Waterdhavian Festivals Elven

Daily

• High Flow: Deep Sashelas. Celebrated at high tide with offerings and complex patterns swum in the waters. Joyous celebration emphasizing beauty, creativity, and artistry.
• Deep Ebb: Deep Sashelas. Celebrated at low tide with offerings and complex patterns swum in the waters. Grim, martial ceremoney emphasizing the remembrance of those who are lost and vigilance against the ever-present enemies of the Undersea.

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Monthly

• Late'quor (Crescent Moon): Corellon Larethian. Translated as "Forest Communion of the Crescent Moon," this rite sees the faithful offering up music, song, dance, and the offering of the most beautiful things of their own hands. Such art is usually retained by shrines and temples, but has occasionally been known to vanish entirely, taking to Arvandor. In such instances, great works of magic sometimes occur, resulting in a reshaping of the landscape, mighty blessings bestowed on the creator of the art or even a "trade", leaving behind an item that is readily enchanted and held as a relic of the faith.
• Midnight Gambol (Full Moon): Erevan Ilesere. Celebration in a new, secret place each month, gained by word of mouth (though those clever enough to find it without being told are welcome). Often joined in revels by fey, and includes the sacrifice of beautiful objects (many stolen), dancing, wine, tale-telling and endless pranking.
• Secrets of the Heart (Full Moon): Hanali Celanil. Romantic, blissful revels where those who are romantically involved are said to find the brightest expressions of their hearts. Sacrifices of beautiful things are made to Hanali, some of which are whisked into Arvandor, and the others given back out among the faithful. Artists often unveil their newest works at these events, and lovers often formally declare their troth to one another secretly or in public.
• Lunar Hallowings (Full Moon): Sehanine Moonbow. Personal meditation, followed by communal entering into a trance state, followed by a freeform dance beneath the moon.
• Hunter's Thanks (Full Moon): Solonor Thelandira. Gathering of the Great Archer's faithful to give thanks for the skills he bestowed upon his people and the bounty this has brought them. Hunters sacrifice hunting trophies, and arrows engraved with the god's symbol are fired into the air (away from where anyone might be struck by them).

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Month of Hammer

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Midwinter (Festival)

• The Dark Court Slaughter: Shevarash. A holy day in recognition of the Slaughter that is part of Shevarash's mythos, and vows of vengeance against the drow are sworn. Accompanied by a grim feast of bitter foods and plain spring water, with tales of the treachery of the drow and victories against them.

Month of Alturiak

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Month of Ches

• Dance of Swirling Winds (Ches 19th; Spring Equinox): Aerdrie Faenya. Days of strong winds where celebrants make offerings of beautiful feathers and wind music, and the fervency of their dance causes clergy to rise into the air to dance among the winds as a gift from the goddess.
• The Budding (Ches 19th; Spring Equinox): Rillifane Rallathil. Joyful celebration of new life celebrated through dance, sonce and preceded by an extended period of fasting. A ritual hunt is undertaken, the meat of which serves as the break-fast for the faithful. Celebrates Rillifane's bounty and reminds that the natural cycle of life plays out beneath his boughs.

Month of Tarsakh

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Greengrass (Festival)

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Month of Mirtul

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Month of Kythorn

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Month of Flamerule

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Midsummer (Festival)

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Shieldmeet (Once every 4 years)

• The Melding of the Three: Angarradh. Celebration of the tripartite goddess and the unification of the Three that make her up, which has led to centuries of peace in Arvandor. Great hymns to Angarradh are sung and a great feast is held.
• Cinnaelos'Cor: Corellon Larethian. Called "The Day of Corellon's Peace," Shieldmeet is celebrated as sacred to the Protector of the elven folk, and a time to wage peace and come to accords between folk. Agreements wrought on this day are sacred, sanctified by Corellon himself.
• The Keen-Eye Meets: Solonor Thelandira. Great archery competition, in which the winner is thought to gain the "Keen-Eye Mark" of the Great Archer, granting greater accuracy with a bow until the next Shieldmeet.

Month of Eleasias

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Month of Eleint

• Dance of Swirling Winds (Eleint 21st; Autumn Equinox): Aerdrie Faenya. Days of strong winds where celebrants make offerings of beautiful feathers and wind music, and the fervency of their dance causes clergy to rise into the air to dance among the winds as a gift from the goddess.
• The Transformation (Eleint 21st; Autumn Equinox): Rillifane Rallathil. Celebration of the turning of the season and the transformation that comes to all; celebrated by those seeking a transformation or rebirth for themselves. Celebrates the eternal cycles of life.

High Harvesttide (Festival)

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Month of Marpenoth

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Month of Uktar

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Feast of the Moon (Festival)

• Mystic Rites of the Luminous Cloud: Sehanine Moonbow. As the "Lunar Hallowings," save that the ecstatic dance sometimes results in the transformation of all the dancers into a cloud of numinous silvery mist, commingling their essences and thoughts. The cloud then rises into the sky, flowing across the heavens in mystical flight. During this time, the sacred mysteries of Sehanine are revealed, although not all who partake recall much of what they experience when the dawn's rays touch the cloud and bring it to earth, returning the worshippers to their bodily forms.

Month of Nightal

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