Spring's Eve

The Spring’s Eve Festival was a celebration that marked the end of Winter and welcomed Spring to Verdan, but over time it has become a festival that celebrates love in all of its forms: platonic, romantic, and physical. There are plenty of ways to celebrate Spring’s Eve! The most common is an exchange of gifts: usually homemade or store-bought chocolates. Friends usually exchange small boxes with 4-5 pieces of chocolate in them, but lovers would exchange much larger boxes of chocolate. Plenty of moos take the opportunity to confess during Spring’s Eve and many new relationships are formed every year! Friends and lovers also tend to exchange thoughtful, hand-crafted cards with a short message of appreciation inside of them.

There are other local celebrations of the festival as well; Bovine Bluff’s ties into the fertility goddess, Cybele. Local legend says that Cybele’s garden is on the outskirts of the town. It’s common knowledge that she’s a dab hand at gardening, so most Pheromoos place her garden in a lush field of flowers just on the edge of town. Over the years, moos have added to the garden to help beautify it while Cybele has been away. There are plenty of gazebos, hedges, and picnic areas, all in an effort to make Cybele happy when she next visits Verdan.

Moos from Bovine Bluffs believe that Cybele will come back to Verdan once she gets the love and recognition she deserves from the people. To this end, during Spring’s Eve, the moos of Bovine Bluffs give the goddess love offerings. Love offerings are a tradition where Pheromoos take their lover to Cybele's garden and honor the goddess by making love to show their appreciation for her creation. During the festival, the garden is completely open for any sort of public displays of love between consenting Pheromoos.