Holidays

Feasts Fasts
 * Bloodfeast (1st of Wehsky)
 * Spring Equinox and first day of the new year
 * Celebratory rituals of maturity for boys and fertility for girls
 * Resolutions made of Coldest Night are put into action
 * Feast of the Flowers (11th of Bloomsky)
 * Housefires are doused and ceremoniously relit by the Meister's Flame.
 * Towns and city districts hold Maypole dances.
 * Ceremonial crowning of the Flower Queens, typically young women selected by judges of the maypole dances. In high society, this often serves as an avenue to courting nobility and is fiercely coveted.
 * Generally the most lavish celebration of the year, with smaller towns creating elaborate decorations of flowers and fabrics, and expensive balls hosted by nobility with admission to all who come finely dressed. Many poor commoners work hard to craft sufficiently impressive clothes from poor materials, and especially creative or resourceful individuals often succeed. These successes are almost always visibly more impoverished than the fancifully crafted dressings of the nobility, but their efforts are usually met with admiration of their merit and skill rather than snubbing or contempt, making such an achievement the dream of many an aspiring commoner.
 * Sunfeast (1st of Waysun)
 * Summer Solstice
 * Large feasts are almost always held outdoors and great lengths are taken to facilitate inclement weather, including large open tents of sturdy, but translucent materials.
 * Massive ornate structures and constructed and burned at sunset.
 * First Harvest (11th of Haisun)
 * Traditionally the first large harvest of the year.
 * The first cut of the harvest, usually a grain husk, is carried and buried on the highest point reachable within a day's travel. In many places, this is just a hill or rocky outcropping, but in mountainous regions, it is a potentially perilous task undertaken by only the most skilled climbers of the community and it is considered a high honor to be chosen.
 * Similarly, the feasts themselves are held at the highest reasonable elevation, and many communities have robust, weather-worn, feasting halls built high into mountainsides or atop exposed hills that are used as caravan shelters throughout the rest of the year.
 * Elaborate traditional breads, often braided, are baked in the afternoon and eaten as the centerpiece of the evening feast.
 * Aged wines and spirits are opened for the feast and many are casked years in advance with the intention of being consumed on the First Harvest of a given year.
 * Moonfeast (1st of Ernmoon)
 * Autumn Equinox
 * Traditionally the second of the three yearly large harvests.
 * Championship tourneys consisting of field sports such as fencing and jousting are held, serving as the finale to the summer sporting season.
 * Celebration of charity and giving to the poor and needy.
 * Traditionally, no one is to eat more finely or in greater quantity than the poorest member of the community. Local nobles are therefore encouraged to provide for the commoners so as to similarly indulge themselves. It is often a matter of competition in high society as to who can host both the largest and fanciest feast with the neediest or most pathetic attendees.
 * Couriers ceremoniously light torches from the Archon's Hearthfire to be carried to the hearths of the First Lords, then down the hierarchy to the town Meister's hearths, which are known in each community as the Meister's Flame, which are not officially re-lit until Frostfeast.
 * Deadfeast (10th of Gastmoon)
 * Traditionally the last large harvest of the year.
 * Feasts typically feature nuts, apples, and similarly robust or hardy foods.
 * Large memorial services are held, honoring and memorializing all those departed throughout the year.
 * Liminal rituals are commonplace, from as simple as seances to full-fledged necromancy.
 * Numerous small bonfires, scattered throughout the community, are lit from the Meister's Flame. These are considered to ward off evil and act as guiding lights for lost souls.
 * Frostfeast (1st of Blustar)
 * Winter Equinox
 * Traditionally the final harvest of the year, although much smaller than the other three, and consisting of cutting any remaining crops that were unready to be cut for Deadfeast.
 * The final cut of the harvest is used to light a grand bonfire, the largest of the year.
 * Candles are commonplace throughout windows to bring light to the longest night.
 * The Meisters' Flames are extinguished and relit by fires brought from the Archon's Hearthfire from Moonfeast.
 * Wild boar are hunted and the largest or best boar in each community become the Frost Boar and the centerpiece of the feast. The hunter who brings back the Frost Boar is greatly celebrated and honored.
 * Bands of wassailers roam between houses in the evening after the feast and at least one person from every household visited is expected to either join the band, or give sufficient gifts to appease the crowd. Those that do no risk having their property harassed by the local youths.
 * Common folk often wear simple costumes, especially during the post-feast festivities. These costumes usually involved animal motifs. High society, meanwhile, traditionally holds masquerades where nobles unofficially compete to have the more elaborate or impressive costumes, also usually following animal themes.
 * Winter Feast (11th of Kultstar)
 * The smallest of the feasts, traditionally limited to household settings.
 * Households are cleaned to their best condition of the year, and excess belongings are traditionally and ceremoniously brought as offerings to the community's needy.
 * Themes of cleanliness and minimalism are celebrated with decorations being either non-existent, or tastefully crafted from simple or ephemeral materials like leaves, evergreen needles, or snow. Ice sculptures are popular among nobles.
 * Rain Fast (Weekend closest to the 22nd of Blumsky)
 * Soldier's Fast (Weekend closest to the 6th of Helsky)
 * Sweat Fast (Weekend closest to the 21st of Waysun)
 * Resting Fast (Weekend closest to the 6th of Fleksun)
 * Running of the Leaves (Weekend closest to the 22nd of Ernmoon)
 * Hollow Fast (Weekend closest to the 6th of Ljusmoon)
 * Winter Fast (Weekend closest to the 22nd of Blustar)
 * Coldest Night (Weekend closest to the 13th of Kultstar)