Elos

Month of Magic

The first month in spring was named after Elara, goddess of wisdom. Usually the end of winter and the beginning of the new year is celebrated on the first Elos.

There will be great bonfires in each village and town and the houses are decorated with lamps and lanterns. These festivities culminate in the burning of a scarecrow that is named "Shadowman" or "Darkman". The Illumination Festival serves as a banishment of doom and ruin, which has found its way into this realm through the month of Mas.

The origin of this festival has its seeds in the scripts of the Nokorakan Cycle, the attempt of a compendium of past century.s prophecies. There one can read th following:

"Flee from the signs of the long night.
Beg on your knees for your immortal soul,
when the light denies itself in the crack of dawn.
For he will rise again from the swamps of agony
and his shadow will engulf the world in darkness.
On the wings of death he rides forth
and where his steps tarry the mortals will fail.
At this time only the bearers of the fire will curb his arrival.
And their light will shine like a thousand suns to defy the darkness.
In the glistering brightness which they ignite, he may burn,
lest his traces will be extinguished from the earth."