Rokaselan Calendar

The Rokaselan calendar is the timekeeping system used by the Rauratoshan Kingdom.

Mechanics

There are technically three versions of the Rokaselan calendar: the original calendar, the modified calendar, and the divine calendar. The modified calendar is the one used in the modern day, however, because it was developed after Rokaselan incursion to the ngearth, and better suits the systems in use there. The divine calendar is used as well, but only as a reference for durations.

Original

The Rokaselan calendar separates each month into 12 months. The first six months have 31 days, and the last six months have 30 days. However, the last day of the 12th month is only included if the number of days between vernal equinoxes is 366. This is done using a set of 29 and 33 year cycles, so that 1 Sairairita (an auspicious and important day) is predictable.

Years are named based on the currently ruling "dynasty." A word that references the dynasty is chosen by the first quing to rule in the dynasty. The current dynasty as of Gregorian year 2025 is referred to as "Kanata", who was confirmed in Gregorian year 1926. Therefore, the current year is Kanata 100.

While there is a more standard year count in this calendar, it is rarely used in Rauratoshan proper. Its most common use there is to disambiguate, such as referring to the new year's holiday which occurred on March 21, 2025 as "Tanasotan 2438." Such a count typically refers to the number of years supposedly contained in this world's cycle, and therefore is called "Misha Kótan", literally "cycle year."

Regardless of the name used, the year number is treated as an ordinal number - that is, "100(th year of) Kanata" or "2438(th) cycle year". Therefore, it typically ends with some variant of  -sha.

Dynastic eras of the Rokaselan Calendar

Era	Start date		End date
	Gregorian	Misha Kótan	Gregorian	Misha Kótan
Remuymaga	817 AD	1220 MK	1223 AD	1636 MK
Kagyuha	1223 AD	1637 MK	1295 AD	1708 MK
Karlan	1295 AD	1709 MK	1611 AD	2024 MK
Dúrisa	1611 AD	2025 MK	1786 AD	2198 MK
Peska	1786 AD	2199 MK	1926 AD	2338 MK
Kanata	1926 AD	2339 MK	ongoing

Modified

The modified Rokaselan calendar only differs from the original in the placement of leap years. The modified Rokaselan calendar uses the same leap years as the Gregorian calendar.

Divine

The divine calendar is the earliest version of the Rokaselan calendar, said to be given to the kingdom by Selshan themselves. It uses a strict 360-day year, separating each 30-day month into five 6-day weeks. In Rokasela, it is expected that birth certificates and building deeds list the date of construction in the divine calendar.

List of month names

Name	Month length	Start time (Gregorian)	End time (Gregorian)
Sairairita	31 days	March 21	April 20
Nilarita	31 days	April 21	May 21
Rekarita	31 days	May 22	June 21
Towanrita	31 days	June 22	July 23
Aririta	31 days	July 23	August 22
Eskelrita	31 days	August 23	September 22
Kastarita	30 days	September 23	October 22
Rokorita	30 days	October 23	November 21
Korakarita	30 days	November 22	December 21
Merikrita	30 days	December 22	January 20
Rikulrita	30 days	January 21	February 19
Parfarita	29 or 30 days	February 20	March 20