\section{Calendar System}

Some 400 years ago, workers discovered what
has come to be called the Calendar Obelisk in the
ruins of an ancient city of mysterious origins
beneath the City State of the Invincible Over-
lord. The Calendar Obelisk, and a series of
rune-inscribed metal plated found in a strange
metal chest near the obelisk, revealed a recording
of what is called “the Chronology of the Dragon
Kings,” the history of an ancient kingdom—be-
lieved to be the Orichalans—predating the City
State by many, many ages, in 52-year and 104-
year cycles.

The then current Overlord, a Warrior-King
named Balozkinar, constituted a council headed
by Ralibarn the Wise, Patriarch of Odin, and
including a group of the most prominent sages
and clerics of the city, to study the runes and the
Obelisk. Their study forced the revision of the
existing calendar and changed the view of the
history of the Wilderlands. This gave rise to
Balozkinar’s Corrected Commoners Calendar
(“BCCC”).

Balozkinar’s Corrected Commoners’ Calendar
is now used in the northern city states and their
tributary villages, as well as in Thunderhold and
the town of Warwik, and several other settle-
ments which have interacted with the City State.
The BCCC Year 0 is tied to the old Commoner's
Calendar Year 0. Despite the recent evidence from
the Obelisk, the Year 0 was left intact to make the
transition to the new calendar easier for the people.

The BCCC includes 18 months of 20 days each
followed by a 5 day celebration at the end of each
year. This calendar is progressive, as our own Anno
Domini (AD) system. Thus, the year 100 BCCC
would come before the year 101 BCCC just as 100
AD came before 101 AD. Some people still follow
an old calendar known as the “Commoners’ Calen-
dar” which sometimes leads to confusion as to the
timing of certain celebrations. These problems are
resolved by the Town Crier. Both the BCCC and
the original Commoners’ Calendar are presented
below.

The default year of any Wilderlands campaign is
4433 BCCC, and all products referencing the
Wilderlands or the City State presume this default
time frame.

It is generally accepted by proponents of the
BCCC that the City State of the Invincible Over-
lord was founded on the ruins of an ancient city in
3075 BCCC—5,466 years after the Uttermost War
and 11,683 years after the creation—based on the
findings of Ralibarn, the Patriarch of Odin, and his
counsel. These dates are accepted and endorsed by
the Overlord but contested by just about every
other religion and, as described in the Judges His-
tory, below, completely wrong. Nevertheless, they
form the basis of the common calendar of the
lands.

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