Calendar¶
Contested
Named in the open questions Dates of the Fifth Age periods (SM and AL), Current date and calendar and Days of the Kalari week.
The months and weeks of Terrun are recorded in one document, the Kalari Calendar of the Earlier Ages material: a year of five seasons and fifteen months of twenty-four days, 360 days in all, with a six-day week that ends in a day of rest called Godsday. The years themselves are counted in several reckonings, each tied to an Age and a people: MA from the Shattering, SM and AL from the return of the Sun after the Age of the Dark Sun. This page is the home of both; the Timeline sets dated events against them.
The Kalari Calendar¶
The calendar takes its name from the Kalari, and its last day of the week is also called Kalarsday (S388). It has "5 seasons, 15 total months (3 months each)". The year begins on the first day of Langnoct, "which is also the first day which sees the sun (usually only for 20 minutes)", so the year begins in the last month of winter, as the dark ends.
| Season | Months | Weather |
|---|---|---|
| Winter | Nightfell, Moonrun, Langnoct | "Completely snow packed." Very dark; "for almost a full month there is no sun." People stay indoors, and "only the most experienced, prepared or desperate stray from their homes." |
| Thaws | Korsol, Marches, Tempilis | The snow and ice melt into green country under light rain and snow; storms grow as it warms "until all the cold-trapped moisture has been mostly expended." |
| Spring | Aryus, Verden, Solcre | The snow is gone and vegetation comes to full bloom; "a mixture of sun and showers." |
| Summer | Kal, Duar, Zune | Hot, the vegetation drying to browns; the early part of the season "usually quite dry." |
| Autumn | Quirus, Lanfrost, Snowdon | Cooling nights, the first overnight frost early in the season, and snow usually accumulating by its end; "seeming like summer one day and cold and rainy the next." |
Marches is named for war: "By Marches, movement is usually easy again (the name comes from the practice of war often resuming in this month)."
Weeks and days¶
Each month is twenty-four days, "4 weeks of 6 days (one for each of the 7 old gods, minus Rakkar)". The days the source names are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Godsday:
| Day | Use |
|---|---|
| Monday | First day of the work week; "work resumes". |
| Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday | Work days. |
| Friday | A work day, but "a few people take this day off (some shopowners close up shop early for Godsday)". |
| Godsday | Also Kalarsday or Creatorsday. The last day of the week; "most people don't work." |
The source says each weekday belongs to one of the old gods but does not say which, and gives the days ordinary names rather than divine ones. The seven old gods less Rakkar would be six, one per day, but the Compendium of the same archive (S384) lists Kalar and six gods of light under the Kalari, and the Dark Gods of Rakkar's line besides, so the count of "old gods" does not match any list it gives. Which gods the days honour is unrecorded. Daily Life describes the working week as it is lived.
Gap
No source gives a leap or intercalary rule for the 360-day year, a feast day, or the gods of the individual weekdays. No Fifth Age or Fourth Age document names a month or a weekday, so whether the Sancturi Imperium, Proturas or the Fourth Age powers keep the Kalari months is unknown.
Reckonings¶
Years are counted from an epoch, and the sources use four counts. None of them is converted into another anywhere in the archive.
| Reckoning | Expansion | Epoch | Used for | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA | Mithius Ante, the "Magic Age" (S372); Mithis Ante in the 2020 history | The Shattering of the Worldstone, 0 MA | The Age of Magic; "the current calendar year is marked since the shattering in almost all nations of Numenia" | S372, S384 |
| DE | Draconic Edictus | The Age of Dragons | No date in this count survives | S372, S384 |
| SM | Solis Mani, "Morning Sun" | The end of the Age of the Dark Sun, when the Sun was restored: 0 SM | The Sancturi material of the Fifth Age, to the present of 704 SM | S132, S326 |
| AL | Never expanded | Year 0 is "The Morning" | The Proturan material of the Fifth Age, to the present of 834 AL | S107 |
MA and DE¶
The Compendium says recorded history begins with the Shattering, since "history prior to the Shattering is pieced together from the few relics that survived" (S372). It names the Age of Dragons for DE but dates nothing in it. The two MA histories end at different present years, 2713 MA and 3221 MA; see the Age of Magic.
SM¶
The Sancturi count begins at "0 SM (Solis Mani - Morning Sun) : The Age of the Dark Sun ends", when the Lady of the Morning restores the Sun (S132). Its first event is the founding of Sanctorum in 2 SM (S326, S132). The Sanctuary Age Timeline groups the years into centuries with names, the Morning (0s), Rebirth (100s), Bloom (200s), Fae Resurgence (300s), Faewild Wars (400s), Sancturi Foundation (500s) and Sancturi Campaigns (600s), and stops at "700s : Current" with the population count of 704 SM (S326). The earlier campaign notes of 2018, whose author marked them "Timeline is WRONG!", date some of the same events a year or more apart (S132).
AL¶
The Proturan count runs to the "Proturas Timeline to 834 AL" (S107). Its first period is also "The Morning" (0-99 AL), followed by Rebirth, the Fae Resurgence, the Hollowing, the Rifts and the Elder Conjunction. Proturas itself was founded in 626 AL.
SM and AL both begin with the Morning and share period names, but they put those periods at different years: the Faewild Wars in the 400s SM and about 240 AL, the Sancturi Campaigns in the 600s SM and about 360 AL. No source says whether AL counts from the same morning as SM, what the letters stand for, or how to convert between them, and the pages of this wiki keep each event in the count its source uses.
Other datings¶
Fifth Age documents also date things loosely as "pre-Dark Sun". The Fourth Age material uses no named reckoning; its dates are discussed on the Fourth Age page. The Timeline also records an unlabelled Fifth Age count whose year 0 is the Ascendance of Lunariel.
Observances¶
The only dates in the year that the sources mark are Godsday, the weekly rest; Langnoct's first day, the new year and the first sunrise of the year; and Marches, the month war resumes. The Sancturi Great Election is "a one month period every 2 years", but no source says which month. The festivals and observances that are recorded are gathered on Daily Life.
Gap
No source names a holiday, feast day or seasonal festival in any calendar.