The Feast

Mortals are, in the strictest sense of the word, clingy. Try to take something they care about from them, and the results can be catastrophic.

Mortalbornes are, unfortunately, the same way.

A tradition in many mortal cultures is a feast to welcome the coming winter in an attempt to stave off inevitable hunger. After all, food will rot before it can be grown again, and eating the same thing every day for a month or more can get very tiring if you are not of the proper palate. Even though gods do not need to eat, mortalborne or godborne, the god of autumn, Automne, decided to honor a mortal tradition by creating a grand feast before the coming of the first frost. Enough mortalbornes were overjoyed at the presence of this tradition withinThe Godship that Automne made a point to continue it, even if the only thing that was made was a single baked apple.

Every Feast, save for the first one, is started by a silent prayer to whatever god the mortalborne worshipped before becoming a god or The Cosmos, if said person is godborne, now despises said god, or never worshipped a god in their mortal life. Then, Automne, or Echinacea, goddess of culinary arts, should Automne be absent for any reason, blesses the food. And then everyone at the table eats or simply soaks up the cheer in the room.

A long table, many chairs, as mush cutlery as every expected guest requires and more, and lots and lots of food.

The food for The Feast is usually made over the course of several weeks by Automne and Echinacea, frozen in stasis until The Feast by Vein, and defrosted and reheated the day of The Feast by Maifania as if they were just cooked. Mino sets the table and folds every napkin in increasingly ornate figures. Winslow creates the drinks, alcoholic or not, and some of the muses, usually different every time, defend the kitchen and the table from the god of famine, Kiran, lest the food be ruined for the second time.

The Feast is held before the coming of the first frost. As such, there is no specific date, and it may, some years, be a few days late.