The Hættrland calendar is loosely based on the old Norse calendar, simplified for game purposes, with some fantasy thrown in.
Like our own world, a day in Hættrland is 24-hours long. Each year is 280 days, divided up as follows.
There are seven days of the week in Hættrland:
A month is precisely 28 days: four seven-day weeks. There are ten months in a year, based on Norse months:
Hættrland’s history roughly goes back a thousand years. These are the main historical events:
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1 | First recorded runes. |
| 200 | The Solidarity — an era of humans and non-humans co-existing in peace and cooperation, so they say. |
| 400 | The Horrors begin as demons and elder beings take over Hættrland. |
| 500 | The Solidarity ends, as those races that can abandon the scorched lands hide within the mountains, forest, seas, or other planes of existence. |
| 600 | Extra planear celestials, warriors, and greater beings hear the pleas of the souls on Hættrland and come to free the land. |
| 700 | What comes to be known as The Restoration is complete; various “gods” such as Tyr and Loki and others die, but Odin, Thor, and the rest successfully vanquish the fiends and Old Ones from Hættrland. |
| 800 | The first free human kingdoms are formed on the land. They are fragile, their resources and borders ever-contested. |
| 900 | The non-human races begin to venture from their forests, caves, and ocean homes to interact with the new human kingdoms. There is a desire to rekindle The Solidarity, but suspicion remains. |
| 1000 | Today. |