Harvest Revel is Live!Follow

Welcome to Aion!

Harvest Revel - Day 1

In ancient Atreia, the Harvest Revel was a time of feasting--a time when Humans and Deavas alike could rest after the crops were gathered and feast their good fortune. But since the folly of a human named Moros shortly after the Cataclysm, Elysea is plagued with roving bands of undead every year at Harvest Revel Time.Quoted Text

Moros went to Mericunerk, a trusted Shugo whom he had done business with for many years, and brought his accumulated life savings, promising a fair chunk of it for any information the Shugo could provide. Mericunerk came back with a spell from a mysterious source and, for extra Kinah, provided the locations for the various materials. None were easy to obtain; all were obscure and remain unknown lest someone repeat the folly of Moros. The ancient spell had been kept hidden because of its power and slim margin for error. Hardly necessary before the world divided, as Aion provided any answers Atreia's inhabitants might need, there were no reliable stories of its use and success--only rumors and heresay, and always in low voices.

Since Moros's folly, the holiday is not celebrated so much as it is endured. The darkness of the eclipse and the undead menace mean the Elyos spend more time indoors with their families, venturing out only when necessary. Thus it's called the Dark Night. And every few hours, undead creatures rise from the grave, pulled back into a semblance of life by the power of the eclipse. They don't communicate and they don't evince any motivation other then to kill every Elyos in their sight.

Each year, the communities also try to put on some semblance of an "old fashioned" Harvest Revel feast, but because of the undead infestation, they usually do so either right at the beginning (before the undead rise) or at the end (when the sun comes out again). With each passing year, more communities are throwing a feast at the end of the Harvest eclipses--perhaps a new holiday is taking shape in Elysea.