Azyrite Calendar
The Azyrite Calendar, or Azyrite Calendar, or some variation of it is used in most of the territories and lands scattered across Sigmar's Empire and other lands that worship the God-King.[1a][4a]
Contents
Days and Weeks
The Azyrite Calendar uses a seven-day week, with every month having roughly thirty days. A day can be twenty-six to thirty hours, based on where a being is in the Mortal Realms and on the frequency of realmspheres of Hysh and Ulgu's ascents and descents in power.[1a][4a]
- Cometsday: First day of the week.[1a]
- Moonday: Second day of the week.[1a]
- Zenithus: Third day of the week.[1a]
- Sunwane: Fourth day of the week.[1a]
- Starsday: Fifth day of the week.[1a]
- Horizonday: Sixth day of the week.[1a]
- Voidsday: Seventh day of the week.[1a]
Months
There are twelve months, with each month having roughly around thirty days, in the Azyrheim calendar. Each new calendar year starts with the festival day known as Year's Beginning.[1a] Bards across the Mortal Realms refer to this ordering of time as the Dance of the Spheres.[4a]
- Coldbane: The first month of the Azyrite Calendar.[1a]
- Shiverblight: The second month of the Azyrite Calendar.[1a]
- Hope's Renewal: The third month of the Azyrite Calendar.[1a]
- Rainstay: The fourth month of the Azyrite Calendar.[1a]
- Highspright: The fifth month of the Azyrite Calendar.[1a]
- Azyr's Gleaming: The sixth month of the Azyrite Calendar.[1a]
- Meadowswell: The seventh month of the Azyrite Calendar.[1a]
- Golden Harvests: The eighth month of the Azyrite Calendar.[1a]
- Thresh: The ninth month of the Azyrite Calendar.[1a]
- Wyndscal: The tenth month of the Azyrite Calendar.[1a]
- Darkening: The eleventh month of the Azyrite Calendar.[1a]
- Evenswinter: The twelfth month of the Azyrite Calendar.[1a]
Years
Variations on Tracking Years
The methods by which years are tracked by the Azyrite Calendar diverge depending on its many variations:
In the Realm of Azyr some beings have been known to track time in fifteen year cycles known as indictions. For example Friaress Oltona Hieronymides's Of Myths and Monstyrs in the Mortal Realms was released in the fourteenth years of the Lightning Indiction of His Most Holy Reign.[5]
Another method, known to be used in official documents posted in the Realm of Ghur, uses the Breaking of the God-King's Tempest as a starting point for tracking years. For example Targug the Cleaver captured the Mauler in the Eleventh Decade after the Breaking of the God-King's Tempest.Template:7a
Holidays on the Calendar
- Gods-Mourning: The first day of Highspright is a festival in remembrance of the demise of Grimnir and Vulcatrix.[2a]
- Graftsday: An unpopular holiday, taking place in Evenswinter, dedicated to Grungni.[2a]
- Sigmarsday: Commemorates the day on which Sigmar's Tempest broke and is a festival day in many cities.[1a]
- Sigmarsday: Sigmarsday, which is treated as a festival day in the wealthier cities of the Realms, is celebrated sometime during the last week of every month.[1a][2a][4a]
- Writmark: A celebration in Brightspear taking place on the twelfth day of Hope's Renewal. It is a festival commemorating the day that Sigmar blessed the Golden Patriarch with a Celestine Writ, giving the Celestial Warbringers stewardship over the city that became known as Brightspear.[2a]
- Year's Beginning: A festival day of the first day of the year.[1a]
Other Calendars
Trivia
- Various sources disagree on the date upon which Sigmarsday occurs. With the Age of Sigmar: Core Book (3rd Edition) claiming it occurs on the last day of each month, the Age of Sigmar Roleplay: Soulbound claiming it occurs on the first day of the last week, and Soulbound Brightspear City Guide placing it on last Moonday of the month.
Sources
- 1: Age of Sigmar Roleplay: Soulbound
- 1a: The Great Parch, pg. 203
- 2: Soulbound Brightspear City Guide
- 2a: Chapter Two: Guide to Brightspear
- 3: Soulbound Fateful Night
- 4: Age of Sigmar: Core Book (3rd Edition)
- 4a: Azyr, the Realm of Heavens Pg. 130-131
- 5: Everqueen (short story)
- 6: Tarnished Silver
- 7: White Dwarf November 2022
- 7a: Flashpoint Rondhol: Brutish Momentum, Pg. 94-97