Affiliation calendar

The Affiliation calendar dates from the time of the Affiliation and has remained in use, largely unchanged, since the fall of the member county. At present, it is the 1,562nd year of the calendar, though that year is drawing to a close. By way of comparison, in the Khanate the present year is 470 dK.

Organization
A Affiliation calendar consists of a year of 364 days (except in leap years), broken into 12 28 day months and 4 holiday fire festivals, each lasting a week and existing independent of the surrounding months. Leap years occur every four years. (The next leap year shall be 1564.) The months and festivals are: (Terran equivalents in italics)

Coldfire festival week (colour: Blue, sometimes Indigo)

Woodsmoke (Jan)

Coldwater (Feb)

Fogshadow (Mar)

Greenfire and Stardust Festival (week) (colour: Green; the Stardust festival honors the night and runs concurant with the Greenfire fest by day)

Dewfade (Apr)

Damprock (May)

Mistwood (June)

Bloodfire festival week (colour: Red; sometimes called the Seedfire festival)

Reaptime (July)

Roanesh (Aug)

Galanting (Sept)

Harvestfire festival week (colour: Orange)

Greenfall (Oct)

Fading (Nov)

Creakbone (Dec)

Each of the fire festivals once centered around a rite to banish the four godlings of the wheel (spring, summer, autum, and winter) and the diseases they bring.

Days of the Week
Roeda, Mareda, Oreda, Nicoeda, Deymeda, Rhooeda, Oliseda