=>[INFO]Alternian Holidays

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All Egg Day
Like most of Alternia's older holidays, the true meaning behind All Egg Day has been lost in ages past. However, trolls have continued to celebrate this holiday sweep after sweep, with the enthusiasm that comes with any excuse to gorge yourself on treats. All Egg Day is a true symbol of this, with trolls from nearly every blood caste able to get their hands on the rare treat of Processed Theobromian Nut Byproduct, or chocolate for short.

On this holiday, huge herds of wild musclebeasts emerge from the Alternian forrests, allowing for trolls up to the task to wrestle them into submission for their precious milk. While the hunting and milking of these great beasts is viewed as a yearly traditional sport for brave trolls to test their strength, it also is a key ingredient for the more gastronomically inclined trolls as well. The massive influx of the key ingredient in the processing of the Theombrian Frond Nut allows distribution of large amounts of delicious chocolate to trolls all over the planet.

The most popular treat made out of the chocolate is a replica grub egg, most filled with sweet paste coloured in the most basic blood hues. Red, orange, yellow, green, teal, blue, and purple. These treats are used in games of hunt-the-egg, a full contact sport revolving around stealth and defense where the troll left standing at the end with the most chocolate eggs in their basket the winner. In honor of these games, artistically-inclined trolls make pilgrimages down to the breeding caverns and collect discarded egg shells, fix them back together, and paint scenes from the events on them.  

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Terror Night
Terror Night is quite the odd holiday. No two trolls can agree on what it's supposed to be celebrating. Candy? Mischief? Throwing unhatched wingbeak babies at other troll's hives? For some trolls it's a chance to really get some bloodcurtling screams out of others, without having to worry about offended parties seeking revenge. For others, it's a contest purely of showmanship, seeing who can transform their hive into the scariest looking domicile on the block. There are even some trolls who participate for the thrill of ringing sometroll's doorbell then running away before they can open the door. Oh the hilarity.

Of course, the custom still stands that if you manage to properly scare the pants off another troll, they have to give you a reward. While in sweeps past the tradition was beetles or punches, lately trolls have taken to handing out candy instead. There are a few sour-pusses out there who still insist on ruining the celebrations by chasing away any troll who dares set foot on their lawn ring, but for the most part trolls take the holiday in stride, and don't hold too many grudges after the night has passed.  

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12th Perigee's Eve
"Deck the halls with bough of spikefronds, falalalalalalala!"
All around Alternia, trolls and their friends gather to celebrate 12th Perigee's Eve, that magical time of the year. They go into the forests and deserts with their lusus, and return with the corpse of a Prickly Pinebeast which they decorate with animal leavings, eggs, and other festive, seasonal objects. Then, every troll, young and old, will climb into their recuperacoons and snuggle down for the night, dreaming of the presents that Troll Santa will leave under their corpsetrees to be found the next evening. Any similarities in presents delivered by Troll Santa and the personal preference of their lusus are carefully overlooked, of course. There's no point in spoiling the magic.

Another common activity around 12th Perigee's Eve is an unprecedented bout of charity. Lowbloods from all over gather up their meagre posessions and go out to give to their highblood overlords, er, neighbours. Highbloods too, swap presents, using them as a form of passive-combat against each other. The better the gift you give, the more you seem to say 'Look at what i can afford to throw away on you! My wealth and power are overwhelmingly great!' There has even been tell of lowbloods gifting each other presents, but most trolls are stumped as to give an explanation for this. Bribery perhaps?

Finally, there are a myriad of smaller ways trolls celebrate, from preparing seasonal delicacies and consuming vast meals, to singing aggressively at neighbours until they are paid to leave, a great way for lowbloods strapped for cash to make an earning during the harshest time of the season. While some smaller sects of trolls practice other forms of celebrating, such as lighting large amounts of candles, to showcase just how truly fireproof their homestead is.  

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Quadrant's Day
The day of the year when a young troll's mind turns to bitter, bitter hatred. Quadrant's day is the time when hundreds of trolls remind their special someones that they truly love, or despise them. Gifts are anxiously thrust forward towards surprised recipients, and vast amounts of hate-mail is shipped. If there is one day for your troll to take their courage in both hands and make a public spectacle of themselves, today is that day.  

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Harvest Moon Jubilee
The jubilee is a festival that is predominantly celebrated by on-planet trolls. It is celebrated each solar sweep as the night where all three of Alternia's moons are at their largest, brightest, and most visible, which happily coincides with the solstice - the longest night of the sweep. The jubilee is a time of celebrating the bounty of Alternia, as well as the beautiful sight of its three moons hanging in the sky. Lanterns in the colours of the moons are lit, crops are harvested, and there is general revelry and merrymaking within the troll population. Even seadwellers, usually distanced from their land brethren, waddle up onto the beaches to celebrate the night when the tides are the highest.  

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Bloodfest
The newest public holiday was instituted by the current monarch, Regina Marian. Bloodfest is a yearly 'sporting' event that alternates between being held in the winter and the summer. Trolls from all over Alternia flock to the beaches of Civisect City to participate in different games each year, with the end goal to win the gold cup for their hemocaste, or for themselves. Bloodfest's official goals are to bring unity, pride, and the spirit of competition to trolls of all blood colours. The reality is usually far less glorious. Games can range from 'well intentioned' to 'doomed from the start', and while no one has died during the games yet, bookmakers say it's only a matter of time.