The common Calendar of measuring time in Aelyria is also known as the Kalendryas System, or alternatively, Kalendryan System, named after the Planetar of Time, Kalendryas. The system, whose stewards the Society of Kalendryas maintain was created "before time was time", organizes time on the basis of the movement of celestial bodies; namely, a single rotation of the planet Telath upon its axis marks a full day (called a "brightening"), and a complete revolution around one of the suns marks a full year (called an "era"). When all suns (usually three, but presently two) are circumrevolved, it marks the completion of an entire celestial sequence (called a "pattern").

 

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1Basics 1.1The Day 1.2The Week 1.3The Month 1.4The Year 1.5Reigns 1.6Timekeeping 1.7Ageing and Ordinations

Basics

The Day

Aelyrian Candlemarks

The day in Aelyria is divided into hours. There are twenty-nine (29) hours in a single day (or "brightening") in Aelyria, with fourteen of those immersed in sunshine and the rest are shrouded in some semblance of night (or "darkening").

The Week

Ten brightenings create a cycle, or a week. The ten brightenings of the cycle are as follows:

• Solaria
• Dianara
• Ioannolia
• Carmelyana
• Aslanica
• Thera
• Srennia
• Orodisia
• Kuras
• Lunaria

The Month

Five cycles create one month. There are ten months (and thus, fifty cycles, or five hundred days) in each year. The months are as follows, from beginning of the year to the end:

• Ponutis
• Melora
• Cryxatum
• Aperitus
• Optia
• Ioannes
• Imperos
• Junctior
• Kalendryas
• Immanis

The Year

The term for an Aelyrian year is an Era. Weather patterns differ according to the era in which the world spins. The completion of all eras around each of the active suns (usually three eras, but presently, just the first two eras) is called a "Pattern". Denizens of the World of Telath experience one physical year of aging every complete Era.

Era I:

• Winter: Kalendryas, Immanis, Ponutis, Melora
• Spring: Cryxatum, Aperitus, Optia
• Summer: Ioannes, Imperos
• Autumn: Junctior

Era II:

• Winter: Kalendryas
• Spring: Immanis, Ponutis, Melora
• Summer Cryxatum, Aperitus, Optia, Ioannes
• Autumn: Imperos, Junctior

Reigns

Aelyrian time is kept according to the reign of monarchs. For example, "the fourth brightening in the Twelfth Cycle of Cryxatum, of the Third Era (II) in the Reign of Alyssa Chrysinaria" would imply that the date is given in the third year of Empress Alyssa Chrysinaria's reign, corresponding with an Era of the second magnitude. Occasionally, the cycle mentioned is actually the numerical cycle of the Era, not necessarily the month, despite its implication ("Twelfth Cycle of Cryxatum"), given that each month only has ten cycles. It is usually customary to provide a short-hand account of the year, allowing astrologers to later calculate the specific era (for example, "Third Year in the Regency of Milo L'Evienne").

Timekeeping

An overly-eccentric group of stargazers and skywatchers, calling themselves the Kalendryans, or the Society of Kalendryas, are tasked with the duty of maintaining time records throughout the year, mentioning important holidays and pronouncing new ones as they might seek. The Solarians, an inner circle of the society, develops devices intended to measure the daily progression of the suns; these Solaria, or sun-dials, when exposed to the rays of sunlight cast a shadow upon their faces that identify the approximate time of day. Each day has twenty nine hours, divided into fourteen hours of sunshine and fifteen hours of dusk, twilight, and dawn. A common phenomenon, especially for subject-races of the empire that live below ground, is that they have developed their own time-keeping devices since they have no clue what time it could possibly be outside of their subterranean worlds.

Ageing and Ordinations

Age isn't calculated in Patterns or Eras, but in Ordinations. The reason for this is because one Ordination used to be equal to one Pattern. When one of the suns disappeared this changed however. One Pattern which formerly consisted out of three Eras now only holds two Eras. Ageing too changed and people are getting older at one Ordination per Era these days.

In short, age is calculated in Ordinations and people are now ageing at a rate of one Ordination per Era.