Time and holidays - brainstorming

[DM Quietus]

In Vethedar, a week is also referred to as a tenday, for obvious reasons - each week is comprised of ten days. This has several repercussions, generally minor; It serves a mechanical purpose, in that crafint and profession checks can now be evenly broken down into a per-day basis, lending them more easily to an adventurer's life. It does mean that each month is now comprised of only three weeks, but that should have no real in-game consequence.

Each month, then, is three weeks, or thirty days, with six additional holidays falling between months, where everyone - even the slaves in Vaeles - has the day off. They fall as follows :

First day of the year : New Year's
January, February
<Holiday>
March, April
<Holiday>
May, June
<Holiday>
July, August
<Holiday>
September, October
<Holiday>
November, December

Note : Holidays need to be named and placed

Holidays : Equinoxes (equally long days of year)? Solstices (Longest/shortest days of the year)? Fall of Maulisauna is celebrated, and the destruction of Fograd is a "holiday", being celebrated as a day of mourning.






Years : Currently, the year is measured from the point at which Maulisauna was defeated, referred to as the "Free age". Standard "Present" as presented will be from the year 524 of the Free Age, which does in fact lead to some oddities such as the existence of Elves who are older than the current calendar. At the moment, this has no real meaning aside from providing flavor and a reference point.

[DM Quietus]

Holidays : Another option


Perhaps rather than having all the holidays being standard across the races, it would be interesting to have some that are universal (going off the Solstices, Midwinter and Midsummer would be universal; The shortest and longest days of the year having some magical significance), and others which are local (the destruction of Fograd being a primarily Dwarven thing, for example)

Set up a situation with holidays in between every month as a universal norm - something brought in by the oldest race in the world, probably the Elves as it seems to fit their schtick fairly well, and was adopted by the other races for ease of working with a single, unified calendar. So then each month is 30 days, plus one holiday in between them, which each race would add their own significance to, and a few having common significance across many races, such as the aforementioned solstices.

[DM Quietus]

Common holidays :

Midwinter - the shortest day of the year. Common myth holds that midwinter is a day where dark magics are more potent, as a result of the longer period of darkness. It is said - though no one can confirm it - that Maulisauna herself was born on a Midwinter's day. This is one of the few holidays in which there is a distinct similarity among all civilizations in how it is celebrated : Every region, and every race, somehow involves the creation of light in their celebrations, in the hopes of driving off the day's natural darkness and weakening the forces that might seek to take advantage of it.


Midsummer - the polar opposite of Midwinter, it is said that where Darkness reigns over Midwinter, the Light reigns over Midsummer. It is a day of unbridled celebration, and clerics of many deities take this day to cast blessings upon their cities, drawing on what is said to be stronger access to such magics on this day. Unlike Midwinter, every race has a different way of celebrating this holiday, though races who are close to one another may show some similarities among them.


The fall of Maulisauna - Must give this a better name! This day is celebrated across most civilizations, as every race had their hands in the momentous occasion that brought about the Free Age. Like Midwinter, it is celebrated much the same way among many civilizations; The fall of Maulisauna sees recreations of the battle, usually heavily biased toward whichever race(s) are common in the city; Dwarves place heavy emphasis on their military might, Humans on the underdog angle, Elves on the swing their magic brought, and so on. Following the recreation, there are wild parties, celebrations of the freedom that the people of the world now enjoy.

Among all cities, Resta provides the most accurate re-enactments, as currently one of the city's elders was actually present at the battle, and as a skilled spellcaster, can use illusions to present the story in a most vivid way.