A Golden Age is coming

Fertility & festivities

THE SGRIKLOOP is an ancient spring festival that takes place after the first sowing of the year.  
It is an event where all participants carry around scarecrows, and proudly display them in friendly competition. The parade passes along each arable field accompanied by ritual dance & song which are meant to safeguard the seeds. Tradition dictates that only peasant families are allowed to participate during this stage, their link to the land being the most intimate.
Afterwards, all villagers are invited to gather on the meeting square where the scarecrows are thrown onto bonfires and the real festivities begin: music, food & drink for all! The morning after every family will take a small amount of the ashes and spread it over their hovel.

Old days

THE FESTIVAL finds its origin in a past where the climate was much harsher & fertility was much more fickle. Farming was a struggle back then, and every harvest had to be protected at all costs. Nowadays the soil is richer and the harvests are usually abundant. Many large forests and vast plains are left intact, and only the most greedy birds & mice resort to Grand Theft Seed.

Old ways

Harkman Kaasknoeperd, sheriff of Voogelvry.

THE SGRIKLOOP is celebrated in many agricultural communities across Bos, but nowhere is it practiced so rigorously as in Voogelvry.
This small village holds an ancient grudge against feathered breeds, the exact reason long forgotten. Their everyday traditional dress resembles that of a scarecrow and birds are prohibited from entering the community.
This, in turn, has caused many to shun Voogelvry, as such intolerance is seldom seen and can only point to an unstable community. Since birds are enthusiastic messengers (or rather, natural gossips) Voogelvry also lags behind in news of the outside
world. No one seems to mind either way.