omans have always loved festivals. Even when a city has plenty of entertainment, there's usually precious little time to enjoy it. A festival provides more time for a city's hard-working citizens to enjoy the facilities off e red, or simply to eat, drink and be merry. Festivals always impro v e citizens' mood, and more so for larger festivals. This means that people work hard e r, making up for any time lost during the festival itself.

You may plan a small, large, or grand festival; the larger ones cost more, and take longer to plan, but yield greater benefits. The grand festival also re q u i res you to provide enough wine for all your people; if you do not have enough wine for this, you will not be able to hold a grand festival.

Festivals make citizens and gods alike happy. When you plan your celebration, you choose a god to honor, and that god is pleased when the festival occurs.