Siduum Calendar

the Recorder of History

The Siduum Calendar is the standard dating system used throughout the continent Ethae. While it is credited as being created by priest of Ancient Siduum many of its mathematical calculations of the suns and lunar orbits can be traced back to the Benet civilization. It was used, much like today, as a universal record keeping method to track events in their nation. The calculations over centuries of solar and lunar records gave the ancient people accurate tracking of seasons, days and years. In the Siddum Calendar the 336-day year is divided into twelve months of 28 days each. Each month, in turn, is divided into four 7-day weeks. While the year dating system varies from nation to nation, the monthly and weekly numbering system has been adopted by every culture of Ethae.

Much of its early history saw the calendar used in Ancient Siduum alone, and the system was nearly lost after the fall of the nation to the Umaybbad. Still used in pockets of surrounding colony nations, and by refugees, the Siduum Calendar resurfaced as the nations of Novyum looked to the lost ruins of Ancient Siduum in a romantic light. To them, a beacon of the glorious civilizations of old. The dating systems rediscovery by scholars, archaeologist, and adventurers saw its adoption in Lakorth and from that city it spread across the continent. While a few nations across the continent still retain their own dating system for internal use, the Siduum Calendar has become a de facto universal recording system by the Jenuwan Order, the recorders of history.

The orginal calendar of the Siduumites was a set of numerical charts. Modern users have adapted the system to their own cultures. Each giving their own names to days and months, some cultures even years or times of day. Of these, the Normon Year, used by the Jenuwan themselves has become the most widespread, and considered 'offical' by most scholastic bodies.