Declension

Declension is a holiday celebrated throughout most of the Akregian Empire. Though specific observances vary from region to region, most forms of the holiday involve extended families gathering together for a ten-day week and partaking in a different feast each night. The holiday is celebrated during the first calendar week of Palesun.
In some regions, especially those in the ogrian protectorate, other traditions are celebrated alongside the nightly feasts. In one variation, young children partake in a scavenger hunt, competing to find an assortment of small trinkets hidden around the house by older relatives. In others, the most recently wed couple in the household are locked in a separate port of the house for the first full day of the celebration, and are not allowed to rejoin the family until after the next sunrise.
While there is no official saint that oversees Declension, several major saints are heavily associated with the holiday. Most notably, Saint Janoah is invoked on the first evening to ensure the family members enjoy their time together, and Saint Amon is called on to protect those who travel many days to meet with their family members.

History

It is thought that Declension was originally a much more grounded observance origination in the espirian kingdom, and was celebrated during any week that all three moons were simultaneously full; during these events, folk wisdom cautioned that Lunoth the Betrayor could peer through the moons like lenses and spy on the mortal realms. To prevent this, espirians would spend the entire week indoors, not leaving their homes for any reason. This necessitated the amassing of food and other supplies, and it soon became tradition to stock up on enough food for the entire family to feast each night of the week.
After the espirian kingdom was enfolded into the akregian empire, the tradition spread across the rest of the continent. Eventually, the cultural context was lost, and the ritual was simplified into a week-long celebration of family.