Earthly Paradise Calendar

History
The Calendar of Earthly Paradise was begun when the first humans landed on the eastern shore of the continent Sil'rae'iisha (elven for Motherland) from the Sea of Ganthl'drek (dwarven for Hearth Quencher). For the humans, at least, it was a true paradise, a utopia of magic and fantastic races of beings. The dwarves marked it as a bad omen, and the elves marked it as the beginning of the end. The halflings tried to pretend nothing had happened. Paradise was filled with scuffles for many long years, as the new humans severed ties with those across the ocean and formed into city-states in the less occupied regions to the west of the elven lands, contending with kobolds, orcs, and more fearsome races for space and inevitably winning. The halflings began to feel uncomfortable as the eventual empire of Gaas began to encroach on their northern borders, but fortunately Gaas managed to fall eventually and the humans receded.

Calendar Structure // Display the Calendar
The calendar itself is composed of months according to the single moon of Atris, the silvery moon Ish'tra (in elven, anyway). Ish'tra orbits Atris once every 26 days, and Atris takes about 344 days to orbit the sun. In the first four years, there are 13 months with 26 days (divided into two phases of 13 days, each named after one of the 13 months): Dovad, Fiersil, Galdar, Hevrad, Mordal, Lirdal, Novram, Jorvak, Kaltil, Biilta, Segdala, Rithmos, and Ponfas. These years have 338 days. By every fifth year, 24 days have accumulated against Atris' normal orbit, so another 26 day month is brought in: Liis. These years have 364 days and are called Ish'tra-fiir (Moonglow) year. This pattern of years continues until the 65th year, when 26 too many days have accumulated. In this year, which is called Fiir-haas (Glow-lacking) year, Liis is skipped (338 days again), and then the pattern returns to normal.

Example of a Written Date: Galdar, Second Phase, Galdar, 124 E.P. (Day, 1st or 2nd Phase, Month, Year.)

Sound complicated? There's a reason Earthly Paradise is no longer used as a calendar. As a final note, these names of months/days and years are adapted from New Morviilian. The newly arrived humans adopted the moon's elven name Ish'tra over their own word Goldamma as the growing fascination with elves ran rampant through their culture. An amazingly scant amount of literature exists from New Morviilian's brief stay on Sil'rae'iisha, so few scholars deem it necessary to learn the language as most of Morviilian is spoken on a far continent. Ancient Gaasian is a hodgepodge of elven, dwarven, New Morviilian, and a smattering of halfing and orcish, built on the framework of New Morviilian's structure.