Stoneworks MC Wiki:Calendar

__INDEX__ A calendar is a system of organizing days. This is done by giving names to periods of time, typically days, weeks, months and years. A date is the designation of a single, specific day within such a system. A calendar is also a physical record (often paper) of such a system. A calendar can also mean a list of planned events, such as a court calendar or a partly or fully chronological list of documents.

There are several used systems of recording dates in the world of Stoneworks. In attempts to create a concise way of recording in-lore dates, several attempts at creating calendar systems have been made.

Jagdas Crisis Calendar
The first known universal calendar was the Jagdas Crisis Calendar. As its name suggests, it was initially used to measure the time between the Jagdas Crisis and all other events in Rathnir. While used to roughly ascribe past events in lore, it was not used to measure time since the start of Rathnir server-side. It uses the abbreviation BJC for 'Before Jagdas Crisis' and AJC for 'After Jagdas Crisis'. Many of the players who started using this calendar were themselves from Jagdas, and wrote much of the lore utilizing the BJC designations in the early days of Rathnir's opening.

Elder Calendar
The Elder Calendar is a collaboratively-created calendar, constructed by Stoney and a team of senior lore experts and writers from both Rathnir and Eldham. It is from these veteran writers that the term 'Elder Calendar' was created.

Officially implemented on April 6th 2022, or the summer of, it uses a series of eras marked with various abbreviated periods, and has four IRL days per year. The calendar starts with the winter of 0 SMP on September 25 2020.

Hybrid Versions
Some variants of the Elder Calendar hybridize it with the Jagdas Crisis Calendar. Instead of using SPP, SJP, SIP, and SMP, they may use BJC and AJC, or BJC and SMP. This is to avoid the use of more than two designations, which may be incorrectly interpreted or create confusion. This hybrid system adds an additional 400 years to the calendar, and is valued by some who prefer the world to have an older feel.

Geologic Time Scale
While not a true calendar, the Geologic Time Scale is of note due to its scale and almost universal use. Originally created by Dr. Tara Sauranis on August 2nd 2021 to designate geologic time periods, it uses names of locations in many lands, and the contents of rocks, to designate periods of deep time. It is used primarily by writers of geological, biological, and other scientific lore- especially within the Stoneworks Paleontological Society, but hardly ever outside the realm of academia.

Daelyrian Calendar
The Daelyrian Calendar is used by the peoples of the subcontinent of Helmia and the nation of Daelyria. It is based around the beginning of the first Daelyrian Kingdom, and uses the abbreviation AD for year designation after the founding of Daelyria and BD before the founding of Daelyria. It does not have a year 0AD. It originates from the Daelyrian and Draconist people, with the number of days in a week corresponding to the amounts of gods in the primary daelyrian pantheon. Prior to the officialization of the Elder Calendar it was counted proportional to the in game days(Roughly 5 irl days = 1 year). In this system Rathnir officially launched in the year 68BD. It traditionally features:


 * 14 days a week
 * 6 standard months, with with 4 weeks per month
 * one last special month has 29 days; 2 weeks and 1 special day, called Yel Yrianys. Every 4 years it lasts 2 days.

Soleannen Calendar
The Soleannen Calendar is a calendar used originally in the Soleannen faith, most notably in the Empire of Escharia. It marks the first year of its calendar with the founding of the city of Soleanna (or rather, its renaming as Soleanna, as the city was technically settled 58 years prior). It uses the BSC and ASC designations, and in it Rathnir officially launched in 1568 ASC. Years were measured for every IRL week prior to the Elder Calendar's officialization. It is rarely used today, even among the Soleannen community.

Twin Dragon Calendar
The Twin Dragon Calendar is the calendar used by the Grand Temple of the Twin Dragon faith, as well as the governments of the Aurlunor Velande, Dominion of Ashura and the Huitca Federation. It uses the designations BCA for 'Before Celestial Awakening' and ACA for 'After Celestial Awakening', with the Celestial Awakening itself being the event wherein Sareariel Lelya-Earcala was canonized as the Celestial Matron of the realm of Rathnir. The calendar recognizes a Year 0 (which is referred to as CA), as well as an occasional 32nd day of the month every millennium. It also may record an extra 33rd day every 10,000 years.

The calendar originally recognized one year for every IRL month, and gained wide traction even outside the Twin Dragon community due it being a well-known standard for pre-server start lore dates. However, after the Elder Calendar's officialization, it has slowly been falling out of widespread use, and some authors instead record four IRL days as one year similarly to the Elder Calendar.