Dance into Darkness

Dance into Darkness is a ceremony practiced at weddings in the City State of Styx in which the bride and all her grooms have their eyes covered and while wearing a pendant of great-oak wood around their neck at height of their heart and must find each other without relying on sight.

This tradition symbolizes the descent of the Sumraki-Ashaī into the Deeplands in their Great Exodus and how they did not originally possess the ability to see in darkness but had to develop it over millenia.

The pendant worn by the grooms and bride is fashioned of the wood of the Great-Oaks of the Leshivoi Forest and often shaped as a ring with a latch that allows it to be interlocked with the other necklaces in the set.

The string that holds the ring is, depending on the wealth of the betrothed’s families’, either leather or spidersilk.

The wood of Great-Oaks is special in the regard that it emits a low thumping sound in a stable repeating and synchronized manner.
All great-oak wood no matter where within Aman-ya emits this sound roughly every 12 seconds which allows the betrothed to find each other in this ceremony.
The pendants used in this ceremony are called Lyuban and are worn by wedding partners for the rest of their lives.