How sages and spacers measure the turning sky.
Most cultures in the Yrrik System follow the Common Reckoning, a standardized calendar first devised by the Veilwatch Concord and the Order of Gnomish Astrologers on Yenai. Weaving celestial movements into symbolic meaning, the system features twelve months of 28 days each.
Months of the Year
Each month corresponds to a sign in the Order's horoscope cycle and reflects seasonal and astrological influences:
| # | Month | Sign | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cinder | The Ember-Marked |
Cold fire and quiet beginnings. Ash lingers; resolve is forged from what remains. |
| 2 | Mire | The Tide-Twin |
A season of hesitation and hidden paths. When all options seem wrong, wait. |
| 3 | Root | The Blooming Fang |
Life stirs beneath frost. What grows may bite. |
| 4 | Gild | The Masked Coin |
Blossoms and bargains. Value and appearance rarely align. |
| 5 | Mistfall | The Drowned Beacon |
Fog and forgetting. What was lost begins to stir again. |
| 6 | Vigil | The Starbeast’s Eye |
Omens hang heavy. Keep watch at the height of light. |
| 7 | Brim | The Silver Wake |
At the edge of heat and habit. Reflection before the turn. |
| 8 | Thorn | The Thorned Halo |
Harvest nears. Burdens bloom alongside bounty. |
| 9 | Crown | The Hollow Crown |
Titles return to dust or glory. Reap what was sown. |
| 10 | Hollow | The Wyrmhollow |
Shadows speak. Beware names you’ve forgotten. |
| 11 | Reverie | The Echo Chord | The memory of music. Spirits stir. Lanterns and melodies linger in the cold. |
| 12 | Starfall | The Leftmost Star |
The fool’s leap, the lucky break. Ends shimmer into beginnings. |
Though developed by Concord scholars, the calendar was deliberately aligned with Talereth's seasonal rhythms, thus ensuring it felt familiar on the system’s most populous world. Its adoption spread through merchants, astrologers, and local officials, even as most who used it never knew where it came from.
Spacer’s Week
Voidfarers rarely agree on much, but most ships in the Yrrik System keep to a seven-day cycle — old names, bent by drift, myth, and practicality.
| Spacer Day | Real-World Echo | Meaning in the Void |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | Sunday | Often a rest day or solar watch reset. Bright beginnings or quiet reverence. |
| Moonday | Monday | Tied to the moon Myrren. Associated with tides, memory, and quiet starts. |
| Twosday | Tuesday | A day for mirrored choices and uncertain paths. Often considered unlucky by spacers... or lucky, depending who you ask. |
| Wendsday | Wednesday | From “to wend.” The traditional launch day. Drift shifts begin. “Wend well,” spacers say. |
| Tharsday | Thursday | Named for boldness. Contracts are signed, missions are launched, tensions run hot. |
| Fireday | Friday | A day of fire and friction. Systems pushed hard, tempers high. Also a favored drinking night in dockside taverns. |
| Starday | Saturday | The day of chance and wandering. Most superstitions cluster here. Fortune turns strange. |