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Wouldn't make sense lore wise for world of Verra to celebrate Christmas. Could be unique cosmetics to unlock and purchase at the shop.
+1
Are you referring to the actual cycle of days in Verra or just renaming our calendar in game?
example:
As midnight hits in the game it will display the day of the week, month/season accordingly
or
Open our calendar and it will say whatever day and in brackets the actual day of the week accordingly with months etc.
For me, the first.
The second doesnt make a lot of sense, it isnt really doing anything for the gamea lore, and is just going to be ignored by players anyway.
I was thinking the same but just was not sure on the vague OP description.
It would be quite appealing to see something pop up on the screen each day.
"Day whatever of whenever" just an idea.
Additionally to this,
Could be like " Festival of blank begins " " Season begins" lots of options
Might make sense for weeks to be named after them - especially since there is a mini-castle siege every week.
I would love to see how a Vek city celebrates the Winter holiday differently than a Ren'Kai city.
They could potentially have holidays similar to a Chinese calendar where it would be like:
"year of this god as festivals etc"
if there are seven gods? then that would be 7 months of different festivals in-game if every week is a different season.
That way each in-game year cycle would have a different theme in relation to a real world calendar. If they used the in-game time, it would be winter holidays and themes every 4 weeks, lol.
Perhaps they may just change some things based on real world calendar events. Very interesting though regardless of your original intent.
So, while everyone is experiencing the same seasons, different cultures might have different names for the same season. Very likely different cultures might have different names for the same holidays as well as different holidays.
Seems like each week of Castle Siege could be named after a god or legend and would follow a four-week cycle. It might be: Legend, Legend, Legend, God. Because that follows the weekly ramp-up of Castle-node caravan build-up which culminates in the fourth week Castle Siege.
There are 5 different Castles, so could be that each Castle has 3 Legends and one God associated with it, resulting in 15 Legends and 5 Gods associated with Castles. The Castles are originally occupied by Ancients, so could be the Legends are associated with Ancient lore and the Gods are associated with the patron God of each progenitor race, plus the Tulnar God.
Of course, lots of players might flip out if they were stuck with being the monarch of the Castle associated with the Tulnar.
Might want to have the calendar names associated with a Castle to be: Legend, Legend, Legend, Legend.
I suppose it could also be that it's: Legend, Legend, Legend, God of War.
I think celebrations for each irl day of the week is way too much.
Castle Siege is already on a 4 week cycle, so seems likely that all of the cultures might acknowledge that 4 week cycle. Also, seems likely that the devs might acknowledge some real world holidays in Ashes, although I hope they don't only stick with American/Christian holidays.
There might be a 12 "year" cycle similar to the Chinese Calendar that conforms with our months.
And, they might number those cycles. In the back of my mind that seems kinda similar to the Mayan Calendar from a Verran perspective. Or, maybe they name a real world year as an era, similar to The Depression or The Return.
Seems like there might be regional celebrations and holidays.
Seems like there might be Node-Type celebrations and holidays. And seems likely that each Node-Type might have a patron God.
Again, I would expect a Vek celebration of Winter to look very different from a Py'Rai celebration of Winter.
But, maybe Py'Rai don't celebrate Winter at all.
Plus we have to wonder if there are Sanctus holidays and celebrations that aren't related to life on Verra.
How do Ren'Kai worship Norlan differently than Vek? Do they have the exact same naming conventions for their calendars and holidays?
We'll have to see how deep the Ashes devs take us with the various regional and cultural differences.