I was looking around, and i've added bits and bats together to make the Elunian calendar....i will figure how to link it to the Gregorian soon.
There are 169 days per month (months are called Asta)
8 Asta per year
1, 344 days per year (look at the math, it is wrong, but obviously the moon cycle is not perfectly even *shrugs*
The first day of the new Elunian Calendar is the sacrifice of nordrassil The new....thingy....like a period of eyars. You know, Tolkien had the age of stars etc...
anyway, that's called
Firima, means rebirth.
Day 1, Asta 1, Year 1 of Firima is the day Nordrassil was sacrificed.
WoW started December 1, 2004 which is
Day 120, 3rd Asta, Year 2 of FirimaSo, there's the easy bit........ 3146 days....from somewhere....
Anyway...now my own bits
If we are to take 1 day as 1 day, in and out of game..it is now 29/8. 271 days from that release date
. That means
day 53 of the 5th Asta. but if we do this, then a year won't be a year...hard to do isn't it?
so, ignoring leap years, 365 days / year need to be made into 1344 :S It's about 3.7 of their days to ours....
basically...this way could work, but we'd be dead before long
So, let's use gregorian, and simply rename the months?
The Age is Firima, there are 12 Asta per year, 365 days per year. Each Asta has different days, due to the moon's cycle. *shrugs*. Starting from the date previously set, December 1 2004, and using the date given, 4 years ago, as the end of FT....lets assume 5 years, 4 months...randomly. That means we are now on the
29th of the 4th Asta, year 5 of Firima. The first day of the year, which is April Fool's day to you all in gregorian, is a special holiday. Elune is more awake, her moons become powerful, the moonwells are replenished. A day of great celebration. I'll let our celebrations person get hold of that idea, and think of something.
I'd like Nishma to co-ordinate on this calendar, try figure where Lughnasad was, and we'll sort the rest out.
Month names-
Month1- (April) - Kal'Rima(Birth of the moon)
2- (May) - Farhal
3 - (June) - Sellistre
4 - (July) - Quel'Asta (High month, month of the sun)
5 - (August) - Mennare
6 - (September) - Yul'Baelo
7 - (October) - Bael'Asta (Month of the Guardian)
8 - (November) - Curuhen
9 - (December) - Norothil
10 - (January) - Xallvar
11 - (February) - Astrahe
12 - (March) - Yseralla (Month named after ysera, celebrating the dream etc..)
*wipes brow*...there.....tell me what you think