“ Once a year there is Birthday. On this day everyone celebrates their birthday regardless of the day they were born. In practice anyone born in November or December waits till the following Birthday. It is a combination of your birthday and Christmas,
Birthday tree
The magic version of this is empowered by a god to reward their followers once a year. a present will appear Birthday morning. it will be empowered by how well a member of the household provides service or offerings to the god. They vary in power level at GMs discretion.”
“ By late afternoon, the sky starts to cloud over. The sun shines behind the fluffy clouds, gilding the edges and showing a Jacob's-ladder of rays streaming through the gaps...very pretty. Gradually the clouds shift into a new configuration: you realize with awe-struck, preternatural clarity that the clouds form a map of a coast-line that you know, against the blue sky as ocean: surely it's a Sign! Suddenly, the golden beams coalesce into one long ray that strikes across the blue. A star-like gleam flashes under the ray: perhaps it is an island? But the charts show no island there...who would want to hide an island? Who could do it?”