Egg Day / Dragon Day
Egg Day or more commonly known as Dragon Day stands as one of the vibrant and widely celebrated holidays across Sylvantara, commemorating the momentous occasion when the First Generation of Thuwedari emerged from their eggs after 68-days of Year 0. This celebration occurs during the 3rd month of the Spring Equinox.
History
According to the ancient chronicles preserved by the Thuwedari elders in the Great Library of Dragona City, after our world emerged from the Sxueh Leat —the Chaos Void—when the Twin Goddess Dragons, Solara and Sylvanice, first brought order to formlessness. In what our calendars now mark as Year 0, as the newborn lands still steamed with creation's heat, the Twin Goddesses performed their greatest miracle.
The sacred texts of "Draconic Genesis", inscribed on crystalline tablets kept within the innermost sanctuary of Dragona City, tell how Solara and Sylvanice together laid fourteen eggs of magnificent proportion and impossible beauty. For sixty-eight days, the Goddesses encircled these fourteen eggs, weaving patterns of elemental and magical forces around them—fire entwined with knowledge, water with healing, earth with strength, air with wisdom. The magical and elemental forces, normally in perfect opposition, found harmony within the growing life of each egg.
On the dawn of the sixty-eighth day, which we now recognize as the third month of the Spring Equinox, as the first light touched the world, the eggs began to crack. From each emerged a fully-formed Thuwedari—not infants, but beings of great power and wisdom, carrying aspects of their divine mothers within them. These fourteen First Generation Thuwedari stood as bridges between divinity and the mortal world, demigods who would guide the younger races yet to come.
The eldest of these chronicles, "The Book of Hatching" describes how the land itself responded to their emergence—flowers bloomed instantly beneath their feet, rivers changed course to flow near them, and the very air seemed to sing with possibilities. Each First Generation Thuwedari carried unique aspects of the Twin Goddesses and their elemental affinities. Seven embodied Solara's dominion over Fire and Earth, manifesting her divine aspects of light and shadow, creation and destruction—the eternal duality found within her flames that both illuminate and consume, within her earth that both builds mountains and swallows civilizations.
The remaining seven carried Sylvanice's mastery of Forest and Ice, reflecting her divine aspects of growth, transformation, and wisdom—seen in the forest's endless cycle of renewal, in the way ice preserves what it encases while transforming the very nature of water itself. The Thuwedari of Sylvanice's lineage understood the patient wisdom of ancient trees and the transformative stillness of winter's embrace.
Unlike mortals who face a final end, the First Generation Thuwedari were gifted immortality through their sacred regeneration cycles. When their physical forms grow weary after centuries of life, they naturally revert to their egg state in a process known as the Great Return. This transformation begins with a shimmer of elemental energy that envelops their form, condensing their essence back into a dragon egg that bears unique patterns reflecting their accumulated experiences and incubate up to a week before hatching once again into their new life.
With each regeneration cycle of First Generation Thuwedari they retain some core fragments of their previous lives and experiences, with their personalities and perspectives changed as they shape into new individuals by the echoes of their former self. This endless cycle of renewal without true death became the central metaphor that defines Egg Day celebration.
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