The Calendar of Eldranis
Structure
Year length: 360 days
Months: 12 months, each of 30 days
Weeks: 5 weeks per month, 6 days per week
Months and Seasonal Associations
Thawingtide (Spring begins)
Blossombloom
Greengale
Suncrest (Summer begins)
Brighthearth
Verdantwave
Goldleaf (Autumn begins)
Harvestfall
Emberglow
Frostwane (Winter begins)
Snowveil
Deepchill
Weekdays
Lunaris - Selune's day; reflection, peace, and the observance of time
Vireday - the working week begins; labor and the fields
Embriday - industry and craft; the forge, sacred to Galdrim
Eirunday - Eirun's day; magic, ritual, and the arcane
Hearthday - home, market, and community
Duskwane - the week's close; rest and worship
Seasons
Spring: Thawingtide, Blossombloom, Greengale
Summer: Suncrest, Brighthearth, Verdantwave
Autumn: Goldleaf, Harvestfall, Emberglow
Winter: Frostwane, Snowveil, Deepchill
Important Holidays and Festivals
Day of Folly (Varyx): A day in Greengale where social roles are reversed, full of pranks and masked revelry.
Midsummer's Eve (Cú’s Oak): A festival in Brighthearth celebrating love, with couples exchanging vows under the moonlight.
Day of Remembrance (Galdrim): In Emberglow, honoring those who sacrificed in battles, with parades and memorials.
Winter’s Vigil (Noctyra): In Frostwane, a night where families gather to share stories and light candles to ward off darkness.
Moons
Selune: A large, pale moon that governs most timekeeping.
Eirun: A smaller, crimson moon tied to mystical and arcane events.
Paper Ghosts — Seasons & Observances of Akanegumo
Spring — Thawingtide, Blossombloom, Greengale — The Waking Season.
The valley stirs from winter; the season ends in the masks and mock-haunting of the Reenactment.
New Year's Festival — Thawingtide 1: debts settled, houses swept, ancestors greeted at the household shrine.
Reenactment Festival — Greengale 30 (spring's last day): the feast, the paper masks, the mock abduction that tricks the real ghosts into thinking the town is already haunted.
Summer — Suncrest, Brighthearth, Verdantwave — The Ghost Season.
The hauntings crest in the first three weeks of Suncrest. Suncrest 1–21: three weeks of the Eight Practices, lit lanterns, and early nights while the Yūreimori's hauntings reach their peak.
Dragon Boat Festival — Brighthearth 5: dragon-prowed boat races and offerings cast to Mizuchi, the ghost season survived.
Autumn — Goldleaf, Harvestfall, Emberglow — The Fading Season.
The harvest is gathered and the light and warmth drain away; the dead are honored at First Long Night as the dark begins to win.
First Long Night — Harvestfall 15 (the autumn equinox): graves cleaned, silver dust scattered to appease the hungry gaki, last rites performed, then hot food, shared fires, and the three contests.
Winter — Frostwane, Snowveil, Deepchill — The Dreaded Season.
The cold everyone quietly fears, and the storms have only worsened of late.
The Quiet Relighting — Frostwane 1: Akanegumo's remembrance of the Severing; at dusk each household extinguishes and relights its lanterns twice, once for the empire that left, once for the neighbors who stayed.
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