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<blockquote data-quote="Indagare Nogitsune" data-source="post: 9506369" data-attributes="member: 40018">The &quot;least&quot; of the halfling's festivals is the week-long Matron's Festival. It is sometimes called &quot;Matron's Sun&quot; because it occurs in the same week as the summer solstice. It is not so much that this Festival is celebrated with any less joy or eagerness than the others, but the rainbow-colored decorations and general feasting seem (to outsiders) much like any other time among the halflings.[SPOILER=&quot;Secret Sun Ceremony&quot;]An enclave of high-level halfling clerics and druids secretly meet with an enclave of high-level lizardfolk clerics and druids and, on noon of the solstice, they perform a ritual known as the Calling of the Sun. This ceremony has a dual purpose--on one hand it is supposed to strengthen the Dragon-khan so that they can keep the sun running another year. On the other, it is to try and call forth the Sun Reborn, a figure long-rumored in lizardfolk lore. This goddess is supposed to be Uol's child with Tide and she is further an actual solar deity, meaning if she ever appears there would be no need to worry about the sun dying.Part of the lore is that this deity (sometimes called Dioul) was shunted into the other realm with Orthil and will return with it. The ritual is supposed to give her the strength to do this feat which had killed her mother. However, other lore says Dioul is Oul reborn, a sliver of her eternal life having become trapped and reborn outside her daughters.The truth may never be known, as the high level clerics and druids avoid speaking of it, and in the long span of years Dioul has never yet appeared, but there's always hope that one day she will.[/SPOILER]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Indagare Nogitsune, post: 9506369, member: 40018"] The "least" of the halfling's festivals is the week-long Matron's Festival. It is sometimes called "Matron's Sun" because it occurs in the same week as the summer solstice. It is not so much that this Festival is celebrated with any less joy or eagerness than the others, but the rainbow-colored decorations and general feasting seem (to outsiders) much like any other time among the halflings. [SPOILER="Secret Sun Ceremony"] An enclave of high-level halfling clerics and druids secretly meet with an enclave of high-level lizardfolk clerics and druids and, on noon of the solstice, they perform a ritual known as the Calling of the Sun. This ceremony has a dual purpose--on one hand it is supposed to strengthen the Dragon-khan so that they can keep the sun running another year. On the other, it is to try and call forth the Sun Reborn, a figure long-rumored in lizardfolk lore. This goddess is supposed to be Uol's child with Tide and she is further an actual solar deity, meaning if she ever appears there would be no need to worry about the sun dying. Part of the lore is that this deity (sometimes called Dioul) was shunted into the other realm with Orthil and will return with it. The ritual is supposed to give her the strength to do this feat which had killed her mother. However, other lore says Dioul [I]is[/I] Oul reborn, a sliver of her eternal life having become trapped and reborn outside her daughters. The truth may never be known, as the high level clerics and druids avoid speaking of it, and in the long span of years Dioul has never yet appeared, but there's always hope that one day she will. [/SPOILER] [/QUOTE]

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