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Revision as of 10:34, 11 September 2021
The Harvesttide festival is an ancient harvest festival on Innistrad. It is an ancient custom, that hasn't been performed for centuries.[1][2]
Description
Harvestide used to be an annual celebration of life and community in the years before the Church of Avacyn. On a world where survival is never a guarantee, life is to be celebrated. Villagers commemorated the yearly Harvesttide with week long feasting, dancing, songs, chants, mask-wearing, bonfires, and wicker effigies.[3] The Ulvenwald's trees glimmer with candles, lanterns, and magical spark-lights. Streamers and ribbons decorate the branches. Travelers along the paths toward Harvesttide can also see wicker "floats" with effigies of werewolves, zombies, vampires, and other fearsome creatures, to be triumphantly and defiantly burned during the festival.
History
When the sun began rising later and setting sooner each day because of the Eldrazi in the moon, the werewolves went mad and tried to take control of the plane. Fearing the eternal night, the citizens turned to the warlocks of the Dawnhart Coven for help. The leader of the coven, Katilda, proposed to revive the festival. By gathering together as many people as possible, the coven could draw on their collective strength beneath the Celestus and restore the balance through a ritual. According to Katilda the dawn couldn't be brought back without bringing back the hope that the people had lost.[4]
Leinore was asked to oversee the preparations for the festival as "Autumn Sovereign", and people from all over Kessig started to gather.[5]
However, Tovolar's howlpack disturbed the festival. Brimming with power from their disrupted ritual, the Dawnhart witches lashed out at the werewolf intruders.[6] Other intruders were a horde of devils[7] and Olivia Voldaren.[8]
Gallery
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Celebrate the Harvest art by Eelis Kyttanen.
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References
- ↑ Magic Showcase 2021 (live) (Video). Magic: The Gathering. YouTube (August 24, 2021).
- ↑ Prepare for the Harvesttide Festival – Innistrad: Midnight Hunt (Video). Magic: The Gathering. YouTube (September 2, 2021).
- ↑ Doug Beyer and Ari Zirulnik (September 9, 2021). "Planeswalker's Guide to Innistrad: Midnight Hunt". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ K. Arsenault Rivera (September 2, 2021). "Episode 1: The Witch in the Woods". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Eugenia Triantafyllou (September 10, 2021). "Sisters". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Flavor text for Might of the Old Ways
- ↑ Festival Crasher
- ↑ Olivia's Midnight Ambush