Fowl Fashion Feastday festival/2026

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Representational map of the in-game rooms comprising the Flotilla, host of the Fowl Fashion Feastday festival.

Join Pirate Queen Kyncera and numerous pirates (ahem, privateers) aboard the Great Piratical Flotilla for a weekend of fun and fowl fashion!

On the evening of 31 Koaratos, the Pirate Queen herself will welcome everyone to the festivities. While a more detailed schedule will be announced, mark your calendars and book your passage, so you do not miss this event. On Feastday, the flotilla holds its annual Fowl Fashion Feastday, and everyone is invited to watch the parade of entries.

There will be numerous ships docked with wares, merchants providing services, and other activities. Bring your silver, because the flotilla has Dragonbones and the Conquest Wheel too!

The celebration of Fowl Fashion Feastday will run from the evening of 31 Koaratos until mid-afternoon on 2 Phoenatos.

The Feast Fowl Fashion Summer Festival runs July 31 to August 5, 2026.

For announcements and saved posts, see the 2026 saved posts.

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Feast Fowl Fashion - A Piratical Holiday

Name of Holiday/Celebration: Fowl Fashion Feastday
Date of Holiday/Celebration: The first Feastday of Phoenatos
Who celebrates it: The flotilla and its inhabitants
Where it is celebrated: The Great Piratical Flotilla, near Ta'Nalfein
A short description of the holiday: This exercise in absurdity involves dressing birds, typically ducks, in high fashion and parading them around the decks of the flotilla to be voted upon. Afterwards, the flotilla celebrates by, unsurprisingly, overindulging in drink and food. The winning duck gets to sit upon the Flotsam Throne during the feast, and a cabin boy is tasked with keeping the duck happy for the day.
The origin of this ridiculous day started decades ago when a Nalfein student was rejected for apprenticeships and denied the opportunity to participate in Nalfein annual fashion traditions. The student left for the sea, joining a privateer with a penchant for fashion. The student was able to exercise her unique stylings upon the captain and crew, and the vessel became known for its outlandishly elaborate dress. The now-privateer/pirate collected a variety of ducks from the holds one day while docked at the flotilla, about the time of the annual Nalfein tradition of dressing up the pergolas was to occur, and instead, dressed up the ducks and paraded them about, much to the delight of the rest of the flotilla.
The rest is, as they say, history. The flotilla's contained chaos was the perfect setting for this, and each year, ships dock at the flotilla carrying ducks to dress. The Nalfein continues to make a living dressing pirates and privateers, and she often comes to judge the contest she started. Initially, releasing the ducks fully clothed upon the streets of Ta'Nalfein was attempted (the pirate was still bitter), but the potential for harm to come to the feathered fashionistas quickly stopped this practice as no one wished foul play upon their fowl.
Pandemonium has frequently ensued at these events, most notably the geese debacle of 5100 and the seagull spectacle of 5081. Ducks, for some reason, are much more tractable to being dressed up than other birds and attempts to use other fowl have resulted mostly in regrets, bleeding, and a lot of swabbing of the decks. One pirate captain tried entering his pet macaw a few years ago, and many pirates learned several new swear phrases (from both captain and parrot) when the attempt to put it in a jacket and ascot failed.

Information

Schedule

Date Time Event Location Description
Friday, 7/31 21:30 (9:30 pm) ET The Pirate Queen will give a welcome address [Jetsam Court, Throne Room] The Pirate Queen Kyncera will welcome guests to the flotilla's weekend of fun
Friday, 7/31 22:00 (10:00 pm) Dragon Bones [Tempest Queen, The Bones] Gingerette has traveled to the flotilla and will be hosting a few gambling games throughout the weekend
Saturday, 8/1 Noon ET Fowl Fashion parade followed by a feast and general revelry [Jetsam Court, Throne Room] The fowl fashion parade will present themselves to the queen before making their way out to the decks of the flotilla
Saturday, 8/1 16:00 (4 pm) ET Rumplesnoots Adventuring Company [The Great Piratical Flotilla] The Rumplesnoots Adventuring Company takes to the high seas to meet some pirates and see what sort of critters may be lurking on the flotilla
Saturday, 8/1 20:00 (8 pm) ET Conquest Wheel [Tempest Queen, Conquest Wheel] Gingerette has traveled to the flotilla and will be hosting a few gambling games throughout the weekend
Sunday, 8/2 11:00 ET Mid-morning Dragon Bones [Tempest Queen, The Bones] Gingerette has traveled to the flotilla and will be hosting a few gambling games throughout the weekend

Raffles

Throughout the weekend, the Feast Fowl Fashion Summer Festival may have several raffles.

Date Time Location Description Requirement Room Number
8/1/2026 23:00:00 ET Crooked Docks, Mermaid Pier a royal blue-black opal cabochon

Found at the bottom of the sea, the cabochon can be affixed to the forehead. The winner will have this mailed to them.

Character may be offline; entries are limited by account. 7134011
8/1/2026 23:15:00 ET Crooked Docks, Maelstrom Pier a seafoam green sea silk gown overlaid in tatted gold naraina

This Yfane gown will be mailed to the recipient.

Character may be offline; entries are limited by account. 7134006
8/1/2026 23:30:00 ET Crooked Docks, Pirate Pier a salt marsh moth cloak of golden byssus

This fully unlocked moth cloak will be mailed to the winner.

Character may be offline; entries are limited by account. 7134016
8/1/2026 23:45:00 ET Crooked Docks, Kraken Pier an agate-inlaid iriswood teabowl traced in elegant whorls

This teadragon bowl will be mailed to the winner.

Character may be offline; entries are limited by account. 7134005

Announcements

Places of Interest

The 2026 Fowl Fashion Feastday festival featured no unique shops, however it introduced a variety of new permanent shops located at the Flotilla. The vast majority of these shops are rotating ships, which will only include a random handful of those available docked at any given time once the festival has concluded. All traveling merchant ship shops were recalled for the duration of the festival and available during its entirety.

The Peashirmen was announced as now permanently docked at the Flotilla, serving as the new permanent home of the Life Aquatic Storage Pail. In prior years, the Pearshirmen was docked in Bloodriven Village during Duskruin.

Individual ships with shops include:

The Merry Kraken is a larger merchant ship with multiple shops inside:

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