Festival of the Sealing Hunt

This Festival is one often held within major cities across the realm as a way to prevent Rifts opening within dense population centres. As Rifts are more common where more items based in rift based elements reside, this would make capital cities a hotspot of rifts to potentially form. To counter this, most cities hold an Annual Festival where rifts are deliberately opened so that items that have slipped through the veil can be retrieved before they form rifts.
  Before these festivals were held, people were most nomadic or moved they cities such as during the War Era. Once the cause of rifts being linked to items slipping across realms was discovered, these annual hunts helped reduce the number of rifts that occur in cities. Each local has their own method of handling these Festivals although they share the common trait of using mages to open rifts while mercenaries, adventurers and gatherers venture inside to retrieve what items they can.
 

Ithirion's Festival of the Hunt

  In Ithirion, the main festival is held within Athiris as the central and largest city on the continent. The event spans over three days with the Hunt occuring on the 2nd day. During this period, any Organization permitted to hunt rifts may enter automatically while common folk and adventerous types may register ahead to venture into rifts. The Festival runs a scoring system to determine a grand champion of the hunt who recieves a gold bounty for their achievement. They hunters achieve a score by retrieving items from rifts and slaying any creatures that may escape the opened rifts during the event,