Calendar of the Orb

The Orb is a planet that orbits twin suns (Karlin and Prior), and is orbited by three moons (Pradjet, Aspyrn, Byvinz).

A standard Orb year is 200 five-day weeks (1000 days, in total), split up among four Parts, a Part being akin to season. Two of these Parts, owing the presence of twin suns, are repeated in an Orb year.

The Parts

Head

A season similar to spring, where new growth is bountiful after emerging from an extended period of cold and dark. It is called the Head as it is at the top of the year. The Head is 200 days long.

Shoulders

Following the Head comes the shoulders, a very warm and sunny period, much like summer. The Shoulders are 200 days long.

Knees

As the warmth of the Shoulders begins to fade, the year enters the period known as the Knees. The Knees is a cooler and damper time of year when the trees drop their leaves and the sky is more often gray than blue. This fall-like period is a time of preparation for the upcoming winter; the Knees is 200 days long.

Toes

Snow, ice, and bitter cold are the hallmarks of the Toes. The Toes are found at the bottom of the body, so it follows that the Toes are at the bottom of the year. The Toes are 200 days long. The initial Toes experience fouler and colder weather than the subsequent Toes (Toes II) at the very end of the year.

Knees II

As the Orb makes a brief pass closer to one of it's two suns, the Orb experiences a brief reprieve from the cold of winter. Festivals are common during the 100 days of Knees II to celebrate the passing of the worst of the cold and the coming of a new year.

Toes II

Once again the Orb returns to winter as it pulls away from one sun and approaches the other. The weather, while still definitely winter, it not nearly as brutal or as long (only 100 days this time) as the first Toes of the year.​

The Orb Week

Each Orb week is comprised of five 40-hour days; two weeks is called a tenday.

The days are:

Primus – the first day of the week, it is the most hated, as it is on every plane of existence.

Flux – the second day of the week. Not as despised as Primus, but still remains the favorite of very few.

Middens – the middle of the week…it is neither here nor there.

Quadskein – it is nearly Terminus!

Terminus – the most beloved day of the Orb week; being immediately followed by Primus, it is not known why it enjoys this celebrity status