Hi everyone
I'm shortly going to be starting up this AP, and I wanted to see if there were any resources that listed the months of the year of the Imperial Calendar. I can't imagine that they use the same month structure as the Absalom Reckoning, what with a completely different primary pantheon and all. Any insight or resources/references would be a huge help. Thanks.
Abadar, Pharasma, Desna, and Lamashtu at least are shared in common. Calistria, too, albeit she could be seen as more of an elf-import than a domestically occurring faith, I'm not sure...
In any case, there's no Imperial Calendar specific list of months that I know of--but if you're looking to come up with different months you could probably do worse than the Travel Guide's non-religious 'common alternative' month names:
Prima
Snappe
Anu
Rusanne
Farlong
Sola
Fletch
Hazen
Nuvar
Shaldo
Joya
Kai
On the other hand, you could do worse than take a note from the Chinese calendar and name each month after a zodiac creature, after a natural phenomenon (such as which flowers blossom, when the snow falls, etc), or simply go the route of numbering the months from 1st moon to 12th moon.
Hope you find this useful!
On the other hand, you could do worse than take a note from the Chinese calendar and name each month after a zodiac creature, after a natural phenomenon (such as which flowers blossom, when the snow falls, etc), or simply go the route of numbering the months from 1st moon to 12th moon.
Hope you find this useful!
I mean, if you really want to take a note from Chinese, you'd just call them "1st month," "2nd month," "3rd month," etc... (一月、二月、三月…)
I mean, if you really want to take a note from Chinese, you'd just call them "1st month," "2nd month," "3rd month," etc... (一月、二月、三月…)On the other hand, you could do worse than take a note from the Chinese calendar and name each month after a zodiac creature, after a natural phenomenon (such as which flowers blossom, when the snow falls, etc), or simply go the route of numbering the months from 1st moon to 12th moon.
Hope you find this useful!
Indeed! That is what the last part of that sentence says! I was thinking more specifically Japanese when I wrote that, but I was vaguely aware it was true for Chinese as well, which would be a more useful reference point. I did try to look for what might be a more ~historical~ reference point, but I lack the relevant scholarship to know where to begin XD
Indeed! That is what the last part of that sentence says!I mean, if you really want to take a note from Chinese, you'd just call them "1st month," "2nd month," "3rd month," etc... (一月、二月、三月…)On the other hand, you could do worse than take a note from the Chinese calendar and name each month after a zodiac creature, after a natural phenomenon (such as which flowers blossom, when the snow falls, etc), or simply go the route of numbering the months from 1st moon to 12th moon.
Hope you find this useful!
Uh oh. It turns out that I am illiterate. This is what I get for trying to read too fast.
It did make me wonder if I could dig in a bit more historically into Asian dating systems before synchronization with the worldwide months and weeks system we have today, but in Golarion, one might presume Tian Xia might have adopted a similarly synchronized system to coordinate international trade and what have you and just kept the difference in years.
Indeed! That is what the last part of that sentence says!I mean, if you really want to take a note from Chinese, you'd just call them "1st month," "2nd month," "3rd month," etc... (一月、二月、三月…)On the other hand, you could do worse than take a note from the Chinese calendar and name each month after a zodiac creature, after a natural phenomenon (such as which flowers blossom, when the snow falls, etc), or simply go the route of numbering the months from 1st moon to 12th moon.
Hope you find this useful!
Uh oh. It turns out that I am illiterate. This is what I get for trying to read too fast.
It did make me wonder if I could dig in a bit more historically into Asian dating systems before synchronization with the worldwide months and weeks system we have today, but in Golarion, one might presume Tian Xia might have adopted a similarly synchronized system to coordinate international trade and what have you and just kept the difference in years.
Hah, no yeah that's fair.
Meanwhile as much fun as it would be for me personally to dig into a historical convention, I feel like it might not be entirely my players' cup of tea to get quite so immersed in the world, so I have to moderate my ambitions