CALENDAR

The calendar is based on a 365 day year with 12 months of 30 days. There are 5 holidays dispersed to make up the difference. Months are lilsted: Month Name (Common Name). Holidays done up to Kossuth

Month Titles Days

Hammer (Deepwinter)

  • Waukeen: The church celebrates a dozen high festivals spaced over the course of the year that honor: accounting- Gold Counting Comfort on Hammer 15
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Midwinter Holiday
Midwinter is known officially in Cormyr as the High Festival of Winter. It is a feast where, traditionally, the local lords of the land plan the year ahead, make and renew alliances, and send gifts of goodwill. To the common folk throughout the Realms, this is Deadwinter Day, the midpoint of the worst of the cold.

Alturiak (The Claw of the Cold)

  • Waukeen: The church celebrates a dozen high festivals spaced over the course of the year that honor: textiles -Great Wave on Alturiak 20.
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Ches (The Claw Of Sunsets)

  • Waukeen: The church celebrates a dozen high festivals spaced over the course of the year that honor : wealth -High Coin on 30 Ches.
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Tarsakh (The Claw Of Storms)

  • Shaundakul : Their holy day is the Windride, which is celebrated on the 15th day of Tarsakh. On this day, Shaundakul causes all his clerics to assume gaseous form at dawn, if they cannot wind walk on their own, so that they are carried with the wind. They return to normal (And are lowered safely to the ground) at dusk, usually in some place they have never been before.
  • Waukeen: The church celebrates a dozen high festivals spaced over the course of the year that honor : generosity -Spheres on Tarsakh 10
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Greengrass Holiday
Greengrass is the official beginning of spring, a day of relaxation. Flowers that have been carefully grown in the inner rooms of the keeps and temples during the winter are blessed and cast out upon the snow to bring rich growth in the season ahead.
  • Chauntea: Fertility plays an important role in the Chauntean faith, and a hedonistic celebration during Greengrass encourages excessive drinking, eating, and uninhibited behavior.
  • Mielikki: Celebrations on Greengrass and Midsummer night are similar to the Four Feasts, but they also include planting rites and the Wild Ride, where herds of unicorns gather and allow the faithful to ride them bareback through the forest. On years when Shieldmeet follows Midsummer, the Ride continues for that day and night if desired.
  • Sune: Greengrass and Midsummer Night are both Sunite holy days, celebrated with a great deal of outdoor frolicking and with night-long flirtatious chases through forests and parks.
  • Talos: Clerics of Talos celebrate his annual festivals (Greengrass, Midsummer, and so on) with great ceremonies that call down lightning and summon storms. Their most sacred ritual is Calling Down the Thunder, in which they slay an intelligent being by lightning.

Mirtul (The Melting)

  • Gond: (Mirtil 1-12) Their one holy festival is the Ippensheir, named for Ippen, Gond's First Servant. All clergy of Gond and his devout worshipers gather at a temple, abbey, or holy site where a famed inventor or craftsmen once worked. It is a time of feasting, drinking, and revelry, during which they show inventions to and share innovations with their fellow Gondar.
  • Waukeen: The church celebrates a dozen high festivals spaced over the course of the year that honor : benefactors -Sammardach on Mirtul 12
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Kythorn (The Time Of Flowers)

  • Waukeen: The church celebrates a dozen high festivals spaced over the course of the year that honor : finery - Brightbuckle on Kythorn 21
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Flamerule (Summertide)

  • Waukeen: The church celebrates a dozen high festivals spaced over the course of the year that honor: deal-making - Sornyn Flamerule 3-5
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Midsummer Holiday
Midsummer, called Midsummer Night or the Long Night, is a time of feasting and music and love. In a ceremony performed in some lands, unwed maidens are set free in the woods and "hunted" by their would-be suitors through the night. Betrothals are traditionally made upon this night. It is very rare indeed for the weather to be bad during this night - such is considered a very bad omen, usually thought to foretell famine or plague.

  • Lathander: On midsummer morning and on the morning of the vernal and autumnal equinoxes, Lathanderian clerics perform the Son of the Dawn, a popular and complex musical ceremony that attracts even nonworshipers to the Morninglord's cathedrals.
  • Mielikki: Celebrations on Greengrass and Midsummer night are similar to the Four Feasts, but they also include planting rites and the Wild Ride, where herds of unicorns gather and allow the faithful to ride them bareback through the forest. On years when Shieldmeet follows Midsummer, the Ride continues for that day and night if desired.
  • Oghma: Clerics celebrate Midsummer and Shieldmeet as holy days, since these occasions traditionally mark new agreements or pacts, when many written contracts, deeds, and bonds are drawn up.
  • Sune: Greengrass and Midsummer Night are both Sunite holy days, celebrated with a great deal of outdoor frolicking and with night-long flirtatious chases through forests and parks.
  • Talos: Clerics of Talos celebrate his annual festivals (Greengrass, Midsummer, and so on) with great ceremonies that call down lightning and summon storms. Their most sacred ritual is Calling Down the Thunder, in which they slay an intelligent being by lightning.

Shieldmeet Holiday
Once every four years, another day is added to the year in the manner of February 29 in the Gregorian calendar. This day is part of no month and follows Midsummer Night. It is known as Shieldmeet. It is a day of open council between nobles and people, a day for the making and renewing of pacts, oaths, and agreements. It is a day for tournaments, tests and trials for those wishing to advance in battle fame or clerical standing, for entertainment of all types, particularly theatrical, and for dueling. The last shieldmeet was in 1368DR.

  • Helm: Their one holy day is the Ceremony of Honor to Helm, which takes place on the Shieldmeet.
  • Kelemvor: Both Shieldmeet and the Feast of the Moon are of special spiritual significance to Kelemvor's adherents, when clerics recount the Deeds of the Dead that they never be forgotten.

  • Mielikki: See Midsummer
  • Oghma: See Midsummer
  • Selune: The Conjuring of the Second Moon, held every Shieldmeet, is a coordinated chant at every Faerunian temple of Selune. This confluence of devotional energy summons the Shards, a cadre of blue-haired female planetars, to do the bidding of Selune's terrestrial clergy for a single night -- usually battling the forces of Shar. On the following dawn, the Shards elevate one mortal cleric to their order.
  • Torm: Shieldmeet, traditionally a time when Faerunians enter new agreements and compacts, is a time of great religious significance to followers of the deity of duty, who take their oaths very, very seriously.

Eleasias (Highsun)

  • Torm: On the 13th of Eleasias, they celebrate a somber ceremony known as the Divine Death to commemorate Torm's sacrificial destruction of Bane.
  • Waukeen: The church celebrates a dozen high festivals spaced over the course of the year that honor : bounty (Huldark on Elesias 17.
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Eleint (The Fading)

  • Waukeen: The church celebrates a dozen high festivals spaced over the course of the year that honor: magic - Spryndalstar on Eleint 7
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Higharvestide Holiday
Higharvestide heralds the coming of fall and the harvest. It is a feast that often continues for the length of the harvest so that food is always on hand for those coming in from the fields. There is much traveling about on the heels of the feast, as merchants, court emissaries, and pilgrims make speed before the worst of the mud arrives and the rain freezes in the snow.

  • Malar: Two great rituals are the Feast of the Stags and the High Hunt. In the former, clerics and worshipers of Malar hunt plenty of game before Highharvestide and then invite all (especially those not of the faith) to join them at a feast, where they pledge to hunt in the coming winter to provide for the needy.

Marpenoth (Leafall)

  • Mystra: They celebrate the 15th day of Marpenoth, the anniversary of the ascension of the current Mystra from her mortal form, but otherwise have few calendar-related rituals, focusing more on a personal style of worship.
  • Torm: The 15th of Marpenoth sees a more jovial ritual in the form of the True Resurrection, which celebrates the anniversary of Torm's return to Toril at the behest of Ao.
  • Waukeen: The church celebrates a dozen high festivals spaced over the course of the year that honor: guards -Marthoon on Marpenoth 1
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Uktar (The Rotting)

  • Waukeen: The church celebrates a dozen high festivals spaced over the course of the year that honor: craft -Tehennteahan on Uktar 10
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The Feast Of The Moon
This festival, also called Moonfest, is the last great festival of the year. It marks the arrival of winter and is also the day when the dead are honored. Graves are blessed, the Ritual of Remembrance is performed, and tales of the doings of those now gone are told far into the night. Much is said of heroes and treasure and lost cities underground.

  • Kelemvor: Both Shieldmeet and the Feast of the Moon are of special spiritual significance to Kelemvor's adherents, when clerics recount the Deeds of the Dead that they never be forgotten.
  • Shar: During the Festival of the Moon, Sharrans celebrate the Rising of the Dark, when the directors of local cults outline the dark plots of the coming year over the quivering body of a live sacrifice. Once a tenday, followers must engage in an act of wickedness, ideally after a nocturnal dancing and feasting ritual known as a Nightfall.
  • Tempus: The Feast of the Moon, honoring the dead, is the most important fixed date in the religious calendar. Each temple holds a Feast of Heroes at highsun and a Song of the Fallen at sunset, and most also have a Song of the Sword ceremony after dark for layfolk.

Nightal (The Drawing Down)

  • Waukeen: The church celebrates a dozen high festivals spaced over the course of the year that honor: and the dark side of wealth (a solemn remembrance of the evils of excess) -Orbar on Nightal 25.
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