Star Shower Festival

The Star Shower Festival, also known as the Star Festival, is an event that takes place during January, shortly after the New Year's events have passed. It takes place in Ashaya Village, where it is celebrated as a local holiday to the residents living there. Many players band together to collect a large sum of Stardust from Galepeak. During this time, the blizzard that surrounds Galepeak disappears for the duration of the event. Players will hand over their collected stardust to Benjamin, which eventually stockpiles the dust in a stone circle located in the middle of the village.

It is one of the newest events that were added into the game, instead of expanding on the traditional holidays that are represented in the real world, such as Christmas.

History

In the quest Star Shower on Galepeak, Benjamin explains the history behind the festival. The lore of it mentioned through this quest is stated below:

Every year, some time around the end of December, a large swarm of meteoroids passes by our planet."

While the bulk of them remains at quite a distance, some smaller outliers become attracted by gravity and create quite a spectacle that is best observed on the East side of Galepeak.

Ashaya Village has made it tradition to celebrate this star shower in a local holiday called the Star Festival. During these days, anyone is encouraged to visit Galepeak and gather the fragments of any meteorites they find on the ground. Most of the locals bring them here to Ashaya, where we collect them in this stone circle, as a gift to the Earth spirits.