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 original calendar is the one used in the modern day - although the standard for non-Pezen uses of the Rokaselan calendar is the modified calendar, Nguhcraft lore allows for the original calendar to be preferred. The modified calendar still exists, but in the current revision of Rauratoshanian lore, it is exclusive to the Illumiŋati cǝŋspiracy theory. The divine calendar is used as well, but only as a reference for durations.
Original
Divisions and leap years
The Rokaselan calendar separates each year into 12 months. The first six months have 31 days, and the last six months have 30 days. However, the last day, 30 Parfarita, is only included if the number of days between vernal equinoxes is 366.
Leap years are inserted chiefly using a 33-year cycle, so that 1 Sairairita (an auspicious and important day) is predictable. Specifically, Parfarita 30 is added every four years, but the eighth leap year is delayed by 1 year. Mathematically, this means if the year modulo 33 is divisible by 4, and is not 32, a leap year occurs. Further corrections to this system have been proposed, because over the course of nearly 2500 years, vernal equinox timings change, the mean tropical year length changes, and drift accumulates to cause the vernal equinox to miss. The civil calendar of Rauratoshan works around the problem by inserting another leap year in the 32nd year of the cycle if over an entire 33-year cycle, the vernal equinox happens on 2 Sairairita, and skipping the next leap year if over the same period the vernal equinox occurs on the last day of Parfarita. Rauratoshan still recommends using regularized years of length 365.2͞4 days in calculations of, for example, astronomical observation in Zanmalaté Observatory.
The week is divided into seven days, which used to have both ornamental and standard names, but most of the ornamental names have become archaic over time. Thus, only the standard names, which are derived from enumeration, remain: Akkage, Dungkage, Rencage, Kenénage, Minákkage, Rikudage, and Pinakage. Like in the Gregorian calendar, weeks do not reset at the beginning of each month or anything: even the start of the year Kanata 100 was on Minákkage.
The only remaining ornamental name is "Indakage" ("rest day"), which in Rokadong is an alternate for Kenénage, as the original reason for 7-day weeks was 6 (or in the Proto-Rokaselan numeral system, 10) days of work, then 1 day of rest. Interestingly, though, this name was originally associated with Pinakage; perhaps it feels "better" to have the rest day in the middle of the week. In the source world for Rauratoshan, the name Indakage does continue to be associated with Pinakage in Kairitelah, presumably due to Linnerian cultural contact, whom also have a rest day at the end of the week.
Naming
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.
| 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. This calendar was previously devised in post-incursion Rauratoshan, but in summer 2438 MK, a Fantasy Calendars plugin implementing the original calendar was used by Astaryuu for timekeeping, and with apollyon's Ætérnic Calendar lore update, the modified calendar was also deprecated.
In-universe, the modified calendar was scrapped due to being less accurate. However, some still believe in it, and say the Ŋɘllumiŋati use it.
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 | Rough start time (Gregorian) | Rough end time (Gregorian) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sairairita | 31 days | March 20 | April 19 |
| Nilarita | 31 days | April 20 | May 20 |
| Rekarita | 31 days | May 21 | June 20 |
| Towanrita | 31 days | June 21 | July 21 |
| Aririta | 31 days | July 22 | August 21 |
| Eskelrita | 31 days | August 22 | September 21 |
| Kastarita | 30 days | September 22 | October 21 |
| Rokorita | 30 days | October 22 | November 20 |
| Korakarita | 30 days | November 21 | December 20 |
| Merikrita | 30 days | December 21 | January 19 |
| Rikulrita | 30 days | January 20 | February 18 |
| Parfarita | 29 or 30 days | February 19 | March 19 |