Calendar

**Index**

## Calendars of Eberron

**The Galifarian Calendar.** The above calendar, used by the Five Nations. There are 364 days in the year, divided into 12 months of 30 days. The last month of the year, Vult, instead has 34 days. Each month is named after a moon, and is associated with both a specific dragonmark and a plane of existance. The Galifarian Calendar was established during the reign of Cyre's son, Galifar the Dark, which counted years since the founding of the kingdom, calling the current era "YK: Year of the Kingdom".

**Galifarian Calendar Variants.**

* **The Dark Six Calendar.** The Dark Six Calendar is a religious calendar used by the adherents of the Dark Six. It is similar to the calendar of Galifar in order to make its use easier to conceal. The calendar recognizes six seasons each corresponding to a different god in the pantheon: Devouring (months of Zarantyr and Olarune), Keeping (months of Therendor and Dravago), Traveling (months of Nymm and Lharvion), Mockery (months of Eyre and Barrakas), Fury (months of Rhaan and Sypheros), and Shadowing (months of Aryth and Vult). In addition, the days of the week are associated with a deity of the Dark Six.
* **Druidic Calendar.** The common calendar of Korvaire is the Galifarian Calandar. However the druids of the Eldeen Reaches devised common variants of these names specifically for the months (but not the moons): **Frostmantle** *(Zarantyr)*, **Thornrise** *(Olarune)*, **Treeborn** *(Therendor)*, **Rainsong** *(Dravago)*, **Arrowfar** *(Nymm)*, **Sunstride** *(Lharvion)*, **Glitterstream** *(Eyre)*, **Havenwild** *(Barrakas)*, **Stormborn** (*Rhaan)*, **Harrowfall** *(Sypheros)*, **Silvermoon** *(Aryth)*, and **Windwhisper** *(Vult)*. The only major deviation of this druidic calendar is that it counts the last four days of Vult as a separate non-month unit called Long Shadows, making every 'true month' exactly 30 days. This mirrors how no moon can be seen in the skies during the nights of Long Shadows.
* **Dwarven Calendar.** Ancient dwarves had their own strange calendar system that did not rely on the steady passage of the sun, but it is largely a forgotten relic of history. Only names of the months survive to this day, having been named after great dwarven kings. Some dwarves still prefer to mark the passage of time with these ancient kings, even when using the galifarian calendar. The dwarven months are: **Aruk** *(Zarantyr)*, **Lurn** *(Olarune)*, **Ulbar** *(Therendor)*, **Kharn** *(Dravago)*, **Ziir** *(Nymm)*, **Dwarhuun** *(Lharvion)*, **Jond** *(Eyre)*, **Sylar** *(Barrakas)*, **Razagul** (*Rhaan)*, **Thazm** *(Sypheros)*, **Drakhadur** *(Aryth)*, **Uarth** *(Vult)*.
* **Talentan Calendar.** The Talenta halflings use different names for the months of the year, mostly because they don't like falling in line. They didn't adopt an official calendar until galifar imposed it on them, and having unique names was their compromise: **Fang** *(Zarantyr)*, **Wind** *(Olarune)*, **Ash** *(Therendor)*, **Hunt** *(Dravago)*, **Song** *(Nymm)*, **Dust** *(Lharvion)*, **Claw** *(Eyre)*, **Blood** *(Barrakas)*, **Horn** (*Rhaan)*, **Heart** *(Sypheros)*, **Spirit** *(Aryth)*, **Smoke** *(Vult)*.
* **The Thirteen Blades.** Warforged of The Blades and The Becoming God mark time according to the first appearance of sentient warforged (starting in the year 965 YK), calling the current era "AS: The Age of Steel".
	+ The Blades care little for the calendar of the fleshborn, instead marking the moons with the most evocative pronouncements of the Lord of Blades, which change each year as determined by the scribes. For example, the rising of Therendor is called in the current calendar, *“We endure.”* The transition from one day to the next is less important for people who need no sleep and conduct no commerce. Each quarter, however, begins with a Blade Communion. Once a year, following the Blade Communion of Scribing, the official recordkeepers transcribe the Lord of Blades’s pronouncements for the year and name the next twelve months. People outside the faith aren't sure *why* the callendar is refered to as "Thirteen Blades"; this might refer to the number of blades on the body of the Lord of Blades, to the number of companies working within the Mournland, or perhaps even to the rising of the moons (though this last is unlikely).
	+ Warforged of the Becoming God use this same callendar as the Blades. They don't use quotes of the Lord of Blades to mark passage of the moons, and instead use months of the Galifarian Calendar. The Becoming God officially marks the years as "BB: Before the Becoming", but because they don't know *when* their god will be manifested, they can't actually use this standard yet. If and when their god is embodied, they plan to stop using the Thirteen Blades calendar and name the era "AB: After the Becoming".

**Pyrinean Calendar.** Worship of the Sovereign Host predates the formation of the great kingdom of Galifar. Thus, while all Vassals use the standard Galifar calendar in day-to-day life, they measure days of religious significance on the far older Pyrinean Calendar (also called the Sovereign calendar). First created by the ancient Sarlonan kingdom of Pyrine, the Sovereign calendar had 10 months of 35 days each, for a total of 350 days in a year. Unlike the lunar calendar of Galifar, it treats the phases of the moons as separate from the timekeeping of the world itself; instead, each month is associated with a different sovereign. The months of the calendar are: **Caros** *(Dol Dorn)*, **Vinash** *(Dol Arrah)*, **D'haunt** *(Arawai)*, **Surma** *(Aureon)*, **Naash** *(Olladra)*, **Kolema** *(Onatar)*, **Semati** *(Balinor)*, **Ofson** *(Boldrei)*, **Duscar** *(Lesser Sovereign Lords)*, and **Thanatos** *(Severa)*.

* **Sovereign Book of Seasons.** Prior to even the Pyrinean calendar, came the ancient Sovereign Book of Seasons. The original Vassals prior to the Pyrinean Creed divided the year into three seasons, rather than four: Yearbirth associated with Siberys and roughly corresponding to spring and summer, Yeargrowth associated with Eberron and roughly corresponding to summer and autumn, and Yeardeath associated with Khyber and roughly corresponding to autumn and winter. The seasons were divided into seven 16-day weeks. Each day of the week commemorates a god of the Sovereign Host, although after the Schism the Dark Six were no longer commemorated. Whenever this calendar is referenced in the modern era, the Five Nations and Galifar replace references to the Dark Six.

**The Qabalrin Wheel.** The Blood of Vol has been around since long before the formation of Galifar, and thus does not use the standard calendar to mark either religious observances or the passage of time. The faith follows the oldest active calendar on Eberron, called the Qabalrin Wheel. Named for the Qabalrin elves that developed it on Xen’drik when there was still a 13th moon in the sky, it was the only calendar of record for much of Eberron’s early history. Like its modern counterpart, the Qabalrin Wheel is divided into months that correspond to the moons of Eberron, but unlike the Galifar calendar, it still recognizes the thirteenth moon (believed lost to the cosmos when the giants sealed off the plane of Xoriat so many centuries ago). The Wheel has thirteen months rather than the standard twelve, with the last - Crya, associated with the lost Mark of Death - coming after Vult and before Zarantyr on the Galifar calendar. This renders the Qabalrin Wheel year one month longer than the Galifar year. The Blood of Vol liturgical calendar reckons time from the year when the House of Vol was betrayed, forcing its last scion into an eternity of undeath. To Seekers in the know, 998 YK corresponds to 2398 FH (the 2398th year since the Fall of the House). Many Seekers do not use this convention, of course, and even those who do still use the Galifar calendar for dealings outside the faith.

### Exotic Calendars

**The Age of Unity.** While Riedra nominally uses the old Sovereign Book of Seasons calendar, they have stripped it of any association with the Sovereign Host itself. The calendar begins with the Unity of Riedra in -302 YK, which is written as 1 Unity. The timekeeping of the calendar is quite unstable: the Inspired rulers of Riedra often add or remove days from any given month as they see fit. Since the calendar year of the Sovereign calendar is roughly 2 weeks shorter than Eberron's lunar year, this practice was not unheard of prior to Sarlona's unification in order to prevent seasonal drift, but the Inspired have pushed it to an absurd degree in order to distort their citizens' perception of time and to make it difficult to record histories. The length of each month is essentially random, though it usually corresponds with the "waking" period of Quor Tarai's 17-day cycle.

**Days of Remembrance.** In the private lives of all kalashtar and lightspeakers, wherever they live, a year consists of sixty-seven periods of five days each. Each ancestor quori has five of its own Days of Remembrance, with the Void of Taratai coming last in the sequence. This calendar was established just after the exodus, when the fugitive quori fled into Adar, and it did not take into account the regular celestial events of Eberron. Among the people of Adar and Khorvaire, the kalashtar use the usual calendar. They still practice Days of Remembrance, but these days shift in the year to keep time with a cycle that doesn’t contain 335 days. Only the Void of Taratai observances are regular in Adar and Khorvaire, set when the last of Taratai’s line disappeared from Adar: at the end of Zarantyr and the beginning of Olarune. The other Days of Remembrance are observed privately as they occur, except when they overlap the Void. Any such period is interrupted by those five days, restarting after they end.

**The Dhakaani Calendar.** The Empire of Dhakaan used a lunar calendar with 12 months, and had a 12-day "week". The calendar always started counting from the the emperor's crowning, meaning that the year was consistandly reset every few decades. Given the lack of complete historical records, modern researchers have had a difficult time reconstructing a timeline of the empire from the few sources that survived. This custom is why the calendar of Darguun starts in 969 YK with the rise of Lhesh Haruuc Shaarat’kor, despite otherwise using the Galifarian Calendar.

**Grand Cycles of Aerenal.** The calendar used by the elves of Aerenal is a strange affair, practically unreadable to anyone not raised with it. For instance, while the calendar acknowledges the concept of “days,” they are not considered important measurements of time in their own right. It is a calendar that involves many cycles all of which contribute to a long period of about a decade. The concentric cycles come in several lengths: Tuern *(three days)*, Luenir *(21 tuernai, or 9 weeks)*, Rueln *(14 luenirai, 2.5 years)*, Nuerlnir *(4 ruelnai, 10 years)*. The calendar is currently in the midst of 2469 RC, or the 2469th *nuerlnirai* in the Rule of the Undying Court. Before the formation of the Undying Court, *nuelnirai* are listed as BR (Before the Rule).

**The Zil Calendar.** The gnomes of Zilargo have constructed a metric calendar, that has exactly 365.242199 days each year. The system has no concept of "weeks" or "months"; instead, each day of the year has a unique name that the zil wordsmiths of the Ninth College created to perfectly describe it. Each day is divided into 10 hours, each hour into 100 minutes, and each minute into 100 seconds. Thus an hour is about 144 conventional minutes (2.4 times as long as a conventional hour), a minute is 86.4 conventional seconds (44% longer than a conventional minute), and a second is 0.864 conventional seconds (13.6% shorter than a conventional second).