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Latest revision as of 12:11, 5 January 2025
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The Festival of Fallen Knights is a memorial holiday honoring knights and others who died fighting Iuz.
"A tradition has arisen throughout the Flanaess\ in the years since the Greyhawk Wars’ end. Called by some the Festival of Fallen Knights, others the Festival of Dead Knights, and sometime even Old Wicked’s Evening, the festival is a morbid carnival remembering the horrors of Iuz and his War against the Flanaess, and all who died defeating him. The Festival of Fallen Knights is a strange combination of carnival and memorial, where the real, ever-present threat of Iuz has been demonized into a grotesque bogeyman, the vilified jester of the day who is burned in effigy on roaring bonfires across the continent.
The center of the Festival is a giant bonfire, which burns for three days once it is lit. The bonfire is started on the first day of the Festival. At larger celebrations, a large wicker knight, called the Fallen Knight, helps feed the bonfire. The Fallen Knight represents the memory of those who died in the Wars, and its burning symbolizes their sacrifice for the Flanaess."[1]
| Greyhawk calendar | |
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| Days | Starday • Sunday • Moonday • Godsday • Waterday • Earthday • Freeday |
| Months | Fireseek • Readying • Coldeven • Planting • Flocktime • Wealsun • Reaping • Goodmonth • Harvester • Patchwall • Ready'reat • Sunsebb |
| Festivals | Needfest • Growfest • Richfest • Brewfest |
| Seasons | Winter • Spring • Low summer • High summer • (Summer) • Autumn |
| Solar events | Spring equinox, Summer solstice, Autumnal equinox, Winter solstice |
| Holidays | Agelong • Blood Moon Festival • Breadgiving Day • Council Day • Council of Mayors and Manorial Lords • Crowning Day • Dark Night • Day of the Legion Will • Day of Treachery • Declaration Day • Election Day • Faerieluck • Fallrite • Feast of Edoira • Feast of Fools • Feast of Wenta • Freedom Day • Frost Days • Great Moon's Glory • Guild Days • Holy Day of Serenity • Midsummer's Day • Midwinter Night • Remembrance Day • Rollo's Day • Saint Cuthbert's Day • Spring Feast • Springrite • Thrommel's Day • Yeartide • |
References
Notes
Citations
- ↑ Festival Knight (2000) , p.3, RPGA .
Bibliography
- Mona, Erik, ed. "Campaign News". Living Greyhawk Journal #2. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, Feb 2001.
- Hudson, Brian P. "Festival Knight"'. Living Greyhawk Adaptable adventure. Renton, WA, RPGA, WotC. 2000.
Encyclopedia Greyhawkania Index
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| Topic | Type | Description | Product | Page/Card/Image
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| Festival of the Fallen Knights | Calendar | Living Greyhawk Journal #3 | 4 |