The Solstice Championships
Twice a year, the Auraetes host a huge competitive event, much like the Olympics, where wolves can compete for the top title in a specific sport!
At the end of the Championships, a large feast is held, with free drinks and food for spectators and competitors alike! Winners of each sport get a golden medal with the year (with either a sun or a snowflake carved in to indicate if it was the summer or winter solstice) and their name on it that they can put around their bed or hang on the den wall in their pack to show their skill.
At the end of the Championships, a large feast is held, with free drinks and food for spectators and competitors alike! Winners of each sport get a golden medal with the year (with either a sun or a snowflake carved in to indicate if it was the summer or winter solstice) and their name on it that they can put around their bed or hang on the den wall in their pack to show their skill.
Competing Sports
Pawball
Pawball, a game where wolves kick a ball in between two markers which is guarded by an event-assigned goalie, much like football, but they can use any part of their body to hit the ball. However, there are no teams, and the points are counted based on which single wolf gets the most goals.
Branching
Branching is a skilled game based on endurance and one's ability to jump high. Large pinecones are hung from branches with vine string on various levels of the tree, increasing in height. The more cones a wolf manages to leap up to grab, the more points they get, but they only have 30 seconds to get all of the cones and their points, so they better be able to jump high and quickly!
100 Meter Dash
Just like the real 100 meter dash in our world, this is a skill-based sport which demonstrates the fastest wolf, and is based on dexterity and speed alone, rather than endurance.
All Terrain Foot Race
The longest sport in the Championships, a race to a finish line, several kilometers from the start. It doesn't matter how the wolves get to the finish line, just that they get there! The race changes every season to challenge it's participants, and is the most dangerous sport due to the rugged landscape of the Calling Forest. It's a true test of one's endurance and intelligence!
Gathering Games
The Gathering Games is a sport of tracking and urgency! For every singular wolf participating, 3 items are hidden in the designated tracking area, with borders of the 1 square kilometer range marked with orange paint made by the Artisans. Whichever wolves gather and return the most items to their basket at the starting area at the end of the one-hour-long scavenger hunt gets the most points and wins!
Pawball, a game where wolves kick a ball in between two markers which is guarded by an event-assigned goalie, much like football, but they can use any part of their body to hit the ball. However, there are no teams, and the points are counted based on which single wolf gets the most goals.
Branching
Branching is a skilled game based on endurance and one's ability to jump high. Large pinecones are hung from branches with vine string on various levels of the tree, increasing in height. The more cones a wolf manages to leap up to grab, the more points they get, but they only have 30 seconds to get all of the cones and their points, so they better be able to jump high and quickly!
100 Meter Dash
Just like the real 100 meter dash in our world, this is a skill-based sport which demonstrates the fastest wolf, and is based on dexterity and speed alone, rather than endurance.
All Terrain Foot Race
The longest sport in the Championships, a race to a finish line, several kilometers from the start. It doesn't matter how the wolves get to the finish line, just that they get there! The race changes every season to challenge it's participants, and is the most dangerous sport due to the rugged landscape of the Calling Forest. It's a true test of one's endurance and intelligence!
Gathering Games
The Gathering Games is a sport of tracking and urgency! For every singular wolf participating, 3 items are hidden in the designated tracking area, with borders of the 1 square kilometer range marked with orange paint made by the Artisans. Whichever wolves gather and return the most items to their basket at the starting area at the end of the one-hour-long scavenger hunt gets the most points and wins!
Holidays
The Autumn Yield Festival
Also just called the Harvest Festival, this is a holiday that occurs once a year in mid-October where no wolves have to do any duties and have a small feast within their packs, or they can go to the Auraetes for the larger feast, where there is also free ale and wine and they can trade items with the Artisans. It's simply a time of gathering, warmth, and appreciation, enjoying the little time left of abundance before the winter blows over the forest. Many wolves choose to have their Soul Ceremony during this holiday.
World Rotation Day
As is New Years to us, is World Rotation Day to the Calling Forest wolves! A day to celebrate the start of the new year and their calendar, tracked by the Archivist of course. There are festivities, painting, snow sculptures, small feasts with many unique plant-based recipes due to the lower amount of physical prey. While trainees go home at the height of the moon, many stay well past midnight, having drinks with their comrades and enjoying the celebration.