Calendar
A day is 24 hours, and at 1x a game hour passes in a real minute. You can run time paused, at 1x, 10x or 60x. While soldiers are fighting, time is held to 10x at most.
| Unit | Length |
|---|---|
| Week | 4 days, one orbit of Io |
| Season | 4 weeks, one orbit of Ma |
| Year | 4 seasons, 64 days |
The days of the week are Monday, Discday, Ringday and Sunday. The clock reads like “Discday, 6th of spring, year 10,412, 14:00”. A new game starts at 8:00 on Monday, 1st of spring, year 10,412.
Market and rest
Section titled “Market and rest”Discday is market day in the towns. More workers go to the square at the noon break, and villagers within 1.2 km of a town walk in to buy until 13:00.
Sunday is the rest day. The folk go to the temple in the morning and rest after, and more of them go to the alehouse in the evening.
Bells and curfew
Section titled “Bells and curfew”
Each temple rings at dawn, midday and dusk. Two hours after dusk it rings the curfew, which shuts the gates of walled towns and castles until the dawn bell. A village’s gates never shut. If you are outside after curfew, wait for dawn or pay the gatekeeper 1 silver (F) to open the gate for a quarter of an hour. A gate shut by an alarm stays shut, paid or not.
Feasts
Section titled “Feasts”The 9th day of each season is a feast, and nobody works.
| Season | Feast | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Spring | The Greening | Maypoles; the eclipse at noon; tournaments in the great towns |
| Summer | Midsummer | Bonfires from an hour before sunset |
| Autumn | Harvest Home | The harvest supper, the day after the reaping (1st to 8th of autumn) |
| Winter | The Goddess’s Night | The lords hold court; tournaments in the great towns |
On a feast the folk go to the temple in the morning and then gather on the green, or in the square in a town. For three days before the Goddess’s Night, lords’ armies march to their seats to hold court.
Every town holds a fair for one week a year, never in a feast’s week. Nearby towns hold theirs far apart. From two days before a fair until it ends, the town sends out more caravans, its villages send more carts, and caravans, minstrels and merchants head there more often. The town also wants more of the crafts’ goods, so they sell dearer until the merchants bring them. Stalls fill the square.
The almanac
Section titled “The almanac”The journal’s Almanac tab (J) lists this year’s feasts, tournaments, fairs and sky events, each with its day and how far off it is.