The lunisolar calendar used in the Celdic Empire.
The official calendar of the Celdic Empire (used for all civic and administrative purposes) is a lunisolar calendar, consisting of twelve months of thirty days each. 1
The months of the Celdic calendar are as follows:
- Psykos (the month of spirits)
- Kalythei (the month of truth)
- Enotis (the month of unity)
- Seiros (the hunter’s month)
- Athanos (the month of immortality)
- Kyros (the month of dominion)
- Symvolei (the month of the covenant)
- Neroi (the month of water)
- Pyr (the month of fire)
- Dimiurgos (the maker’s month)
- Angelos (the month of angels)
- Latreia (the month of devotion)
- Kleptos (the thief’s month) [intercalary]
Year 1 in the Celdic calendar is traditionally taken to be the year when (according to a legend of decidedly apocryphal veracity) the cornerstone was laid for the very first temple of Pelor on the site of what would later be known as the city of Celdanna?. The Celdic calendrical epoch is known as the Age of Dawn (abbreviated “A.D.”).
The Pelorite calendar
The church of Pelor also uses a liturgical calendar which is quite different from the one described above—it is a purely solar (as opposed to lunisolar) calendar, and based on a vastly longer epoch (along with a system of centuries-long solar cycles). The Pelorites have often attempted to influence the Imperial government to adopt the liturgical solar calendar as the Empire’s civic calendar (replacing the existing lunisolar one), but as yet, no emperor has shown much interest in such a project.2
1 In certain years—determined by a complex, multi-generation-long sequence of prime numbers—a thirteenth, ‘intercalary’, month is added, to compensate for the ‘drift’ of the lunar cycle away from the solar one. In any year immediately following a year with an intercalary month, the first month of the new year begins on the day of the vernal equinox. ⇑
2 The reasons for this reluctance are complex, political, and beyond the scope of this page. ⇑