The Enayran Calendar is a complicated beast.

While months and days are calculated very much the same across all the many nations and peoples of the continent, the counting of years and the names of ages are different.

For example, the current age of the world is known as the Age of Ruin. The current year, as of Dragonkin, is commonly known as 1034 Ruin.

This is the standard in four of the six nations in Enayra.

However, in Altimara, the Age of Ruin is known as the Age of Prosperity. So the year would be 1034 Prosperity.

Similarly, in the Duchy of Utova, the modest city-state located in the frozen lands of Anglum, this age is known as the Age of Freedom, and the current year is 152 Freedom. Utova began a new age in their society when the House of Vigothren, formerly Dukes of Kisara, led a revolt against the Altimaran Crown.

Though their revolt was unsuccessful, the leader of the rebellion, Duchess Vissara Vigothren, escaped capture and led her loyalists into the frozen heart of Anglum, establishing a city on the shores of the frozen Lake Erna. Since then, the Utovans have count the years since the founding of their new home, and named the new age for their newfound freedom.

The smaller nations, city-states and tribes of Enayra have similar divergences for the counting of years and eras.

The Qiri’ar count the years since their foundation as an independent peoples. It has been 2002 years since the foundation of the Qiri’ar Confederacy. They forgo the naming of eras to divide up their history. Therefore, the current Qiri’aran year is 2002.

For Xiar, they mark their calendars since the foundation of the city state. The city, being founded the same year as the Qiri’ar Confederacy by an off-shoot people, is also 2002 years old, and so the current Xiaran year is 2002.

As stated above, when it comes to days and months, there is little difference among the Enayran peoples.

All humans in Enayra have adopted the Draconic Lunar calendar. Their months are divided by the lunar cycles within the year, a year lasting 13 lunar cycles, or 13 months. 1 lunar cycle/month lasts 40 days. The weeks are divided into 5 days, with 8 weeks per month/lunar cycle. Each week corresponds with one of the 8 stages in the lunar phase.

A full Enayran year is 520 days, or 104 weeks, or 13 months.

Starting with the The New Moon, then into the Waxing Crescent, the First Quarter, the Waxing Gibbous, the Full Moon, the Waning Gibbous, the Third Quarter, then the Waning Crescent, and finally back to the New Moonth. The return to the new New Moon is the start of a new month.

The five days of the Enayra week are named as follows: Vindrdas, Thrundas, Villordas, Osendas, and Ygdas. No one quite knows the meaning or origins of these day names. The humans don’t recognize them as a part of the Ancient Common language, and the dragons recognize them only as an old, more ancient form of Draconic that has not been spoken since the oldest days of Enayra.

Even the Metallics and the Great Patriarchs and Matriarchs barely remember how to speak this dialect, though they still retain the accent.

The months, however, retain their modern Draconic names, even in Altimara.

The names are as follows, along with their Common translations:

• Vesthyr (First Moon; lit. Moon One)
• Nesthyr (Second Moon; lit. Moon Two)
• Thaethyr (Third Moon; lit. Moon Three)
• Unthyr (Fourth Moon; lit. Moon Four)
• Yaeythyr (Fifth Moon; lit. Moon Five)
• Igrthyr (Sixth Moon; lit. Moon Six)
• Authyr (Seventh Moon; lit. Moon Seven)
• Venthyr (Eighth Moon; lit. Moon Eight)
• Jguthyr (Ninth Moon; lit. Moon Nine)
• Zjethyr (Tenth Moon; lit. Moon Ten)
• Zjevesthyr (Eleventh Moon; lit. Moon Eleven)
• Zjenesthyr (Twelfth Moon; lit. Moon Twelve)
• Zjethaethyr (Thirteen Moon; lit. Moon Thirteen)

In a typical Enayran year, there are four recognizable seasons. Spring, Summer, Fall, and Fall. While each season lasts on average 3 months, Summer lasts for an extra month, at 4. The start of an Enayran year tends to align with the first lunar cycle of spring.