Faerie Calendar

Although maintained by the elves, the faerie calendar is clearly influenced by the faeries, who haven't the discipline to maintain it over time.

The faerie calendar is based on 118-month cycles. Each cycle is made up of seven years:

  • a short Jubilee Year (also known as a Leap Year because its shortness is designed to resync the lunar and solar calendars) consisting of two months
  • two Epsilar Years (each approximately one solar year) consisting of eight months
  • two Bipsular Years (each approximately two solar years) consisting of 18 months
  • two Quepslar Years (each approximately four solar years) consisting of 32 months

There are 42 days in each month which makes 6 seven-day weeks or three 14-day fortnights:

  • Prids - the first 14 days of the month, always starts on the day the primary moon is full (which is why the first day of the week is always called "Moonday")
  • Ides - the second fortnight, always has a new moon on its second (or middle) Moonday
  • Stodes - the third and final fortnight of the month, always ends the day before the full moon

An "age" is 118 Cycles or 1,652 solar years.

Dates are given as "the 35th of Solember, Year 4 of the 43rd Cycle, Third Age."

The only time both moons are full on the same day as the winter solstice is Moonday, the 1st day of the first month of the second year of each cycle (considered by most astrologers as the most propitious day on which to be born).

Note that some faeries consider Morfano (the last month of each year) as being part of both the year they are in and the previous year, but elves discourage this.

Morfano is the only month which occurs in every year. The month immediately after it is usually called "Calendria." And the month immediately before it is usually called "Calendros." The exception to this rule is the first month of the Jubilee Year, which is both before the Morfano from its own year and after the Morfano from the previous year (from the previous year). For this reason it is called "Calens."

See also Calendars and Holidays.

— Scotus - 20 Jan 2001