Calendar of Ilbarych

Organization

Each of the seasons is thematically associated with one of the original Imperial Lands.
- Winter: The Wolf Moons
- Spring: The Bear Moons
- Summer: The Lion Moons
- Autumn: The Eagle Moons
There are three Moons per season, with the new year marked by the first Wolf Moon of winter.

The moons hold to 28 day cycles, divided into four luminations.
- The Flourishing Lumination of a moon is when it is waxing in light.
- The Splendid Lumination of a moon is when it achieves fullness during the central three days of that lumination.
- The Withering Lumination of a moon is when it is waning in light.
- The Dead Lumination of a moon is when it fades entirely from the sky during the central three days of that lumination.
- A common use term, "week," has evolved out of the wrightfolk designation for a similar unit of time, the wiek. At this point, it is considered an acceptable term to use in conversation, but not in proper scholarship or written records.
Each of the twelve moons of a year has a traditional name.
Full Moon Festivals: The people of the Old Empire and of the Crownhold celebrate full moons in festivals. Of the three moons of a season, the middle moon is always a civic celebration of some kind, while the other two tend to be intended for the individual or household.

Dating is done by combining the day of the lumination + the moon of the season + the year.
- Thus, "The third day of the Withering Spring Moon of 412 CR" or "last year during the Splendid Autumn Moon."

The Frost Moon (Dec): Named for the moon during which the frosts first touched the Wolf Lands of the Old Empire, the Frost Moon sees the true cooling of autumn into early winter.
The Winter Moon (Jan): Named for the moon at which winter achieves its height.
- Full Moon Festival: The Winter Moon celebration is a festival of light against the darkest part of the year. In most domains, it is celebrated by a procession of the people who have left their homes after extinguishing all flames there. Each family bears a winter-lantern (usually just a plain lantern that is engraved or decorated with symbols of winter, although some nobles have made very extravagant and expensive lanterns) to a feasting place. There, the people feast in a circle of light, made by the lanterns placed at the edges of the gathering area. Traditionally, as the lanterns gutter out, using up the last of their oil, it is refilled with an oil donated by the local nobility for that purpose, and then not lit again until it is time for that family to leave. They then return home with the lantern, and light all their household fires from it again.
The Death Moon (Feb): Named for the bitterest depths of the year, when winter has gone on long enough that the unwise or the unwell were likely to be claimed by the cold.