The Lamercian Calendar

Time is not complicated; the sun rises, and the sun sets. Its when we people believe there is some significance to when it sits in the sky at a certain spot, and if we do not know when then the world will end

— Brother Trebor, 278 RB

The Lamércian Calendar is a widespread calendar, formulated by the Monastery of Numerology in Western Lamércia. Originally, it was a Titanist Calendar developed by Titanist priests to establish holy days in regards to the saints.
It takes a lot of concepts that had already become widespread by the peoples and ethnicities in Lamércia. Hommism attempted to develop a separate calendar, built from the practises in F'yore on managing their year in four distinct seasons, but it caused a rift between the East and West in translating dates between the two.
When the Valyean Empire was attempting to make peace and reconcile differences between F'yore in Lamércia in 277 RB onward, they saw the strength in the Lamércian Calendar over the Hommist Calendar - the Hommist Calendar had no clear definition of how many days were in a year, and holy days were constantly shifting. Meanwhile, the Lamércian Calendar was stricter, with a designated amount of days set and the Monastery of Numerology had formulated rules to ensure the Calendar was correct throughout many centuries.
The Monastery of Numerology was allowed special privilege - although it was a Titanist institution, it was funded by Julian Bancs to assimilate the Hommist Calendar, else face its closure and surrender to the Hommist churches. The Monastery chose to do as requested and spent a deal of time considering the holy days of Hommism and arranging them in the calendar. With Emperor Dafyd being considered a holy prophet, when he gave the calendar his blessing, it was accepted by the Empire very quickly and fostered a sense of tepid unity.
There are still cultural differences that occur with the calendar across the continent of Olivia, and the Bulo Calendar is still a managed calendar in Eleanor, but the preciseness of the Lamércian calendar is beginning its transition as a "world" calendar amongst all sovereign states.

History

Early History and the Bulo Calendar

When the Rhussom Empire was in control of Eleanor, the Bulo Calendar was the standard calendar used in the Empire. The Calendar utilised a six day week, and had ten months named numerically (the first month, second month, etc.). The Calendar's main use was in establishing timing for religious and cultural festivals, and for organising the merchants and markets, especially with regards to bookkeeping.
The year started in springtime, and each of the ten months had roughly five weeks attributed to it, making 300 days in total. The year was observed to have 365 days and so the wintertime was known as generically 'winter' and could vary in how many days it took until springtime.
The Empire took little consideration of the moon and instead focused on a Solar year, however, the six day week was considered to have originated from the fact that the 'fast moon' took 24 days to cycle to the next full moon.
The six day work contributed to the merchant lifestyle in the Empire, the first five days being days when farmers would work the fields and create produce, or craftsmen would construct their wares, and the sixth day often being the day for markets.
This week structure bled across into Olivia, due an observance of six day cycles when trade from the Empire would arrive to the northern continent. Therefore, the six day week originated on the coasts of Olivia, with the cycling contributing to when markets were busiest, when major traffic had to be managed into the southern ports, and when debts could be paid or settled.

The Weekdays

• Vecsesday - Named for Vex
• Lunsday - Named for Luna
• Marsday - Named for Mar
• Julesday - Named for Jules
• Merrinsday - Named for Merrin
• Homesday - Either named for Hom, or named for Home

The Valyean Calendar

The Valyeans had a lunar calendar, based off of the two moons they named Hidalynn and Nebalynn. They believed the moons were guardian spirits sent by the goddess Lynna.
When Nebalynn, the 'fast moon', was passing through its phases, these marked a 'month' in the eyes of the Valyeans creating a year with almost 25 months. They followed a similar pattern to the Rhussom Empire, having four periods of 5 months, and then a long 'winter' period. Due to the climate, the Valyeans didn't see much snow and instead had 'dry' and 'wet' seasons. They marked the end of the 'wet' season and the start of a new moon under Nebalynn as the start of the year.
Hidalynn has a cycle of 71 days. The cycle meant five passes could happen in a year. As Nebalynn marked the year beginning, Hidalynn marked what the year would bring - if Hidalynn was in its Hiding phases, it promoted good tidings, but in its Revealing phases, it marked bad tidings. This was based on the belief that Hidalynn promoted punishment to evil, and Nebalynn promoted rewards to the good.
This meant the Valyean calendar was often a little out of beat with the solar year, but due to the practises in the south, it was less problematic.

Hommism and Titanism

The farming cultures of F'yore and Lamércia were practically the same, and observed five seasons: Thaw, Rane, Solle, Staye, and Yule. These followed the practises of the farmers where Thaw would be lambing season, Rane when the winds and rains begun, Solle being when initial crops could be harvested, Staye being when preparations were made for Yule, and Yule being their winter.
Hommist beliefs meant that local churches and priests would determine when the time for their holy days would commence. This could mean a traveller could engage in festival activities for the same holy celebration for multiple days in different towns or parishes. Because the festivals were not necessarily tied to specific themes or times, the religion was very open, and the calendar could shift as and when needed - the seasons were not tied to the moon and simply were used as a generally marking term; when it got colder, the people would remark Staye had come, or that Yule was on its way.
Meanwhile Titanist beliefs were more rigorous. The seasons were attributed to the five Saints of Livia, Fada, Momenta, Kaia, and Froi. Because of this, the year was broken into five equal sections to attribute to each saint, and the first day of the season marked to celebrate the associated saint.
And so the Monastery of Numerology created a calendar that split the year into these five sections, with seventy-three days given to each.

The Leap Day

The Monastery of Numerology knew that the calendar would drift as early as 942 TF. The introduction of an extra day in the year was established in the Kingdom of Lamér in 1232 TF.

The Months

The months of the calendar were formed when the Monastery were presented the months that were in use by the Valyeans; as they were the government, they required a calendar that retained the months so as to fit to their use case. They were named in F'yorish to assist in their acceptance in F'yore, with some months named for the Titanist saints to keep the Lamércians happy. The introduction of a month allowed for a level of granularity smaller than a season, and still bigger than a week. This became very important to merchants.

Months

Liviarye (25 days) - Thaw

Named for St Livia

Fermenye (24 days) - Thaw

Named for the lambing season.

Fleurye (24 days) - Thaw

Named for blossoms and flower.

Fadarye (25 days) - Rane

Named for St Fada

Pluye (24 days) - Rane

Named for the rain season.

Venfortye (24 days) - Rane

Named for the high wind season.

Momentarye (25 days) - Solle

Named for St Momenta

Solhaut (24 days) - Solle

Named for the sun's peak.

Récoltarye (24 days) - Solle

Named for the harvest season.

Kaiarye (25 days) - Staye

Named for St Kaia

Récoulvrye (24 days) - Staye

Named for the second harvest.

Boichurye (24 days) - Staye

Named for the chopping of wood.

Froiarye (25 days) - Yule

Named for St Froi

Yuletyde (24 days) - Yule

Named for the people of Yule's Heart

Solbas (24 days) - Yule

Named for the sun's valley.