Traditional Zerithian Calendar

Before the founding of the Zerithian Empire, Zerithians used a calendar based on the Wheel of Portents, a cycle of years assigned mystical significance. Prior to the founding of the Empire, the calendar was enhanced to break each year into four seasons, and each season into halves (Early and Late, each 45 days long). Within each half-season, the days were numbered, and cycles of the Wheel were counted from the official founding of the Ancient and Faithful Church of the Children of Creation (the Empire was founded in year 485 of this calendar). So, dates would be expressed as “day of half-season, year, cycle.” Periodically, days would be inserted into a half-season to correct the drift due to the calendar year being shorter than the tropical year.

The years in the cycle are:


 * 1) Boar
 * 2) Eagle
 * 3) Dragon
 * 4) Horse
 * 5) Griffin
 * 6) Stag
 * 7) Bear
 * 8) Snake
 * 9) Goat
 * 10) Wolf
 * Ox
 * 1) Roc
 * 2) Panther
 * 3) Falcon
 * 4) Dryad