Hospitality

Dyrling commoners are very gracious and will always offer up food and drink to any passerby.  The nobility while also generous in their own way is not necessarily as consistent about this, traditions and style's vary by noble house.

Feasts for all Seasons

"Michele, you and your wife and children will join us at dinner this Sevenday.  No, you need bring nothing.  We are family!  Why Colette is my husband's sister's husband's cousin through marriage to my fourth Great Uncle Pierre, and fifth cousin to my aunt . . .the dotty one who fancied herself a flax plant.  We're practically of the same womb!"

Dyrlings will often take any opportunity to entertain friends and family.  Since most everyone is Family to everyone else, this happens quite often, even between those whose modern culture would regard as casual acquaintences at best. 

Dyrlings believe that brings pleasure to Athlendyr to see his children happy and well fed. 

Is breaking bread together ever a Bad thing?

Could you shut out the night?

"But of Course he eats of our Table.  We hardly could shut him out.  Could we shut out the Night?  Or the Wind?  The Pard eat of the land and the paths.  If they find themselves at our Table, the better for them."

The Pard eat where they will.  Most of the time, this means they share a rude meal in the wilderness alone with their cats.  But should they find themselves any place among "civilization", from the most remote Camp of the Sora'nau to the greatest Palace, they are welcomed.  The grandest of banquets have fed The Pard and their cats in their forest leathers.

Even in the Queen's Grove, they are welcomed at the Table.  Does not night fall even there?

The Potlatch

"A potlatch?  You are are not from Telrae?  Ah yes . . . the head of a Great Family wishes to show his wealth to all.  So he invites his cousins . . .yes . . we are ALL cousins, no?  The head of the family invites his cousins from all around.  The whole district gathers at his house for a great feast.  There is much feasting for many days.  What?  Oh no!  It is an Insult to bring Anything to a potlatch.  No, not even a gift.  To do that would be to say your host's hospitality was lacking.  Ah . . .yes, you WOULD invite him to your potlatch--is he not your cousin?, but you would never mention his potlatch to him, for that would mean you invited him out of obligation. 

Ah . . . but the Potlatch is not for Obligation.  It is as the gift of Athlendyr.  Those who have give as Athlendyr has given."

The Potlatch is a special feast given by a family of means to share with their entire community.  It is understood that all members of the community are invited.  Except in the event of illness, it is a great insult not to attend the Potlatch. 

It is considered Dreadful form to bring anything to a Potlatch.  Doing so suggests that the hospitality of your hosts is somehow lacking.  Such behavior might be tolerated in a Foreigner, but never from another Dyrling.

Though it would be gauche to say so, among wealthy families there is a bit of competition as to whose Potlatch is the grandest.  One would, of course, NEVER suggest aloud that one Potlatch were superior to another, but those of sufficient means continually strive to outdo one another.

Dyrlings believe that those to whom much have been given should be generous as Athlendyr has been generous with them.  Even in a "poor" district, the wealthiest family among them will do their best to throw a Potlatch for the rest.  Though in the Queen's Grove, a Potlatch might consist of a stew of gnawlings and turnips, as opposed to the fatted calves and fancy desserts of the noble houses.
 

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