The Calendar

== The Sun==

MARKED FOR EDITING (hard to explain simply :/)
The Shattered Isle exists on not on a planet but on a seemingly endless flat plane, and most of the plane is cloaked in darkness and bitter cold. The only respite from this deep shadow are suns. Suns in the world of the Shattered isle are much smaller than those of our world and hover directly above the flat plane.

Suns float around in set orbits. The sun over the Shattered Isle loops in a vertical circle over the center of the broken continent, creating day and night. When the sun is up it is night, when down it is day. The circle created by the looping sun in turn rotates on a vertical axis 1 degree every 2 days.

This rotation causes the seasons, because the path of the suns day/night loop moves over certain areas, and away from others, winter and summer. every 360 days, the suns path has rotated 180 degrees, bringing an to the year and bringing the seasons back to the start, with one major exception.

because the suns path does not rotate its full 360 in a year, even though the season are the same temperature-wise, the direction from which the sun descends is reverse each year.

FOR EXAMPLE
if in the region of Avaria, a roving nomad pays attention to the sun one summer, he notices that it descends from the heavens each morning from the south and slowly moves towards him. This means that mornings are darker, later and colder, while evenings are later, warmer and brighter. This is called a dark summer.

Every day the sun slowly begins to descend from a different direction, until in winter when it descends in the far southwest and moves towards the far southeast, ignoring avaria completely.

but eventually its rotation comes back over avaria, and summer returns. Only now, the sun descends from the heavens directly OVER avaria each morning, and moves towards the south each evening. now the mornings are early, bright and hot, while the evenings are cool, dim and just as early. This is called a bright summer.

both seasons are mostly the same, they are both the time of year when the sun is directly over the region in question, but the direction that the sun moves in, and thus the time of day most sunny, changes each alternating year.

Division of time

 * 1 Day = 24 hours, equal to real life
 * 1 Week = 9 Days
 * 1 Month = 5 weeks, 45 days
 * 1 Year = 8 months, 40 weeks, 360 Days