Swallowtail Festival

On the first of Dastween worshipers of Desna celebrate this festival mainly in Torlund, Cad'Lear and The Mithril Isles, there are also people within Duthgar and The Divided Regions of Bestaria who also celebrate this festival but those who follow Desna simply as part of The Seen and Unseen gods tend to skip this celebration. Even for those who follow Desna devotedly this is a lesser festival in comparison to Desna's other celebration The Festival of Stardust.The celebrations consist of worshipers making their way to a location they find wonderful or at least beautiful, depending on their capabilities, they then set up camp and build a fire each group/family will then often have their on traditions based on songs, food and stories but they always culminate with the releasing of butterflies, preferably Swallowtails. 
In the run up to Dastween merchants, breeders and druids sell cages of butterflies, to those who are planning to celebrate, but in addition to this people who have celebrated this festival before will often have dreams of being in amazing places being surrounded by swarms of butterflies, and many who don't have these dreams also claim to making it appear somewhat common. These dreams also occur after the festival, mostly on the very night and are seen as a grateful boon given to those who worship the Dreamweaver.
The city of Bluelog which is notorious for celebrating as often as possible and for almost any reason make an event of this festival but many, followers of Desna believe that it is really missing the point since the celebration involves setting up various points of interest around town that people have to go and discover, but of course these are man made attractions not the true wonders of adventure and based on the crafter's skill can be a little underwhelming as an attempt to represent the wonders of the world. 
Category:Celebrations
Category:Desna