Yondalla’s Boundless Table
At Highharvesttide, there are celebrations around the world to be thankful for the food they have gathered. In the small village of New Hillborrow however, the halflings and gnomes of the populace gather for a very special festival: Yondalla’s Boundless Table. As a new settlement this is still a budding tradition, a mixture of halfling and gnome traditions with a little bit of the locals’ own flair added.
Not far from the Hearth and Road Inn, at a wide point on Bridge Road, tables are gathered - all kinds, dining tables, side tables, some workbenches - and they are laid out into a great circle. No gaps are left save one, and a large flat piece of wood is laid between those two tables to be able to be withdrawn or closed off again. Chairs are placed around the outside, enough for everyone in the village plus a tenth as many again, and so the circle does have to be very big indeed! And then the feast begins (because of course it’s a feast), with food brought from every household from their farmstead or kitchen.
To facilitate this incredible banquet, the inside of the circle is for Yondalla’s Hands and Feet - roles which pass around rapidly through the night. Yondalla’s Hands are the servers - helping to pass plates, cut meat and serve drinks around the circle - spreading her bounty to the whole village. Yondalla’s Feet are the dancers - whirling around the very center of the ring in a wonderful array of folk dances of both halfing and gnomish traditions. Every so often the ring will be opened - the wood slid aside - and the Hands and Feet get to rest and partake of the feast themselves while other members of the community step in instead.
And so everyone gets a turn serving the village and dancing for them, and everyone gets a turn feasting and having a glorious evening with their fellow villagers. No one stays in the same seat for long and soon everyone has sat next to most people at Yondalla’s Boundless Table, a perfect circle of joy in the night.
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