
High Holy Day |
Festival of Hearth and Home, Family & Bonds |
Festivals
|
Festival |
Date |
Purpose |
|
Ghost Festival |
Harvest 1st |
A wild festival that recognizes the desire to remember and be reunited with those who are gone. Masks are worn to protect from possible harm of malevolent ghosts. |
|
Children’s Festival |
Blossom 21st |
The festival of Youth, of new life, of hope |
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Hearth Festival |
Meadow 1st |
Romance and Fertility Festival |
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Yule Festival |
Snowy 13th to 15th |
A day to recognize and give gifts to those you love. |
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Carnivale |
Vine 14th to 15th |
A day for a massive party |
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Dreamer’s Day |
Rest 7th |
A day to celebrate artistry and artists, crafts, and craftsmanship. |
|
Heritage Day |
Misty 15th |
A day to reconnect with family bonds |
|
Sojourn’s Day |
Rainy 14th |
Commemorating the landing and The Bleak Journey |
|
Wind’s Day |
Windy 18th |
A day to honor the Faerie and the gods |
There are typically one to two local monthly festivals that are celebrated in Villages and Towns that are specific to that region and area or realm, and are not listed here, these being the common and regularly engaged festivals across all the realms, including even those in Lemuria and Thule.
The following month by month shows the phases of the moons (Coyola, Sina, Themis) and major events.
This Calendar page shows seasons. Green is Spring, Yellow is Summer, White is Autumn, Blue is Winter.
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There are no leap days or extra calendar days. In a sense of Earth, the Wyrlde Calendar starts in roughly mid-March. |
Rest |
Thus, Rest is a month when people do anything but Rest, as they are busy planting the Spring crops. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Daily Timekeeping
A Day starts at Dawn and ends at the close of Night. The days are solar based and tracked by its movement. The typical Day has about 12 Wyrlde hours of sunlight and 12 hours of night, with an hour on each side (two hours total in the morning and two total at night) being a bit of flexibility depending on the vernal and autumnal equinoxes and the Summer and Winter solstice points.
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Bit |
1 second |
Hour |
60 minutes |
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Moment/Round |
6 seconds |
Shift |
2 Bells (8 hours) |
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Minute |
60 seconds |
Day |
24 Hours |
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Turn |
10 minutes |
Week (Watchnight) |
7 Days |
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Chime |
24 Minutes |
Fortnight |
14 Days |
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Period |
6 Chimes |
Holdnight |
21 Days |
|
Bell |
10 Chimes, 4 Hours |
Month |
28 Days |
Time is tracked simply. As with much of the calendar, the basis of much of this is ancient edicts that no one wants to mess with, having agreed on common standards. Hours and Periods are not used much by most folks, they tend to think in terms of Chimes and Bells. A period is used to identify when it is time to take a turn long break, though.
A Shift is two Bells and constitutes the main working hours. Wyrlde’s rulers like to make people work three bells, but the people tend to ignore that whenever possible and stick to just two.
Days are broken up into Bells. The Bells are:
|
Dawn |
Morning |
Afternoon |
Dusk |
Evening |
Night. |
Bells ring out once at the start of each Bell period. Each Bell is divided into ten sections called Chimes (when Chimes are rung), and those in turn are broken into ten further sections that are called Turns. The clocks of Wyrlde are rare, expensive, and track time in Turns and Chimes within Bells, with a small image dial indicating the Bell. The Sibolan clocks track only a single Bell of time, so there are six complete revolutions each day. Lyonian clocks have ten Hour marks, each divided into six Turns, with the face shaded to show three Bells. They have further markings to break the time into smaller increments.
Wyrlde hasn’t truly named the days of the week. Most would argue that there is no need to. There is a developing convention of doing so using the following set up:
|
Rest Day (1) |
Hearth Day (2) |
Faith Day (3) |
Field Day (4) |
|
Hall Day (5) |
Passage Day (6) |
Veil Day (7) |
Dates on Wyrlde currently follow the reign of the New Empire. This was when the current House ascended to the throne of Sibola and held it against challengers.
The format is pretty much the day, month, and year of the Empire. So today is 27th Rest, 299th YNE (Year of the New Empire). Some who have come from elsewhere have noted that the calendar and time seems far too regular. When asked about it, Chicory rolls her eyes and says take it up with the gods. The Gods look embarrassed and avoid the subject. Acacia says it is a sore spot, and that the Powers that Be made it that way on purpose – but it was an unintentional side effect of something else.
