Batterion Feast

23rd-25th of Dimensio

Observance

The Batterion Feast is a holiday mainly held within draconic territory, loosely based in the myth of Batterion. In the days before the feast, dragons will begin to hoard prey and cook them in great smoking pits dug into the soil, cooking with the most fragrant spices, woods, and coals that can be acquired. Meat from elephants, horses, wild dogs, and rhino is highly desired for the feast, though often substituted in regions outside of Asia for cattle, donkey, and waterfowl.
All Batterion feasts will use one animal as a sacrifice meant to represent Batterion themself, killed and stuffed with undesirable cuts of meat, leftovers, organs, and inedible portions. In Europe and Africa, this is often a lion or leopard, in Asia a tiger or yak, North American dragons will often use a wolf, puma, or antelope, and South American dragons generally use a jaguar, caiman, or large snake. Most regions, when available or not restricted, will use crocodiles, alligators, or large serpents if they are available. The sacrificial representation of Batterion is most often cooked separately, generally on a bed of flat stones downhill from the rest of the food as not to contaminate it. This animal will sometimes be poured over with venom, poisonous plants, and stuffed with green potatoes and allowed to cook until nearly cremated, disposed of at the end of the three day celebration by pouring over the ashes and char until gone with wine, blood, or beer. Should large dragons die around the time of the feast, their bodies may be used within the feast itself, though never as the representation of Batterion, instead cooked and devoured with the rest of the food.
The feast is one of the few times of the year in which no territorial skirmishes are to take place, and are generally held in public territories such as parks, plazas, and city centers. It is not uncommon for multiple flights, even those with bad blood or at war with one another, to come together for the celebration, returning to ordinary relations once the feast has closed. The Blood Dragonflight and Kindal Dragonflight also often invite mortals to their feasts, under cultural understanding that 'All would be meals for Batterion, so all are to celebrate (their) fall.'