[Dragaera] Ascension Day

[Jon Lincicum]

Here's a pararectal (Exoanal? Postintragutiomaximal?) notion I had 
recently...

I notice that the "Ascension Day" holiday is mentioned by Vlad in 
/Dzur/, and also in /Brokedown Palace/.  (Both times in reference to 
someone's face lighting up.)

But the fact that it is, apparently, celebrated both in Fenario, and 
also in the Empire, makes me think that perhaps this holiday is 
celebrated all over Dragaera...  I was struck with the thought that this 
holiday could commemorate the Ascension of the gods, and the expulsion 
of the Jenoine--this being about the only thing I could think of that 
both Dragaerans and Easterners would be in complete agreement about 
celebrating.

The name also makes a certain amount of sense, when talking about how 
the gods (Verra, et al) came into being during the event that caused the 
Greater Sea of Amorphia to form.

Of course, the reference in /Dzur/ is made by Vlad, so he may simply be 
making an allusion to an Eastern holiday that Dragaerans don't really 
celebrate at all, and the whole theory falls apart.

I dunno. Perhaps the reference in /Dzur/ is just an expression Vlad 
picked up while back east, and is actually a bit of foreshadowing to the 
next book?

Majikjon