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The Feast of the Stags:
Celebrated at Higharvestide, the clergy parade through settled areas bearing the heads of the beasts they have slain during the previous tenday (a frenzy of killing), and lead all who desire to eat to a feast. The beasts hunted by Malarite hands are the main dishes at this two-day-long revel of gluttony, and all folk are invited - even enemies, protected by "the Peace of the Table." At this feast, the clergy publicly undertake to hunt for specific widows, aged folk, infirm individuals and orphans. This day marks the annual high point of regard for the faith in most communities.

...alright here's the question. Does that mean they are hunting for those kinds of people as in to aid them....or pointedly hunting them down to weed them out by means of culling?

I'm just trying to get an idea here on this one tradition.

I believe it means that they also hunt to deliver food to those groups of people (i.e. hunt for = hunt for the benefit of).

Also, Lore Question Thread loves to be used

Yurell nailed it on the noggin. They hunt animals and beast an feed people, not kill them. This is one of the rituals they use to try and keep good relations with the locals. They try to get them to think, "Maybe they ain't so bad after all".

More like "please don't kill us on sight. We might be friendly with Gruumsh but it doesn't mean we're bad guys right? right?"

Galenson wrote:

More like "please don't kill us on sight. We might be friendly with Gruumsh but it doesn't mean we're bad guys right? right?"

I'd imagine it's for better relations. The average peasant probably knows bugger-all about the gods except who he has to sacrifice / say a prayer to and when. Some guys coming in with a prepared feast that you don't have to work for yourself would be golden , since most of the average person's money would be spent on keeping themselves alive.

Yurell wrote:

I'd imagine it's for better relations. The average peasant probably knows bugger-all about the gods except who he has to sacrifice / say a prayer to and when. Some guys coming in with a prepared feast that you don't have to work for yourself would be golden , since most of the average person's money would be spent on keeping themselves alive.

This.

Aye. I recon, the most the average local would know is "Malarite = bad" as a general feel. Or hells, "Forest folk = bad" if the Malarites and other "evil" types are the only ones around.

Thanks a ton and Yurell, I agree fully the lore section is marvelous but if the wording is precisely the same that doesn't really clarify much. I also googled it and strolled through Candlekeep to see what I could find but the wording again was almost precisely the same so I still wished the clarification.

That and as it's been proven, sometimes lore and homebrew doesn't match up. Better to ask what seems a silly question to be certain than err in ignorance. *sage nod*

Clarification asked of Lorehounds and Malarites!!

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