Festival of the Thawing
Following a long winter, this is the time when the calamor gather to start a new year. During the festival, they amass as much food and as many living fish as they can. The festival itself is usually a weeklong event, and it has three distinctive phases in it.
The first phase is when the calamor gathers to meet old friends, socialize and stake their claims on where they will be hunting. Usually, this is a peaceful process because everybody is here for the fish and not to fight, but from time-to-time brawls can pop up all over places where the calamor think the hunting will be better and they can provide more for their families. The biggest issue nowadays is the increasing population to set up the fisheries and their draft animals.
The second phase of the festival is the hunt itself. There are calamor with fast dolphins near those ice sheets, which usually break first in the Spring, and when the thawing starts, they swim back to alert the hunters of the upcoming shoal of fishes. Most hunters use traditional weapons like trident, spear, and fishnet to catch as many fish as possible. In the last few years, in an increasing number, there are calamor who use modern equipment and the help of their draft animals. These calamor are frowned upon, but nobody can deny their effectiveness.
During the hunt, everybody is tolerant of each other and the many predators like sharks, barracudas, dolphins, and whales who also come to eat their whole. These shoals of fish are so vast that they only lose a few percentages of their numbers during the festivities.
After the hunt, many fish are processed and stored for later, and fisheries are attended to check whether they are overcrowded or not. It is quite a familiar scene that successful hunters share their catches with their less fortunate ones.
The third and last phase of the festival is the actual festival. To be happy, full of stomach, and drunk.
The festival of the thawing is the best time of the year
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