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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daztur" data-source="post: 6051700" data-attributes="member: 55680">In each cycle there are fourteen years: the Year of the Messenger, the Year of the Maiden, the Year of the Youth, the Year of the Bard, the Year of the Lover, the Year of the Hero, the Red Year, the Year of the Hunter, the Year of the Mother, the Year of the Father, the Year of the Pilgrim, the Year of the Queen, the Year of the King and the Black Year. The Red and Black Years are holy to the two-faced god while the others are of the twelve Dreamers.Each year begins with the first day of the Month of the Messenger, which begins on the day after the first new moon after the end of the Long Night. Most years have twelve months (one for each of the Twelve Dreamers) but Red and Black Years have a thirteenth month to honor the two aspects of the two-faced god.Each month is 29 days long. The final day of the month is on the last day and is considered unlucky. The rest of the month is divided into two fourteen-day weeks. The first week is Rising Week during which the moon waxes to full while the second is Falling Week during which the moon wanes. The days follow the same order as the cycle of years. So, for example, the first day of every month is the Day of the Rising Messenger, the sixth day of the month is the Day of the Rising Hero and the 28th day is the Day of Falling Black. There are also six feast days that do not fall in any month.Depending on the year, there are often a few days left at the end of the year after the last month is over and before the new moon announces the arrival of the next year. These are fallow days not part of any month or year in which people fast and avoid the start of any major projects.In order to distinguish one year from the next, many are given nicknames such as the Year of the Flayed Hero or the Year of the Drunken Pilgrim but many astrologers organize the fourteen year cycles into 196-year eras and 2,744-year eons.Astrologers take careful note of the movements of the stars and the day of a child’s birth to discern the future. In ancient days, the Priests in Red would tattoo a child’s guiding sign across his or her forehead at birth so that all could know the child’s true nature. Many wizards also use to calendar to select the day of important rituals. For example if it is the Day of Rising Black during the Black Month of a Black Year, necromantic rituals are said to be especially potent. OOC: basically trying to make up a suitably funky ritual calendar for use in in-game fortune telling and so that villains can cackle about how the appointed day has arrived and that the STARS ARE NOW RIGHT! 24-hour days would also fit in this, one AM and one PM hour for each of the 12 Dreamers. Lunar eclipses would be a Black Hour while solar eclipses would be a Red Hour.Sorry for letting my pedantic side out a bit there, maybe this needs more spicing up with some bizarre stuff…</blockquote>

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