The Imperial Calendar

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There are 0 weeks, 168 days, 7 months in a year in Animus Liber. However, time passes at an accelerated rate in these lands compared to our real-world equivalent. This can be broken down as such:

1 IRL Year = 52 In-Game Years | 1 In-Game Chronicle (or CR)
1 IRL Month = 4-5 In-Game Years | 1 In-Game Dominion
1 IRL Week = 1 In-Game Year 
1 IRL Day = 1/7th In-Game Year | 1 In-Game Month
1 IRL Hour = 1/24th In-Game Month | 1 In-Game Day

Thus, in-game there are:
24 days in a month
7 months in a year (168 Days)
4-5 years in a Dominion (672-840 Days) (30-31 Months)
12 Dominions in a Chronicle (8760 Days) (52 years)
There are no weeks in this world's calendar. 

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Introduction

For those wishing to account for their current times, often in the need of officiation of documents, the Imperial Registry has taken it upon themselves to enlighten this small portion of educated citizens in the proper methods. Failure to adhere to these standards will have no respect put upon their works, or possibly themselves. 

For reader's convenience, each unit of time will be broken down, starting from the largest.

Ages
The greatest measure of time are Ages, which are measured differently and demarcate global changes, and are added at the front of fully inclusive dating. There are 5 recognized ages, and are as such by the Imperial Registry:

1st Age: Age of Creation
2nd Age: Age of Scales
3rd Age: Age of Legend
4th Age: Age of Destiny
5th Age: Age of Darkness

Chronicles
Every 52 years constitutes a Chronicle, being created anew each Age. Thus, the first day of the 5th Age was called Chronicle 1, or CR1.

Dominion
These are groupings of Years convenient for the agrarian cultures of Volantis, and constitute either somewhere between 4 and 5 years of time.
[OOC: The Real-Life Counterparts are listed here, OOCly, for reference.]

January = Dawnstone
February = Hoarpall
March = Prime Seed
April = Stormharrow
May = Vernalfrond
June = Soluary
July = Luminary
August = Emberwyn
September = Somerset
October = Eye's Mirth
November = Eventide
December = Icewind

Years
There are 4-5 years in a Dominion, and years are typically used as operational cycles throughout the land.

Months
A common unit of time used for most plans and actions in the lands, there are 7 months in a year, and 30 or 31 months in a year.

Days
Though they are fleeting, Days are the basic unit of our time. There exists 24 days in a month.

Full inclusive dates (As created by the Sun Elven Unitary Solarate) are as such:
(Age) (Chronicle) (Dominion) (Year) (Month) (Day)
5th Age, CR1, Dawnstone, 240/7/24

In common shorthand (As simplified by the Empire of Man), dates are as such:
(Month) of (Dominion), (Chronicle)
21st of Eventide, CR1258

Notable Festivals and Holidays in the Realm

Night of Rising Lights
During the Dominion of Dawnstone
Heavily seen in the regions of Ōkamese influence, this tradition is often held in the form of a festival, where a celebration of the new year is held by setting a perfectly smooth stone within a roaring fire. The festival goers used to grab the searing hot stone from the fire themselves, but nowadays tongs are used and the stone quenched, symbolic of tempering one's desires lest their new resolutions be impulsive and forgotten.

Vigil of Fallen Heros
During the Dominion of Hoarpall
A celebration of the life and sacrifice of the noble heroes who laid down their lives during the Cataclysm of the 3rd Age: Age of Legend to fight off the scourge of Chaos. Some cultures use this opportunity to pay respect to fallen relatives as well, a remembrance of all who came before, shown frequently in the form of gifts or walking vigil processions, to imitate the mobilization of war.

Unification Day
During the Dominion of Prime Seed
This day of gathering marks the unification of many banners of man under the Empire. In a wonderful set of oaths and allegiances, the peoples of the Clans of Galen, the City-State of Culiacán and eventually the Ignomads of Joagundr united in the Fourth Age under one banner, one people. On this day of celebration people gather and give thanks for their dependence and reliance upon the warmth of the Empire.

Day of Wiles
During the Dominion of Stormharrow
On this day, a great commotion is incited, with bards and jesters the across the lands creating grand displays of buffoonery and art in an effort to shake off the winter wiles. Dancing and other absurdities commence with folks of all status and class, and sometimes entire dancing bands form spontaneously within cities and villages. This event has been the focus of many reforms, and outright banned many times before for inciting chaos in the lands. This event coincides with the last frost and beginning of the early planting season.

Flue's Day
During the Dominion of Vernalfrond
An exciting day where straw and wood mockeries of dragons and other draconian creatures are created and destroyed, to celebrate victory many centuries ago in the 2nd Age: Age of Scales. This is the oldest known celebration in the lands (Believed to be 2000+ years old), and is held by all. Children frequently wear horns (real or crafted) and run around villages roaring at adults for sport, who are expected to either play dead, or chase the children off. 

Sun's Day & Son's Day
During the Dominion of Soluary
On the longest day of the year, the Summer Solstice, the Cynosurian Faith's Overgod, Solarius, and his son Artex is celebrated in all of their radiant glory. Sun Elves focus their worship on Solarius, while mankind on Artex. To them are burnt offerings brought, to be deemed as pleasing and assuaging to their senses. Vows are renewed, faiths strengthened, and all windows opened to allow light into homes, with many of the rich wearing extravagant sun-themed attired such as gilded necklaces and pendants, or even headdresses of gold as fashionable praise to the Coruscated, and the reincarnated First Man.

Passion Day
During the Dominion of Luminary
Following a month after the celebrations of Sun's Day, Passion Day is in honor of Luminara, the Everburning, whom Solarius fought all of the Chaos Gods to make his Betrothed in the conclusion of the 2nd age, Age of Scales. Marriage vows are officiated or rededicated on this day, adolescent's romances and passions pursued, and those who have family gather to enjoy the comradery of fellowship. Alms are sometimes given to give relief to those who do not have, and honor given to those who give. 

Purity Day
During the Dominion of Emberwyn
A ritual held mostly publicly (sometimes privately) of where during the hottest Dominion of the Chronicle, mostly celebrated by Elves, where they rededicate their faith to the Solar Pantheon. In whatever official manner, whether by official town hall or upon an outdoor's stage, adherents to the Faith will publicly declare their allegiance to their Gods. This is the only foreign race's holiday (that hasn't been locally adopted like Dwarfsmas and Mer-Der's Eve) recognized by the Empire of Man. A variant of this holiday is celebrated by the Empire of Man upon the Dominion of Soluary and Luminary.

Garrowin's Gallup
During the Dominion of Somerset
This holiday is in celebration of the legendary Monster Hunter Garrowin, who tamed the feral lands in ages of yore for the safety of the Empire's expansion. Today it coincides with the harvesting of crops this time of year, with Hunters upon steeds and mounts of various sizes competing in both number and size of game and/or monsters slain and brought back to their village in both sport and survival.

Mer-der's Eve
During the Dominion of Eye's Mirth
A light mockery of the Conclave, this holiday is one of spooky sensations and tricks in demand of treats, where many costumes of grotesque and imposing design are constructed to lightly terrorize towns and villages in roving bands of troublemakers. 

Elfsgiving
During the Dominion of Eventide
In recognition of the once-aid the Sun Elves had given the Empire of Man many centuries ago in the form of enlightenment of the Solar Pantheon, some Imperials deigned to prepare great feasts to elves of all types, which soon evolved into a pure giving of thanks for all.

Dwünsmas
During the Dominion of Icewind
A holiday with sour roots best lightly mentioned, this is an aptly named giving of gifts forcibly started upon the Underkingdom of Khazgarim. Wise Dwarves of the Austral South were demanded by the Empire to bring gifts to their king, to be symbolic of the Dwarves not being controlled by their greed. The Dwarves eventually turned this into an event where they would get gifts themselves as well, leading to what is now know as Dwünsmas. All races often participate, despite the name, and gifts flow from all cultures. It is custom to leave a small cookie in the shape of a sun within a gift's packaging. 

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Conversion example:
IRL: Day/Month/Year
In-Game: Month/Dominion/Year

Thus, if it was the 18th of June IRL, the in-game date would be the 18th of Soluary, 5-25
18th being the the Month, Soluary being the Dominion, and 5-25 being the age-year

Here is a handy converter for IRL date to In-Game date: [Insert Weblink later]
You may also simply run the command /date if you want to see the current date of the server.