Feast of Lights

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Feast of Lights is a holiday that occurs on the last day of the old year and the first day of the new year.

In Cairhien, this holiday is celebrated differently, for this is the only time the people of Cairhien are given breaks. For two days, all social barriers are broken, and everyone goes wild while music and dancing flow through the streets. One of the tenets of the holiday is that any man can kiss any woman, and any woman can kiss any man, and it is seen that nobles and commoners are in states of undress from the waist up. At the end of the feast, everyone returns to thier normal classes and duties, with no acknowledgment that anything did occur.