The document discusses several festivals and holidays celebrated throughout the year in a fantasy setting. Midwinter marks the start of the year for nobles and monarchs. Commoners in colder areas celebrate Deadwinter Day. Greengrass marks the beginning of spring. Midsummer involves feasting and romance. Shieldmeet occurs every four years and involves councils and tournaments. Highharvestide gives thanks for the fall harvest. The Feast of the Moon honors ancestors before winter.
The document discusses several festivals and holidays celebrated throughout the year in a fantasy setting. Midwinter marks the start of the year for nobles and monarchs. Commoners in colder areas celebrate Deadwinter Day. Greengrass marks the beginning of spring. Midsummer involves feasting and romance. Shieldmeet occurs every four years and involves councils and tournaments. Highharvestide gives thanks for the fall harvest. The Feast of the Moon honors ancestors before winter.
The document discusses several festivals and holidays celebrated throughout the year in a fantasy setting. Midwinter marks the start of the year for nobles and monarchs. Commoners in colder areas celebrate Deadwinter Day. Greengrass marks the beginning of spring. Midsummer involves feasting and romance. Shieldmeet occurs every four years and involves councils and tournaments. Highharvestide gives thanks for the fall harvest. The Feast of the Moon honors ancestors before winter.
The document discusses several festivals and holidays celebrated throughout the year in a fantasy setting. Midwinter marks the start of the year for nobles and monarchs. Commoners in colder areas celebrate Deadwinter Day. Greengrass marks the beginning of spring. Midsummer involves feasting and romance. Shieldmeet occurs every four years and involves councils and tournaments. Highharvestide gives thanks for the fall harvest. The Feast of the Moon honors ancestors before winter.
generally as Midwinter, though some people name it Keeping time from day to day differently. Nobles and monarchs of the Heartlands look Most people don't keep track of the time of day beyond to the High Festival of Winter as a day to commemorate notions such as "mid-morning" or "nigh sunset." If people or renew alliances. Commoners in the North, the plan to meet at a particular time, they tend to base Moonsea, and other, colder climes celebrate Deadwinter their arrangements around such expressions. Day as a marking of the midpoint of the cold season, The concept of hours and minutes exis ts mainly with hard times s till ahead, but some of the worst where wealthy people use clocks, but mechanical clocks days now past. are often unreliable, and rarely are two set to the same time. If a local temple or civic structure has a clock that Greengrass. The traditiona l beginning of spring, tolls out the passing of the hours, people refer to hours Greengrass is celebrated by the dis play of freshly cut as "bells ," as in "I'll meet you at seven bells." flowers (grown in special hothouses wherever the climate doesn't permit flowers so early) that are given as gifts to the gods or spread among the fi elds in hopes of a bountiful and speedy growing season.
Midsummer. The midpoint of summer is a day of
feasting, carousing, betrothals, and basking in the pleasant weather. Storms on Midsummer night a re seen as bad omens and signs of ill fortune, and sometimes interpreted as divine disapproval of the romances or ma rriages sparked by the day's events.
Shieldmeet. The great holiday of the Calendar of
Harptos, Shieldmeet occurs once every four years immediately after Midsummer. It is a day for plain speaking and open council between rulers and their subjects, for the renewal of pacts and contracts, and for treaty ma king between peoples. Many tournaments and contests of skill are held on S hieldmeet, and most faiths mark the holiday by emphasizing one of their key tenets. The next Shieldmeet will be observed in 1492 DR.
Highharvestide. A day of fe asting and thanks, Highharvestide A Brief History
marks the fall ha rvest. Most humans give The documented history of the Tisdale region spans several thanks to Chauntea on this day for a plentiful bounty before centuries, tracing back to the legendary tales of Baldur's winter approaches. Many who make their living by journey across the Trackless Sea. The details recounted in traveling road or sea set out immediately following the this section are primarily preserved by scholars and holiday, before winter comes on in full force and blocks historians, many of whom have dedicated their lives to mountain passes and harbors . studying the region's past. However, for the ordinary inhabitants of the continent, these historical events hold The Feast of the Moon. As nights lengthen and little significance or relevance to their daily lives. Despite winter winds begin to approach, the Feast of the Moon this, news of distant happenings in places like Faerun still is the time when people celebrate their ancestors and manages to trickle down to even the most remote villages in their honored dead. During fes tivals on this day, people the Tisdale region, albeit sporadically. gather to s hare stories and legends, offer prayers for the fallen, and prepare for the coming cold.
