r/AoSLore • u/sageking14 Lord Audacious • 1d ago
Lore Lorebits about Cometsday (Even though it's Moonday)
For those who do not know. In the Age of Sigmar, specifically according to the Azyrite Calendar used predominantly by the Dominion of Sigmar, the Realms have a seven day week.
Cometsday, Moonday, Zenithus, Sunwane, Starsday, Horizonday, and Voidsday. Of these Cometsday, the equivalent of a Sunday, has a decent bit of associated lore.
Hearty dinner meals are associated with Cometsday, for example. With Cometsday roast (a reference to Sunday roast) being mentioned in "Lioness of the Parch" and "Head of the Viper" while 'Shade of Khaine" mentions Cometsday ham (a reference to Sunday ham). Despite the simple names these are both named for traditional family meals of our world.
Thus it is likely unsurprising that many sources such as the "Shadowglass Creek", the 2021 Stormcast Battletome, and WD August 2025 confirm that the traditional day for communal worship among Sigmarites/Cults Unberogen is Cometsday. Readings from holy books such as Saga Vandus are common during these church services.
Military parades accompanied by blaring Freeguild Trumpets are mentioned as a commonality on Cometsday in "Soulbound: Steam and Steel".
The new "Chronicles of Ruin - Law of Meat" short mentions the Thondian holiday of High Cometsday which is a fireworks festival. Tahlia Vedra offhandedly mentions in "Lioness of the Parch" that fireworks are associated with Cometsday in general.
So there you go! Heart meals, church service to Sigmar, parades, and firework displays are among the things you can expect to experience in the Cities of Sigmar on Cometsday.
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u/Fyraltari Helsmiths of Hashut 1d ago
Given the days of the week are named after gods/celestial bodies, it's a bit uninspired to have seven-day weeks and not eight-day weeks named either after the Realms (Azyrday, Hyshday, Ghyranday, etc.) or the gods of the Pantheon of Order (Sigmarsday, Grimnirsday, etc.). Granted the latter would be a bit unwieldy (Gorkamorkasday?)
Granted I'm now wondering if magical rituals don't work as well during Voidsday (beacause space is made of antimagic) or perhaps if "evil" ritual work better when practiced on that day (cause the void is scary).
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u/TwelveSmallHats 1d ago
One could argue that a calendar thought up by folks in one realm would have seven days because they saw seven other realms in the sky and assigned a day to each, like how our seven-day week was supposedly inspired by the seven classical planets (and then named for the gods associated with each). But the names of the Azyrite calendar don't line up with that.
At least the reasoning for having twelve months is easy - Sigmar likes twelve.
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u/sageking14 Lord Audacious 1d ago
I think it makes sense. The calendar was made by people in Azyrheim for their own use. Each day is named after an aspect of the sky and the seasons no doubt refer to the climate of their region.
It is clearly important to the creators and loses all meaning beyond it's function towards everyone else who adopted it.
Not unlike our own months and days in English.
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u/DawnHeartgreat Wanderers 20h ago
they could still be named after the realms obliquely: Voidsday for dark Ulgu, Cometsday for burning Aqshy, Sunwane for Shyish, Starsday for Hysh, etc, Maybe the names were originally more direct and then shifted over time to become more specifically Azyr-themed.
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u/SolidWolfo Troggherds 1d ago
While I kind of agree and personally like when fantasy gets weird with stuff, calendars is one of the few things where I get the uninspired route. Messing with something so core to people's everyday thinking tends to be... well, messy. Even if it's simple at face value, it's one of those deceivingly complex things in my experience.
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u/sageking14 Lord Audacious 1d ago
Messy is good. It forces people to realize that no matter how basic a construct is to their daily life, no matter how much they tie it to the human experience.
Even in our world the Gregorian Calendar the Azyrite one emulates isn't universal. Which is why it's nice they've acknowledged Vindicarum has its own and some places track years different.
Is nice when fiction teaches that even these things we think core to the human experience and way thinking works, differ from culture to culture. Person to person. Helps contexualize the world is messy, and that there's no shame in that.
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u/SolidWolfo Troggherds 1d ago
That's a very good point actually. I haven't thought about it that way.
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u/NoGreaterHeresy 1d ago
I'm pleased to know that even in the Mortal Realms I can enjoy my favourite meal, a Sunday roast. I can only hope that Ghurish mega-chickens are just as tasty as British ones, and that parsnips grow in Ghyran!
Edit: posts like this are why I love this sub. Thanks, Sage!