Season of Goodies

The **Season of Goodies** (also known as the **Jolly Jubilee**, **Frosty Jubilee**, **Winter Frostival**, **Season of Goodiness**, and various other titles) is a Winter festival that takes place during the month of December.

## Overview

The Season of Goodies is, as previously mentioned, a Winter festival that takes place during the month of December. Traditionally, it takes place over the course of twelve days, starting on December 12th and ending on December 24th; however, in recent times, the festival has been greatly extended, usually beginning as soon as or shortly after December begins and ending in early January. The Season of Goodies is officially recognized as a Vale holiday, and special events commemorating it are hosted every year in the Vale.

## Festivities

Naturally, being a festival, as well as one of the most widely celebrated in the whole Vale, the Season of Goodies has various festivities.

### Presents

Perhaps the most well-known and famous celebration, or, more accurately, event during the season is the time on December 24th when Sandakloz gives all the young wizards and witches magical toys, which is believed by some to have been what started the festival in the first place. That being said, Sandakloz isn't the only gift giver during the season, as people will often give each other presents during the Season of Goodies, and parents will occasionally give their kids presents as well, sometimes while pretending to be Sandakloz. Coincidentally, venture dragons often visit the Vale around this time, drawn in by the cold weather and large populations, and give away presents found on their travels to the wizards.

In particular, coal dragon eggs and trinket dragon eggs are commonly given out during the season; the former in order the remember the hardships faced by humans before the discovery of Magic and Bonding, and the latter as simply a good luck charm, meant to ensure better presents during the season. Gift dragons are also occasionally given as presents, true to their name, in order to commemorate the 2012 Gift Dragon Incident, although regift dragons may be given instead, usually because the giver couldn't get their hands on a gift dragon.

### Decoration

Gifting is far from the only celebration preformed during the festival, however. Decorating your house during the season is one of the most popular ways to celebrate the Season of Goodies, to the point that the Ornamental element is associated with the season. It's believed this practice was originally done so that Sandakloz would have an easier time finding people's houses, or in order to impress Sandakloz so he'd give you better presents, however, now in days, it's usually done for fun.

The most common form of decoration is decorating your house with fairy lights, tiny, glowing orbs of light that can be created using either phytomancy, luximancy, electromancy, and most commonly, phenomancy. Most people just simply decorate the roofs of their houses with fairy lights, however some people create elaborate fairy lights displays. In particular, Vinturfjordians get very competitive about fairy lights, to the point that visitors from far and wide will arrive to attend or just witness the annual Fairy Light Decorating Contest. Non-wizards and people who struggle with casting spells will often substitute bioluminescent dragons- starshine dragons being the most common- for fairy lights, or will have a glitz dragon decorate their house for them. Recently, artificial fairy lights have become the most common alternative to fairy lights.

Fairy lights are far from the only Season of Goodies decorations, however. There are many, many types of decorations deployed during the festival, of which fairy lights are merely the most common. Naming all of the decorations used during the season is a fruitless task, however, some of the most popular ones are garlands, winter wreaths, holly and mistletoe plants (fake or real), jingle bells, and many, many others. Mathias the Meddler and Lumi Whimsy are generally considered to be the Vale's best makers of non-magical and magical Season of Goodies decorations, respectively.

## List of Season of Goodies Celebrations in the Vale

* Season of Goodies (2014)
* Winter Frostival
* Frosty Jubilee
* Jolly Jubilee
* Winter Saga
* Jolly Jubilee (2019)
* Season of Goodiness
* Frostivale Yulebration
* Snowy Winter Ball