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**alternatively, a tradition of blood-sacrifice in [[Atla]] |
**alternatively, a tradition of blood-sacrifice in [[Atla]] |
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*The Great Opening |
*The Great Opening |
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**a festival celebrating the moonlight from the snakefolk of [[The City of Merca]] |
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*[[Ottermas]] |
*[[Ottermas]] |
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**the one day a year that druids everywhere can access the previously unavailable and elusive form of the otter |
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==Civic Holidays and Festivals== |
==Civic Holidays and Festivals== |
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*[[Ymbtrymman|If Day]] |
*[[Ymbtrymman|If Day]] |
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*[[Kurtulmak#Kurtulzaarfosk|Kurtulzaarfosk]], a festival of [[kobolds]] |
*[[Kurtulmak#Kurtulzaarfosk|Kurtulzaarfosk]], a festival of [[kobolds]] |
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*General harvest festivals, such as those in [[Cauldomo]] and [[Wistness]] |
*General harvest festivals, such as those in [[Cauldomo]] and [[Wistness]] |
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*[[Cycle Festivals]], held across the realm every 4 years |
*[[Cycle Festivals]], held across the realm every 4 years |
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*[[10th Anniversary of the Holy War]] |
*[[10th Anniversary of the Holy War]] |
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*[[Tales of Quelmar|Pudding Faire]], a festival of [[gnomes]] and halflings in the town of Honeypuddle, [[Levinkan]] |
*[[Tales of Quelmar|Pudding Faire]], a festival of [[gnomes]] and halflings in the town of Honeypuddle, [[Levinkan]] |
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*[[Athenaeum#The Splintering of the Settlement|Delving Day]] |
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**the most important holiday in [[Athenaeum (The First to be Forgotten)|Athenaeum]], Quelmar's purported first, ancient settlement |
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**originally honored the colonist's hallowed archive; later, celebrated their dogged (if tragically brief) survival |
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== CR Holidays == |
== [[CR]] Holidays == |
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* Festival of Life: A |
* Festival of Life: A winter holiday. For Pelorians, fairly religious; for everyone else, fairly secular. Celebrated at the end of the year, to provide hope and excitement for rebirth and new beginnings. Gift-giving, home-grown food, and lots of singing are staples of this holiday. |
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* The Seelie’s Ball: A spring festival. Often features playing pranks on friends and family, as well as dances - especially masquerades. This is often seen as a romantic holiday, oddly enough. |
* The Seelie’s Ball: A spring festival. Often features playing pranks on friends and family, as well as dances - especially masquerades. This is often seen as a romantic holiday, oddly enough. |
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* If Day: A fall festival. Legend has it that this holiday was originally an actual day of training and preparation for [[dragon]] attacks, but if |
* If Day: A fall festival. Legend has it that this holiday was originally an actual day of training and preparation for [[dragon]] attacks, but if dragons ever were real, they haven’t been seen in centuries. Now, it’s simply a holiday filled with traditional games, fun costumes, and lots of fall-and/or-dragon-themed food and [[alcohol]]. |
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* Dionysus Day: A summer holiday, dedicated to the arts, wine, and general revelry. A day of theatre, music, poetry, art, and drinking far, far too much. |
* Dionysus Day: A summer holiday, dedicated to the arts, wine, and general revelry. A day of theatre, music, poetry, art, and drinking far, far too much. |
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Latest revision as of 03:29, 10 October 2024
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
Here is a collection of holidays celebrated throughout Quelmar at various times.
Holy Days and Festivals[edit | edit source]
- Gnomish Holidays
- Festival of the Star
- Sparklesmas
- Catster
- Tumanor
- Ursanid Holidays
- Festival of Hoods
- Hallowe'en
- Horn's Day
- Festivals of Mielikki and Obad-hai by the Ilroch centaur herd
- Festival of Life
- a tradition of the Pelor-worshiping Evening Prayers
- alternatively, a tradition of blood-sacrifice in Atla
- The Great Opening
- a festival celebrating the moonlight from the snakefolk of The City of Merca
- Ottermas
- the one day a year that druids everywhere can access the previously unavailable and elusive form of the otter
Civic Holidays and Festivals[edit | edit source]
- If Day
- Kurtulzaarfosk, a festival of kobolds
- General harvest festivals, such as those in Cauldomo and Wistness
- Cycle Festivals, held across the realm every 4 years
- 10th Anniversary of the Holy War
- Pudding Faire, a festival of gnomes and halflings in the town of Honeypuddle, Levinkan
- Delving Day
- the most important holiday in Athenaeum, Quelmar's purported first, ancient settlement
- originally honored the colonist's hallowed archive; later, celebrated their dogged (if tragically brief) survival
CR Holidays[edit | edit source]
- Festival of Life: A winter holiday. For Pelorians, fairly religious; for everyone else, fairly secular. Celebrated at the end of the year, to provide hope and excitement for rebirth and new beginnings. Gift-giving, home-grown food, and lots of singing are staples of this holiday.
- The Seelie’s Ball: A spring festival. Often features playing pranks on friends and family, as well as dances - especially masquerades. This is often seen as a romantic holiday, oddly enough.
- If Day: A fall festival. Legend has it that this holiday was originally an actual day of training and preparation for dragon attacks, but if dragons ever were real, they haven’t been seen in centuries. Now, it’s simply a holiday filled with traditional games, fun costumes, and lots of fall-and/or-dragon-themed food and alcohol.
- Dionysus Day: A summer holiday, dedicated to the arts, wine, and general revelry. A day of theatre, music, poetry, art, and drinking far, far too much.
