Eras and Years
The Azurian calendar, though more commonly called the Mandate Calendar, is split into five Ages. Each of these ages are defined by dramatic world events.
Catastrophes, and other apocalyptic events of the greatest level, mark the end of an era, resetting the calendar year with the beginning of a new era.
The count of years uses an ordinal tracking system, there are no year 0's, as the dawn of a new era begins with year 1, the first year.
Since each of these eras begin with desparate regrowth and recovery, it is often vaguely safe to assume that low year dates are difficult trying times full of struggle and restoration.
Conversely, higher years, be they centuries or even millenia into an age, could likely be stable, solid, comfortable times, with established culture and technology, overall.
Universal Timeline Notation
Era notation is the most popular method of referring to a specific year, however, some scholars on Azure use a scale called Universal Timeline Notation, which counts the number of years, or even days and seconds, since an arbitrary "Year 0", conveniently 1 year before the Third Age's 1st year.
Since the years before end of the First Age are not recorded, and potentially only include a period on Azure without Humans at all, the beginning of an Azurian First Age is not known, and even the length of the 2nd age is not known for certain. The Universal Timeline Notation system considers these years as "negative", counting back from this Year 0.
Months and Seasons
Each year on Azure is divided into 13 months, which each start on Harmonday, and have 4 weeks, or 28 days each.
These months are aligned with the lunar cycles, so each month also begins with the new moon. This also means that the first and fourth weeks of each month are "crescent" weeks, while the middle two are "gibbous" weeks, with the full moon regularly occuring every 15th of the month.
Weeks, Days, Cycle of Lunis
There are 7 days of the week, and each has been named after honorary figures.
For some, these days are each a dedication to the great beings that bear their name, for others, the names are nothing more than what to call a day without using a number.
Harmonday
Ranolday
Nualsday
Named after Nuala
Nuala The Songweaver
Eloday
Orionsday
Named after
Orion The Lightblesser
Orisday
Alekday
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