Feast of Edoira
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The Feast of Edoira is a holiday celebrated in Growfest. In the Domain of Greyhawk it is generally only celebrated with interfaith religious services held on Godsday, Growfest 4. However, in Safeton it is celebrated as a weeklong festival.
The Feast of Edoira is named after Edoira, a priest of Rao who centuries ago established the Edoiran Compact, a pact by which many of the lawful good-aligned faiths and people of the Domain could agree to cooperate. The Compact was later extended to non-lawful good and neutral faiths.
Edoira was never deified but was revered by many good faiths in the Domain. The holiday is marked by religious services on Godsday of Growfest led by the clerics of the good faiths who partook of the Compact, and secular festivals by the ordinary citizenry. Observance of the holiday has declined over the years, though the clergies of Rao and Pelor still hold their traditional interfaith services, with occasional participation by the priesthoods of Heironeous and Mayaheine. Since the end of the Greyhawk Wars most of the Domain's outlying communities no longer observe the holiday. Only one of the churches in Safeton still does so.
Daily events
In Safeton the following events take place during the Festival of Edoira:[1]
- Day one
- Solemn four-hour religious service; dancing and a large banquet in the evening
- Day two
- Small dinner banquet, moonrise party
- Day three
- Day four
- Morning prayer service; afternoon picnic; a dance in the evening
- Day five
- Day six
- The Grand Feast (served outdoors)
- Day seven
- No events, travelers depart
| 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
- ↑ A1-4 Scourge of the Slave Lords (1986), p.10.
Bibliography
- Cook, David, et al. Scourge of the Slave Lords. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1986 (pp. 5, 9-10).
- Miller, Andy. "Campaign Holidays." Dragon Magazine Annual #4. Renton, WA: TSR, 1999 (pp. 18-19).
- Moore, Roger E. The Adventure Begins. Renton, WA: TSR, 1998 (pp. 7, 43-44).
Encyclopedia Greyhawkania Index
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| Topic | Type | Description | Product | Page/Card/Image
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| Edoira | Non-player character | A1-4 Scourge of the Slave Lords | 5, 9, 10 | |
| Edoira | Non-player character | Dragon magazine #AN4 | 19 | |
| Edoira | Non-player character | Oerth Journal #10 | 23 | |
| Edoira | Non-player character | The Adventure Begins | 7, 43, 44 | |
| Edoira, Feast of | Calendar | A1-4 Scourge of the Slave Lords | 5, 9, 10 | |
| Edoira, Feast of | Calendar | Dragon magazine #AN4 | 19 | |
| Edoira, Feast of | Calendar | The Adventure Begins | 7, 43, 44 | |
| Edoira, Temple of (Safeton) | Building | Temple, | A1-4 Scourge of the Slave Lords | 10 |
| Edoiran Compact | Kingdom | Treaty, | The Adventure Begins | 7, 43 |