Calendar
The T'Noran calendar is divided into two perfect halves. Sol's Season is dominated by summer with spring and fall partly resting on its shoulders. Likewise, Geidi's Season is marked by winter also flanked in spring and fall. Each is twelve weeks of twelve days. And each is separated from the other by Spring and Autumnal Processions; each a period of six days during which one sun recedes further into the universe and the other claims dominance of the sky. Together these periods comprise a three hundred day calendar year.
Days of the Week:
1. Tirdi 2. Esdi 3. Paldi 4. Avendi 5. Theldi 6. Vardi 7. Lucdi 8. Toldi 9. Veldi 10. Rathdi 11. Kuldi 12. Shuldi
Weeks of the Sun Seasons (precede each with Sol or Geid to indicate which Sun Season):
1. Tirmae 2. Esmae 3. Palmae 4. Avenmae 5. Thelmae 6. Varmae 7. Lucmae 8. Tolmae 9. Velmae 10. Rathmae 11. Kulmae 12. Shulmae
The two short weeks are known as the Spring and Autumnal Processions whose meager six days each are called only by number (e.g. the Fifth of Spring).
Important Calendar Days:
Hearthday - Tirdi of Geidlucmae - The coldest night of winter when Sol is perfectly eclipsed by Geidi. This is a night of ill-omen. Most folks gather their families by a warm hearth and bar the doors from sunsup to the following sunsup. The first day of history is commonly held to be a Hearthday over 7600 years ago, for no older records exist.
Scorchday - Tirdi of Sollucmae - Also called The Glowering Suns and Day of the Burning Eye, it is the most ominous day of the T'Noran year. The perfect alignment of Sol eclipsing Geidi acts as a lens for the larger sun's light. With Sol at its perihelion baking the earth and Geidi's wrath focused like a child's magnifying glass on ants, temperatures soar. On a good year, heavy cloud cover mitigates the full brunt of the onslaught of light, but droughts, forest fires and death are common. On Scorchday people hide indoors, underground or at shaded waterholes. Farmers know to cover their crops with wet burlap on this day. And to the south one can sometimes see a pillar of blinding light miles wide slowly moving with the suns, smoke billowing in its wake.
Planting Day - First of Spring
Reap Day - First of Autumn
Old Soul's Day - Shuldi of Geidshulmae - A festival day during which some believe the souls of the dead can manifest in this world. Wearing masks and impersonating departed loved ones, the people of the Vale bring the dead to life for just one night.