On the shortest day of the year do the free peoples of Agon celebrate the Feast of the Dawning Frost. Though the clouds may gather, the skies grow grey and cloudy, and the chill may numb the bones to the marrow, the sun will shine and warm the land again!

In honor of the rising sun overcoming the winter darkness the Agonian peoples have, for many centuries, celebrated till the first rays of dawn bring relief to the cold, frosty land! Traditionally these festivities take place around the largest tree of the forest to represent the Oaklord who stalks the darkness with his Brownie minions! Under cover of the shortest day of the year they will raid and steal from the wealthiest of the people, and leave gifts for the lowliest of hungry peasants. Perhaps it is natures way of spreading the wealth, or simply a representation of the chaos and ineffability of the universe.. or perhaps the Oaklord and his little helpers simply feel like being complete and utter tits on this one eve…

During the holiday season the “Feast-Lord Trees” can be found in every capital, decorated with the sometimes twisted and often macabre version of Agonian holiday spirit.  Anything from the ears of a fallen enemy, candy-canes  boiled to the density of a common war-hammer, and even tiny ginger-baked dwarven wizards can be seen swaying from the branches of the Feast-Lord Tree.

It is believed that these festivities first arose from the Ithwen elves paganistic worship of the sun. During the darkest and coldest days of the year, the Ithwen Shamans would pray and honor the sun with gifts and sacrifice to lend him strength. Should the sun not be honored with enough praise and worship he may not have enough strength to survive the winter!
This pagan worship has obviously been long forgotten, but the tradition of honoring the sun with celebrations, much quaffing of alcohols, and gift-giving remains till this day.

We can only speculate as to where the idea of a marauding Oaklord served by Brownies came from. Such a concept is clearly ludicrous and can only be attributed to the inebriated minds of creative celebrants…right?

And because we feel festive ourselves we uploaded an exclusive Feast of the Dawning Frost Wallpaper!