Dragon Festival

The Dragon Festival is an annual Canthan celebration that takes place in the summer.

From June 30th to July 5th, 2006, players of Guild Wars Factions will be able to participate in the festival, taking place in and around the Shing Jea Monastery.

The event offers fun-games, quests, new PvE and PvP missions and items such as red bean cakes and rice wine. As special seasonal headgear, a customized Ceremonial Dragon Masks will be awarded to players who succeed in collecting a certain amount of globes filled with Jade Wind essence.

It has been announced that a special surprise will happen at the conclusion of the Dragon Festival.

History
After the assassination of Emperor Angsiyan at the hands of Shiro Tagachi and the catastrophe of the Jade Wind which threatened to wipe out and destroy the empire of Cantha, newly crowned emperor, Emperor Hanjai, the son of Angsiyan, announced the commencement of a new festival... The Dragon Festival.

The festival marks the anniversary of establishing the settlement on Shing Jea Island as well as the expansion of Kaineng City to accomodate the refugees from the areas hit hardest by the Jade Wind. It is named the Dragon Festival to symbolize the survival of the Empire of the Dragon (Cantha) in the face of that calamity.

''Note: It is speculated that this festival replaced the traditional Harvest Ceremony that used to took place for centuries. That ceremony was the event in which emperor Angsiyan was assassinated.''

Weblinks

 * Official announcement by ArenaNet