Canthan New Year 2009

Schedule
Friday, January 30, 2009 (12:00 pm PST): Start of the event

Canthan New Year 2009 Finale

 * Time Conversion Chart

Items
The following are the available items from Canthan New Year 2009, with a brief description from the official Guild wars website:


 * See also: Category:Canthan New Year 2009 items

Redecorated towns

 * Lion's Arch
 * Shing Jea Monastery
 * Kamadan, Jewel of Istan

Event-specific locations

 * Rollerbeetle Racing (location)
 * Rollerbeetle Racing (arena)
 * Dragon Arena
 * Shing Jea Boardwalk

Quests
Sunqua Vale
 * Hapless Chong: Just My Luck

Shing Jea Monastery:

Plains of Jarin: or
 * Elder Nofuun: Douse Your Enthusiasm
 * Fehj: A Burning Desire

NPCs
For a listing, see: Category:Canthan New Year NPCs.

Lunar Fortune Giver
Location: Shing Jea Monastery Collecting: 3 Lunar Tokens Item: Lunar Fortune

Lunar Gift Keeper
Location: Shing Jea Monastery, Lion's Arch, Kamadan, Jewel of Istan Collecting: 5 Lunar Tokens Item: Red Gift Bag

The Celestial Feast
The Celestial Feast will begin when the Celestial Ox arrives at Shing Jea Monastery. At the start of the festival an announcement is made and an 8-minute countdown timer starts. The chefs will begin requesting required items. As items are provided, the chefs stop requesting them. At the 10 minute mark, or as soon as all 5 dishes were prepared, all characters present in the district receive a Lion Mask and number of Red Gift Bags, the latter based on the number of dishes successfully completed (see table below). If all dishes are completed, players also receive 5 Crates of Fireworks. If no dishes are completed, the Celestial Animal will be unsatisfied and become angry. After the feast there is a fireworks display. Note that any character lacking the room for the items will have them dropped on the ground at their feet, assigned to their character. After 10 minutes, the assignment releases, so that anyone can pick them up, so it is a good idea to have room for at least 3 items (2 if you don't care about the Lion Mask) prior to the end of the event.

Ingredients for the feast
To create dishes to please the great celestial, the Imperial Chefs will be looking for these ingredients:


 * 1) Imperial Chef Yan (Appetizer)
 * 2) * Iridescent Griffon Wings
 * 3) * Tangled Seeds
 * 4) * Fiery Crests
 * 5) * Smoking Remains
 * 6) Imperial Chef Reun (Salad)
 * 7) * Alpine Seeds
 * 8) * Guardian Moss
 * 9) * Celestial Essences
 * 10) * Dragon Roots
 * 11) Imperial Chef Jiong (Soup)
 * 12) * Archaic Kappa Shells
 * 13) * Mantis Pincers
 * 14) * Kraken Eyes
 * 15) * Naga Hides
 * 16) Imperial Chef Chen (Main Course)
 * 17) * Igneous Spider Legs
 * 18) * Ebon Spider Legs
 * 19) * Bonesnap Shells
 * 20) * Azure Crests
 * 21) * Unctuous Remains
 * 22) Imperial Chef Tian (Dessert)
 * 23) * Truffles
 * 24) * Half-Eaten Blobs
 * 25) * Azure Remains
 * 26) * Icy Lodestones
 * 27) * Ebon Spider Webs

NOTE: You will receive 1 Lunar Token for each ingredient that you give to a chef when they ask for it. You can repeatedly give the same ingredient for additional Lunar Tokens until the chef asks for the next ingredient. Once a chef moves on to the next ingredient you can no longer give the previous ingredient. Likewise you can not give an ingredient that has not yet been requested. To complete all 5 dishes, all ingredients above must have been be provided. However, it is not necessary that all ingredients come from one person; different ingredients can be provided by different people.

Below is a chart describing the number of gift bags any character in the district (includes the Shing Jea Boardwalk) receives based on how many dishes were completed successfully.

