Proposed Lands Perilous Calandar

[Choinski, Burton]

I don't know how many of you out there really need it, but I have dabbled
with nailing down the PL solar calandar and am posting my idas for it here
for general discussion.  I have created an excel sheet of the calandar,
which i mailed to Wout for the web page.

Since this is a magical realm, we can toss "to the decimal point" SF
oddities (like the moon "month" being 28.something days) into the wind.

The year is 360 days long, broken into 12 months of 30 days each.  A week is
composed of 6 days.  The year is divided into 6 seasons (how babylonian :} )
Seasons:
   Planting Season
   War Season
   Siege Season
   Harvest Season
   Storm Season
   Dark Season

The first day of the year is the first day of Planting season.  Now, I was
somewhat lazy and based the names on our Earthly calandar, thus making it
easier to mentally grasp what the climate outside would be like (naming
reflects sea of tears region)
     Marqi         <-- Planting
     Apris

     Ma            <-- War
     Junaqa

     Julis          <-- Siege
     Augado

     Sepes       <-- Harvest
     Octaqi

     Novehas    <-- Storm
     Decalis

     Janaq        <-- Dark
     Febris

Since the lands seem to be entirely Northern Hemisphere, obviously the
"dark" season is relatively mild on the southern lands, and brutal up north.
Mythically, Storm season is when the essances of cold and darkness wrest
control away from the warmer, kinder spirits, so unpredicable weather is the
hallmark of this season.  The dark forces, however, are lazy and allow their
time to slip away with less troubles in the Planting times.

The six days of the week are:
    Monada
    Tusida
    Wendida
    Thusuda
    Frisda
    Satusda

There are two moons which, when combined, mark the start of the seasons.
"Dar Huntaqa" (The Huntsman) has a cycle of 20 days, while "Milixa" (the
Hound) has a cycle of 15 days.

The first day of a season both are full.  In the first day of the second
month, Dar Huntaqa is new while Milixa is full.  The 60 day period it takes
the two to get back in sync marks a season ("When hound rejoins the master,
both fresh for the next hunt").

For people wishing to roll dates (birth date?):
     1d6 for season
         1d2 for month of season
             1d5 for week of month
                1d6 for day of week


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Burton Choinski
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