Festival of Danaa’d

Time: Annual, 14th day of Resplendent Water.

Location: Realm-wide

Host: Immaculate Order

Invitations: Public

Theme and Activity: This festival is a celebration of the Immaculate Dragon of Water, Danaa’d. The inhabitants of the Realm, from Dynast to peasant, wear clothes (or, in the case of the poor, scraps of cloth tied in hair or as armbands) displaying shades of black or dark blue and sometimes maritime imagery.

At dawn, a parade of Immaculate monks leaves each temple, carrying wave-pattern lanterns and placards displaying relevant quotes from the Immaculate texts. These monks chant the hymns of Danaa’d as they walk through the streets of their towns and cities. As they travel, they scatter water upon the streets and passers-by from wooden barrels on their backs, to cleanse their surroundings of ill thoughts.

The Festival of Danaa’d is a time to bury secrets and vices. A greedy merchant might bury the gemstones he has hoarded, a lustful young man might bury his wood-block pornography, a soldier might honour a retirement promise to his wife by burying his sword. It has been said for centuries that things buried on the festival day of Danaa’d would never resurface… but in the past few years many have begun to quietly doubt the veracity of such beliefs as the Anathema, said to have been sealed by the Immaculate of Water herself, seem to be appearing in greater numbers than ever before.