Masul

Within the cities of the Hook, there is a tradition for all children born of the same year known as Masul. This takes place around the twelfth month of each year, at the end of the harvest. During this day there is wide-spread celebration and sale of crops. A portion of the crops harvested, or resources gathered, each year is redistributed to the children born sixteen years prior. This is done to afford them the best chance at starting a successful life as newfound adults.
If there are many children born within that year it is not uncommon for some nobility to take it upon themselves to bolster the supplies distributed. On the other hand when no child is born within that year it is sent, by mandate, to the lords. This mandate was set about with the idea that it would be used for future support of the people of the region but, lords being lords, it is not always so. If a child born within that year group leaves their home before the festival their portion may, at the discretion of the lord, be transferred to their family. Should the portion not be transferred, due to no living relatives or lords discretion, it, or its value, is held by the lord for at most four years. As with the case of no children being born it is left to the lords discretion as to what to do with it.
During these festivities it is common, in the larger cities, to see the local lord. In smaller locals an emissary of the lord is instead seen. Being of higher status, they are provided a place of honor at feast tables just under the children being celebrated. This too is codified by the lord M.C. Banany so that any lord thinking to take position above them shall be punished. Like the people of the land, M.C. Banany believes it is the children who are the future and they should be cared for above all else.