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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 1581030" data-attributes="member: 18280">copyright (c) Daniel J. Bishop 2004Notes on the Common CalendarThe Common Year is measured from the Treaty of Brentkirk, which ended generations of violent warfare between the cities of the Western Lakelands. The Priest-King of the Cloven Isles, guided by dreams and oracles, having founded the High Holy Church of the Seven Good Gods 37 years before the treaty, strove to see the forces of civilization spread throughout the Lakelands. To this end, the Treaty of Brentkirk proscribes the legal jurisdiction of towns, villages, and cities in the western parts of the region. It acknowledges Virulan as the chief city of the Lakelands, so that all owe fealty and tribute to the King of Virulan, and sets the Cloven Isles as the religious center of the region, with the Priest-King acting as the ecclesiastical counterpart of the secular King. The treaty also describes the tributes, tithes, and obligations of each community to the whole.The Treaty of Brentkirk has not been signed by most of the Eastern Lakelands, though even there the might of the unified Western Lakelands is being felt.  Likewise, a few people in the Western Lakelands skirt the treaty by living in small communities, and often dwelling in less desirable areas of the country. The Fenlanders of the Hooth Marshes are an example of such a people: hardy, independent, and deeply intertwined in the natural processes of their homeland.Smaller churches still exist throughout the Lakelands, of course, but the Accord of Clerics in 125 CY defined the legal limitations (and rights) of faiths, as well as outlawing the worship of many evil gods.  Neither the Treaty of Brentkirk or the Accord of Clerics is generally acknowledged by the humanoid tribes of the Lakelands areas, although there are lizard man villages that have incorporated themselves into the Treaty. Likewise, many elves, some gnomes, and members of the Druidic faith have expressed concern that the Treaty of Brentkirk will end with the destruction of the wilderness, and Weirwood the Great no more than tilled fields overseen by human hands.The Common CalendarThe calendar commonly used in the Lakelands is known as the Brithonian Calendar, named after the Archpriestess of Brigit who devised it.  The Brithonian Calendar is divided into four seasons, and each season into three months:  two with 30 days and one with 31.  Each season is set up so that the 31-day month falls between the 30-day months.  The “extra day” therefore falls on the equinoxes and solstices.  The seasons are Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter.The months of the year are as follows:SpringSnowswane Burgeoning ShowermontSummerVerdmont Highsummer BelanmontAutumnGreenleaf Harvesting HallowmontWinterSnowswax Deepwinter HearthmontEach month is further divided into roughly four seven-day weeks.  The days of the week are each dedicated to one of the Seven Good Gods, and are:  Marday (Mardan), Hearthday (Brigit), Landsday (Amaethon), Smithsday (Aedor), Melladay (Mellador), Restday (Uarthos), and Sunday (Belanus).  A fortnight is fourteen days, or a period of two weeks.Every four years, in order to keep the calendar properly in tune with the seasons, an extra day is added between Winter and Spring.  This is called the Dark Day, and the veils between the worlds of the living and dead are believed to be especially thin at that time.Farmers, peasants, and those who carry old lore will sometimes speak of “tendays”.  This is a holdover from a previous calendar system, which used thirteen months (or moonths) of 28 days each with a Festival Day to complete the year.  This calendar divided its months into three ten-day weeks.</blockquote>

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