Emeraldite Calendar Guide

Crimson Ingot has a Roleplay style date system that is used 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 - Next year is the Year of the Dragon, then Ocelot.... (more on that later)

The Months:

Januray = Stone Feburary = Water March = Sand April = Fire May = Wood June = Snow July = Cave August = Ocean September = Desert October = The Nether November = Jungle December = Tundra

Days of the week:

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 Ocean Spider = 28th August 2012

And another example: 5th November = 1st Planu of Jungles.

It's easy to convert dates and this adds a nice RP slant on the dates... this also presents itself as an opportunity for particular creeds to enjoy festivals and holy days.

For example the Wildaven would all Party on the 10th of November - as this is the 1st Wildaven of the Jungle Spiders.

And a Cavilon Factions might launch their attacks on Wednesdays (Cavilons Day) for luck.

Now Years...

The current Templehelm year just so happen to also currently end in 12 - however the current year is 1000 years younger - So the year is 1012.

In Templehelm they only speak of the last two digits - which correspond to a mob: 0 = Sheep 1 = Giant 2 = Spider 3 = Dragon 4 = Wolf 5 = Slime 6 = Cow 7 = Bat 8 = Golem 9 = Chicken

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

So 12 = Giant Spider (Giant=1 Spider=2). And 1012 would be the 10th Giant Spider.

Or just Giant Spider for short - or even just Spider when speaking of recent events - Hence Spider in the examples above.

For Negative years - when speaking of a times 1000s of years ago - use the same convention as IRL - bu adding a minus to dates and counting backwards.

I hope that all made sense - but not exactly very easy to explain - but once you get your head around it - very simple to calculate.

More Examples:

"The great Faction of Cavicka existed during the time of the Desert Spider" - or you could even say The 10th Giant Desert Spider to wax lyrical.

"Hey Everbody! To celebrate peace between the Wintivals and Wildavens - Party at spawn during the 2nd Wintival of Jungles" (8th November)

What do you think?