The Lion Calendar
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The Lion Calendar is a lunar calendar used in ancient times on Aren. Based on the phases of the moon(which repeat in a pattern every 32 days), it uses a 384-day year with each month having 32 days. Being 19 days longer than a standard Alliance Year, this makes the calendar somewhat problematic as it has no alignment to the seasons. It is believed that the ancient calendar served a strictly religious/ceremonial function, while a more robust solar calendar governed the planting and harvesting of crops.
The moon above Aren goes through 8 phases each of which lasts 4 days.
The first day of the solar and lunar years align once every 384 solar years. B.G.A. 3800, the accepted start of recorded history, represents one such alignment.
Lunar/Solar Alignments in the Mage Wars Era
| Year |
| 344 |
| 728 |
| 1112 |
| 1496 |
| 1880 |
| 2264 |
| 2648 |
| 3032 |
| 3416 |
| 3800 |
