The Calendar
The year is 404.1 days long, broken up into 6 40-day months, and 4 41-day months, which are broken down into 5 8-day weeks each. Every 10 years there is a leap year, with 1 extra day. The months are Heatdaze (40), Harvest (41), Leafturn (40), Colding (40), Darksun (41), Icewind (40), Warmthope (41), Emerging (40), Latespring (41), and Warmbreeze (40). New Year is set on the summer solstice, which happens at the beginning of Heatdaze.
The days of the week are Kynetsday (named after the larger of the two moons, Kynett), Jyprasday (named after the second, now defunct smaller moon), Veliday (named after the planet, Velyri), Ralsday (named after the sun, called “Ral”), Starsday, Lifesday, Spiritsday, and Skysday.
Each day is 24 local hours long. Kynett takes two eight days to orbit the planet. Day starts at dawn. Sunrise marks the start of a new day. It is theorized that this is as cultural appropriation from the Elves, based upon their rather loose concept of timekeeping.
Elven "hours of the day":
Hour of Spreading Light: (Lúmë Altapalyië) predawn to about midmorning.
Hour of Smaller Shadows: (Lúmë Cintavathar) midmorning to midafternoon
Hour of Stretching Sun: (Lúmë Anartainië) midafternoon to sunset
Hour of Enfolding Dark: (Lúmë Morivaiyië) sunset to late evening
Hour of Deepest Quiet: (Lúmë Tumnaquilda) late evening to past midnight
Hour of Final Dancing: (Lúmë Métimaliltië) past midnight to the wee hours of the morning
These hours vary in size depending upon the season and latitude, but when you are an Elf, the exact number of seconds are largely irrelevant.
Jypra used to take twelve days, before it became unstable and shattered. There are eye witness accounts of its destruction. Several mention that there was a great flash in the sky, and the moon Jypra slowly became fuzzy. Over the next several days, it spread out in an east-west direction, as if it grew wings. These wings faded over the span of several months, leaving a smaller fuzzy orb, which continued to shrink until, two years later, it was no longer visible at all. So of course the myths that arose from these accounts tell that Jypra flew away; the primary way in which they differ is why.
The days of the week are Kynetsday (named after the larger of the two moons, Kynett), Jyprasday (named after the second, now defunct smaller moon), Veliday (named after the planet, Velyri), Ralsday (named after the sun, called “Ral”), Starsday, Lifesday, Spiritsday, and Skysday.
Each day is 24 local hours long. Kynett takes two eight days to orbit the planet. Day starts at dawn. Sunrise marks the start of a new day. It is theorized that this is as cultural appropriation from the Elves, based upon their rather loose concept of timekeeping.
Elven "hours of the day":
Hour of Spreading Light: (Lúmë Altapalyië) predawn to about midmorning.
Hour of Smaller Shadows: (Lúmë Cintavathar) midmorning to midafternoon
Hour of Stretching Sun: (Lúmë Anartainië) midafternoon to sunset
Hour of Enfolding Dark: (Lúmë Morivaiyië) sunset to late evening
Hour of Deepest Quiet: (Lúmë Tumnaquilda) late evening to past midnight
Hour of Final Dancing: (Lúmë Métimaliltië) past midnight to the wee hours of the morning
These hours vary in size depending upon the season and latitude, but when you are an Elf, the exact number of seconds are largely irrelevant.
Jypra used to take twelve days, before it became unstable and shattered. There are eye witness accounts of its destruction. Several mention that there was a great flash in the sky, and the moon Jypra slowly became fuzzy. Over the next several days, it spread out in an east-west direction, as if it grew wings. These wings faded over the span of several months, leaving a smaller fuzzy orb, which continued to shrink until, two years later, it was no longer visible at all. So of course the myths that arose from these accounts tell that Jypra flew away; the primary way in which they differ is why.
The Calendar
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