Ashrak/Ashrak Calendar

Ashrak Calendar

The Ashrak calendar was originally developed by the peasantry as a way to manage their harvests more thoroughly. Having specific designations of time allows them to discuss and plan for the future more easily. They could now, for example, organize and gather food for a festival in the Prim of Spring back in the Par of Autumn a year prior if they needed to.

This calendar was learned by Count Bowie Ironsides and then proclaimed to the academic nobility of Dwilight. In addition to harvest planning, he believes it could be used for taxes and trade, and more importantly for military and diplomatic policies. He also desires to employ the calendar in his historical work alongside the use of the Dwilight Calendar.

The Calendar:

It is widely known that one year occurs when the Som completes a rotation around BattleMasterra. It is also fact that the seasons change due to the revolution of the planet’s moon, known as the Mon by the Ashrakites. The Ashrakites, therefore, record the change of week based on the position of the Mon within each season. There are four spheres, or zones, to which the Mon may initiate in its journey across the sky. Each initiation on the horizon indicates to them how near they are to the next season. When the Mon begins to rise in their horizon within one zone they note how far it is from the pole of the other zone.

The Ashrakites have named each week as the following. Just as one year is comprised of four seasons, all seasons are comprised of these four weeks. The language is from the dialect originating in the capital village of Ashrak in the north.

1. Prim

2. Pom

3. Pourd

4. Par

Furthermore, the Ashrakites have even observed that there are eighty-four days in one year and twenty-one days to a season. Each day is divided into two times according to the source of light. The first is the Somtime the second is the Montime. Moreover, they recognize each of the above weeks to have five days, except for Pourd which has six. The reason for this is because the butcher's son's dog ate two murnor seeds and sneezed on the cloth the diviners used to record the calendar days. The days of the week are named in the southeastern tongue of Ashrak, a dialect often considered ridiculous or absurd to the ear of we nobles.

Their days of the week are:

1. Ples

2. Dond

3. Kyk

4. Mye

5. Dohg

6. Syr (Pourd only)

The memory key for the Ashrak days of the week (for nobles not fluent in their language) is "Please don't kick my dog, sir." In this way the nobility can remember the order of the days of the week; where Syr only pertains to Pourd.

From all of this, an astute mind can say with precision the exact day and time an event occurred. For example, this parchment was written during the Montime of Ples in the Par of Summer in 17 YD. That is, the evening of the first day in the last week of the first season of the year.