Calendar and holidays — Holidays

Each holiday falls on one fixed day; the last five days of the year are never one. A holiday is kept either in every region or in exactly one. Entering a town on a holiday shows a notice.

Holiday	Date	Region	Game effect	Notes
New Life Festival	1 Morning Star	All	Free tavern food and drink	The year's first day. The in-game notice grumbles about a fresh imperial tax rise and promises free ale at every tavern.
Scour Day	2 Morning Star	Gen Tem High Rock Map village	—	Day after New Life in High Rock Map villages: once the clean-up day, now a party of its own.
Ovank'a	12 Morning Star	Alik'r Desert Map	—	Redguards of the Alik'r Desert Map pray to Stendarr for a mild, merciful year; counted very holy.
South Wind's Prayer	15 Morning Star	All	Temples cure diseases free	A plea from every faith for a good planting season; crowds seek the temples' free healings.
Day of Lights	16 Morning Star	Hammerfell Map bay coast	—	Holy day of the Hammerfell Map villages on the Iliac Bay: a prayer for a good farming and fishing year.
Waking Day	18 Morning Star	Yeorth Burrowland	—	Invented in Yeorth Burrowland to wake the spirits of nature after winter; now a wild end-of-winter party.
Mad Pelagius	2 Sun's Dawn	Gen Tem High Rock Map village	—	Mock memorial to the mad Emperor Pelagius Septim II, kept in High Rock Map villages with good humour.
Othroktide	5 Sun's Dawn	Dwynnen Map	—	Dwynnen Map celebrates the day Baron Othrok won the town back from the undead at the Battle of Wightmoor.
Day of Release	8 Sun's Dawn	Glenumbra Moors Map	—	Glenumbra Moors Map remembers Aiden Direnni's battle against the Alessian army in the First Era.
Heart's Day	16 Sun's Dawn	All	A room rented across it is one night cheaper	Lovers' holiday: the Legend of Polydor and Eloisa is sung and inns give a free room.
Perseverance Day	27 Sun's Dawn	Ykalon Map	—	Ykalon Map's memorial to those who fell resisting the Camoran Usurper, now a boisterous festival.
Aduros Nau	28 Sun's Dawn	Gen Rai Hammerfell Map village	—	The Bantha villages celebrate the baser urges of springtide; customs vary by village.
First Harvest	7 First Seed	All	Temples cure diseases free	The in-game notice calls it First Planting: the symbolic sowing of the autumn harvest and a day of fresh starts; temples run a free clinic all day.
Day of Waiting	9 First Seed	Dragontail Mountains Map	—	Old holy day of settlements in the Dragontail Mountains Map: a dragon is said to devour the wicked, so everyone locks their doors.
Flower Day	25 First Seed	Gen Tem High Rock Map village	—	High Rock Map spring festival: children pick the first flowers and Bretons come out to dance and sing.
Festival of Blades	26 First Seed	Alik'r Desert Map	—	The Alik'r Desert Map's celebration of the first Redguard victory over a race of giant goblins, a myth to most scholars.
Gardtide	1 Rain's Hand	Tamarilyn Point	—	Tamarilyn Point honours Druagaa, the all-but-forgotten goddess of flowers.
Day of the Dead	13 Rain's Hand	Daggerfall	—	A Daggerfall tradition: the superstitious say the dead rise to take revenge. King Lysandus' spectre began its haunting on this day in 3E 404.
Day of Shame	20 Rain's Hand	Betony Map	—	The table keeps it for Betony Map. The in-game notice describes the Hammerfell Map seaside, where nobody goes out for fear of the Crimson Ship of plague victims.
Jester's Day	28 Rain's Hand	All	—	Town-wide pranks everywhere; the notice says the Thieves Guild draws particular suspicion.
Second Harvest	7 Second Seed	All	Temples cure diseases free	The notice calls it Second Planting: a festival of improvement; temples hold their second and last free clinic of the year.
Marukh's Day	9 Second Seed	Skeffington Wood	—	Skeffington Wood communities compare themselves to the virtuous prophet Marukh and pray to resist temptation.
Fire Festival	20 Second Seed	Northmoor Map	—	Northmoor Map's festival, once a show of magic and military strength, one of the best attended in High Rock Map.
Fishing Day	30 Second Seed	High Rock Map bay coast	—	The Iliac Bay Bretons make so much noise the fish are said to stay away for weeks.
Drigh R'Zimb	1 Midyear	Abibon-Gora Map	—	Abibon-Gora Map's midsummer jubilation for the sun Daibethe, perhaps carried from the First Era.
Mid Year Celebration	16 Midyear	All	—	Temples are said to offer blessings at half the donation; no code reads this holiday.
Dancing Day	23 Midyear	Daggerfall	—	Old Daggerfall holiday, popularised by the Red Prince Atryck in the Second Era; nobles and commoners alike.
Tibedetha	24 Midyear	Alcaire Map	—	Alcaire Map celebrates its famous native Tiber Septim, who never once returned.
Merchants' Festival	10 Sun's Height	All	Shop purchases cost half for non-guild buyers	Every market and store halves its prices; the Mages Guild does not take part.
Divad Etept	12 Sun's Height	Antiphyllos Map	—	Antiphyllos Map mourns the early Redguard hero Divat, son of Frandar, whose tomb stands there.
Sun's Rest	20 Sun's Height	All	Shops are closed all day	Stores shut; temples, taverns and the Mages Guild keep their hours. Online, shop night shifts keep counters open anyway.
Fiery Night	29 Sun's Height	Alik'r Desert Map	—	The hottest day of the year in the Alik'r Desert Map, a lively celebration of forgotten meaning.
Maiden Katrica	2 Last Seed	Ayasofya Map	—	Ayasofya Map's biggest party, honouring the warrior who saved the county.
Koomu Alazeri	11 Last Seed	Ykalon Map	—	Sentinel Map's old thanksgiving ('We Acknowledge' in Old Redguard; the notice spells it Alezer'i).
Feast of the Tiger	14 Last Seed	Bantha	—	The Bantha rainforest's boisterous harvest festival, held village to village.
Appreciation Day	21 Last Seed	Anticlere Map	—	Anticlere Map's holy day of harvest thanks, devoted to Mara, the county's protector.
Harvest's End	27 Last Seed	All	Free dearer drinks; tavern meals half price	The farmers' feast: taverns offer free drinks all day. Meals cost half price.
Tales and Tallows	3 Hearthfire	All	Mages Guild items half price	The dead are said to walk; only the Mages Guild thrives, selling magic items at half price. Also one of the two sky nights that double festival finds online.
Khurat	6 Hearthfire	Wrothgarian Mountains Map	—	The Wrothgarian Mountains Map accept their finest young scholars into the priesthoods.
Riglametha	12 Hearthfire	Lainlyn Map	—	Lainlyn Map's pageant of its blessings, including the Ghraewaj in which Daedra worshippers were turned to harpies.
Children's Day	19 Hearthfire	Betony Map	—	Betony Map's festival, born as a memorial to children stolen by vampires, now a celebration of youth.
Dirij Tereur	5 Frostfall	Alik'r Desert Map	—	Alik'r Desert Map holy day honouring Frandar Hund, the Redguards' spiritual leader; the temples fill.
Witches' Festival	13 Frostfall	All	Free identify; Mages Guild spells half price	Sorcery and religion clash and the wilds outside towns fill with summoners. The Mages Guild identifies items free and halves spell prices. Also the Starfall Heart-Star night and a festival find-doubling night online.
Broken Diamonds	23 Frostfall	Glenpoint Map	—	Glenpoint Map's silent prayer for the imperial family, remembering Empress Kintyra II's death in the city's dungeon.
Emperor's Birthday	30 Frostfall	All	—	Once the year's most popular holiday, with carnivals and the aristocratic Goblin Chase, now in neglect.
Serpent's Dance	3 Sun's Dusk	Satakalaam Map	—	Satakalaam Map's street festival, perhaps once a snake-god rite.
Moon Festival	8 Sun's Dusk	Glenumbra Moors Map	—	Glenumbra Moors Map Bretons feast for Secunda, a goddess with no living worshippers.
Hel Anseilak	18 Sun's Dusk	Pothago Map	—	Pothago Map's most serious holy day, remembering the Hel Ansei (Saints of the Sword).
Warriors' Festival	20 Sun's Dusk	All	Weapons half price for non-guild buyers	Weapons halve in price at the smiths and equipment stores; the notice warns of amateur brawls.
North Wind's Festival	15 Evening Star	All	Temple disease cures at half price	A thanksgiving for the harvest and a mild winter; temples charge half the usual donation.
Baranth Do	18 Evening Star	Alik'r Desert Map	—	Alik'r Desert Map pageants: 'Goodbye to the Beast of Last Year'.
Chil'a	24 Evening Star	Kairou Map	—	The new year's blessing in the barony of Kairou Map: ashes of the old year consecrated, then parades and tournaments.
Saturalia	25 Evening Star	Wayrest Map	—	Wayrest Map's gift-giving party, once a rite of a forgotten god of debauchery.

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