Belia Calendar

The Belian year is as follows. There are 360 days, 24 hours long, in each year. While different groups may divide them differently, the standard calendar projected onto this year is that there are eight months, each 45 days long, and the standard four seasons.

The months, beginning from the start of summer, are: (Summer) Rise and Summit, (Autumn) Cloud and Rush, (Winter) Snow and Chill, (Spring) Hope and Bloom.

The months can easily be marked by the turning of Belia's large moon, which, coincidentally, becomes full at the end of each month. There is a second moon, which is 'broken', the moon has split into two halves, and it is smaller than the other, and has a 48 day turn.

Scientifically, the second moon is at a higher orbit but also moves at a higher speed, and is hidden every so often by the larger one.

FINALISED CALENDAR:

No weeks, days are marked by number e.g. 1st of Hope, 37th of Rush, 23rd of Rise, 42nd of Dread.

 

Human: - on Vumenti, of both Daenling, Mysian and Kalyp descent

First Age of Man (FAM) - establishment of humans in Mysia/Western Continent

Second Age (SA) - started on the first contact between elves and humans

Third Age (TA) - colonisation of Vumenti - 3000 years ago

Fourth Age (FA) - modern day - started about 100 years ago (collapse of Kingdom of Viatore, that is why we have the warlords and things there now)

 

Comments?

 

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Poblobo’s Ideas for a Belian Calendar

Four Seasons: Summer, Autumn, winter, spring.

Eight Months of equal size marked by the moon’s orbit (Full moon – Full moon)

Months are 45 days long, year is 360 days long.

(Mention of second, broken moon. Maybe this orbits at a different speed at a higher orbit, so every so often the broken moon is hidden by the new one. What about a 48 day orbit?)

Summer           Fall               Winter               Spring

Months starting from summer are: (Rise, Summit) (Cloud, Rush) (Dread, Darkness) (Hope, Bloom)

No weeks, days are marked by number e.g. 1st of Hope, 37th of Rush, 23rd of Rise, 42nd of Dread.

Now we need an event to base our years on, so we can have a BC-AC or equivalent. Perhaps the landing of the Kalgerans on Vumenti, however long ago that was.

 

Comments anyone?

 

[let’s begin]

Wow, I just realised I never gave you guys a bunch of important stuff

Yes, there is a BC-AD equivalent, I’ve had it for ages

There are multiple ages of the world:

Elven:

First Age of the Silmar (FAS) - awakening of elves (first elf, Maupher, awakens, he is Osalpher’s great great grandfather through both his father and mother’s sides)

The Years of Alfheim (YA) - construction and reign of Alfheim

Second Age of the Silmar (SAS) - Fall of Alfheim and construction of Esirat (Osalpher born)

Third Age of the Silmar (TAS) - Recapture of Alfheim, reign of the Line of Girean

Fourth Age of the Silmar(FoAS) - Continued reign of line of Girean, alliance with Sirsil and Far Havens built

Fifth Age of the Silmar (FiAS) - Fall of Great Lands, establishment of Vumenti Kingdom, modern time

 

Human: - on Vumenti, of both Daenling, Mysian and Kalyp descent

First Age of Man (FAM) - establishment of humans in Mysia/Western Continent

Second Age (SA) - started on the first contact between elves and humans

Third Age (TA) - colonisation of Vumenti - 6000 years (maybe change?)(perhaps 2000)

Fourth Age (FA) - modern day - started about 100 years ago (collapse of Kingdom of Viatore, that is why we have the warlords and things there now)

 

So yeah, the common term is FA, e.g the RP Venge-Quest, happens in about 94~FA, Mael born about 68~FA, i think, you are 32 at server start right?

 

Human: - in Mysia

FAM - same

SA - same

Third Age (TA) - begins with the exodus of the east (when the future Anareshkhan’s and Kalgeran’s left Mysia)

First Age of the Tidal Kingdom (FATK) - establishment of unified Mysian government under the Tide-Father clan

Second Age of the Tidal Kingdom (SATK) - end of the original line of Tidal Kings, a successor chosen from a cadet branch of the Tide-Father royal family

New Age of Mysia (NA) - collapse of the Tidal Kingdom and establishment of current united yet independent island states, started about 1400 years ago

 

Part 2:

Regarding the moon, we have retconned the idea of the day of the fire moon, but if we want we can still have two moons or a broken moon.

I was always in favor of the idea of a larger white moon and a smaller moon that alternates between red, blue and green as the moon cycle progress (pretty simple to do in texture pack, in most texture packs and the default there is a lunar cycle, we simply draw in an extra moon on the texture, then have it be a different color for each lunar phase)

And I have a very old and outdated calendar I made back in the early stages of the pure elves, when they were still the Shisjani, it is based on the cycle of Elven magical potency, as such some months lasted only three or four days, while others lasted up to 50 or 60, the year lasted 346 days, with 20 months, though occasionally there would be other months added to the year, based on proximity of certain magic empowering comets or certain spiritual conditions being met (i.e. breaking a spirit barrier, a spirit barrier being the wall between this world and next, and that is big bad mojo you don’t want to be messing with) and the Month of Itas which would come around every 19 and increase magical energy tenfold) anyway, that is available to use, though I wouldnt recommend it, though the names can be taken if wished. They are: Holar, Te, Chu, Zael, Sar, Loros, Lorin, Masa, Te-Masa, Solinquin, Lestaris, Latisar, Li, Te-Nirosi, To-Nirosi, Tarun-Nirosi

[done, by Krugzy]