Hollow Eve Festival 410

Hollow Eve Festival 410 is a paid festival held in 2013.

• Plat: October 25 - November 18
• Prime: October 31 - November 16
• Fallen: November 8 - November 23

Official Description

Uneasy Calm

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As spring mellows into summer, Elanthia has settled into an uneasy calm. Abundant crops ripen in the fields, untouched by Asketi's capricious scythe. The people are hale and hearty, as if Ushnish is occupied elsewhere, and ships shelter safe in harbors untouched by Drogor's wrath. Almost everywhere there is prosperity -- yet a sense of dread lurks beneath it all, as if the world is teeters on the precipice of some great, unknown calamity

Moon Mages whisper of disturbing visions. Clerics both Dark and Light cry out to their patrons for succor or shelter or some glimpse of what is to come. For the first time in recent memory, the Sisters of the Ru'atin Peri'el have left their enclave on Aesry Surlaenis'a, seeking answers. So sun sets on another prosperous day, and the world waits for the blow to fall.

Night settles across the lands, bringing a cooling respite from the day's fetid heat. From Velaka's sultry deserts to the Forfedhdar's rough outposts, the people of Elanthia seek out their beds, hoping for solace from the day's cares.

In the darkness, men and women still fight and die, heedless of the hour. The Cleric falls bravely, driving undead back from town and village, knowing he will live and die again and again in this same unending quest. The Barbarian hurls a war-cry into the teeth of his foes, knowing that Kuniyo or Trothfang or Everild will uphold the one whose fury burns the hottest. Others plot and scheme by candlelight. But mostly, people sleep – or try to.

A terrible tension has settled across Elanthia. Children writhe and thrash in sweat-drenched sheets, cry out and struggle with their bedclothes, all without waking. Adults are tormented no less, dreams absurd and banal alike subtly twisted into the stuff of horror. A susurrus of moans and inarticulate cries of fear settles across the land like the putrid odor of a gangrenous limb.

The land is gripped by nocturnal misery; a plague of nightmares. Yet even the wakeful are not spared -- in the night, the sleepless whisper tales of unnatural things moving, half-glimpsed creatures perverse and terrible...

The Sky Darkens

Deep in the forests of Ker'leor in the shrine of Dergati, a dark chrysalis lurked, gleaming silver and leaking strands of dark vapor. Those who interacted with it found that it somehow feasted upon spiritual energy, absorbing the experiences of those who came near it. It whispered in the dark to its visitors, but remained, changing little, for many years. All agreed that it was somehow related to the Lady of Nightmares, Dergati.

The powers in Therengia grew uneasy with its presence and placed a guard on the site, preventing pilgrims and the curious alike from strengthening the entity growing within it. Still it waited in the darkness, seemingly quiescent.

Then, one day, those guarding it were found dead. The chrysalis was gone. A collapsed tunnel, leading away, the only evidence that anything had ever been there at all.

Elsewhere, miners would disappear, only to reappear later missing their eyes and their sanity. The sisters of the Ru'atin Peri'el reported changes in Peri'el's song, and sent a representative, Tasrhhsu, to the mainland to investigate.

The people of Elanthia began reporting strange, nightmarish visions. Moon Mage Seers saw conflicting visions, most of them portending destruction and chaos.

In time, a new subterranean race of mole-like people, the Akul'tiz, emerged under a leader they call The First, Xitoccanemun. In the beginning they emerged only at night, but as summer wore on, they began to appear at other times.

Finally, the Sisters of the Ru'atin reported the unthinkable – Peri'el's song has ceased. Those Clerics who pray to Peri'el find their tongues torn from their mouths. Peri'el's altars no longer accept her sacrifices. Xitoccanemun claims that Peri'el is dead.

With Peri'el dead or incapacitated, the World Dragon has begun to stir. The Greater and Lesser Fists have erupted, destroying Tiv's Moon Mage guild and killing all those present within. The smoke and ash hurled skyward by the eruption has blocked out the sun, plunging Elanthia into endless night.

If Peri'el cannot be healed, the Dragon will surely wake, ending all life on Elanthia. Somewhere, Dergati is laughing.

Location and Map

Province

TK

Town

TK

Currency

Dokora

Map

Events and Gifts

Gift

TK

Raffles

Hollow Eve 410 Raffle List

Auction

Invading creatures

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Tentative Merchants

Shops

Abandoned Dragon Acaph's Acquisitions Accents for the Arachnophile Ahreusse's Atelier All Aquiver All Wound Up Amulets by Liathe Amylia's Attic Ang'hhsmus Armadillo Crush Asketi's Stop Barbarian Paradise Bare Necessities Basimah's Beastly Behavior Behind the Mask Below the Fold Birds of a Feather Bizarre Bazaar Blanve's Bounty Blythe Spirits Bones Chizelli's Charms Clear Visions Clip 'n Dale's The Clockwork Inquisition Cloudwalker's Smoke Shop Country Style Cowsmoopolitan Crafty Cloaks Creature Comforts Creepy Costumes Cuddly Creations A Cultured Attire Cute as a Button The Cutting Edge Damsel In This Dress Dark Dalliance Dark Defenders Dark Delights Dark Symphony Darsam's Drifters Death from Above Delicate Creations Diamond Deities Disenchantments Dubiously Dubbed Dying to Shop Eagle Eye The Eclectic Eccentric Elahkti's Metal Arts Empty Settings Eternal Moments Everything in Moderation Exaltation Tintinnabulum Excess Baggage Eye Spy Fabric Fantasies The Faithful Defender Fallen from Grace Fall's Harvest Famous Last Words Fangs for the Memory The Fashionable Panda Findorslyth's Fortifiers The Finer Things Fires of Autumn Fishy's Pants Mart Flower Power Force of Habit Forever Faithful Frisky Portraits The Future is Now

The Gear Shop Gearanimals Gersvinda's Natural Studies Give 'Em the Boot The Glass Bubble Glythtide's Gifts and Gags Grieving Grave Guildly Pleasures Hair Apparant The Haunted House Heavenly Entrances Heikea Hero to Go Hide and Silk Holey Warez Hollow Bellies House of Bling The House of Bones Huffenclaw's Decadent Delights Huffenclaw's Wondrous Wares Hunka's Burning Love Idon Abide the Ten Ilithian Heritage I'll Eat My Hat Jewelry In Phases Jhanine Dering Cloaks The Joys of Noise Jubby's Tattoos Just a Slice Just Desserts Jynli's Cattery On the Move Knightly Attire Korbesh Leathers Krobble's Karavan Lavender and Lace Leftovers Liquid Assets Made for Walking Magical Minons The Male Persuasion Masquer Aid The Merry Hag Might Makes Right The Mind of Sdai Misenseor Goods Mob Mentality Mordiv's Fun House The Musiceum The Naked Sheep Natural Beauty Natural Selections Nectar of the Wisp Nest o' Snakes Nidia's Nightmares Nigeyi's Footwear NightMares Obscure Memories Obscured Visions Odiferous Ornaments On the Mend Once Possessed One Man's Trash Outrageous Fortune Over the Edge Packrat's Piece of Paradise Peaceful Intentions The Photash School of Butlery Pi'botuk Pel'arsharra Pi'rasha's Pins PrEcIouS DeLigHtS Puffindor's Professional Pieces Puffindor's Tantalizing Taffy Q'tahhl's Place

A Quick Bite Quiver in Fear Ratchet Shack Ready to Were Reinventing the Wheel Relief in the Dark Riding the Range Rugged Appeal Sable's Tent Scabbards 'n' Sheaths Scarlett's Web Race A Second Round See The Light Shenneshwi's Stockpile Shh'oi Mhhg Shimmers of Silver Shiny's Shinies Shugar's Cookie Emporium Sibtiem's Creations Signs of the Times Silken Garden Silken Seams Simply Essential Sindah's Silk Sensations Sketchy By Design Slay It With Music Sleepwalkers Slings and Things The Smaller Side of Life Smokes 'n' Spirits Snacky Happiness Snookie's Divine Spoons Snookie's Holiday Souvenirs Something's Fishy Soulful Trinkets Spikan's Sporrans Spiraling Out of Control Sputkin's Stuff It The Stylish Stallion Suite of Sweets Sumptuous Silks Tastelessly Tacky Tending the Fold The Terrific Turnip The Perfect Rose The Pretty Pony The 'Punkin Hatch Thee Mottl'd Teoy Shoppe Thick as Thieves This 'N' That Tieheq with the Thirteen Tookes's Nook Top Notch Town and Country The Toy Box Treasures of the Spirit Tricky Treats Turialo's Haven Tweets Vatari's Ritual Addiction Visions of Holiness A Walk on the Wild Side Walk This Way Whimsical Winds Whimsies Wicked Windows Witch Stitch is Which Witchery Woman At Arms Annex Yarrel's Varmint Vittles Your Inner Animal

Games

Archivist Blood and Gourd Bobbin' For Bolts Bobbing for Leeches

Boggle Blast Entrail Toss Arena Game of Chicken

Hot Potato Musical Chairs of Doom Rissan Roulette

Special Ticketing Information

"Admit One" tickets will provide access to the first character on the account who passes through the Festival Gates, however, there are additional ticket options available to allow access to two, three, or ALL characters on the purchasing account. These higher tiered tickets will allow multiple characters on the purchasing account to participate in the festivities, raffles, games, and special events, as well as allowing them to receive the special gift.