Post by SouthWestern Traders on Jan 29, 2018 3:01:46 GMT
Spring brought many things to celebrate for Gawant. To sponsor the many festivals to be held, the guild had procured copious amounts of ale, good workers and the resources to back it up. That alone wouldn't be enough; for the festivals and the weddings to be held to truly be successful, the attendants themselves would have to put in effort to have fun. Always a challenge.
Spring brought many opportunities for festivities. Lighting up bonfires and leading cattle between them, to celebrate that spring had arrived and that the veil between this world and the world of fairies was thin on a particular day, allowing the fairies to bless the cattle. A superstition, to be sure, but a very fun one under ordinary circumstances.
Another favorite was having children dance around a pole. The young ones thought it was pretty, the older ones found a good excuse to court each other, and the parents got a break from having to monitor their children constantly. And maybe that one boy would finally find himself a girl. The ale helped too, and it was a great time to be a traveling minstrel, who could tell tales and play music to the great gatherings of people. Not a whole lot of traveling minstrels graced those festivals.
Having been asked to do so, much of the sponsorship also went to noble weddings. While the nobles liked to be responsible for their own costs, honour and all that, the guilders found ways to help out without making the nobles feel lesser to the guilders. Providing low-cost food and ale to the nobles allowed them to still feel as if they were the ones doing the purchasing, when really it was the guilders who bore the brunt of the expense. And thanks to its low-cost and high quality, the noble weddings could enjoy feasts like no other. But without the aforementioned traveling minstrels, the nobles themselves were rather dull company, and entertainment was moderate at best. The food was decent, at the very least, and none could complain about the costs.
Unfortunately, spring was shaping up to be a dull time in Gawant.
Spring brought many opportunities for festivities. Lighting up bonfires and leading cattle between them, to celebrate that spring had arrived and that the veil between this world and the world of fairies was thin on a particular day, allowing the fairies to bless the cattle. A superstition, to be sure, but a very fun one under ordinary circumstances.
Another favorite was having children dance around a pole. The young ones thought it was pretty, the older ones found a good excuse to court each other, and the parents got a break from having to monitor their children constantly. And maybe that one boy would finally find himself a girl. The ale helped too, and it was a great time to be a traveling minstrel, who could tell tales and play music to the great gatherings of people. Not a whole lot of traveling minstrels graced those festivals.
Having been asked to do so, much of the sponsorship also went to noble weddings. While the nobles liked to be responsible for their own costs, honour and all that, the guilders found ways to help out without making the nobles feel lesser to the guilders. Providing low-cost food and ale to the nobles allowed them to still feel as if they were the ones doing the purchasing, when really it was the guilders who bore the brunt of the expense. And thanks to its low-cost and high quality, the noble weddings could enjoy feasts like no other. But without the aforementioned traveling minstrels, the nobles themselves were rather dull company, and entertainment was moderate at best. The food was decent, at the very least, and none could complain about the costs.
Unfortunately, spring was shaping up to be a dull time in Gawant.