Rumors - Holidays, Punishments, and Funerals
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- In Tartessos, haunt of scorpions, the people celebrate the end of winter by a 36-hour party financed by the state
- In Boleria that lies upon the chalk, the people celebrate the birth of Velstadt, the Royal Aegis, by sacrificing three wolves on a ten-colored stone
- In Lanafir, haunt of doves, garbage pickers, sex workers and street urchins are routinely massacred by right-wing social cleansing squads whipped into a frenzy by the priesthood, who consider them more spiritually malignant than usurers
- In buried Langenfirth where the birds do not sing, thefts occurring during the day are punished by fines, but those occurring at night are punished by death
- In Dilmun, rich in silver, the people celebrate the Dragon-Boat Festival by exchanging names; the best loved end up with more than one name, while the pariahs end up with no name at all