Any Thanksgiving-like holidays celebrated by anyone in FR?
other holidays are based on the various religions....
all though... if they do haqve a christmas styled holliday, midwinter's eve?
When is the Kara Turan New year's any way?
Not sure how it would match up on our calendar. Not all our months have 30 days in them, so it might be off a day or two, depending on the month. And the Realms have extra days in there, effectively giving some months 31 days in the Realms, so its similar to our calendar, but February screws it up, stupid February.
As a side note, there's a Christmas analog in Waterdeep, complete with Old Carvas, some mythical peddler figure who arrival marked the first caravan to arrive after a particularly harsh winter, or some such... though I believe it took place in spring, so not that close of an analog I guess. At any rate, most of the big holidays we know would probably be celebrated in places where the Fey had left their marks the strongest, given the distinctly pagan origins most of our current big holidays have.
Nature gods such as Chauntea and those who watch over seasons are a good bet to have festivals similar to thanksgiving. Harvest time for Chauntea coinsides with a solemn High Prayer of the Harvest, but this sounds a lot more restrained than Thanksgiving is. Her envigorating carnivallike festival is during Greengrass.
We elves celebrate a holiday where we feast on the corpses of dead humans and give thanks to Corellon and of course ourselves for the success of our evil plots. 
We of course do no such thing, but I'm sure Stigger et al. think so. :P
We elves celebrate a holiday where we feast on the corpses of dead humans and give thanks to Corellon and of course ourselves for the success of our evil plots.
We of course do no such thing, but I'm sure Stigger et al. think so. :P
Drow elves might, although they may have trouble finding a sufficient supply of humans, and they would probably be too sophisticated for that anyway. However, I'm sure they feed human/orc/goblin/whatever kind of meat they can find to their slaves. (Soylent Green anybody?)
More on topic, I don't think you would really have anything resembling a pilgrim/indian thing in the realms, unless elves helped out some humans to settle a new area, which in theory could be any old, major city/city-state/nation.
We elves celebrate a holiday where we feast on the corpses of dead humans and give thanks to Corellon and of course ourselves for the success of our evil plots.
Thats supposed to be a closly guarded secret!
We elves celebrate a holiday where we feast on the corpses of dead humans and give thanks to Corellon and of course ourselves for the success of our evil plots.
We of course do no such thing, but I'm sure Stigger et al. think so. :P
Elves are a lot of things, but cannibals isn't one of them. Hells, they're barely carnivores at all... yet another reason they can't be trusted.
sushi? they dont eat that stuff in Faerun, or do they....
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ok back on topic, So what holy days does chantea have? would one of them match up with the American holiday of Thanksgiving? Im thinkin Feast of the Moon, or maybe Highharvestide?
Feast of the Moon is nothing like Thanksgiving. Highharvestide only partially fits.
Flipping thru the Faiths & Avatars book, and found this:
"High Prayers of the Harvest celebrate the bounty Chauntea has given a community and are held at different times in each community to coincide with the actual harvest of crops, rather than precisely on Higharvestide."
So that sounds pretty close to a Thanksgiving in the Realms. Maybe they celebrate something even more similar to Thanksgiving over in New Waterdeep?
Flipping thru the Faiths & Avatars book, and found this:
"High Prayers of the Harvest celebrate the bounty Chauntea has given a community and are held at different times in each community to coincide with the actual harvest of crops, rather than precisely on Higharvestide."
So that sounds pretty close to a Thanksgiving in the Realms....
As stated, I am well aware of the religious and harvest tie in's with the holiday. I am more concerned about one that also includes "new beginnings", so to say. One that mimics the circumstances of the pilgrim's.
Which is why, more or less, why I mentioned the "obscure" part in my OP.
Flipping thru the Faiths & Avatars book, and found this:
"High Prayers of the Harvest celebrate the bounty Chauntea has given a community and are held at different times in each community to coincide with the actual harvest of crops, rather than precisely on Higharvestide."
So that sounds pretty close to a Thanksgiving in the Realms....
As stated, I am well aware of the religious and harvest tie in's with the holiday. I am more concerned about one that also includes "new beginnings", so to say. One that mimics the circumstances of the pilgrim's.
Which is why, more or less, why I mentioned the "obscure" part in my OP.
Well thats the best i could come up with, but like i said New Waterdeep might have a more Thanksgiving type thing going on, being in the 'New World" and all. I beleive Stig mentioned something about Turmish having a Thanksgiving like celebration? Ill go read up on some Turmites.
To be honest i dont think ive come across any holidays in the Realms that arent tied to a deity, aside from Greengrass, Highharvestide, Feast of the Moon, Sheildmeet, Midwinter & Midsummer.
Well thats the best i could come up with....
And I appreciate you looking into it.
And you won't. Even those you mention get lip service due to the deity in control of the portfolio each falls under.
And at least one of those is used *as* a religious holiday by a non-human race.
And you won't. Even those you mention get lip service due to the deity in control of the portfolio each falls under.
And at least one of those is used *as* a religious holiday by a non-human race.
Well dont be all cryptic, which holiday and which race?
Hey now, she was only half elven and not even as far as we know a follower of the Seldarine.
Man, I loved that book.
Uh-huh... sure, right...