How to create a calendar for your fantasy world
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- In this video you will get inspiration for the creation of an awesome fantasy calendar for your fantasy world.
You will also get some guidance on how to enrich your setting with events and holidays.
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That was interesting, and echoes many of my own thoughts on world-building. For my writing, I devised a world with a calendar of 13 months, each consisting of 28 days, for a 364-day year. It keeps things simple with consistent months each lasting four weeks. Each year starts at the end of a week-long festival that marks the winter solstice (the calendar was established when they were an agrarian civilisation, and the coming of longer days meant better conditions for crowing crops, so they'd have quite the celebration!). For the sake of simplicity (and to give readers a relatable frame of reference), days are precisely 24 hours long, with hours and minutes as per the real world. Even after thousands of years of technological development, they're still a highly symbolic race, and great importance is attached to dates and seasons.
I’m working on a calendar, so this helped a ton. Thanks!
Excellent 👍
I can use some of this. My setting is a tide-locked world, so some of this is flat out, but some of it I can still use.
This being another planet, they naturally wouldn't use seconds and minutes and such, but my main protagonists are from Earth, and they are telling the story to Earth people (us), so they *would* use hours and such.
Occasionally, a local unit can be used by the native population, or when speaking to or around them: the Queen tells her husband that she and the teenage boy will need the royal bedchamber for "about two kepo" with a note to the reader that this is "just over an hour." I don't need to explain that a kepo is thirty-four minutes, three and five-eighths seconds long (or whatever; I just made that up now). No, "two kepo" and "just over an hour" is enough.
The King can state that it has been "three days, Earth time" or "three Earthly days" since he was abducted by counter-revolutionaries. The sun should begin its slow, slow rise before another Earthly day is done.
But the weird day/night cycle (for those parts of the planet which *have* a day/night cycle) is a core part of the setting. It lasts nearly a week, and it just wouldn't be the same world if it was a neat, Earthly twenty-four hours.
I've started working on calendar at but I have a feeling I'm going to get back to it and rework it. All I have is pretty much each season is a month but I think I need to rework it because something is telling me I need to.
Is there a way to measure years without orbiting a planet, or harvest festivals?
My world doesn't have seasons, and it uses artificial light to replicate day/night, otherwise it's still an earthlike planet.