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==== Adventurer Day ====

Adventurer Day is a festival holiday celebrated at different times depending on the shrine, where children and adults alike dress up in varies adventurers from both myth and history. It is a celebration of adventure itself, complete with a treasure hunt for the children, a first-blood [[Sverdturneringer]] for adults and a dozen other games played at stalls. The festival can last as long as a week but no shorter than a two days. The festival ends with the Brewmaster of the shrine giving a small speech thank the adventurer spirits for bring safety and their many stories to Akuan. The holiday is often use to venerate local saints or spirits in the community and bring the community close together.

==== Bloom Day ====

Depending on when flowers bloom at the given shrine, bloom day is held. It is consider to be an romantic holiday and one for newly wed couples to be given gifts by the community. The gift given is handed out by the brewmaster, taking the lead as the community leader handing out gifts handed by to the newly weds. To be a newly wed one has married within the past 5 years, and each newly wed couple is given a gift. In addition flower crowns are given to the couple (or to each partner in the relationship) and a dance is held for only the newly weds with the brewmaster singing. For couples older than 5 years in partnership they are to be honored, and they host a parade in celebration of their love. In the parade they throw candies and sweets towards the crowd as well flowers picked. It is tradition to confess one's love to another and if they accepted the new found couple plants a flower as a symbol of their love.

==Shrine Architecture==

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 ==== Adventurer Day ====
 Adventurer Day is a festival holiday celebrated at different times depending on the shrine, where children and adults alike dress up in varies adventurers from both myth and history. It is a celebration of adventure itself, complete with a treasure hunt for the children, a first-blood [[Sverdturneringer]] for adults and a dozen other games played at stalls. The festival can last as long as a week but no shorter than a two days. The festival ends with the Brewmaster of the shrine giving a small speech thank the adventurer spirits for bring safety and their many stories to Akuan. The holiday is often use to venerate local saints or spirits in the community and bring the community close together.
+==== Bloom Day ====
+Depending on when flowers bloom at the given shrine, bloom day is held. It is consider to be an romantic holiday and one for newly wed couples to be given gifts by the community. The gift given is handed out by the brewmaster, taking the lead as the community leader handing out gifts handed by to the newly weds. To be a newly wed one has married within the past 5 years, and each newly wed couple is given a gift. In addition flower crowns are given to the couple (or to each partner in the relationship) and a dance is held for only the newly weds with the brewmaster singing. For couples older than 5 years in partnership they are to be honored, and they host a parade in celebration of their love. In the parade they throw candies and sweets towards the crowd as well flowers picked. It is tradition to confess one's love to another and if they accepted the new found couple plants a flower as a symbol of their love.
 ==Shrine Architecture==

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