Calendar

The flow of years is counted with the seasons, marked with the passing of winters. The Imperial Calendar (Human Reckoning) breaks this up into three seasons of four months each (Spring, Autumn, and Winter), while the elven reckoning only counts Summering and Wintering. Some argue that the breaking of these two seasons into Summer's Waxing, Summer's Waning, Winter Waxing, and Winter Waning makes four seasons but the elven aversion to rigid form dismisses this and often treats Summer's Waning and Winter's Waxing as the same thing. They go so far as to refuse to record the season of a day until it has passed, making elven calendars useless for any kind of prediction and intensely frustrating to even the most studious historians. Thus farmers and sailors tend to rely exclusively on the Imperial Calendar.

Months are governed by the cycle of the Greater Moon, giving a consistent 30 day month. Weeks are roughly bound to the winking of the lesser moon but despite the fact that its cycle has drifted out to nearly nine days the calendar remains set at seven day weeks.

Spring	Autumn	Winter
Tilling	Watching	Seeding
Planting	Waiting	Dreaming
Watering	Harvesting	Burning
Weeding	Tasting	Thawing

The Imperial Calendar once had colorful and interesting names for the days of the week but after the breaking of the empire these were abandoned in favor of pragmatic naming.

Firstday

Second-day

Threeday

Fourday

Fiveday

Sixday

Holyday

The current date in Dorich is HR3108, 11th of Weeding, Fiveday.