Festival Of Hope

[Lucas 125]

Event Planners, MC Names:

This event would most likely have to be coordinated with GM's as I plan for this to be similar to that of the halloween clones in such games as World of Wacraft, but with our personal lord of the craft twist.

Event Date:

Anywhere between or including 25th October to 5th November

Event Type:

A halloween like holiday, but with a special Lord of the Craft twist ;)

Players/Nations effected by the event:

All races from Aegis will have a certain event and lore behind it, the native races such as the Kharajyr and Mori will have their own personal twist.

Event Location:

There will be festivities all over the lands with each village setting up their own "Pumpkin Shrines" with activities to complete with each. The nation capitals (as well as the cloud temple) however will have the largest and the most numerous.

Summary:

The lore...

Over 20 years have past since the great devestation of Aegis. The battles with the undead still bare great weight in the minds of those who remember. The time is coming when the newer generations are forgetting about the pain and suffering of those terrible days, yet the elders understand that this should not come to pass. For those lessons which are forgotten are not learned, but those which are remembered can be used to prevent future strife.

Once a year on a day which some remember as the day the undead took their family from them, or the day that the undead took the wandering wizard, or even the day that they left their homes in search of a future. In all these days there was a spark of hope, a glimmer of a chance that they would get back on their feet and live to fight another day. Hope.

The disfigurement of undeath leaves a face that is not easily forgotten, from the rotten flesh to the dangling tendrils of hair which the rot has not quite gotten rid of yet; the smell, the sense that you are in the presence of something just plainly wrong. These things can only be recognised if they are remembered, portrayed by a common article, a good which all are familiar with because once upon a time that face was familiar too. That face had a family, had a home, had love. All that was stripped away.

Placing a light in a pumpkin, which had been carved into the likeness of the dead came the solution. The light was the glimmer of hope that one day the darkness would be forever extinguished, and the pumpkin represents that which was once good but was lost to the darkness. In combination it creates all that needs to be remembered in order to never forget the most important lesson in all of the Worlds history.

Festivities, games and food.

"Pumpkin Shrines"

Or Pumpkin rings depending on how it is set up. These are made up of "creatures" of all sizes and shapes representing the undead and the monsters of the night. Candles or torches are placed around each of the creatures to represent all the loved ones that are lost (this is usually only practised by those who had a direct connection to such losses, but it can also be common that those of the younger generation would also do so out of respect). At the end of the night (after the other festivities have been completeed) depending on the village the shrine will either be burned, dismantled or destroyed in some way to represent the victories over the undead, and the fact that mortals will never and would never give up the fight. The burning of the shrines is a lot more common as it represents the mortal hope's triumph over the darkness of the undead.

Over time however these "representations" slowly become part of folklore and history, more commonly told around camp fires (or burning pumpkin shrine fires) as a scary and interesting story to tell. It becomes more and more common over time for people to just enjoy the holiday as one to remember and cherish mortal spirit, and an excuse to drink pumpkin based wines and ales.

"Peg the snowball at the gollem"

It is not entirely understood how a snow gollem is created. Some hypothesise that the magical energies left over by the sundering of the nether leaked into the world to create a magically charged atmohsphere which reacts with the shape of the gollum producing a half life. Others believe that it is merely the universes way to create life whereever it can, thus by creating the shape of a creature you are in a way creating that creature.

In any case, a gollum made out of snow or dirt is created and placed inside an enclose pen. The aim of the game is to throw as many snow (or mud) balls at the gollum. There are many different aims of this game as many villages construct the game differently.

Some villages with more archery focused citizens will attempt to kill the gollum with arrows, while others may try to force the gollum into an enclosure, with multiple enclosures for each team or person participating in the game. Others may even release a wild creature into the enclosure and have multiple enclosures, the aim is to see which gollum survives the longest.

It is uncommon for bets to be placed on this day, as many are focused on just having a good time and enjoying the celebrations but I can happen.

"Hit the pumpkin"

This is a common one for the younger children, but can be practised by mortals of all ages. The aim of the game is to hit a stationary target, usually a gollum with either a snow or a mud ball.

"Foods"

Many unique foods and beverages are created in preparation for and during the event. There is an old bakers saying which says: "The food baked on the day, is food tastier on the day." which leads to many a chef creating the food on the day.

Pumpkin pies are common occurenses, along with pumpkin cake and pumpkin soup. Pumpkins are also fermented to create pumpkin ale and pumpkin wine, which can be served hot depending on the location of the festival. Pumpkin cider is generally served for the younger children.

Pumpkins are not the only food served on the day, but they are the most unique of the festival.

Other Information:

"Other festivities"

Food is usually eaten around a crackling bonfire. Statues are also erected of favourite undead fighting hero's from legend.

This can event can be connected to the "Dance of the Dead", but would not be on the same day and is nowhere near as morbid.

[Ursolon 197]

Bring this up in 7 months.

[Jutra 51]

Honestly I really like this - it's well thought out the lore is well thought out too. We should try to do this.

[bungo 3963]

Bring this up in 7 months.

The time states from October 25th - November 5th. It is in 7 months.

Anyways, I do like this idea. It's much more thought out than events that we've had in the past for Holidays.

[Lucas 125]

Bring this up in 7 months.

The problem with ideas are, they are not stationary. I don't seem to be able to permanently store an idea in my head and bring it back 7 months later 100% of the time, thus I made this for reference. The more time that there is for people to decide whether or not it is good enough, the better the event would become.

What I have written is a skeleton of an event. It has some ideas but right now its stuck together with sticky tape and glue. A truly successful event comes from the thoughts and ideas of an entire community rather than a single person.

[Adkai 6]

I support this idea, it's pretty nice. Maybe the Kharajyr can chose a kitten to sacrifice to Metzli or something creepy like that. Mwuhahahaha!

[Viper3X 1056]

This event has been denied by the Event Team.