Sotillion's Day
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Soltillion's Day is a celebration on the full moon on Godsday, Reaping 25, on the common calendar of the Flanaess. It celebrates summer and Sotillion.
Fanon
[edit | edit source]This holiday is frequently mistaken for official lore due to its widespread inclusion in many fan-created Greyhawk calendars. However, it originated as fan-created content and has never appeared in an official source.
Holidays and celebrations
[edit | edit source]This holiday celebrates summer itself, and Sotillion, the goddess of summer.
"Sotillion's Day, known popularly as 'Labor Day' and also, derisively, as 'St. Ides' (for 'Saint Idler′s'). Followers will do no work and enjoy the summer. Widely popular, especially for the young and in love. As a result the full moon of this month is often referred to as the 'lover's moon'."[1]
Creative origins
[edit | edit source]The fan-community version of the calendar which first contained Solilltion's Day (1994) had month charts by Kent Matthewson, and descriptive text by Joe Katzman and Jason Saunders. The calendar was published at Katzman's and Matthewson's website, "Codex of Greyhawk" (greyhawk-codex.com),[1] and spread by fans to other fans, and quickly proliferated throughout the fan community. It became the basis of other fan-calendars.
The same calendar was later modified by Mike LeSeney in 1995, and again by Doug LaVigne, 2003.
Calendar
[edit | edit source]| Starday | Sunday | Moonday | Godsday | Waterday | Earthday | Freeday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 Sotillion's Day |
26 | 27 | 28 |
| Greyhawk calendar | |
|---|---|
| Days | Starday • Sunday • Moonday • Godsday • Waterday • Earthday • Freeday |
| Months | Fireseek • Readying • Coldeven • Planting • Flocktime • Wealsun • Reaping • Goodmonth • Harvester • Patchwall • Ready'reat • Sunsebb |
| Festivals | Needfest • Growfest • Richfest • Brewfest |
| Seasons | Winter • Spring • Low summer • High summer • (Summer) • Autumn |
| Solar events | Spring equinox, Summer solstice, Autumnal equinox, Winter solstice |
| Holidays | Agelong • Blood Moon Festival • Breadgiving Day • Council Day • Council of Mayors and Manorial Lords • Crowning Day • Dark Night • Day of the Legion Will • Day of Treachery • Declaration Day • Election Day • Faerieluck • Fallrite • Feast of Edoira • Feast of Fools • Freedom Day • Frost Days • Great Moon's Glory • Guild Days • Holy Day of Serenity • Midsummer's Day • Midwinter Night • Remembrance Day • Rollo's Day • Saint Cuthbert's Day • Spring Feast • Springrite • Thrommel's Day • Yeartide • |
References
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[edit | edit source]Citations
[edit | edit source]- ↑ a b Katzman, Joe; Kent Matthewson. Greyhakw Calendar (Site and PDF). Codex of Greyhawk. Joe Katzman. Archived from the original on 16 January 1999. Retrieved on 11 May 2025.