Emeraldite Calendar Guide

Below is the Calendar system used by the Emeraldites. And something that is available for consistency in Lore, story telling and history books.

In Templehelm, Denizens do not count each day. Instead the date changes every 72 (in-game) days. Which just so happens to correspond which IRL days. Making it easy to convert IRL dates to CI dates.

Current year is the Year of the Spider-Dragon - Next year is the Year of the Spider-Bat.... (more on that later)

The Months
The Emeraldites honour the ground they walk on throughout the year.

January - Coal

Feburary - Diamond

March - Grass

April - Gold

May - Iron

June - Lapis

July - Redstone

August - Stone

September - Flint

October - Dirt

November - Clay

December - Emerald

Days of the week
The Emeraldites honour the Deities that guide us through the realm.

Monday = Planu

Tuesday = Akwal

Wedensday = Cavilon

Thursday = Wintival

Friday = Netharna

Saturday = Wildaven

Sunday = Deserma

As the month progresses the reoccurence of particular days are numbered:

eg. 4th Akwal of the Stone Spider = 28th August 2012

Broken Down:

4th Akwal = 4th Tuesday

Stone = August

Spider = The Year

And another example: 5th November = 1st Planu of the Clay Spider-Wolf.

The Years
The Emeraldites honour the animals that inhabit the land.

The current Templehelm year just so happens to also currently end in 13 - however the current year is 1000 years younger - So the year is 1013.

In Templehelm they only specify the last two digits for years - which correspond to a Creature:

0 = Sheep

1 = Spider

2 = Wolf

3 = Dragon

4 = Bat

5 = Slime

6 = Cow

7 = Pig

8 = Ocelot (Cat)

9 = Chicken

And as with days - Templehelm also number the reoccurence of these cycles.

So 13 = Spider-Dragon

(Spider =1 Dragon=3).

And 1013 would be the 10th Spider-Dragon.

For Negative years - when speaking of a times thousands of years ago - just count in the negatives as you would with IRL years and use the suffix BSD (Before Sired Divines).

So something like: 4th Netharna of the 4th Silver Wolf-Bat BSD

I hope that all made sense - it's the best I could explain it - and once you get your head around it - very simple to convert dates and adds a nice RP slant on things...

Another Example:

"The great Faction of Cavicka existed during the time of the recent Flint Wolf" - or you could even say "The 10th incarnation of the Flinty Spider-Wolf" to wax lyrical.