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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SableWyvern" data-source="post: 1580737" data-attributes="member: 1008">Dorias Mandar (Mandarites) – Kyarite CalendarThe Mandarite Druids maintained the old Tentarmdoul calendar for several centuries after establishing themselves in Dorias Mandar. However, their religion required them to more precisely identify and predict various lunar and solar events, and the resultant knowledge led to the Kyarite Calendar. Under this system, no attempt was made to unite lunar and solar cycles into a single entity. Each year begins with the Winter Solstice. The thirteen lunar cycles do not fit neatly into a year, however, and the last month of the year will almost always extend into the next year, in the same fashion as our final week IRL will continue into the New Year. Weeks are tied into the lunar phases, and vary from 6 to 9 days in length. Individual days are not numbered. Instead, a precise date can be determined by listing the Year, Moon, Phase and Day. This makes it very difficult for those without access to a Kyarite calendar to equate a Kyarite date with one from another system, but it can be done.The Cycle of Moons MistletoeRowanAshAlderWillowHawthornOakHazelAppleVineIvyYewBirch Each moon is divided into four weeks: New (or Dark), Rising, Old (or Full), Falling. Hence, the Mistletoe Moon consists of New Mistletoe, Mistletoe Rising, Old Mistletoe and Mistletoe Falling.The Days1. Firstday2. Kyarday3. Stonday4. Midday5. Lichday6. Shormonday7. Firsenday8. Enday9. LonmondayThe number of days in any week is dependant on the moon cycles. As stated, some weeks will end as early as Shormonday (Short Moon Day), while others as late as Lonmonday (Long Moon Day). Most weeks, however, will finish on either Firsenday or Enday.A full date using the Kyarite Calendar would read like: Firstday of Old Mistletoe – which would be the day of the Full Moon.Because each year begins with the Winter Solstice, and the months are true lunar cycles, the Kyarite Calendar does not require leap years or any similar system of adjustment.The current Kyarite year is 1483, with Year 1 being selected on the basis of a particularly important astral conjunction that occurred on the Winter Solstice that year (the Kyarite Calendar was actually developed in the year 126). The Mandarites do not give their years any annotation, but other scholars generally add MC (Mandarite Calendar), DR (Druidic Reckoning) or KC (Kyarite Reckoning) when referring to a Kyarite date.Varin, Thrain and Mandar (Mandarim Kingdoms) – Argendalim ReckoningWhen the Tentarmdoul first settled in the east, they adopted the calendar of the Old Men. Eventually, though, King Argendalus II of Gendolyn decreed that his great kingdom should have its own reckoning of the days. This was in part mere pride, but also a logical decision given the Old Calendar’s basis in the long winters and short summers of the distant north.After several years, the king’s Daykeepers arrived at system that met with his approval, based heavily on the Taurim’s Archalen Calendar. This Argendalim Reckoning was later adopted by the city-states of Varin and the southern nations of Thrain and Sarathel, and was taken further south into Mandar by the Thrainish settlers who continued to migrate across the sea.The Argendalim year consists of 12 months, each of thirty days. Two midyear days, New Years Day, New Years Eve and the Day of the Dead make up five additional days that do not fall into any month. Every third year, an extra four days are added to Midyear; in each twelfth year there are only three extra instead of four.Gendolynim WeekSunday (Lordsday in Thrain)MondayLusdayCraefdayDestdayWardaySeadayThe Argendalim Year Yule Day1. Gendlys (30)2. Kaluary (30)3. Geilan (30)4. Deptary (30)5. Mae (30)6. Almoon (30)Midyear (2)7. Jullen (30)8. Argendal (30)9. Archalles (30)10. Odothus (30)Rath (Day of the Dead)11. Kolomare (30)12. Kasember (30)Evyule Day The original Argendalim Calendar was back-dated to the birthyear of the first King Gendolyn, some 216 years earlier. This system of dating is retained in Varin and Mandar, where the current year is 1166, annotated as AG, the Age of Great Genedolyn. The Thrainim conformed to these measurements until several years after the Cult of Justice was named the official religion of Thrain. Soon after the rise of the High Justicar to the Emperor’s favour, counting was reset. In Thrain, the current year is 312 AJ (Age of the Just). Thrainim law states dates prior to 1AJ use the signifier, Age of Heresy (AH).</blockquote>

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