The Book of Hours

Pluritine Observances: Giving of alms to the poor and sharing of food with mice.

Folk Observances: Many participate in a pageant to crown the Holly Court. Popular treats include maple candies made by freezing maple sap. Folk light their hearths with kept embers from the midsummer bonfire.

Pluritine Observances: Blackeswell hosts the largest observance, where the people put on a pageant in which an altar-boy wrestles the king's champion to the ground, causing the king to convert to the Pluritine faith.

Pluritine Observances: It is custom to keep a simple beeswax candle lit through the night, from sundown on the 28th of Lymewald to sunup on the 1st of Haggryme. This is said to help guide lingering souls to the afterlife.

Pluritine Observances: Release of stick, bark, and leaf boats down local waterways and making food offerings to feed the lost in hopes of guiding them home. Preserved pears and scones are popular treats during this time.

Pluritine Observances: It is customary to take communion with the pure, sweet water produced by praying to St. Quister. Clergy spend the week prior to this feast preparing the water for their congregants.

Pluritine Observances: Priests and clergy visit local wells and bestow blessings on them. People slaughter blessed winter calves and use them to make mince or shrid pies. The largest such observances are in and around Lankshorn.

Pluritine Observances: Folk fashion or buy folded paper doves on which they write their afflictions. These are offered in supplication in hope that St. Lillibeth will intervene to cure them. In Meagre's Reach, people construct a bonfire in the village square in which to offer their doves.

Folk Observances: All over Dolmenwood, the folk put on spring balls and light bonfires. They attend dressed as cats and accompany their revelry with screeching and discordant fiddle music.

Pluritine Observances: The Church appoints youth choirs to walk in procession singing hymns and holding candles to ward off evil spirits, cleansing the land of "witches" and "fey". It is common among the folk to engage in divinitory activities such as tea leaf readings, tarot, and others, though the Church cautions against the potential channeling of unknown spirits.

Plurtine Observances: Participants throw colored powders at each other to root out witchcraft and evil magic. Card games are a popular pastime during the feast. Prisoners throughout the Wood are treated with special kindness on this day.

Pluritine Observances: Folk bring their corn dollies, saved from the previous harvest, to plow into the first furrows. In most settlements, folk build an imitation of such a dolly to burn in effigy.

Folk Observances: Folk flock to the hillsides to watch and participate in racing cheese wheels. They cap off the day with dances and drink.

Pluritine Observances: St. Jorrael is venerated with communal prayers in the settlement squares. Folk, especially youth, like to fashion simple, uniform masks which they don before committing mischievous acts in the early evening. The Pluritine Church frowns on this behavior.

Pluritine Observances: Folk adorn their homes and churches in the radiant colors of the new blooms to ward off late frosts, then hold courtly dances in the settlement squares.

Pluritine Observances: It is customary for folk who have cows to choose their prized cows and crown them with a flower wreath. They lead their cows in a procession through town, then walk deasil around the local church seven times. After the ceremony, the cows are moved to the summer fields.

Pluritine Observances: The largest observance is in Prigwort. Throughout the Wood, folk enjoy a pageant wherein the eponymous saint is to be executed for treason, but is thrice spared by various contrivances. Throughout most of the Wood, there is little variation in the contrivances, namely that the executioners are unable to bring down their axe. In Prigwort, however, folk delight in inventing new contrivances to prevent the execution of their saint.

Pluritine Observances: Priests and clergy make rounds to bless the burrows of beetles and other insects. Folk compete to make intricate pastries in the shape of the beetles of the Wood.

Folk Observances: The night of the Summer Solstice is marked by a grand pageant that includes the crowning of the Oak Court, followed by courtly dances. A bonfire is the culminating event, and it is from this bonfire that folk take home an ember to keep their hearth lit through winter.

Though not a major saint, folk of the Wood delight in competing with one another on who can get the most people to believe outlandish things. On this day, active rumours in a settlement are all peppered with untruths.

Pluritine Observances: The largest observance is in the Woodcutter's Encampment, where folk mark safe paths through the woods with candles and other lights.

Pluritine Observances: It is customary for folk to hide trinkets for others to find. Around Castle Brackenwold, this is often a children's game that includes the hiding and finding of decorated eggs, but adults regularly participate as well.

Pluritine Observances: Folk gather in the squares with their prized oxen, which bestow blessings via an "ox kiss" upon the day's competitors, who stage wrestling matches. The oxen attributed with the most victories are crowned as royalty for the day and paraded around town.

Pluritine Observances: Folk gather at the Churches to have their harvested blueberries blessed by the clergy to remove any poisons from them. After this ceremony, it is customary to bake them into pies and tarts, or to eat them with sweet cream.

Pluritine Observances: Folk spend this day fasting and invoking the names of the seventeen archangels in prayer. At sundown, they break their fast with a simple meal.

Pluritine Observances: It is customary to hold parades for soldiers and militia members, past and present, who serve the Duchy as protectors, especially against the evil forces of the world and the Wood.

Pluritine Observances: Folk gather to remember those soldiers who have fallen in battle, no matter the justice of the cause.

Folk Observances: Around the Wood, folk hold competitions to judge all manner of pickled, brewed, and fermented foods and drinks.

Pluritine Observances: Folk reminisce on their deeds to date and make public and private resolutions to guide them in the future.

Pluritine Observances: The largest observance is in Dreg. Folk gather to hear religious parables and hold contests for the best fables and morality plays.

Folk Observances: Around the Wood, folk celebrate the autumn by carving faces into apples and hanging them at the edges of their orchards to keep pests and faeries away. Brewers bring out the first ciders of the season, and folk make an abundance of apple treats.

Pluritine Observances: It is customary for folk to reenact the saving of a falsely accused baker from the flames of an oven by St. Hollyhock. The day is also marked by the preparation of stuffed goose.

Pluritine Observances: Clergy hold public masses to absolve the sins of the faithful. Additionally, on this day, any public debt that has been outstanding for seventeen years or more is forgiven in an act of jubilee.

Pluritine Observances: This is a day of mourning, fasting, and penitence. Many folk stay at home.

Pluritine Observances: Faithful folk of the Wood observe this day in prayer and meditation, fasting and remaining silent from sunup to sundown.

Folk Observances: Among humans of the Wood (and to a lesser extent the Breggles and Mosslings), the day commences with a hunt and culminates with feasting and revelry. Folk also hang manikins of moss and wood by their ankles around the villages.

Pluritine Observances: Folk around the Wood observe this feast by gathering and stringing up mushroom "rosaries". Popular dishes during this time all include the various mushrooms that grow in Dolmenwood.

Pluritine Observances: Folk construct, repair, and gather at wild "churches" made for the animals of the Wood. There they leave treats and other enticements to bring animals closer to the faith. The day culminates in a ceremony by clergy specifically to any animals that come for the treats.

Pluritine Observances: Folk gather near local yew trees for a special sermon by their clergy. This includes a segment in which the clergy member speaks directly with the yew trees. Folk offer their blessings to the trees in hopes of, among other things, bountiful harvests.

Pluritine Observances: Demonstrating the power of faith over serpents, it is customary for clergy to engage in public acts of snake charming.

Pluritine Observances: Folk gather to reenact a pageant telling the story of St. Sedge and his victory over the spectral champion of a sorcerer king.

Pluritine Observances: It is customary for folk to gather in the squares to hear proclaimed any updates to the laws of the Duchy. Afterward, they refresh themselves with mulled wine and cider.

Folk Observances: It is customary for folk of the Wood to ride out into the woods at night hunting the Winter Hart, which they may do until dawn. If the Hart is caught, folk believe that winter will be banished for a year.