> Where, both geographically and reference-wise, does one find Firshala?
She was in Griffin Mountain, a sadly long-out-of-print Gloranthan campaign sourcebook. A lost and forgotten god, found trapped between standing stones somewhere in the Elder Wilds (NE of Dragon Pass, E of the Elf Sea, and not as troll-infested then as later sources have implied). Player characters were encouraged to develop her cult by themselves, within parameters.
> A less silly 'dark horse' is, of course, the ubiquitous Lunars - what do
> they do during midwinter?
Most of them participate in the usual Dara Happan or Pelorian midwinter rites, of course, while a small select band of heroes embark on the Kalikos Icebreaker mission to beat back the gods of Storm and Ice and help make the winter less severe. Probably there is a Lunar mystical "rebirth" of some kind as the cycle turns from increasing Darkness back to increasing Light: the fact that Midwinter's Day falls on Fireday of *Illusion* Week in Dark Season makes this very likely indeed. But the basic ceremony is likely to be Yelmic or agrarian, not Lunar per se.
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