This is a Morisot clock, like I have seen one in a Gnomic village in the eastern regions of this world:

A day on Morisot has 28 hours, and each hour is divided into 5 quints. As I have drawn the clock here, it indicates the third quint of the second hour.

The clock looked quite irregular to me, and I was not sure if this was one of those little gnomic inventions which other people, who are not gnomes, tend to smile upon. But even humans told me that this was a normal clock which is common to all regions of this world.

A week consists of eight days, which have the following names:

Galdon

Wedday

Helming

Farday

Sinwidday

Oakenday

Fairween

Myrday

A month has 39 days, and a year has eight months. As one can find out by watching the movement of the stars, a year is a bit longer than 312 days. To compensate this, four "free days" have been added to the Calendar, one day each after the end of the first, the third, the fifth and the seventh month. These free days do also indicate the begin of spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Here are the names of the eight months:

Furmath

Efasil

Ayanost

Svene

Barning

Pomevint

Lascaran

Hoarmath

I have also written down an example for a calendar in this world, just to get used to these weird names for days and months. It's all rather confusing and a bit too much for my little head...

Thirteen years make up an epoch. Now what is an epoch and why is that so important for the people in this world? Well, every thirteen years, a huge star is moving towards this world, and then it returns back to where it came from. People here are very afraid of this star. They think this bright, moving star is something like a huge, fiercy dragon, and that it's appearence must be a bad omen.

The years of each epoch have names which are supposed to describe the behaviour of this "dragon":

Fuming	Calming	Watching	Resting
Nodding	Sleeping	Dreaming	Stirring
Waking	Hissing	Snarling	Roaring	Raging

There are also white moon with an orbiting period of 34 days, a dark moon with a period of 44 days, and a red moon with a period of 26 days. But for the calendar, they seem to be quite unimportant.

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