Calendar

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The Zokthran year consists of ten months of thirty days each. That means that there are three hundred days in the year. The magic of Asriphil fluctuates slowly over the course of the year, increasing gradually until it spikes at certain days (usually the anniversaries of important theological or historical events)and then falls again.

Spring:

Peldrin:

• 1st: New Year’s Day, First day of spring. Begins the Festival of Tyani in most good-aligned lands. Celebrated by large amounts of drinking, praying, donation to the temples of good deities (especially Tyani) and general merriment, lasting until the 12th.
• 7th: Sowing Day: Spells from the Fertility, Plant, and Protection domains are maximized. The people celebrate by planting their crops and hoping, and throwing large feasts.
• 12th: Last day of Festival of Tyani. All spells from the good, healing, and strength domains are maximized from sunrise to sunset.
• 19th: Day of the Heiron: Pallonian holiday celebrating the birth of their ruler. Clerics of Gulzek and Kralthos dur Heiron give out free spells (non XP cost spells only, and no freakishly expensive material components) at their temples in celebration, and all businesses are closed.

Byintal:

• 1st: Day of the First Thunder: All spells with the Chaotic descriptor are heightened. Spells which access any chaotically-aligned planar location have their casting time halved. The high clerics of Uraine and Monsos separate until mid-Autumn.
• 3rd: Elections held in Nere for local governance positions.
• 4th: Foundation Day in Zurthus.
• 9th: Anniversary of the Arrival: Pallon celebrates the end of the Expulsion.
• 15th: Prank Day in Urthos. Practical jokes are performed all across the country, and just about any crime save treason, murder, rape, or torture will be forgiven by the courts after you’re held for a few days. In fact, the royal guard occasionally arrests people as a joke, and the king once declared war on Pallon for the day. Pranks start about three weeks before Prank Day, and the setup for a good one sometimes takes over a month.
• 30th: Last day of spring.

Summer:

Lutok:

• 1st: First day of summer
• 13th: Spells from the Knowledge, Magic, and Trickery domains are maximized.
• 17th: Challenges by Mage-duel are allowed to be given to members of the High Anistian Council on this day only.
• 21st:

Veyrni:

• 15th: Midsummer. Taxes due in Pallon.
• 22nd: Celebration of the Founding of the Twin Nations on the Western Continent.

Rikth:

• 2nd: Taxes due in Zurthus
• 24th: Glittereve:
• 19th: Taxes collected in Urthos.
• 30th: Last day of summer. All goblins in Dakzan plug their ears at sunset.

Autumn:

Shagato:

• 1st: First day of Autumn, anniversary of the Rape of Tyani. Spells from the Greed and Thirst domains are heightened. Goblins unplug their ears at sunrise.
• 19th: Taxes collected in Dronos and Dinasa.
• 26th~1st Heynthos: Mating season for a species of squid considered a delicacy, in Weldnig bay in Pallon. These squid are the meat staple for most of Northern Pallon for the autumn and thorugh early winter.
• 30th: Last Day of Thunder: Spells with the Lawful descriptor are heightened, and spells which access any lawfully aligned planar location have their casting time halved. The high clerics of Uraine and Monsos symbolically reenact their union, and must stay together until the first of Byintal or risk disaster.

Heynthos:

• 12th: The Burnt Elves celebrate the Night of the Kindling, the anniversary of the marriage of Anata and Gulzek.
• 30th: Last day of Autumn.

Winter:

Ormig:

• 1st: First day of winter.
• 3rd: Screegurakak: The inhabitants of the Southern Isles hold an archipelago-wide competition to test feats of strength, speed, skill, luck, and crocodile wrestling.
• 29th: Dawn of the Lidless Eye. Spells from the Chaos, Evil, War, and Strength domains are maximized from moonset to moonrise.

Liraistha:

• 2nd: “Jury duty” dates for the next year are set in Nere.
• 15th: Midwinter’s Eve: Anniversary of Mozik’s death and Hirzek’s transformation. All spells with the Evil descriptor are heightened. Spells from the Death, Evil, and Cold domains are empowered. Spells which access any evilly aligned planar location have their casting time halved. Pallonian law enforcement agencies pay their members triple if they work on Midwinter’s Eve.
• 16th: Rin’s Birthday: Everyone and everything in existence may reroll one failed skill check, saving throw, attack roll, or slot machine.

Aldi:

• 5th: The Dark Tide: Shipping halts for about a week and heavy guard is placed on many coastal towns and cities, especially in northwestern Urthos. Sahuagin raid anyone they can find for sacrifices to Hskthrita, because they have a three-day bloodfest to celebrate starting on the 7th.
• 14th: Souls’ Day: Traditional dwarven holiday, believed to be the day on which Gern begins forging the souls that will be born during the following year. Spells from the Creation, and Craft domains are maximized from sunrise on the 14th to sunrise on the 15th.
• 14th: The Cactus Cult begins their annual migration to Medek.
• 30th: Last day of winter. Taxes collected in Urthos.