Coédória Calendar

The **Coédória Calendar** was the standard measurement of time that had passed in Terazan. It was based on the planet's solar cycle. The solar cycle was 365 days long with a day consisting of 24 standard hours. Numerous epochs were used to determine calendar eras. The most recent of these calendar eras used the **Great Dragon Extinction** as its epoch, or "year zero." **TD** stands for Tempus Draconum (*Time of Dragons*), and **FD** stands for Finis Draconum (*End of Dragons*).

## History

The calendar was created by the Hína shortly after they arrived on Coédór as it was known then, thus the name of the calendar. Since Elves can easily lose track of time due to their immortality and patient nature, they deemed it necessary to create a system by which they judged the natural progression of the world. They did this by observing the amount of rotations that the sun, Calidum, made across the skies and classified this as a single **Aur**, or **Day**.

Once they had decided on this small passage of time, they decided that a greater measurement was needed for the passage of the four seasons. Observing from the world's first tree-bloom of the new season to its last frost, they found that the passage of time was three hundred and sixty five days. This amount of time was classified as a single **Ín**, or **Year**.

The calendar originally started incrementing upwards from the year that the calendar was created, with the epoch only being changed by the Realm of Men after the Dragons were defeated. Some Hína stick to the original calendar out of spite, but most have adjusted and conformed to the Human calendar of the same name instead.

## Time measurement

As the Elves measured the passage of time, they noted down their findings. Started with a single measurement which was the time between two natural rhythmic pulses and then counting up respectively. The named them as follows.

* 60 seconds = 1 minute
* 60 minutes = 1 hour
* 24 hours = 1 day
* 7 days = 1 week
* 4 and a half weeks = 30 to 31 days = 1 month
* 12 months = 365 days = 1 year

It is important to note that not all races respect the passage of time, such as the **Omnicia**, who transcend beyond the fabrics of natural time and order. Other races are not intelligent enough to comprehend the passage of time to such a depth, such as Ogres and Trolls in the Badlands of Terazan.

## Days of the week

1. Mundas
2. Tidas
3. Wyndas
4. Thridas
5. Fyrdas
6. Sitdas
7. Soldas

Some locales had other names for days of the week, such as Hínas, which use the following days instead:

1. Eruiaur
2. Tádaur
3. Enaur
4. Nevaur
5. Methaur
6. Indaur
7. Go-aur

## Months of the year

The Hína divided the months in to the four seasons of Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn in order to understand exactly which stage of each month they were in. Below are the Hínas and Human translations.

1. **Erui Anor** (First Sun)
2. **Anor Iath** (Sun's Dawn)
3. **Erui Eredh** (First Seed)
4. **Nín dant-** (Tear Fall)
5. **Tád Eredh** (Second Seed)
6. **Galadás** (Dameria)
7. **Anor Aiwenor** (Sun's Height)
8. **Vedui Eredh** (Last Seed)
9. **Ithil Hi** (Calidius)
10. **Loss Fán** (Frost Sky)
11. **Anor Telu** (Sun's Dusk)
12. **Vedui Tinu** (Last Star)

## Behind the Scenes

Creating the locale and time measurements of Terazan was a combination of looking at Star Wars' Galactic Standard Calendar and the Calendar of the Elder Scrolls universe. Luckily making my own version of these days and months was pretty straight forward as Elvish is not a prevalent language in either of these. The days are inspired by their position in the week, such as Eruiaur meaning "First Day", Tádaur meaning "Two Day" and so on.

I tried to keep the passage of time consistent to the real world, as this way it is easier to track exactly how long it took the players to complete the campaign, with all of their travelling being "made up along the way during the week".