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Saturnalia

Saturnalia is a world-spanning festival that is celebrated from the 28th of February up until the 14th of march, it celebrates the new year and the coming of spring. It is said that the world was created on the first day of spring by the great gods, but this is not true. The traditions of saturnalia are a little different depending on where you come from, but the most common ones are serving your slaves, giving handmade gifts to close ones.   The Spring Feast where every night of Saturnalia a mystical figure delivers a great feast to all settlements and families in the world, so every evening all people in the settlements, men and women, slaves and masters, young and old sit around a great table to feast. Nobody knows who the great feast master is or where he comes from but all are equally grateful for it.    Different cultures perceive the great feast master differently. For the orcs, he is a huge blue orc that rides a huge squig across the sky.    For the drow, he is a god of death and charity he emerges from the shadows unseen and unheard.    For the people of Midgard, He is the leader of the wild hunt who hunts across the skies and shares some of their bounty with the living.    For the people of Graece, he is a fat jolly man who rides a carriage driven by bulls through the streets when all are asleep.    The elves have many different interpretations of the feast master, but most often they interpret the feast master as an elemental elf of excess.    For the dwarves, the god-king of the dwarves, Gungní, rises every night from his tomb and slaughters his hog. Out of the hog flows all kinds of meat, mushrooms, and eggs. All things covered in salt from the hog's bones.    The draconic houses do not have innate traditions but they mostly adapt to whatever traditions are popular in the area.

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