New Dawn - Time and Dates

The Ulrisin Empire, even post-civil war, moves on a calendar based on the Lunar Cycle. Every new moon is the start of a new cycle, and every full moon is mid-cycle. For clarity, months are referred to as cycles.

There are 12 cycles in a year, three cycles per season, 30 days per cycle, 6 days per week, and 5 weeks per cycle.

Note: In-game time is equivalent to 1 OOC day for every 2 IRP day. Though this is for official use and can be flexible per the player's preference. Aka if you and another player decide that actions your character is doing is directly the day after another event or action. Typically it wouldn't make sense for more than a week to pass between interactions depending on the OOC time spent away. In-Game events will be dated IRP using this calendar. DM's will decide when an official year has passed in character.

Cycles, Seasons, and Weekdays

While seasons in New Dawn are referred to by their normal names, Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, each Cycle, or month, has its own name. They are typically separated by season, with three cycles per season.

Spring - Sunmote, Greendawn, Drelt

Summer - Serensea, Luminara, Highsun

Autumn - Ember, Harvestia, Riem

Winter - Asthris, Sirocco, Calmist

The Summer and Winter Solstices are events in which the length of day changes. In the Summer the days are longer, in the Winter the days are shorter. These events are celebrated nationally, as are the Spring and Autumn Equinoxes. However, the latter has less of a noticeable change than the Solstices do.

Weekdays

There are 6 days in a week, all beginning (or ending, if that's how you choose to think of it), in a day meant for rest and care, typically used by the more religiously inclined to worship.

The weekdays are named as follows: Selynday (always falls on the first day of the month, relax and rest), Maladay (day of work, prepping for the week), Terasday (seeing your preparations through), Willowday(reaping the benefits of your work), Forday(Luck and celebration), and Ayunday(prepare for the next week, plan ahead).

Of course, every citizen used their time differently, but these were the traditions put forward for many, many years.

How to write dates

The format that the Empire used was [Cycle] the [Number Date], [Year]. For example, the Civil War started on Drelt the 11th, 1545. Another example is that the Summer Solstice begins on Serensea the 1st, as it is always the first day of Summer.