Festival of the Undaunted Atos

It is not unheard of that entire city blocks burn during the more elaborate rituals when presided over by Boomists

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The Festival of the Undaunted Atos; a Benacian festival celebrating the Northern Hemisphere's winter solstice. It coincides with the Nazarene feast of the Holy Birth as well as the Treesia–Elwynnist feast-day of Lest. In Natopia, the summer solstice is celebrated, as well as the Natopian holiday (12.II, not moveable) of Citizens' Day.

The Festival of the Undaunted Atos is movable feast. It is held on a date in the second month (Kuspor) of the new year AN, with these dates being as follows:

• 24 Kuspor (336-day year)
• 18 Kuspor (348-day year)
• 12 Kuspor (360-day year)
• 6 Kuspor (372-day year)

Traditionally a time for sacrifices, communal feasting, and the execution of condemned criminals, it being considered unlucky to allow the guilt-ridden legacy of the last year to survive long into the new.

While there are those who maintain that the Festival is a recently invented celebration, contrived by authorities in Merensk so as to draw pilgrims and celebrants away from Shirekeep and the traditional Cedrist holy lands in Sathrati, supporters of the festivities point to its origins in the efforts of the venerated ancestors to reclaim the worship of Atos for the true religion in opposition to the pretensions of the Grand Commonwealth to universal secular and spiritual hegemony during the early 16th Century.