Once a year, the larger cities hold a parade where all the participants wear elaborate monster costumes.
The final attraction in the parade is the “holy paladin” with an elaborate armor outfit and costume weapons who is driving the “monsters” away. The role of the paladin is chosen by popularity contest and is considered a great honor, and is almost never an actual paladin.
Masquerade ball
An event for the upper classes and nobility. Participants ballroom dance while wear highly concealing masks and costumes. Because everyone’s identities are hidden, participants cut loose. Some use the anonymity to make connections and secret alliances.
Emberdance
A festival of light and movement against the dark. Torchlit processions, fire-spinning performances, and dancing around a bonfire, people drink into the night sharing stories.
It is popular in rural communities as they offer praise to the gods for an early spring.
Frostward Vigil
As the longest night of winter falls, the people light lanterns etched with warding runes to protect themselves from the undead. They honour their ancestors with warm hearty meals and share stories.
The living promise to keep the sacred lights burning through the longest night. As long as their lanterns hold bright and their torches blaze, no restless spirit may enter the town.
Feast of Plenty
Communities and neighbours take turns cooking meals for each other. Based on when a famine swept through the land.
They may have communal hotpots and large gatherings.
Orctoberfest
A yearly weeklong celebration commemorating the defeat of a massive army of orcs that had once waged war across the land. Lots of drinking of fermented beverages, dancing, and general public revelry celebrating them being forced back to the mountains.
Harvest Moon Dance
As the full harvest moon rises, everywhere is alive with music, laughter, and the scent of roasted autumn foods. Lanterns sway from wooden poles, casting warm light over dancers around a bonfire. At midnight, the townsfolk carry glowing lanterns in a silent procession to a nearby hill, offering thanks beneath the moon’s silver gaze to Gods such as Pelor.
