Calendar System Lore Dump

So, I’ve spent an obscene amount of time creating the calendar system for my world. I’ve had a lot of fun with it. Without giving too much away, there is even deeper lore within this calendar system that I will not clue you into. However, I will happily explain the basic creation of my system.

Months	Meaning	Days of the Week
Lumwian	Yellow Dwarf Sun & Full Moon	Lumwianday
Lumnis	Yellow Dwarf Ignites/Flashes	Luminisday
Lumincan	Sun begins to shrink, its mass begins to condense	Lumincanday
Luthin	Red Giant Phase, is more luminous in this stage	Luthinday
Lumweit	Experiences Thermal Pulses & Mass Loss	Lumweiday
Lumionen	Becomes a Planetary Nebula, Begins to Cool	Lumioday
Luderalus	Turns to a White Dwarf and fades to black	Ludernox
Deralus	New Moon	Deralinox
Derna	Waning Moon	Dernanox
Deroxan	Waxing Moon	Deroxianox

The first 7 months of the year are named after the stages of a suns death starting at the Yellow Dwarf, which is what our sun currently is, and ending in a White Dwarf or dead sun.

I had a fun time learning about etymology with this creation. Taking some of the key words from the stages of a suns death, I looked at the etymology of those words, then added them to some pre-existing world concepts to create new calendar names.

I am not a linguist, nor am I anywhere near the talent and expertise of someone like Tolkien as far as language creation goes. But he does absolutely inspire me. My story won’t have full blown languages but there is world specific language/lingo sprinkled throughout.

Below is a picture of my brainstorming for this calendar system.

Yes I 100% spent hours learning about the death of a sun. Kind of morbid but absolutely worth every miniscule second of my inconsequential existence. (Nihilism anyone?)

Calendar Events

So, once I got my calendar basics down, I proceeded to spend a substantial amount of time aligning the moons and lunar solar events. Everything I’ve added to this has a deeper meaning. Did it need to? Maybe not. But it is my creation and I am going to go hard, simply because I want to. I want layers. I want depth. I want complete escapism.

Oh, and you guessed it, you’re not going to get all of the lore in this either. But I’ll give you some breadcrumbs.

Date	Solar Event	Moon Phase
Lumnis 1st	Summer Solstice, Month of Complete Daylight	All 3 moons full
Luthin 18th	Atumnal Equinox	Moons HALF Full, about to start waning
Lumweit 26th	N/A	Waning Moon begins
Luderalus 1st	Winter Solstice, Month of complete Darkness	All 3 Moons New
Deralus 10th	N/A	Waxing Moon Begins
Derna 18th	Vernal Equinox	Moons HALF Full, about to start waxing
Deroxan 26th	N/A	Waxing Moon Begins

Each year has 330 days, each month is 33 days. There are 3 moons, with 330 day cycles and a 198 day shift.

Some of that will be meaningless to some of you, or most of you. That’s okay, it’s my insanity. My tedious, trial and error, mathematic equations that AREN’T EVEN REAL.

I about ripped my hair out with this part of the creation. But I finally got it exactly how I wanted it (Mostly.)

Well that’s most of it, I think…
Chances are, I will find something about this system I decide to tweak. If I do, I will try to update this post.

Thanks for reading ❤
-K.M.

Special Thanks to Donjon Fantasy Calendar Generator

I relied on them heavily to create this system. They offer a ton of other things on their website so if you’re interested you should absolutely check them out.

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