Solaris During the Festival of the Dawnfather's Rest

During the Festival of the Dawnfather's Rest, different games, shops and events are set up in the town of Solaris.

## Merchants

There are many merchants at the festival that come from all sorts of places. Some of them are skilled artisans, some are mages, and some rarely come to the Material Plane for other reasons than this festival. The merchants have their own quarter at the festival.

During the festival, the inns in town are surprisingly empty: people don't sleep during the festival, instead, most of them will sleep in the carriage on their way home.

## Petting Zoo

The festival includes a petting zoo with different kinds of exotic animals. The petting zoo is its own section of the festival, and one that does not quite fit together with the rest of it: while most other parts are temporary structures that have been built and put down, the petting zoo is a barely gated off section that is filled with different vegetations and water features. This section does not exist in that way in Solaris on any other day. In 21 AP, the person responsible for the petting zoo is a purple Tiefling woman named Katrina Talon, who usually walks into town the day of the festival, followed by her animals, sets up a fence and has the biome spring up inside it. When the festival is over, she turns this section back again, and then leaves.

The animals at the petting zoo include drakes, pseudo dragons, pony sized unicorns, some more regular animals, and even animals that most people don't even know what they are called. The animals can look after themselves, and it would not be a good idea to pet them without asking.

## Mirror Maze [Spoilers for Arc 5 Episode 4]

The mirror maze is free to enter, but barely anyone ever goes there. It is located more towards the south of the festival. At the festival of 21 AP, the front of it is run by a fairy named Ginger Sprite, who claims to get paid by the maze itself, and also gives ominous warnings to potential visitors, telling them that the maze is a dangerous place. The booth for the maze has no flashy signage, simply a few mirrors popped up near the front that visitors pass by.

Ginger and her maze are known to have "Answers", and aside from people that want to be able to say that they made it through the spooky maze, only people looking for something go in there. The things they look for are usually very personal and abstract things, not physical things. Most people just go in and come out the same way, less than 1 in 100 actually find the real exit. According to Ginger, only 7 people never made it out at all.

People cannot enter the maze together, but have to go in separately. Pets or familiars who could not walk around the maze alone are allowed to accompany their person, though.

The maze itself is disorienting in the way that mirror mazes tend to be, and dimly lit.

The mechanics of the maze are that everyone inside has to make a survival check per round to find their way around. After three failed checks, the person gets back out. After three successful checks, the person encounters one of the two vampires living inside the maze, Vladimir Bites, or his sister Victoria Bites. They stab the person with their clawed hands, and, while still having them clawed, tell them to leave. If the person refuses, because they are looking for something and willing to risk "seeing what no man wishes to see", the vampire carries them away while they black out. They awaken again in a secluded room with a mirror, but their mirror image is not themselves, but the worst possible version of them. If they are able to face this, the mirror slides away to reveal a garden.

The garden is lush, green, and open at the top. There is running water somewhere, it is beautiful, and well taken care of. There are large trees, and just off-centre, there is the base of a wishing well with a big plant coming up from it, six or seven feet tall. At the top of the plant are two blooms, one of which is closed, the other open, and with face of an older woman. The two blooms are the sisters Chris, who is awake during the day, and Therum, who is awake during the night, and who have never actually met. They can give answers to those searching for them, and offer to rest in the garden.

## Game Booths

One section of the festival is full of game booths, each one manned by at least one employee. Each game(that we know of) costs a few copper pieces, is rigged, but has prizes for anyone who manages to win. Sougle Wackamole is the creature of one of the games(at least in the year 21 AP).

## Town Square

Before Fulldark, there are performers in town square, including bards and acrobats. One of the bards, right before Fulldark, is Matrix Angelblood, a patreon submitted NPC with a very loud set.