Dragon Festival

Shing Jea Monastery decorated for the Dragon Festival.

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After years of struggle, The Dragon Empire rose anew from the ashes of the devastation of the Jade Wind. To commemorate the rebirth of the Empire of the Dragon and the indomitable spirit of the Canthan people, the Dragon Festival is held every summer at Shing Jea Monastery.

— Official website

The Dragon Festival is an annual Canthan celebration that takes place at the beginning of summer.

History

The Dragon Festival is an ancient Canthan tradition. After the assassination of Emperor Angsiyan at the hands of Shiro Tagachi and the catastrophe of the Jade Wind which threatened to wipe out and destroy the empire of Cantha, newly crowned emperor, Emperor Hanjai, the son of Angsiyan, turned this ancient tradition into a large scale celebration in order to unite the empire in its reconstruction.

The festival marks the anniversary of establishing the settlement on Shing Jea Island as well as the expansion of Kaineng City to accommodate the refugees from the areas hit hardest by the Jade Wind. The Dragon Festival has come to symbolize the survival of the Empire of the Dragon (Cantha) in the face of that calamity.

Quests

There are four quests given by Imperial Guard Hanso during each Dragon Festival, which now celebrate the defeat of the demon invasion during the first of these Festivals. Since 2007, all quests are re-enactments of the earlier events and the Lesser Grasps are replaced with actors. Each quest is a pre-requisite for the next:

1. The Rampaging Yetis
2. The Shrine of Maat
3. A Strange Request
4. Darkness at Kaitan

This quest given by Noblewoman Sun Li:

1. Spirit of the Celebration

Missions

There are also seven missions that occur during each Dragon Festival. Each mission has 3–4 scheduled start times each day, when Captain Rujiyo calls heroes to arms for the missions ("Captain Rujiyo urgently requests the help of capable heroes at Shing Jea Monastery!" appears in the chat window of every logged in character). The missions are only available for 30 minutes after the initial request. As noted above, there was an actual demon invasion during the original 2006 festival; subsequent Dragon Festivals celebrate victory by re-enacting the events, replacing the original monsters with actors and the rifts with pinwheels. The seven missions are:

1. Haiju Lagoon
2. Jaya Bluffs
3. Tsumei Village
4. Seitung Harbor
5. Tsumei Village (2)
6. Seitung Harbor (2)
7. Shing Jea Monastery

Other festivities

Each Dragon Festival will make the Shing Jea Boardwalk, Dragon Arena, and Rollerbeetle Racing available for use as well. Victory Tokens will also drop from PvE foes for the duration of the event.

NPCs

These Dragon Festival NPCs appear with Shing Jea Boardwalk event NPCs:

Shing Jea Monastery

• Acolyte Norge
• Captain Rujiyo
• Imperial Guard Hanso
• Imperial Supply Master Kagno (continues to appear for one week after the Dragon Festival ends)
• Master of Ceremonies
• Noblewoman Sun Li (continues to appear for one week after the Dragon Festival ends)

Only during finales:

• Emperor Kisu
• Imperial Sorcerer
• Lesser Grasps
• The Fury

Kaineng Center

• Imperial Guard Lein
• Master of Ceremonies

Items

Icon	Item	Icon	Item
	Bottle of Rice Wine		Bottle Rocket
	Champagne Popper		Crème Brûlée
	Dragon Festival Grab Bag		Festival Prize
	Flask of Firewater		Imperial Mask Token
	Red Bean Cake		Sparkler
	Sugary Blue Drink		Victory Token

Headgear

Starting with Dragon Festival 2012, the Day of the Tengu mask and each Dragon Festival mask can be obtained from Imperial Supply Master Kagno for one Imperial Mask Token.

Year	2006	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Mask	Tengu Mask	Dragon Mask	Demon Mask	Grasping Mask	Imperial Dragon Mask	Sinister Dragon Mask	Mirthful Dragon Mask

Finale

Location of Celestial Charges and Imperial Sorcerers.

Emperor Kisu will appear in Shing Jea Monastery every two hours (beginning at 2:00 AM / 9:00 (UTC)) and give everyone a Festival Prize. Then Celestial Charges will start to spawn around Shing Jea Monastery. Players are required to deliver the Celestial Charges to the Imperial Sorcerers before being caught by a Grasp of Insanity:

• One point is awarded to the Canthans for each charge delivered.
• The Grasps receive a point for each charge destroyed.
• Being caught while holding a Celestial Charge will kill your character for a short amount of time.

At the conclusion of the fifteen minutes, the highest scoring side "wins". A win for the Canthans will result in a celebration complete with fireworks and Festival Prizes. A win for the Grasps will result in them killing everyone they touch. A player will receive one Festival Prize for each Celestial Charge they deliver to an Imperial Sorcerer.

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