Holidays and Festivals
==Notek Festival==
Tria 27 to 30
The Notek festival is a musical party for music lovers, creators and performers of all kinds. In the four days of Tria 27th – 30th there are all sort of activates that have something to do with music. Everyone is free to pay for a camp site on the outside of the field where they can spend their nights after a day in the field. The festival takes place in a large field on the out side of Vivuli Jungle, this is its 5th year of being held and each year they try and make it better then the one before.
Activities:
The 27th is mostly a day to get everything set up, everyone is welcome to come and set up their camp site while bands play to get the music environment started. The grills and ovens will take a bit to set up, and everyone who helps move things around will get free food and drinks for their help, around noon.
As soon as the sun sets louder bands will come to the stage and a fire work display will be set off to mark the start of the Festival.
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On the 28th the music will start around 10 in the morning and breakfast will be available and the food stands. The karaoke competition is kicked off around 6 o’clock in the evening. Everyone is welcome to come on stage and show of there singing voice, or if they don’t have the voice they are welcome to sing any way. A closing band will then perform to close of the day after the competition is over.
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The 29th festival takes a slower start, taking time to play some small unknown bands and giving them a chance to make there first real celebrity appearances. They say that many different record labels keep there eyes on the festival to find the nest big thing.
Later on all the bands who had taken part of far get on stage to battle it out. All types of bands come out and show of there best stuff. Winners are to be announced on the 30th.
--- On the last day of the festival some of the bigger bands on Ramath-lehi will come out to close the show. The winner of the battle of the bands will play one more of their songs and to close it all off will be one last display of fire works.
Every one of all ages is invited. Tickets can be bought at the front gate, for easy transportation please take your local teleport.
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Ahoner
Tria 20° to 30°
It is said that when the Ramathian deities first brought happiness upon Cyudiah, the pendragons created a feast in their honour - one of merriness and joy. Ahoner was originally far more religious, but over time, the week-long festival has changed into something far different. Taking place from twentieth of Tria to the thirtieth, Ahoner is a time where one is actually expected to be drunk, high, and running on a thread of one-night-stands. Most notable, though, are the huge celebrity parties which take place during Ahoner in vast mansions until dawn - gatherings of Ramath-lehi's most well-known figures and the idols of society.
Lybaj'tpui
Dyo 9° to 29°
In the beginning, there was nothing. As Tanastlasei breathed life, and she happened upon Cyudiha (later to be Ramath-lehi) she found there was a certain lack of something. A malfunction that maimed her people, the pendragons. A virus that couldn't be purged away. Something that, once opened, was irretrievable, irremovable, undeniable, and unstoppable. It was called hatred. So when Dymikca was blinked to life out of Fromina and blessed the 'dragons with love, countering hate, the Creator Goddess was overjoyed. She gave her thriving people a day to celebrate their love and compassion: Lybaj'tpui, or simply 'Tpui. In this two-week long holiday beginning on Dyumpai 9 of Dyo, gifts are exchanged, flowers given, and lovers walk together and publicly show their passion. At night, though, the real show begins. In city streets, boulevards, and nightclubs, flame burns along the streets, and entertainers and dancers perform impossible feats until the wee hours.
Nioties born on the days of 'Tpui are considered to be skilled in arts such as seduction and acrobatics, and to be blessed by Dymikca.
Quangest
Tria 25 to 42
One of the few Anubian holidays participated by all the Anubi. It is the day of the first victim of the plague was diagnosed, it ends on the day she died. These are days of mourning, prayer, and general worship. Temples display black banners with heavy embroidery. This is the day when many go and visit tombs of their ancestors, or choose to bury those who have died recently of the fatal illness.
Redival
Dyo 30 to 50
It is said that the first pendragons were brought to life at the beginning of Dyo, and they blossomed with the bountiful flowers and thrived with the forests which had already graced the planet for many years before Tanastlasei blessed the earth by forming life from its clay. Pendragon knowledge advanced more quickly than even the Creator Goddess had expected, and an unsophisticated but functional language had formed amongst her people before the season was half over. So pleased was the Goddess with her people that she gave them a marvellous gift - fire. Redival is the celebration of the gift of fire, a two-week festival where torches burn proudly in the center of every town and city. Many cultural displays are brought into the streets, such as dancing, play-acting, music, the vending of art, and refined cuisine, to represent and celebrate the continued advancement of pendragon culture.
Redival is considered an auspicious time of prosperity and growth. Nioties born between the 30° and 50° are considered blessed by Tanastlasei, and even business agreements, purchases or trades are considered to have good fortune.
Tumhuem
Tria 40 to 50
Tumhuem can be seen as something of the Ramathian equivalent of the terran Halloween - except in the aspect that there's no candy-giving. Dressed in costumes (often with themes tied to death, horror, and the macabre, as with the holiday's ancient relation), groups of 'dragons attend huge parties and masquerades that begin at around ten o'clock (this custom was started after the first Tumhuem party).
And, just like its Dyoian counterpart, Lybaj'tpui, Tumhuem is the time for celebrity partying. Beginning at ten o'clock on Tria 40th (the first night of Tumhuem), the rich and famous will invite over masses of those of their own social standing to their own mansions and estates, with the parties usually ended at around two in the morning. The party goers then go to sleep during the day until ten o'clock has come around again, and the party is rekindled again. A select few (usually those close to the host) will stay at the host's residence for the entire week, until the holiday has ended. However, most just hop from party to party.
The exact origins of the holiday are unknown.
