Calendar
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Introduction
The Alusian Calendar is a little different from our own.
There are 12 months of 30 days, and 4 intercalary high holidays between the seasons resulting in 364 days per year. The year is also divided into 52 7-day weeks.
The moon has a 28 day cycle, the first day of the year (Beltane) is always a full moon, and the quarters of the moon fall on Moonday. The Calendar pages use a symbol to show the phases of the moon:
| New Moon | Waxing Half | Full Moon | Waning Half |
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Unlike Earth Alusia does not have blue moons as the months are more closely tied to the lunar cycle.
The Seasons
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The Months
Special Days
The Wheel of the Year
The Wheel of the Year marks the natural cycle of the seasons, commemorated by eight major seasonal festivals; the four high holidays, two solstices and two equinoxes.
Other Notable Days
Other Calendars
The names of the months given above are in common use in most of Western Alusia. Other names can be found in distant areas. Many of them are based on Lunar and Stellar Calendars.
Insel der Freiheit
The Calendar for Insel der Freiheit is based on locally signficant traditional names and numbers, with 23 days in a week, and 18 months of 20 days, as well as 4 intercalary days at the start of each year of 364 days.
Kinlu / Alfheim
The traditionalist Erelheine of Kinlu persist in the use of the ancient Elven calendar dating before the War of Tears. This calendar is also in use in some of the more conservative parts of Alfheim.
The traditional Elven year begins with Samhain and the winter season, and the month names (translated to Common) are:
- Silver Stars
- World's Edge
- Knife Wind
- Waking World
- Forest Heart
- Radiant Blooms
- Falling Blossom
- Waving Grass
- Govannon's Forge
- Anu's Bounty
- Gathering Dark
- Dying Sun
