Orn uses the Arcadian Calender, named after the School of Magic who invented it. Each year is 365 days, divided into twelve months of thirty days each, in correspond to the real-world Gregorian calendar. Each month is divided into three tendays. Eight special holidays fall between the months and mark the seasons. Every four years, there is a celebration of Highharvestide much like the leap year in our Gregorian calendar. Every decade, The Feast of Blades is celebrated by multiple nations.
- Hammer: Month of Frost
- Alturiak: Month of the Goose
- Tarsakh: Month of the Ladybird
- Ches: Month of the Badger
- Mirtul: Month of the Stone
- Kythorn: Month of the Hearth
- Flamerule: Month of the King
- Eleasias: Month of the Snail
- Eleint: Month of the Leaf
- Marpenoth: Month of Thunder
- Uktar: Month of New Wine
- Nightal: Month of the Yeti
- Feast of New Birth (New Year)
- The Day of Dueling Dragons/The Day of Dragons
- The Festival of Colors (Springtime)
- Quadrennial Annual Holiday: Highharvestide
- Ghoul’s Night (Autumn)
- Decadal Holiday: The Feast of Blades (Midsummer)
- Deadwinter (Midwinter)
- Wintershield (Winter)
Annual Holiday: Feast of New Birth (New Year)
A celebration of the new year and being thankful for what the previous year brought and in eager expectation what the next year will bring.
Annual Holiday: The Day of Dueling Dragons (Midwinter)
The day of the dragon is a special celebration, once a year, paying respects to Serene Magpie the Wise, noble of the town, who could bended the will of an Ancient Blue Dragon, Ragog, to hers, and in turn made the dragon slay another Ancient Red Dragon. This legend has carried on into history, also known as the event, called The Day of Dueling Dragons. This event supposedly happened in the continent of Haven in the Ridge Mountains.
Annual Holiday: The Festival of Colors (Springtime)
A celebration of the changing of colorful seasons, in the time of Springtime and Autumn
Quadrennial Annual Holiday: Highharvestide (Midsummer)
Another big fantasy holiday. This is a massive harvest festival to celebrate the abundance of food, but it’s also when people wishing to travel would leave before winter sets in. Highharvestide is a more widespread holiday throughout the forgotten realms, and can feature a variety of activities, with activities like food-related contests; races and challenges of skill and strength; receiving homemade sweets from the local clergy; and priests blessing larders, wine cellars, grain bins, and food preserves. But it’s more than just a feast-day–which is why we have it here–it’s often when taxes and tithes came due, and rules would hold open courts to hear the concerns of their citizen, oaths were publicly sworn and renewed on this day, guilds would meet and set their rates, while soldiers get their new marching orders and duties.
Annual Holiday: Ghoul’s Day (Autumn)
What’s not to love about a festival called Ghoul’s Night? As you might expect, it’s a big masquerade night where people dress up in costume, pay tributes to Mask to appease those trickster gods and avoid their unwanted attention. It’s basically fantasy Halloween, complete with jack-o-lanterns. Tricks, pranks, and pickpockets abound–thieves take to the streets, illusionists and magicians wander around spooking people–and it’s the one night of the year where no one makes deals or signs contracts because, well, it’s Ghoul’s Night. This is the perfect time to have one of those upstairs/downstairs swap type celebrations, where a young urchin is king for a day and the king capers around dressed up as a jester and everyone goes about as normal the next day.
Decadal Annual Holiday: The Feast of Blades (Midsummer)
Annual Holiday: The Festival of Colors (Autumn)
A celebration of the changing of colorful seasons, in the time of Springtime and Autumn
Annual Holiday: Deadwinter (Midwinter)
Deadwinter Day marks the midpoint of winter. While the nobles and monarchs call it Midwinter, and use the day to make or renew alliances, the common folk call it Deadwinter because it’s dead in the middle of winter, and you might also be if the harvest wasn’t good this year. There are a number of festivals observed on Deadwinter that range from solemn ceremonies to festive fetes.
Annual Holiday: Wintershield (Winter)
This one’s a gimme, because it’s basically fantasy Christmas and New Year’s Day rolled into one. It’s an annual holiday that marks the start of the new year, celebrated with a day off work while people reminisce about the previous year and set expectations for the upcoming year. Celebrated with feasts where people share stories of events that transpired in the past year, while drinking warm ciders, and broths infused with “medicinal herbs” to get you high bring about visions, you can do a whole lot with this