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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9504060" data-attributes="member: 29398">The four moons have cycles etc. thusly:Uripan:  a full moon every 20 days*, moves through the sky in the same direction as the sunNehush: a full moon every 40 days*, moves through the sky "backwards", in the opposite direction to the sunKoia: never has a "full moon" or any other phases: it isn't lit directly by the sun as it is constantly eclipsed by the host planet (does this under-construction world have a name yet?)Xalaphera: a full moon every 80 days*, moves through the sky in the same direction as the sun, is smaller in actual size than it appears to the eye and you can talk to Gnomish illusionists (and their deities) to find out why it looks bigger. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The most common calendars are based on phases of Nehush: 9 months of 40 days each, though each culture has its own names for the months.* - I'm told by an astronomer friend (who is also my DM) that multiple moon systems tend to settle into orbital patterns like this where the orbit-time of each is a direct multiple of the others; I learned this because my own setting also has a multi-moon setup.</blockquote>