Time System

CURRENT SEASON AND YEAR
Saffra 301 DM
The time system in Tessanis was developed during the days of high magic. Various magical Shields were placed in public locales on a wide variety of adornments. These Shields were powered by sunlight and would change color as they received more or less of it. The color would slowly fill the Shield from bottom to top as the day progressed, and the color changes would note the change in months.
Since this RP will be using fluid time to parallel Earth time, here is the breakdown of the months. Since each story is a separate entity, timestamps will be needed so you know what season is going on in the world of Tessanis. Being fluid, it doesn't matter what day it is in Earth Time, only what month it is.
Example: Character Bob and Character Fred are going to start a story of them fighting a slime monster. In Earth Time, it is July 26. However, in Tessanis time, they decide to start the story on the 45th day of Jadeyan. Character Bob then decides to start another story, now July 27th in Earth Time. Since the 45th day of Jadeyan is taken, he decides to do it on the 3rd day of Jadeyan, keeping in mind that the events in this new story are taking place prior to the events in the previous story.
The reason for the Fluid time and paralleling Earth Times is so that you can run multiple stories with multiple characters during a similar time period and know how they fall chronologically. In addition, as GM this allows me to tailor global/regional/city wide events that characters can participate in. The time factor is also important for you collect wages at the end of each month, as well as paying expenses.
Years are determined based on time since the Death of Magic. So the current year is 300 DM, since it is 300 years since magic died. Time before then would be referred to as Magic Lives, so 400 years ago would be 100 ML.
For the smaller sections of time, the varying cultures seemed to have come to the consensus that a day has 24 Stretches, each Stretch has 60 Slips, and each Slip has 60 Nudges, all coming from how the magical Shields filled with color through the day.
Stretch = Hour
Slip = Minute
Nudge = Second
Jadeyan (59 days) - January/February
Saffra (61 days) - March/April
Vermillio (61 days) - May/June
Crimsia (61 days) - July/August
Mauven (61 days) - September/October
Ceruleo (61 days) - November/December