Editing The Wyzard Setting Essays (section)

===The Calendar===
Each month consists of four weeks, each one of eight days.  The Eighth day of each week is, by tradition, some type of feast or holiday.  While the identity of that feast or holiday can vary wildly from city to city and nation to nation, it is nonetheless usually taken as a day of rest from labor.  A master who gives his slaves any great amount of work on the eighth-day is usually seen as a skinflint.  Each year consists of thirteen months, for a total of 416 days in a year.  The moon's orbital period used to precisely coincide with the months, but it was disrupted during the same disaster that caused the world to begin wobbling on its axis, thus creating the seasons.  They are now more distant, having an orbital period of five weeks.  The Lunar calendar is therefore of very little use.  

In cultures that keep track of Birthdays in any sense, it is most normal for a birthday to be recorded as the feast-day ending the week of that birth.  The other days of the week are undifferentiated in the mind of the populace, and are often not even named in anything other than an ordinal way.
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