1. Events

Day of Welcoming

Festival
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A week-long holiday celebrating the arrival of the settler races in Thylea and the warm welcome some of the inhabitants gave them. Replaying their arrival the settler races offer gifts and acts of kindness to all others throughout this week: many will give out possessions, volunteer to help and feed people in need.

Those who have arrived in Thylea since the last Welcoming, normally through shipwrecks, are the guests of honour at any celebration they find. They are then expected to carry on the tradition on future Welcoming days.

In The Kingdom of Aresia this celebration is a great event as it allows its citizens to show how they align with their predecessors’ ascetic means: large ‘feasts’ with only meagre offerings like gruel are organised for all, and the rich take great pains to be seen donating lavish gifts to the poor, often attempting to show up their rivals by making larger and larger gifts.