Post by DEV Jlf2n on May 23, 2008 9:46:50 GMT -5
The Calendar Of Harptos
1. Hammer; Deepwinter. January
Special Day: Midwinter
2. Alturiak; The Claw of Winter, or The
Claws of the Cold. February
3. Ches of the Sunsets. March
4. Tarsakh of the Storms. April
Special Day: Greengrass
5. Mirtul; The Melting. May
6. Kythorn; The Time of Flowers. June
7. Flamerule; Summertide. July
Special Day: Midsummer
8. Eleasias; Highsun. August
9. Eleint; The Fading. September
Special Day: Higharvestide
10. Marpenoth; Leafall. October
11. Uktar; The Rotting. November
Special Day: The Feast of the Moon
12. Nightal; The Drawing Down.
December
Special Calendar Days
Midwinter is known officially as the High Festival of Winter. It is a feast where, traditionally, the lords of the land plan the year ahead, make and renew alliances, and send gifts of goodwill.
To the commonfolk, this is Deadwinter Day, the midpoint of the
worst of the cold.
Greengrass is the official beginning of spring, a day of relaxation. Flowers that have been carefully grown in inner rooms of the keeps and temples during the winter are blessed and cast out upon the snow, to bring rich growth in the season ahead.
Midsummer, called Midsummer Night or the Long Night, is a time of feasting and music and love. In a ceremony performed in some lands, unwed maidens are set free in the woods and hunted by their would-be suitors throughout the night. Betrothals are traditionally made upon this night. It is very rare
indeed for the weather to be bad during the night—such is considered a very bad omen, usually thought to foretell famine or plague.
Higharvestide heralds the coming of fall and the harvest. It is a feast that often continues for the length of the harvest, so that there is always food for those coming in from the fields. There is much traveling about on the heels of the feast, as merchants, court emissaries, and pilgrims make speed ere the worst of the mud arrives and the rain freezes in the snow.
The Feast of the Moon is the last great festival of the year. It marks the arrival of winter, and is also the day when the dead are honored. Graves are blessed, the Ritual of Remembrance performed, and tales of the doing of those now gone are told far into the night. Much is said of heroes and treasure and lost cities
underground.
Years (“winters”) are referred to by names, each one consistent across the Realms, because each kingdom or citystate numbers years differently, usually to measure the reign of a dynasty or the current monarch, or since the founding of the country. passage of the years. Names for the years are known as the Roll of Years, as they are drawn from predictions written down under that title by the famous Lost Sage, Augathra the Mad, with a few additions by the seer Alaundo. The Roll is a long one; here is the relevant portion of it.
YEAR OF THE MORNINGSTAR (1350)
YEAR OF THE DRAGON (1352 DR)
YEAR OF THE ARCH (1353 DR)
YEAR OF THE BOW (1354 DR)
YEAR OF THE HARP (1355 DR)
YEAR OF THE WORM (1356 DR)
YEAR OF THE PRINCE (1357 DR)
YEAR OF THE SHADOWS (1358 DR)
YEAR OF THE SERPENT(1359 DR)
YEAR OF THE TURRENT (1360 DR)
YEAR OF THE MAIDENS (1361 DR)
YEAR OF THE HELM (1362 DR)
YEAR OF THE WYVERN (1363 DR)
YEAR OF THE WAVE (1364 DR)
YEAR OF THE SWORD (1365 DR)
YEAR OF THE STAFF (1366 DR)
YEAR OF THE SHIELD (1367 DR)
YEAR OF THE BANNER (1368 DR)
1. Hammer; Deepwinter. January
Special Day: Midwinter
2. Alturiak; The Claw of Winter, or The
Claws of the Cold. February
3. Ches of the Sunsets. March
4. Tarsakh of the Storms. April
Special Day: Greengrass
5. Mirtul; The Melting. May
6. Kythorn; The Time of Flowers. June
7. Flamerule; Summertide. July
Special Day: Midsummer
8. Eleasias; Highsun. August
9. Eleint; The Fading. September
Special Day: Higharvestide
10. Marpenoth; Leafall. October
11. Uktar; The Rotting. November
Special Day: The Feast of the Moon
12. Nightal; The Drawing Down.
December
Special Calendar Days
Midwinter is known officially as the High Festival of Winter. It is a feast where, traditionally, the lords of the land plan the year ahead, make and renew alliances, and send gifts of goodwill.
To the commonfolk, this is Deadwinter Day, the midpoint of the
worst of the cold.
Greengrass is the official beginning of spring, a day of relaxation. Flowers that have been carefully grown in inner rooms of the keeps and temples during the winter are blessed and cast out upon the snow, to bring rich growth in the season ahead.
Midsummer, called Midsummer Night or the Long Night, is a time of feasting and music and love. In a ceremony performed in some lands, unwed maidens are set free in the woods and hunted by their would-be suitors throughout the night. Betrothals are traditionally made upon this night. It is very rare
indeed for the weather to be bad during the night—such is considered a very bad omen, usually thought to foretell famine or plague.
Higharvestide heralds the coming of fall and the harvest. It is a feast that often continues for the length of the harvest, so that there is always food for those coming in from the fields. There is much traveling about on the heels of the feast, as merchants, court emissaries, and pilgrims make speed ere the worst of the mud arrives and the rain freezes in the snow.
The Feast of the Moon is the last great festival of the year. It marks the arrival of winter, and is also the day when the dead are honored. Graves are blessed, the Ritual of Remembrance performed, and tales of the doing of those now gone are told far into the night. Much is said of heroes and treasure and lost cities
underground.
Years (“winters”) are referred to by names, each one consistent across the Realms, because each kingdom or citystate numbers years differently, usually to measure the reign of a dynasty or the current monarch, or since the founding of the country. passage of the years. Names for the years are known as the Roll of Years, as they are drawn from predictions written down under that title by the famous Lost Sage, Augathra the Mad, with a few additions by the seer Alaundo. The Roll is a long one; here is the relevant portion of it.
YEAR OF THE MORNINGSTAR (1350)
YEAR OF THE DRAGON (1352 DR)
YEAR OF THE ARCH (1353 DR)
YEAR OF THE BOW (1354 DR)
YEAR OF THE HARP (1355 DR)
YEAR OF THE WORM (1356 DR)
YEAR OF THE PRINCE (1357 DR)
YEAR OF THE SHADOWS (1358 DR)
YEAR OF THE SERPENT(1359 DR)
YEAR OF THE TURRENT (1360 DR)
YEAR OF THE MAIDENS (1361 DR)
YEAR OF THE HELM (1362 DR)
YEAR OF THE WYVERN (1363 DR)
YEAR OF THE WAVE (1364 DR)
YEAR OF THE SWORD (1365 DR)
YEAR OF THE STAFF (1366 DR)
YEAR OF THE SHIELD (1367 DR)
YEAR OF THE BANNER (1368 DR)