The Eventide Festival

In it's origins, the Eventide Festival was a time of fear and imminent doom. According to legend it was on this night that the "reapers" visited our world and took souls with them back to the Abyss. People dressed up in costumes to fool the reapers and made sweets as an offering to them. Nowadays,the Eventide Festival is a popular tradition in major settlements where many people partake in masquerade balls and enjoy copious amount of alcohol. Sweets and candies are commonplace as well, it is usually a happy time of celebration despite it's dark origins.

However, in some smaller and more remote settlements there have been rumors and tales of dark things stirring in the dead of night. Of course, these are simply tales and Eventide Festival is practiced throughout most kingdoms.