The Dark Peak Calendar
Hey, I'm no expert on this, but from what I can work out, The Dark Peak calendar, as far as I can ascertain anyway, is some sort of amalgamism of the ancient Mayan calendar and the still ancient, yet more contemporary, Chinese calendar.
Here's what I do know: In The Dark Peak, because of the murk and the lack of penetration of either sun or moonlight, the calendar — although still the same number of days in length at 365 — differs from our 12 months. There are 18 months in The Dark Peak (0–17), each month consisting of 20 days (0 to 19), plus 5 days known as "days without names" which are observed as days of feasting and merriment in honour of Dunlockslyn — much like our Christmas and New Years celebrations.
Also unlike your calendar, The Dark Peak calendar does not count years in an infinite sequence. Instead, years have names that are repeated every 60 years (this is similar to the Chinese system). Within each 60 year cycle, each year is assigned a name consisting of two components. The first component is based upon a weather stem of 10 elements:
- drizzle
- mizzle
- spit
- rain
- mist
- fog
- snow
- murk
- hail
- squall
Although the calendar is ascribed to by all denizens of The Dark Peak, the original nascenti words for describing weather systems are unpronounceable and the above are a best guess at the English equivalent.
The second component is a Bestial branch of 12 elements:
- gnawmard
- demonspawn
- ripperthroat
- longleg
- flufftail
- venomtooth
- hoverwing
- wooltard
- honker
- grizzler
- corvid
- rooter
Each component is used sequentially. The 1st year becomes drizzle-gnawmard, the 2nd mizzle-demonspawn, etc. When one component runs out, it restarts. The 60th year is squall-rooter.
After the first of the clown-xin wars, the year number was started afresh at zero — something like 4700 years ago. The Dark Peak is currently in the 79th sixty-year cycle.
The year spit-hoverwing, the 43rd year in the current 60-year cycle, started on 1 January 2026, so the designation for that day is: 79.spit-hoverwing.0.0.
The last day of the previous year (31-12-2025) was 79.mizzle-venomtooth.17.(4), with the (4) representing the 5th and last feast day.
The next few years will be:
- 2027: rain-wooltard
- 2028: mist-honker
- 2029: fog-grizzler
- 2030: snow-corvid
- 2031: murk-rooter
- 2032: hail-gnawmard
- 2033: squall-demonspawn
- 2034: mizzle-longleg
Today's date in The Dark Peak is:
79.spit-hoverwing.5.15
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