Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20171008021704

The official Imperial Calendar is filled with many hundreds of holidays (roughly half of the calendar is part of some sort of holiday, festival, or day of glory/mourning). During these times all sorts of celebrations, parades, and displays of wealth or Imperial power are shown.

Most official holidays deal with worship of either one of the Gods of the main Pantheon or of the Emperor's themselves and sometimes even the state. Normally such holidays are filled with grand parades of a statue of said Emperor or God and the streets filled with their worshipers chanting their praises.

Other holidays are of a more 'material' nature with the holiday known as the 'Emperor's Gift' being the day in which worlds are expected to provide their tithes to the Empire and to bask in the glory that is serving the Empire and the greater good.

Some holidays are far more mournful being a day of remembrance for the death of a Emperor, saint, or just a day to remember the lost and damned and to pray for their souls.

Almost all holidays have special customs and ways to celebrate from decorating steel poles and then beating heretics with them, from filling a tree with all sorts of perishable goodies and making a burnt offering to the gods, chanting in the streets or worshiping at murals, and even blood offerings to the Gods.

The State makes sure that holidays are both frequent and for the most part distracting with the masses being constantly distracted with another festival payed for by the state, but it is also a tool of religion. It encourages the worship of the approved gods and saints. 