Supplication Day

Supplication Day is a solemn and sacred observance in the city of Edison, held annually in early spring (Diene 15th). Citizens from all walks of life gather in the edge of Lake Lycia in Volirath, a quiet park nestled within the heart of Volirath, to commemorate the sacrifices of their forebears—those who laid down their lives so that others might live, and whose remains now nourish the very soil of the city.

The day is marked by ritual offerings of earth: each participant brings a handful of soil from their home, garden, or a place of personal significance, and adds it to the grove. This act symbolizes a cyclical return—giving back to the land that once took, and recognizing the dead who became its foundation.

Historical Origins

Supplication Day finds its roots in the time of the Great Famine, a dark age when during The Burn the sea itself rose in wrath, flooding the lowlands and salting the soil for leagues inland. Crops withered. Forests died. The very earth became barren—unwilling to yield even the hardiest root. With the land poisoned, and starvation at the gates, the empire teetered on the brink of collapse.

It was at that point that in an act of self deprecation and love that the oldest and less able to help the rebuild effort citizens organized one of the most monumental events in Eldwell's history, a mass suicide of tens of thousands of people occurring over 20 days. Their bodies were given by their families and composted to become soil, soil that it was used to grow the next crop of food that will eventually save those that were left alive to work building the walls and restarting society.

Supplication Day honors them—not just as victims, but as the soil itself. Their sacrifice became sustenance. Their memory lives in every seed sown upon the grove.