Lore - All Hallows Eve (Patreon)

While not every district celebrates the holiday, the ones that do turn the night of Halloween into a month-long event. The alleys are decorated with pumpkin lanterns. Live bats swoop through the cobblestone streets. And every vendor, every shop, carries candy for day and night trick or treat session. Kids young and old partake in the event, all of it leading to a weekend long carnival of dancing, bobbing for apples, spooks and scares.

This is far more the lighter side of the event. The shadows try to edge their way in during this month. Swallowing unsuspecting individuals whole. More lights and lanterns are put up in an effort to keep them at bay but if someone is caught within the dark shadows edges of the Night Market, they do not return. No grave is created for them in the graveyard and the Well of Souls never receives them for rebirth.

Mists and fog were outlawed several decades ago due to vampires using them as a cover for their hunting grounds. Furthermore, candied apples are regulated due to an outcrop of poison apples. More arrests are made for magic use during this month than any other but certain guard members try to let it slide seeing as it is all in good fun.

No one is quite sure why the Night Market celebrates this holiday or where the influence came from. It certainly did not start this way.  Long ago, when the market was still underground, the celebration of this month was the convergence of magic. It was a time when a Gatekeeper was not needed to open doors to other worlds and instead the citizens themselves could. They could visit the homes they were from or vacation in different worlds for a time. But much more importantly, they could steal others to populate the market, locking them on the other side of the gate and building their community by picking who they felt would be most beneficial to the growth of their society. While the practice is not condoned any longer, there are rumors of it still being enacted out in the deep recesses of the Outlands.