The Calendar

The year runs 365 days across four seasons and twelve months of thirty days, closed out by a five-day New Year's Holiday that belongs to no month. Every in-game date the table has used — the 27th of Midspring, the 30th of Spring's End, the 22nd of New Summer — sits on this frame.

The months, in order

Each season is three months: an opening month, a Mid- month, and an -'s End month. Spring and Winter open under their own bare names; Summer and Fall open as Newsummer and Newfall. Twelve thirty-day months make 360; the five-day New Year's Holiday carries the year to 365 and rolls it over.

Reading the campaign's dates

The frame confirms the sequence the sessions have been running on: the party crossed on the Crown's Wake in Midspring 1396, landed at Fort Foothold and rolled out for Ankley on the 27th of Midspring, spent the whole Gwyndinas-and-Ponterford arc through Spring's End — reaching its literal last day, "the 30th, summer begins the next morning" — and is currently deep under the Middle Tor on the 22nd of Newsummer, 4E 1396. Thirty-day months and the Midspring → Spring's End → Newsummer order are both borne out exactly.

The 17th of Midsummer 1395 — the launch date of the Crown's Wake — falls a little under a year before the party sailed on her.

Midsummer also anchors Dinky Henge: its westernmost pair of stones align on the midsummer sunset, making the henge a calendar instrument as much as a monument.

A note on spelling

The vault's session notes render two months slightly differently from the archive: "mid-spring" / "Midspring" for canonical Midspring, and "New Summer" (two words) for canonical Newsummer. Both are cosmetic; the sequence, the day-counts and every other month name match. Worth knowing that Spring and Spring's End are two separate months, so a date written "the 14th of Spring" is not automatically shorthand for "the 14th of Spring's End" — that ambiguity is tracked in the vault's discrepancy log.