The Resplendent Fête
In the seven days approaching the 2nd Full Moon of the Twilight Age is known as The Resplendent Fête . That Full Moon marks a month until the sacred holiday of O stara and its Processional of the Old Gods . The Fête provides beings one last chance to enjoy sensual and material delights before a period of rigorous proscriptions forcing one to face the bleak reality of these waning years. It is thought that the month-long abstaining from such things as breads, fruits, alcohol, dressing garishly, and joyous song engender a mindset of melancholic mediation that drains one of optimism that the dead gods of of aeons past do not ask them to join the Processional . Those that partake in the march are said to find the next year filled with ill fortune as the Dead Gods attempt to break the spirit of those not as doleful as them. The Resplendent Fête is, as a result, an event of pure spectacle, decadence, and unbridled joy. In Orm , the streets and alleys around the Monume...





Thank you. This is very helpful.
ReplyDeleteThis is amazing. Somehow I didn't really know these were here (because I'm a knucklehead). I'm printing them out so I can peruse them before I next descend into the complex.
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