Harvest festival

The harvest festival is a ceremony that is held in Brineburgh every year in Fall. The festival celebrates the successful harvest that the farmers may have had, and is held in honour of Avar and Vimera to both thank them for their blessings so far, and to ask them for their blessing in the future. The festival itself has only been around for the last few decades, but it has grown in popularity with each passing year. Every year people from the nearby settlements and lucky travellers find themselves drawn towards this festival. Whilst the normal amount of inhabitant count of Brineburg does not exceed the hundred people, during the festival it is a buzzing place and the people around the small thorp quintuple in amount.
During the harvest festival, the local farmers and their families host a pie baking and pie-eating contest in which the families are only allowed to use local produce for their creations. The pies are stalled out on a long table in the middle of the thorp, each pie has been given a number that corresponds to the farmer or family that created it. A tribunal consisting of four independent people from the village, with an extra honorary seat reserved for the local lord of the area which is currently held by Duke Harrick, is then to test and rate the pies on their flavour, texture, and originality. In the afternoon the judges come together and deliberate on the scoring and come to a conclusion on who has won the contest. The winner of the contest is crowned king or queen of the festival. They are then bequeathed a sum of gold by the lord who sponsors the festival, and the feast that follows is thrown in their name.