Drumheller's Lexicon

[Drumheller]

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Orcish Calendar

[Bard]

Calendar of the Black Eye Clan

Orcs of the Black Eye Clan and indeed many of the orcs of the north of Althanas as well, utilize a system of time keeping known as the Utenotkayn Calendar. The months of the Utenotkayn Calendar are as follows:

Month | Equivalent
�kúldág | January
Fátóftdág | February
Mársámýr | March
Sháudág | April
Blómdág | May
Zájárdág | June
Flákdág | July
Tándjándág | August
Drúsdág | September
�nándág | October
Snówdrús | November
Dáudág | December

The year is broken up into four seasons, with each consisting of three months, even though it starts snowing in some places in the north as early as Drúsdág, and in the furthest northern reaches periodic snowfall can be expected throughout the year. The season of spring consists of Mársámýr, Sháudág, and Blómdág; with summer consisting of Zájárdág, Flákdág, and Tándjándág; the fall season comprises the months of Drúsdág, �nándág, and Snówdrús; lastly, winter season consists of Dáudág, �kúldág, and Fátóftdág.

Each month consists of three equal blocks of time (a block of time being known under our major calendar system as a week), called “a stryde” or simply “stryde,” and the number reflects the exact block of time within the month. The first block, would be called first stryde, the second being second Stryde, and so on. Depending on the formality of the writer, or speaker greater emphasis can be added upon the number of the stryde, such as First Stryde, as opposed to casual conversation first Stryde. Thus, each month in the orcish calendar system, or the Utenotkayn Calendar, consists of exactly thirty days. Now, before one thinks that an Orcish year only consists of 360 days, the “Transfer Days” or “Tárjdú’Ã�jétté” must be mentioned.

There are a grand total of five Tárjdú’Ã�jétté, or days of transition, which belong to no month, no season, for they are between the months & the seasons. These days are: NÃ*ujásábtá, or the day between years, which is the day between the last day of the old year, and the first day of the new; Gódásábtá, or the day between fires, which is between Spring and Summer; Hnáiws’Balsábtá, or the failing of the fires, which is at the end of summer; and Fátóft’Ékkósábtá, or the day when the cold comes; and lastly Úkktáhsábtá, or when the snows melt. For those orcish tribes living in terrain where the snow doesn’t melt, this day is celebrated at the end of Fátóftdág. This is a day of much celebration, and no raids are conducted on this day. Many tribes hold beastball permanents between clans on this day.

Days of a Stryde

The days of the Stryde, which are synonymous to the days of a week, only in sets of ten, are as follows:

Name | Day
Frúméilá | First day of the Ten
�náréilá |Second day in a ten
Déynáktéilá | Third day in a Ten
RÃ*djéilá | Fourth day in a Ten
Kráktéilá | Fifth day in a Ten
Sátúgéilá | Sixth day in a Ten
�kkáyéilá | Seventh day in a Ten
Lótkéilá | eighth day in a Ten
Záhéilá | ninth day in a Ten
Bágéilá Ã* | Tenth day in a ten

It should be noted that while a full Stryde consists of all ten days, naturally when a Stryde begins varies.