The Calendar Systems of the Obereik
Before the founding of the Obereik empire, the peoples of the land had no way to decipher how many centuries their ancestry lived upon the soil. Years were counted relative to significant events or according to the age of significant people. One tribe might have said it was the 12th year of Grimwalda's reikship, while another tribe could have said it was the 35th year since the Battle-By-The-Tomb.
This all changed with the coming of one woman: Sigeswintha the Great. A woman that certainly earned her title, one of the many accomplishments of the illustrious founder of the Obereik was to invent and enforce a standardized calendar system. It detailed days, weeks, months, and years.
However, Sigeswintha's calendar had no foresight of the extra quarter-day every year, and so her successors invented the Lalen Calendar, which added a Leap Year's Day every 4 years.
The Sigeswinthan Calendar
The Sigeswinthan Calendar (named after Empress-founder Sigeswintha the Great), also known as the Old Style Calendar, due to its outdated design that lacks accountability for leap years, is an obsolete albeit formerly-widespread calendar system used in the Obereik circa the Lalen years of 790 to 1436.
The Old Style Calendar has 13 months in a year, 52 weeks and 1 day in a year, or 365 days in a year. Each month consists of 4 weeks or 28 days, while each week consists of 7 days. There is 1 extra day, independent of any months or weeks, every year called New Year's Day.
Months are named Month 1, Month 2, etc., and weeks likewise as Week 1 of Month X, Week 2 of Month X, etc. Only New Year's Day and the days of the week have names. From first to seventh, the days of the week are: Sonntag (archaic Sunnatag), Montag (archaic Manedag), Gottestag (archaic Godesdag), Frauday (archaic Frouwesdag), Rittertag (archaic Ridderdag), Muttertag (archaic Muoterdag), Vatertag (archaic Faterdag).
Lastly, Year 1 was set according to the ascendance of Sigeswintha the Great to her reikship, coinciding with the Lalen year of 774.
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1st day of the year = New Year's Day,424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTj9QW0TkF5
2nd day of the year = Sonntag of Week 1 of Month 1 or Day 1 of Month 1,424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrZc4AWsGzz
... 365th day of the year = Vatertag of Week 4 of Month 13 or Day 28 of Month 13.)
The Old Style Calendar was but one of Sigeswintha the Great's many achievements. It was a crucial first step in the standardization of industry within the Obereik, leading to early schedule-based supply routes and the industrialization of exile-cantons and slave camps that would fuel the brutal early imperialism of the Obereik, before it transitioned into vassalage and serfdom. Modern cities and shires are built around the remnants of those cantons, camps, and boroughs, resulting in clean, well-defined industrial quarters of major cities, efficient farmland of the hinterlands, straight, unimpeded highways following the empire's arteries, and artificial canals and aqueducts that bring water to even the most desolate of communities.
The Lalen Calendar
The Lalen Calendar (named after the city of Laleburg) is the current calendar system of the Obereik empire and its subsidiaries, in use since the year 1436. It notably accounts for leap years, which its predecessor did not.
The Lalen Calendar shares all of its traits with the Sigeswinthan Calendar, save for Leap Year's Day now being placed after New Year's Day every 4 years, using the year 1436 as the base starting year.
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1st day of the year = New Year's Day,424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdnCsaUe1yC
2nd day of the year = Leap Year's Day,424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ94mFC48iMU
3rd day of the year = Sonntag of Week 1 of Month One or Day 1 of Month 1,424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbJWx3aiEL8
... 366th day of the year = Vatertag of Week 4 of Month 13 or Day 28 of Month 13.)
The Lalen Calendar was a collaborative effort between dozens of scholars and alumni from the University of Laleburg, as well as reference literature from other imperial universities, with efforts focused on understanding an apparent misplacement of time when comparing the 8th and 9th centuries to the 15th century according to the Old Style Calendar and historical records. The study of the lunar and solar cycles, as well as other scholarly pursuits across the many universities within the empire, were heavily subsidized by the late Empress Bristwalda the Conqueror, whose immense wealth from her great conquests greatly aided the invention of the Lalen Calendar. She made an imperial decreed legalizing it as the official calendar of the Obereik in the year 1436.424Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmIbhaLoNfO
