The multi-day Gedderone Fête was celebrated in the city of Darujhistan in honour of Gedderone, the Lady of Spring and Rebirth.[1] Darujhistan used the festival to mark the end of winter and the beginning of its new year.[2][3] During this time, the city's population was swelled by visitors from the Gadrobi Hills, the Rhivi Plain, Catlin, and elsewhere,[4] and at least twenty to thirty thousand people were on the streets celebrating at any time.[3]
The Wolf Goddess of Winter was ceremonially carried out a week before the Gedderone Fête. Murillio commented that the Fête would fill the streets with flowers which would soon clog up gutters and drains.[1] Residents hung dyed banners from clotheslines, decorated their doorways with painted flowers and strips of bark, and tacked bushels of dried wood on the walls of every crossing.[4] Masked and half naked commoners performed the whirling dance known as the Flaying of Fander in the streets.[5]
The wealthy, dressed in silks or preposterous uniforms, attended sumptuous banquets of exotic foods where eligible young men and women were introduced to society.[3]
In Gardens of the Moon[]
The events of Gardens of the Moon concluded during the Fête.
In Toll the Hounds[]
The events of Toll the Hounds took place over the entirety of the festival, beginning on the first day and ending on the last night.[1][6]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 7, UK MMPB p.228/229
- ↑ Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 20, US HC p.402
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Toll the Hounds, Chapter 1, US SFBC p.31
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 11, US HC p.261
- ↑ Toll the Hounds, Chapter 1, US SFBC p.33
- ↑ Toll the Hounds, Chapter 23, US SFBC p.931