Holidays

Elemental Holidays, or elemental festivals, are in-game events in which the Festive Favors shop will be open, selling themed items.

Each monthly holiday celebrates one of the 11 Elemental Flights, occurring on the last week of every month, barring December. Each will begin at 6:00 on a Sunday, and end at 6:00 the following Sunday, Flight Rising server time (PST/PDT).

Other seasonal events, like Valentine's Day or Flight Rising's anniversary celebration, also occur yearly and could be considered holidays of sorts. These are not canon celebrations in the world of Sornieth, however. Micro-holidays like Drakeharvest, on the other hand, do follow the lore of the world.

Lore

The close of the The Third Age coincided with a deterioration of trust and cooperation between the elemental flights; the gods fell into a deep bitterness for several thousand years. Since that time, however, the children of each have come to accept their places in the new world, even nurturing a growing reverence for their elemental cousins.

About once a month, all dragonkind comes together to celebrate one of the eleven elements for an entire week. Holidays are meant as an armistice time and conflict is discouraged.

Festive Favors

• The Festive Favors shop opens every elemental holiday, selling four themed items that will only be buyable until the festival ends. These items consist of one elemental scene (available every year), a familiar, a piece of apparel, and one other item (up until June 2016, this item was always another, smaller piece of apparel. The 2016 Brightshine Jubilee introduced Vistas as a possibility). This shop only accepts holiday currency, obtainable for the duration of its respective holiday via:
  • Gathering (any type, any region)
  • defeating enemies in the Coliseum (that are neutral-aligned, or aligned to the flight being celebrated—e.g., during the Wavecrest Saturnalia, Giant Sand Dollars may be dropped by Water and neutral-type creatures)
  • Baldwin's Bubbling Brew
• Joxar's Spare Inventory also opens during holidays. Each player can buy 1 Spare Inventory Crate here per festival, and may also trade in Prismatic Tokens for color variants of past holiday items.

Holiday Skins and Accents

Before each festival, a contest is held to create Skins and Accents that will be released to the public for the length of the holiday. 12 of the 14 winning skins are buyable in the Marketplace for 35,000 treasure; 2 are exclusive to Baldwin's Bubbling Brew. 6 of the non-Baldwin skins will also be available in exclusive chests, obtained from Coliseum enemies (neutral or the holiday's element), or from digging in the respective elemental region while gathering.

The contest winners are chosen by site admins. Winners are credited in the tooltip of the skin, and also receive a copy of their winning skin, 1,500 gems, an Artist's Vista, and a Skin Blueprint (5).

List of Holidays

Below are the months in which each holiday is celebrated:

Month	Holiday	Elemental Flight:	Holiday Currency:
January	Crystalline Gala	Ice	Eternal Snow
February	Trickmurk Circus	Shadow	Shimmering Pinecone
March	Mistral Jamboree	Wind	Messengers Scroll
April	Wavecrest Saturnalia	Water	Giant Sand Dollar
May	Greenskeeper Gathering	Nature	Bladed Flatleaf
June	Brightshine Jubilee	Light	Immaculate Tablet
July	Thundercrack Carnivale	Lightning	Charged Sprocket
August	Flameforger's Festival	Fire	Glowing Ember
September	Starfall Celebration	Arcane	Magical Shard
October	Riot of Rot	Plague	All-Seeing Shroom
November	Rockbreaker's Ceremony	Earth	Deepearth Geode
December	**Night of the Nocturne	None	None

**Night of the Nocturne is an event that runs near the end of December, but is not considered an elemental holiday.

Micro-Holidays and Seasonal Events

There are some minor "holidays" that come around every year. Unlike the more involved Elemental Holidays and Night of the Nocturne, these small events only span a few days and only have a few things that happen during them.

Bounty of the Elements was a one-time event in March of 2018 celebrating the site reaching its goal of full time open registration. It could be considered a "micro-holiday" of sorts in that it provided new items (the Swiftbrood Boon and Miniature Sornieth Globe), Coliseum experience bonuses, and new lore.

Timeframe	Occasion/Holiday	What's Happening?
February 14th - 21st	Love is in the Air	Infested Cotton Candy, Meaty Cotton Candy, Fishy Cotton Candy, and Coneflower Cotton Candy have a chance to drop in the coliseum and many other site-related activities. Susie sells Valentines-themed items at Susie's Sweet Sentiments in exchange for cotton candy, treasure, and gems. The Enamored Swan and Scene: Lovebird Landscape become available to brew at level 3-6. Chocolate Noggle, Strawberry Noggle, and Lovebird Tea Set items have a chance to drop from all enemies in all Coliseum venues.
Early March	Springswarm	The special insect items Buzzing Rotwood and Teeming Loghive drop from all enemies in all Coliseum venues. All experience gains are increased by 50%. Undergrowth Shovelsnouts and Mossy Beetleboars can be obtained in the Coliseum and rarely by insect catching. Swarming Devourers and Swarm Sovereigns can be obtained in the Coliseum and rarely by gathering. Vista: Springswarm and Scene: Springswarm have a chance to drop in the coliseum and many other site-related activities.
April 1st	April Fool's Day	A prank chest is available to be claimed from Galore and the site has some overarching prank to the layout. The site goes back to normal on April 2nd. When the prank chests are no longer available from Galore, they become real chests with a special item in them. Marva sells April Fools items from past years at Marva's Marvelous Marvels for treasure.
June 8th	Flight Rising's Anniversary	Some new site mechanic is typically introduced. Players will also receive some kind of gift item(s) from Galore.
Mid-June	Sunparched Prowl	The special meat items Bundle of Haunchmeat and Salted Game drop from all enemies in all Coliseum venues. All experience gains are increased by 50%. Runescar Lynxes and Scorchpaw Prowlers can be obtained in the Coliseum and rarely by hunting. Decorated Chimeras and Grasslands Chimeras can be obtained in the Coliseum and rarely by gathering. Vista: Sunparched Prowl and Scene: Sunparched Prowl have a chance to drop in the coliseum and many other site-related activities.
Early-August	Warrior's Way	Broken Arrow, Shattered Sword, and Smashed Shield have a chance to drop in the coliseum and many other site-related activities. Arvelle sells warrior-themed items at Arvelle's Adamant Armaments in exchange for broken equipment, treasure, and gems. The Crystalcleave Canary, Vigilant Sparrow, Iron Shield, Steel Shield, Gold Shield, and Segmented Neon armor set become available to brew at level 3-6.
Mid-September	Drakeharvest	The special plant items Heavy Grainbasket and Horn of Plenty drop from all enemies in all Coliseum venues. All experience gains are increased by 50%. Plantation Pinchers and Harvest Hardshells can be obtained in the Coliseum during Drakeharvest, and rarely by foraging year-round. Harvest Waxwings and Waxwing Cultivators can be obtained in the Coliseum and rarely by gathering. Vista: Drakeharvest and Scene: Drakeharvest have a chance to drop in the coliseum and many other site-related activities.
September 19th - 26th	Talk Like a Pirate Day	Tarnished Doubloons have a chance to drop in the coliseum and many other site-related activities. Patches sells pirate-themed items at Patches' Pirate Plunder in exchange for Tarnished Doubloons, treasure, and gems. The Scarlet Macaw and Blue and Gold Macaw become available to brew at level 2. Scene: Voyage of the Tenacity has a chance to drop from all enemies in all Coliseum venues.
Mid-December	Frigidfin Expedition	The special seafood items Bountiful Fishnet and Overflowing Fishbasket drop from all enemies in all Coliseum venues. All experience gains are increased by 50%. Chillriver Bucktooths and Fenfisher Flattails can be obtained in the Coliseum and rarely by fishing. Narwin Fishers and Narwin Harvesters can be obtained in the Coliseum and rarely by gathering. Narwin Harvesters and Narwin Fishers can be obtained in the Coliseum and rarely by gathering. Vista: Frigidfin Expedition and Scene: Frigidfin Expedition have a chance to drop in the coliseum and many other site-related activities.

Trivia

• In the past, only half of the skins were buyable, and the other half were exclusive to the chests. Having all of them available via the Marketplace was tested during the 2014 Trickmurk Circus, and was permanently implemented starting with the 2014 Greenskeeper Gathering. Currently, holidays offer 14 skins total. 12 are available in the Marketplace, and 6 of these 12 also appear in chests. The remaining 2 skins are exclusive to Baldwin's Bubbling Brew; since the recipes are low level and use common ingredients, these skins are still accessible to most players.
• There are reasons for the order of the elemental holidays. From the Weekly Q&A thread (Page 529): "As far as the months that were assigned, they very loosely correspond with a variety of factors. Note: These factors typically do not affect Sornieth. This is simply the admin's internal logic at work rather than rolling the dice on the holidays! A lot of this relates to where we live, which is in the northern hemisphere in North America.
  • June: Light - The Longest day of the year occurs during June.
  • July: Lightning - Depending on the area you live in you can see heat lightning, which seemed to fit well with desert-dwelling electric dragons.
  • August: Fire - It's hot. It's so hot. Fire is hot. August is hot like fire. It burns.
  • September: Arcane - A new year of school is starting: time to learn.
  • October: Plague - Many plants are in the process of dying off for the year, ready to come back later.
  • November: Earth - Trees have dropped their leaves, but snow has not yet fallen. You see a lot of bare earth. The last harvests are pulled in, further exposing it.
  • January: Ice - Depending on where you live, there may be a good deal of snow and icy temperatures at work.
  • February: Shadow - Long nights and long shadows! (December does contain the longest night, but we didn't want to put an elemental holiday in that month.)
  • March: Wind - In the northern hemisphere March is a notoriously windy month.
  • April: Water - April showers, etc.
  • May: Nature - It's safe to plant most flowers and gardens. Greenery everywhere!"