Gedderone Fête

The multi-day Gedderone Fête was celebrated in the city of Darujhistan in honour of Gedderone, the Lady of Spring and Rebirth. Darujhistan used the festival to mark the end of winter and the beginning of its new year.Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 20, US HC p.402Toll the Hounds, Chapter 1, US SFBC p.31 During this time, the city's population was swelled by visitors from the Gadrobi Hills, the Rhivi Plain, Catlin, and elsewhere,Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 11, US HC p.261 and at least twenty to thirty thousand people were on the streets celebrating at any time.
The Wolf Goddess of Winter was ceremonially carried out a week before the Gedderone Fête. Murillio commented that the Fête would fill the streets with flowers which would soon clog up gutters and drains.Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 7, UK MMPB p.228/229 Residents hung dyed banners from clotheslines, decorated their doorways with painted flowers and strips of bark, and tacked bushels of dried wood on the walls of every crossing. Masked and half naked commoners performed the whirling dance known as the Flaying of Fander in the streets.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 1, US SFBC p.33
The wealthy, dressed in silks or preposterous uniforms, attended sumptuous banquets of exotic foods where eligible young men and women were introduced to society.
==In Gardens of the Moon==
The events of Gardens of the Moon concluded during the Fête.
==In Toll the Hounds==
The events of Toll the Hounds took place over the entirety of the festival, beginning on the first day and ending on the last night.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 23, US SFBC p.931 
==Notes and references==
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