The Sunreavers attend the annual Anath’Ithilion Solstice Ceremony
On December 18th, some of The Sunreavers, officially on two-week leave for the holidays, found themselves at the same Solstice Ceremony in Quel’Thalas.
While the weather of Quel’Thalas is eternally springlike, the days to grow shorter until the Midwinter Solstice, the shortest day and longest night of the year. It is a time of reflection and of letting go.
Attendees were handed a scroll and pen and were encouraged to write down something that they wish to let go: a memory or emotion, an attachment that prevents them from moving on and forward with their lives.
The parchment, featuring a written description of that which is being let go, is then cast into the Solstice fire and watched as it burns, taken away into the winter night by the cleansing smoke.
It was an emotional ceremony for some, and an introspective one for all.