The Ekrysian Empire uses a calendar similar to that of modern times, save that the months are aligned more centrally to seasonal changes, and there are only 364 days counted as part of them, the 365th being given to the 'Primus Imperium', an anniversary of the day the Empire was first founded centuries ago, which is accompanied by much revelry and memorial.
Ianarus (30 days, midwinter)
Secundus (31 days, winter's end)
Tertius (30 days, spring)
Quartius (31 days, mid-spring)
Secundus (31 days, winter's end)
Tertius (30 days, spring)
Quartius (31 days, mid-spring)
Quintilus (30 days, spring's end)
Sextilus (30 days, summer)
Primus Imperium (1 day)
Primus Imperium (1 day)
Septimus (30 days, midsummer)
Octavius (30 days, summer's end)
Nonius (31 days, fall)
Decimar (30 days, mid-fall)
Undecimar (31 days, fall's end)
Duodecimar (30 days, winter)
Duodecimar (30 days, winter)
Cycle of Days
Ekrysians also use the seven-day week cycle, with six-day work periods and the seventh day devoted to worship, family and rest.
Solis (1st work day)
Solis (1st work day)
Lunis (2nd work day)
Bartis (3rd work day)
Mercedius (4th work day)
Iuppus (5th work day)
Alurus (6th work day)
Satarus (7th work day)
Cycle of Years
Years are denoted with an 'EE', or 'Ekrysian Eternum', which begin with the first year (1EE) as opposed to a zero (OEE), memorializing the foundation of the Empire and, in a nationalist sense, meant to disregard most that had come before. While it's not morally approved by the Senate or the Emperor, scholars do tend to use negatives on the role of years, for purposes of research and dating ruins, artifacts, and historical records. It's also important to note that the cycles of days, months and even seasons often run in contrast to those calendars used elsewhere in the world, such as the agreed upon Accordant Timeline (AT) used by the nations of the Accord, the Marchland and independent city states across the continent of Euristaz.
Timeline of Iosyne
167EE. A team of Imperial explorers and surveyors first uncover the Huguelid Ruin in the northeast of the Marrow Flats, half-submerged in the salty soil. Only three survived the experience, but over the ensuing century, scores of archaeologists and looters would arrive, picking clean much of the old city, and clearing out many of the threats that must have taken out the original explorers.
191EE. Another Huguelid ruin is found in the Saltspine Mountains, and a team of scholars is sent in to explore and catalog the place, which would eventually be known as the Nine Idols' Rest.
265EE. The year Castle Autarkes was built along the coast of the Scything Sea. No precise date is given, so it isn't clear whether construction was started or ended at this time. The castle was named for a famous Imperial myrmidon who helped quell the Molphagoras Uprising far back in 53EE.
278EE. Prospectors establish a tent town in the foothills of the Saltspine Mountains, near the border of the Marrow Flats. Once it's uncovered that the rock salt crystals these pioneers were digging up were no coincidence, plans are put before the Senate to establish a more permanent settlement that can be responsible for exploring and tapping the resources of the Flats in their entirety, and in the meantime help bolster the Ekrysian economy since they can rely less on imports.
283EE. The Senate approved the plans, and Iosyne was built of stone deeper into the flats, still using the Saltspine mountains as a natural shield against the more volatile storms in the region. The earlier residents of the hamlet had a much harder time dealing with salt storms, and often had to shovel themselves out of several feet of dust and salt, or find shelter in a nearby cavern. Damian Drastor is the first Tribune assigned to Iosyne.
286EE. A pair of lepers carrying the Violet Fever attempted to find refuge in the new village, but were burned alive by Drastor and his soldiers, in an act that caused a lot of horrified chatter among the residents for decades, even though the Tribune tried to rationalize and justify it.
288EE. The last officially recorded sighting of the blue dragon that purportedly lairs in the Old Azuredark caverns. The creature briefly terrorized several communities along the Eastern coast of the Empire, including the freshly founded town of Ykklesias, before retreating to its hidey-hole somewhere in the Marrow Flats. There have been plenty of 'reported' sightings in the ensuing decades, until around 330EE, but these were never confirmed, rarely investigated, and might have involved a different dragon entirely, the original's mate, perhaps even its offspring.
290EE. A tower is built south of Iosyne, to oversee a new prison labor camp that will be populated by thieves, rapists, political criminals and Accordant spies. It is later named for the first Imperial officer assigned to govern it, Haulix Hekaline.
294EE. Damian Drastor disappears somewhere Iosyne. His true fate is still unknown. Gallus Rex, a former myrmidon and war criminal, is pardoned by the Emperor (a distant cousin), and named second Tribune of the village. It was at this point the locals started to believe that they were having shady officials dumped upon the post to get them out of the way of big city life and social intrigue. To reinforce this suspicion, Gallus soon drinks himself to death after raping one of the miner's wives. Or at least that was the official story. At any rate, the position would not be filled for several years, it was left upon the local soldiery to report back to the Empire and distribute pay to the workers.
299EE. Tiro of Thessalon is named third Tribune of Iosyne, and sure enough, he's a former Senator with a nefarious past that involved gambling on illicit activities like gladiatorial slave rings, which had by that point been outlawed through the Empire. Tiro certainly had his problems with the locals, not to mention the other Ekrysian officers stationed at Castle Autarkes, Ykklesias, and the Haulix Prison Camp, but would end up serving in the role for quite some time.
308EE. Two of Iosyne's most reliable salt mines are starting to 'dry up', and have to be filled in and abandoned. A new location is briefly established south of Drastor's Delve, but soon infested with predators, in particular gnoll scavengers who sic pet jackals and death dogs on the hapless diggers. A few patrols are stirred up form Castle Autarkes, at the insistent nagging of Tribune Tiro, but they are unable to solve the problem, and tell the miners to just find someplace else to work.
313EE. Alpha Dig site discovered. Within weeks, it becomes the focused source of much of the salt flowing into Iosyne and beyond to the Empire. Soon after, the Foothold camp is established, but its yieldings are fewer and further between, even though the salt is higher quality once refined. Tiro also commission an encampment to be assembled far south at the Brack Tarn, to study its waters and potential as a backup water supply if a purification process could be perfected.
318EE. After repeated threats and attacks over the years, Tribune Tiro and the other local Ekrysian officials manage to pinpoint the location of Vozz Rotboot and his clan of gnoll bandits, hiding in a series of subterranean caverns below the Saltspine, in the northwest corner of the Flats. A war party of two dozen soldiers and miners marched upon the place, slaughtering all the gnolls and pets they came across, in a bloody conflict now known as The Boot's End. There is no telling if all the bandits were accounted for, but to be sure, an agent of the Adeptus Sorcere used magic to blast rubble over the cavern entrances. The death toll was 10 men, 26 gnolls, over 30 jackals; the severed, stuffed head of Vozz Rotboot himself now hangs over the hearth in Castle Autarke's rec room.
325EE. Gavia Tertula first arrives at Iosyne, and immediately begins to make some improvements to how the hamlet is protected and the salt is processed. She brings with her the plans for the protective pylon system, which can screen the walled-in structures against harsh sunlight or salt storms, and with the help of local laborers and masons, she has the Rainfall Duct built into the Saltspine in 18 months. She is rewarded handsomely for her ideas, and likely could have retired early, but instead chose to stay on with Iosyne and continue to develop the community, even if she had to shrug off repeated marriage propositions from the Tribune.
329EE. Aylish pirates sack Ykklesias, killing three dozen men, occupying the town for about a week, and eventually stealing off with half as many women and children. The soldiers at Castle Autarkes weren't warned in time, or simply responded too slowly on purpose. At one point, the buccaneers might have sent scout runners to survey the environs, and one was purportedly captured and killed by the Krispos family on a dig, or so they claim.
335EE. The Commissary of Iosyne is bought out by the Dewfoots, a small clan of Ambruzzi expatriates who decided the err on the side of caution and pledge loyalty to the Empire now rather than later. Under Lily Dewfoot, they stock the place up as never before, and offer all manner of goods both useful and leisurely to the rugged locals.
337EE. After nearly four decades, a senile Tiro of Thessalon steps down from his office of Tribune, and bids a fond farewell as he is carted off to his home city, presumably to pass away at his family's estate or a mental home.
338EE. Crathis Kallimachos, the fourth Tribune assigned to Iosyne, takes up his office, replacing Tiro, and urges Simo Strachys to take over as head Foreman of the mining operation.
339EE. A merchant and two hired guards are murdered en route to Iosyne along the Salt Road, their horses and good stolen, and their corpses strewn out together in a ditch. Thravian Sura ran across the scene while on a water-survey, and discovered that they had been maimed and pierced by claws and spears. More disturbingly, carved in the Gnoll tongue (which only Thravian seems to speak), across the three corpses' torsos, was "SON OV VOZZ RETURN ALL UR FAVORZ, WAYSTE ALL UR KNIGHTZ".
340EE. The present year.
Years are denoted with an 'EE', or 'Ekrysian Eternum', which begin with the first year (1EE) as opposed to a zero (OEE), memorializing the foundation of the Empire and, in a nationalist sense, meant to disregard most that had come before. While it's not morally approved by the Senate or the Emperor, scholars do tend to use negatives on the role of years, for purposes of research and dating ruins, artifacts, and historical records. It's also important to note that the cycles of days, months and even seasons often run in contrast to those calendars used elsewhere in the world, such as the agreed upon Accordant Timeline (AT) used by the nations of the Accord, the Marchland and independent city states across the continent of Euristaz.
Timeline of Iosyne
167EE. A team of Imperial explorers and surveyors first uncover the Huguelid Ruin in the northeast of the Marrow Flats, half-submerged in the salty soil. Only three survived the experience, but over the ensuing century, scores of archaeologists and looters would arrive, picking clean much of the old city, and clearing out many of the threats that must have taken out the original explorers.
191EE. Another Huguelid ruin is found in the Saltspine Mountains, and a team of scholars is sent in to explore and catalog the place, which would eventually be known as the Nine Idols' Rest.
265EE. The year Castle Autarkes was built along the coast of the Scything Sea. No precise date is given, so it isn't clear whether construction was started or ended at this time. The castle was named for a famous Imperial myrmidon who helped quell the Molphagoras Uprising far back in 53EE.
278EE. Prospectors establish a tent town in the foothills of the Saltspine Mountains, near the border of the Marrow Flats. Once it's uncovered that the rock salt crystals these pioneers were digging up were no coincidence, plans are put before the Senate to establish a more permanent settlement that can be responsible for exploring and tapping the resources of the Flats in their entirety, and in the meantime help bolster the Ekrysian economy since they can rely less on imports.
283EE. The Senate approved the plans, and Iosyne was built of stone deeper into the flats, still using the Saltspine mountains as a natural shield against the more volatile storms in the region. The earlier residents of the hamlet had a much harder time dealing with salt storms, and often had to shovel themselves out of several feet of dust and salt, or find shelter in a nearby cavern. Damian Drastor is the first Tribune assigned to Iosyne.
286EE. A pair of lepers carrying the Violet Fever attempted to find refuge in the new village, but were burned alive by Drastor and his soldiers, in an act that caused a lot of horrified chatter among the residents for decades, even though the Tribune tried to rationalize and justify it.
288EE. The last officially recorded sighting of the blue dragon that purportedly lairs in the Old Azuredark caverns. The creature briefly terrorized several communities along the Eastern coast of the Empire, including the freshly founded town of Ykklesias, before retreating to its hidey-hole somewhere in the Marrow Flats. There have been plenty of 'reported' sightings in the ensuing decades, until around 330EE, but these were never confirmed, rarely investigated, and might have involved a different dragon entirely, the original's mate, perhaps even its offspring.
290EE. A tower is built south of Iosyne, to oversee a new prison labor camp that will be populated by thieves, rapists, political criminals and Accordant spies. It is later named for the first Imperial officer assigned to govern it, Haulix Hekaline.
294EE. Damian Drastor disappears somewhere Iosyne. His true fate is still unknown. Gallus Rex, a former myrmidon and war criminal, is pardoned by the Emperor (a distant cousin), and named second Tribune of the village. It was at this point the locals started to believe that they were having shady officials dumped upon the post to get them out of the way of big city life and social intrigue. To reinforce this suspicion, Gallus soon drinks himself to death after raping one of the miner's wives. Or at least that was the official story. At any rate, the position would not be filled for several years, it was left upon the local soldiery to report back to the Empire and distribute pay to the workers.
299EE. Tiro of Thessalon is named third Tribune of Iosyne, and sure enough, he's a former Senator with a nefarious past that involved gambling on illicit activities like gladiatorial slave rings, which had by that point been outlawed through the Empire. Tiro certainly had his problems with the locals, not to mention the other Ekrysian officers stationed at Castle Autarkes, Ykklesias, and the Haulix Prison Camp, but would end up serving in the role for quite some time.
308EE. Two of Iosyne's most reliable salt mines are starting to 'dry up', and have to be filled in and abandoned. A new location is briefly established south of Drastor's Delve, but soon infested with predators, in particular gnoll scavengers who sic pet jackals and death dogs on the hapless diggers. A few patrols are stirred up form Castle Autarkes, at the insistent nagging of Tribune Tiro, but they are unable to solve the problem, and tell the miners to just find someplace else to work.
313EE. Alpha Dig site discovered. Within weeks, it becomes the focused source of much of the salt flowing into Iosyne and beyond to the Empire. Soon after, the Foothold camp is established, but its yieldings are fewer and further between, even though the salt is higher quality once refined. Tiro also commission an encampment to be assembled far south at the Brack Tarn, to study its waters and potential as a backup water supply if a purification process could be perfected.
318EE. After repeated threats and attacks over the years, Tribune Tiro and the other local Ekrysian officials manage to pinpoint the location of Vozz Rotboot and his clan of gnoll bandits, hiding in a series of subterranean caverns below the Saltspine, in the northwest corner of the Flats. A war party of two dozen soldiers and miners marched upon the place, slaughtering all the gnolls and pets they came across, in a bloody conflict now known as The Boot's End. There is no telling if all the bandits were accounted for, but to be sure, an agent of the Adeptus Sorcere used magic to blast rubble over the cavern entrances. The death toll was 10 men, 26 gnolls, over 30 jackals; the severed, stuffed head of Vozz Rotboot himself now hangs over the hearth in Castle Autarke's rec room.
325EE. Gavia Tertula first arrives at Iosyne, and immediately begins to make some improvements to how the hamlet is protected and the salt is processed. She brings with her the plans for the protective pylon system, which can screen the walled-in structures against harsh sunlight or salt storms, and with the help of local laborers and masons, she has the Rainfall Duct built into the Saltspine in 18 months. She is rewarded handsomely for her ideas, and likely could have retired early, but instead chose to stay on with Iosyne and continue to develop the community, even if she had to shrug off repeated marriage propositions from the Tribune.
329EE. Aylish pirates sack Ykklesias, killing three dozen men, occupying the town for about a week, and eventually stealing off with half as many women and children. The soldiers at Castle Autarkes weren't warned in time, or simply responded too slowly on purpose. At one point, the buccaneers might have sent scout runners to survey the environs, and one was purportedly captured and killed by the Krispos family on a dig, or so they claim.
335EE. The Commissary of Iosyne is bought out by the Dewfoots, a small clan of Ambruzzi expatriates who decided the err on the side of caution and pledge loyalty to the Empire now rather than later. Under Lily Dewfoot, they stock the place up as never before, and offer all manner of goods both useful and leisurely to the rugged locals.
337EE. After nearly four decades, a senile Tiro of Thessalon steps down from his office of Tribune, and bids a fond farewell as he is carted off to his home city, presumably to pass away at his family's estate or a mental home.
338EE. Crathis Kallimachos, the fourth Tribune assigned to Iosyne, takes up his office, replacing Tiro, and urges Simo Strachys to take over as head Foreman of the mining operation.
339EE. A merchant and two hired guards are murdered en route to Iosyne along the Salt Road, their horses and good stolen, and their corpses strewn out together in a ditch. Thravian Sura ran across the scene while on a water-survey, and discovered that they had been maimed and pierced by claws and spears. More disturbingly, carved in the Gnoll tongue (which only Thravian seems to speak), across the three corpses' torsos, was "SON OV VOZZ RETURN ALL UR FAVORZ, WAYSTE ALL UR KNIGHTZ".
340EE. The present year.
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