Holidays of the Iliac Bay Content . The region of the Iliac Bay has a rich history , and not surprisingly , a number of holidays unique to it because of this history . The Breton and the Redguard cultures have many similarities , but just as many distinctions . An analysis of the holidays is one way to study the people . As any schoolchild could tell you , the Redguards are a relatively new culture to Tamriel . Their arrival from their homeland is actually well recorded , though it occured several thousand years ago , in the 808th year of the 1st Era . Hammerfell was a great desert encompassed by almost impassable mountains - - unclaimed and unwanted . Many of the holidays extant in modern Hammerfell seem to be direct translations of older Redguard festivals before their migration to Tamriel . The orgiastic seasonal celebrations seem unusual in a province with few changes in the weather from month to month . Yet on the 28th of Suns Dawn , the Redguards of the Banthan jungle celebrate Aduros Nau to relieve the wintertide lethargy ; on the 1st of Mid Year , the people of Abibon - Gora celebrate Drigh R ' Zimb in honor of the sun , which no normal Redguard worships in this day ; similarly , on the 29th of Suns Height , the festival in the Desert called Fiery Night , seems almost perverse in such an environment ; the Koomu Alezer ' i on the 11th of Last Seed in Sentinel has been translated as a harvest thanksgiving , though many scholars have suggested that it was once a springtide holiday ; similarly , the Feast of the Tiger in the Bantha on the 14th of Last Seed was probably once a religious holiday to a Tiger God , instead of a thanksgiving . Other old Redguard holidays have either been acknowledged as part of the old culture or adjusted to fit with the climate of Hammerfell . The Serpent ' s Dance , for example , of Satakalaam is patently an old festival honoring a Serpent God of the homeland who evidently did not survive the journey to Hammerfell . The significance of the date , the 3rd of Suns Dusk , has been lost with the Serpent Priests . Baranth Do , on the 18th of Evening Star , and Chil ' a , on the 24th of the same month , are both New Years festivals . Most likely , they have been moved from their original dates to correspond with the notion of the year defined in Tamriel . The Bretons have been in Tamriel since before recorded history . Their holidays have remained almost unchanged since primitive times , though new holidays have been created to replace those which have lost popularity . The oldest holidays still observed in High Rock must include Waking Day , on the 18th of Morning Star , when the people of the Yeorth Burrowland wake the spirits of nature after the winter , very nearly in the tradition of their more reverential ancestors . Flower Day , held on the 25th of First Seed in the smaller villages of High Rock is most likely just as old or older . The old cult of the flower is also remembered as Gardtide in Tamarilyn Point on the 1st of Rains Hand . Daggerfall ' s Day of the Dead , on the 13th of Rains Hand , suggests the ancestor worship that marked the Breton religion of antiquity . Finally , the ancient goddess of the moons , Secunda , is remembered in the Moon Festival in Glenumbra Moors on the 8th of Suns Dusk , just as the nights begin to grow longer . The more recently created holidays of High Rock are those like Tibedetha , " Tibers Day , " celebrated every 24th of Mid Year in honor of Alcaire ' s most famous , son , Tiber Septim . Likewise , Othroktide on the 5th of Suns Dawn is held in honor of the first and most illustrious Baron of Dwynnen . In quite extreme contrast , Marukh ' s Day on the 9th of Second Seed , is a solemn holiday , immortalizing the lessons of the equally solemn 1st Era prophet Marukh . My favorite of the modern Breton festivals has to be Mad Pelagius , held in mock honor of the most eccentric of the Septim Emperors . Pelagius was , after all , a prince of Wayrest before he became King of Solitude , and then Emperor of Tamriel . The Bretons like to boast that it was his time in High Rock that drove him mad .