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Calendar of Vendrith

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Summary

The Sanitorium Calendar of Vendrith consists of 10 day weeks, 4 week months, and 9 month years. Years are annotated in the advent of the Draconic Concordat (ADc).

“Current” year is 1275 ADc. See Campaigns for specific dates.

Weeks

Weeks consist of 10 days.

  1. Maltsday
  2. Moorsday
  3. Weavesday
  4. Waresday
  5. Taxday
  6. Tillsday
  7. Feastday
  8. Folksday
  9. Strainsday
  10. Strivesday

Months

Months are called after the seasons. They consist of four, 10 day weeks.

  1. Breezy (Winter)
  2. Freezy (Winter)
  3. Whippy (Spring)
  4. Dippy (Spring)
  5. Flowery (Summer)
  6. Showery (Summer)
  7. Hoppy (Autumn)
  8. Croppy (Autumn)
  9. Yearsend (Cosmic Season)

Years

Years are usually counted starting from the latest big Concordats. They consist of nine, 40 day months, to a total of 360 days.

Eras

  • Draconic Empire
  • First Kobold Dynasty
    • From year 0 to 333
  • Eastern Kobold Dynasty
    • From 333 to 769
  • God-King Idur’s Reign
    • From 769 to 796
  • Mogxan Interregnum
    • From 796 to 856
  • Western Kobold Dynasty
    • From 856 to 1193
  • Great Silence
    • Current, from 1193

Ages

It is commonplace to also refer to eras as Ages in reference to historical events that define a given time’s problems or in contrast to other ages where something changed going onward.

Ages in Chronological Order

  1. Age of the Draconic Empire
    • Draconis Excellentiam
    • Also colloquially the Draconic Period
  2. Age of the Draconic Concordat
    • Humana Superioritas
    • Also colloquially —and somewhat derogatorily1— Mogxan Era
  3. Age of Divine Silence (current, started roughly a century ago)

Celebrations

Many different cultures enjoy different celebrations at different times.

  • Landcrab Day, celebrated Showery 29th in Friedport (starting 1276 ADc). A festival in honour of the new heroes whom stuck with the city through its darkest hour and signalled the beginning of change for the Landcrabs.
  • Great Feastsday. Celebrated for a number of days throughout the Idurian world, usually in the month of Showery, usually starting on a Feastday.
  • Flowering Ceremony. Celebrated by Kholo to initiate spring, whom brought it to Friedport.
  • Shower Dances. Practised by Kholo to call forth the summer rains, whom brought it to Friedport.
  • Lefmoot. Annual gathering born from counting the survivors and casualties after a Tidestorm.
  • Harvest Marathon. Celebrated in some places to motivate everyone to help harvest the last crops in time, most people working together to try to beat the speed of a group of marathon-runners.
  • Whithunt. An annual ritualistic hunt for meat in some colder areas.

Footnotes

  1. Kinda like the Gilded Age? ↩

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