Calendar (An Order Unkind)

Timekeeping in Antantia is heavily based off the Zodiac.

The Year
It takes some 254 days for the planet Tellus to orbit the Sun. This is subdivided into a number of units as follows.

Weekdays
The weekday is divided into six days as follows. In Asennese, the classical language, their names are as follows:
 * 1) Dies Solis
 * 2) Dies Lunae
 * 3) Dies Perici
 * 4) Dies Fulmineae
 * 5) Dies Pietatis
 * 6) Dies Fluviae

Months
Months are based off the Zodiac, of which there are twelve signs. They are:

Calendar Era
As with the months, the calendar era is based off the Zodiac, albeit based on astrological eras calculated on the passage of the vernal equinox across the zodiac rather than the simple Zodiac proper.

There are 2650 years in a given Era, and each year is numbered according to the Era it's in. For example, the 'current year' of the setting is 16 E.L. (Era Lateris).

Etymological Note
The proper word for "era" in Asennese would be "aera". However, during the *Middle Ages, it was increasingly written as "era" with the 'e' dropped. During the *Renaissance, "era" came to refer to an Astrological era, as opposed to the more general "aera". In Avalonian/English, "Era" is only used to refer to Astrological Eras in general, with "Age" being used to designate a specific Era (e.g. Era Aratri/Age of Aratrum).

Aeons
As there are 12 Months in a year, there are 12 Eras in an Aeon. There are in total 30 720 years in an Aeon (or about 21 378 in an Earth year). According to classical tradition, there have been 5 Aeons since the creation of the world:
 * 1) Aeon Adamantinus (Adamantine Age)
 * 2) Aeon Aurelius (Golden Age)
 * 3) Aeon Argentinus (Silver Age)
 * 4) Aeon Aerarius (Bronze Age)
 * 5) Aeon Ferratus (Iron Age)