Waterdhavian Festivals

Daily

• Sunrise Service: Lathander. Welcoming rites to Lathander as the day begins.
• Twilight Service: Lathander. Solemn rites asking Lathander to watch over his faithful as the night comes.
• Song of the Sword: Tempus. A rousing holy battle chant performed just after dark in temples, invoking Tempus' strength of arms through the night and unto the following day.

Tendaily

• Feast of Love: Sune. Intimate gatherings of the faithful in which they recline on cushions and couches, eating bitelets and sipping liquers, while enjoying solitary dancers interspersed with readers of poetry and romantic prose. Such gatherings always break up into more private groups afterwards.

Monthly

• Full Moon Revel: Selune. Open-air dances and prayers under the moonlight with sacrifices of milk poured out upon the altar.
• New Moon Revel: Selune. Open-air dances and prayers under the moonlight with sacrifices of wine poured out upon the altar.
• Grand Revel: Sune. A dusk-to-dawn party in which outsiders are invited, dancing and minstrelsry dominate and those of the faith seek converts with fun and an exhibition of the temple's beautiful or art objects.

Annual

Hammer

• Cold Counting Comfort (Hammer 15th): Waukeen. A sacred time to tend to accounting and inventory duties.

Alturiak

• Great Weave (Alturiak 20th): Waukeen. A celebration of cloth-making and weaving, with cloth woven during this month believed to be truly blessed. The Most Excellent Order of Weavers & Dyers and the Order of Master Taylors, Glovers & Mercers consider this a very important festival.

Ches

• The First Tide (When Ice in Harbor breaks): Umberlee. Flute-and-drum parade through the streets by the clergy and faithful, celebrating the breaking of the ice. An animal sacrifice is taken down to the harbor, tied to a large stone and thrown into the water. If it washes back ashore, it is rescued and nurtured back to health, and tended as a sacred animal.
• Song of Dawn (Ches 19th; Spring Equinox): Lathander. Praise-song that blends purely vocal harmonies and counter-harmonies of incredible complexity. Can be heard for blocks around echoing through the Spires of Morning.
• First Feast (Ches 19th; Spring Equinox): Mielikki. Holy rituals and revels where the faithful of Mielikki are expected to enjoy the sensual pleasures of life and sing praises to the Lady in the forest.
• Highcoin (Ches 30th): Waukeen. A grand feast with spoken accolades, accompanied by trumpet fanfares, hailing the wealthy for amassing such worth. Offerings are amassed for the next festival, Spheres.

Tarsakh

• Spheres (Tarsakh 10th): Waukeen. Glass spheres are filled with gems and gold to be paraded around the city. They are then loaded into catapult-like contraptions to be lobbed into the air to shatter and spill their contents over the city for the general populace.

Greengrass (Festival)

• The Wild Ride: Mielikki. The Lady causes herds of unicorns to gather in forests and permit the faithful to ride them bareback on wild tears through the forest through the night. The unicorns are empowered to use their teleport powers at unlimited use and triple range, allowing them to travel great distances.
• Sunite Revels: Sune. Sunites celebrate Greengrass with frolicking in the outdoors.

Mirtul

• Sammardach (Mirtul 12th): Waukeen. A festival celebrating a rich benefactor of the early church of Waukeen.

Kythorn

• Second Feast (Kythorn 20th; Summer Solstice): Mielikki. Holy rituals and revels where the faithful of Mielikki are expected to enjoy the sensual pleasures of life and sing praises to the Lady in the forest.
• Brightbuckle (Kythorn 21st): Waukeen. A parade of the faithful around the city, inviting everyone to don their best and join the parade, which ends at a space with a massive feast, where inspirational talks and reminders of the growing prosperity of the land are given, along with illusions showing the recent works of Waukeen. Those not of the faith are welcome, but likely to be targeted with conversion attempts.

Flamerule

• Sornyn (Flamerule 3rd - 5th): Waukeen. A time for planning, the making of treaties and agreements and receiving of envoys from unknown lands. Much wine is traditionally consumed during this time, when "my enemy is like a brother to me".

Midsummer (Festival)

• Song of Dawn: Lathander. Praise-song that blends purely vocal harmonies and counter-harmonies of incredible complexity. Can be heard for blocks around echoing through the Spires of Morning.
• The Wild Ride: Mielikki. The Lady causes herds of unicorns to gather in forests and permit the faithful to ride them bareback on wild tears through the forest through the night. The unicorns are empowered to use their teleport powers at unlimited use and triple range, allowing them to travel great distances. On days where Shieldmeet follows Midsummer, the Wild Ride may continue through that day.
• Midsummer Night: Sune. Sunite temples organize all-night revels that feature flirtatious chases through forests and parks.
• Luckfeast: Tymora. A long night of free-wheeling revelry, filled with mischief and romantic trysts.

Shieldmeet (Once every 4 years)

Shieldmeet Years: 1348, 1352, 1356, 1360, 1364, 1368, 1372 DR.

Eleasias

• Huldark (Eleasias 17th): Waukeen. A feast in which the bounty of the land is celebrated, and the faithful of Waukeen plant new trees or gardens.

Eleint

• Spryndalstar (Eleint 7th): Waukeen. A celebration of the enrichment that magic has brought to folk. Mages are invited to speak and demonstrate their talents, and young mages are often sponsored in their endeavors.
• Song of Dawn (Eleint 21st; Autumn Equinox): Lathander. Praise-song that blends purely vocal harmonies and counter-harmonies of incredible complexity. Can be heard for blocks around echoing through the Spires of Morning.
• Third Feast (Eleint 21st; Autumn Equinox): Mielikki. Holy rituals and revels where the faithful of Mielikki are expected to enjoy the sensual pleasures of life and sing praises to the Lady in the forest.

Marpenoth

• Marthoon (Marpenoth 1st): Waukeen. Recognition of the vigilance and work of soldiers and guards to defend the wealth and security of the folk. Such folk are feasted and given gifts of gold. Each temple sponsors the retirement of one lucky soldier or guard by providing him or her 10 times his or her weight in common coin and a steading to enjoy it on.
• Starfall (Marpenoth 22nd): Tymora. A celebration of new and lucky beginnings, believed to mark the death of the old goddess Tyche, and the birth of Tymora. Clergy who have earned advancements and acclaim receive them this time of year, and all clergy are given new vestments.

Uktar

• Tehennteahan (Uktar 10th): Waukeen. Also called the Night of Hammers and Nails, in which the inventions of simple craftsmen and their work are celebrated. New innovations are demonstrated, shops are shut to allow the craftsmen time to enjoy the festival, and one lucky innovator has the rights to his works purchased for the price of a single room in his dwelling filled with gold.

Feast of the Moon (Festival)

• Praise of the Valorous Dead: Tempus. A great time of solemnity in which the Valorous Dead - a roll of those who have fallen in battle that year - are added to the ever-growing list kept of such by each temple.

Nightal

• Fourth Feast (Nightal 20th; Winter Solstice): Mielikki. Holy rituals and revels where the faithful of Mielikki are expected to enjoy the sensual pleasures of life and sing praises to the Lady in the forest.
• Orbar (Nightal 25th): Waukeen. A remembrance for the dark side of wealth, in which prayers are said for those driven mad by their miserliness, those slain by thieves and brigands, and those who died trying to acquire coin (legally or otherwise). The public is invited to a Candle Feast wherein well-loved deceased merchants are remembered with praise, and the church reminds those in the community that it has the power to trace and hunt down thieves who steal the wealth of those that worship Waukeen - and it will use it.