Valorstell Calendar

 

HOLIDAYS:

 

Frostfang:

  1st: FIRST Day: Celebrated on the first day of Frostfang marking the start of the new year. It is celebrated with cleansing rituals, parties, self reflection and identifying one's goals for the upcoming year.   26th: Alliesday: A day adventurers celebrate their allies, rules celebrate their alliances, and peace is cherished.  

Icethorn

  14th: Kotanna's Embrace: A celebration of love, youth, and beauty often involving the exchange of gifts among couples, and participation in holiday events like dancing.   19th: Shadow's Fade: A day of rememberance of the fall of Abderron.   35th: First Day of Spring: Observation of the changing of the seasons.  

Rainshadow

  13th: Dragonflight: A celebration of the day Bahamut hatched from the celestial egg. While this is a religious ceremony usually, fireworks and parades are not unheard of in certain regions.   25th: Rain's Call: A celebration of the Old Gods. Peoples gather in town to call upon the Gods to bring rain, water, and green to the world. Dances are performed, prayer ceremonies, the first seeds of the year are ceremonially planted.  

Blossomwing

  2nd: Revel's Night: A night designated to the drinking of wine and beer, to dancing in the street with strangers, and to the attending of various parties. It honors the Gods of arts, and wine.  

Breezeflower

  17th: Flower's Dance: A day in which loved ones exchange flowers. Usually there is an evening dance. Acceptance of a flower from someone is accepting them as a dance partner.  

Sunflair

  16th - Sol: In honor of Soleon the God of the sun, peoples try to take some of the sun with them into the night. Celebrated with the telling of stories by massive bon fires and the writing of all of the bad things of the last year on parchment and ceremonially burning it in the very same fire.  

Firetail

  11th - Festival of Lights: The Festival of Lights celebrates the trinity of light with Festival activities such as games and food, and the giving of gifts to absolute strangers.   19th - Starfall Night: A night to celebrate the last great comet that arrived to honor the heroes who defeated the great darkness, the heroes of light: Hrothgar, Berengar and Zaya.  

Seashell

  10th - 20th Merchant Carnival: Merchant carnivals are set up the world over which hold night markets and sell rare and beautiful things, and offer carnival games.  

Mistfeather

  11th - Day of Rememberance: A day of rememberence for the dead, and for those whom we have lost. Observed by gathering with loved ones, eating a large meal and talking about and sharing stories of times with lost loved ones.  

Leafdrift

  20th - Beastcaller's Hunt: Great hunts are had the world over and then massive feasts are had with the quarry as the maind dish.   30th - Day of Masks: A day to ward off evil spirits by dressing in costumes. Usually there is a masquerade ball had in the town square.  

Harvestmoon

  28th - Harvest Festival: A feast to celebrate a successful harvest time!  

Snowflurry

  20th - 32nd: Wintertide: The celebration of winter, of good will toward others, of generosity and love. Celebrated with sweets, decorating a tree with lights and baubles, and the exchanging of gifts.