CALENDAR, HOLIDAYS AND TIMEKEEPING

RECKONING OF YEARS

A Gaian solar year is three hundred sixty (360) days long with no leap years.  Each of the twelve months has exactly thirty days, and each day consists of 24 hours, each hour containing 60 minutes. 

The first recorded appearance of the “vernal races” (humans, dwarves halflings, gnomes and orcs) was noted by the elves approximately 2,000 years after Jenoic’s ascendancy, in the year 54002CD.  The vernal races subsisted in primitive hunter-gatherer societies for approximately 6,000 years, until the first permanent agrarian communities were formed and the Vernal Epoch began around 60000CD.

Prior to the Convergence, the agreed-upon standard was the Calendar of Gaia (CG), which stood for 6,264 years and ended with the final throes of the Convergence.  Year 1CG was marked by the 20,000^th anniversary of the ascendancy of the legendary elvish hero Anilmathien Ceriendór to godhood – at that moment, it is said he took on the name Jenoic.  The elves of Gaia and their sibling race, the dreamkin, reckon their existence to approximately 32,000 years prior to Year 1CG.  They two fey races share a calendar with the dragons of Gaia, who reckon the passage of years back as far as 72,000 years with a calendar is known as Calendar Draconae, or CD.

After the Convergence, the nations of the world across all four major continents agreed to adopt a new reckoning for the new post-shift epoch: Convergence Reckoning (CR).  The first two branches of the Gaia’s Dream campaign – Heroes of Falgenor and Falling Stars, Rising Hope – began on 6-2-22CR (Nerida 2, year 22 Convergence Reckoning), and the new branch, Bastion of Peace, will begin on Chelmont 1, 23CR (2-1-23CR).

CG/CR MONTHS & SEASONS

GAIAN HOLIDAYS (Taliraen)

GAIAN DAYS OF THE WEEK

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