"tell me more of this—custom?" the traveler needs no protection from the chill beyond their exosuit, but they've wrapped themself in a shawl nonetheless. it's enough to disguise their alien nature, at a glance. "the starlight celebration, i've heard it called; but what does it have to do with the stars?"
⇶ Aymeric is always glad to talk of Starlight's origin — admittedly he cannot help his Ishgardian pride when it comes in the way of it. " Ah, that would be due to its origins. Starlight started in Ishgard, originally, and was only just made popular to the rest of Eorzea in recent years. Granted, most don't realize the true spirit of it.
" Its origins began during the Dragonsong war. After a brutal battle many were left orphaned, as such, during the coldest of nights, the temple knights bade to ignore rule of charter and snuck those young orphans under their coats and into their barracks so that they would be sheltered and warm. This was during a time when the temple knight's color was once red rather than blue.
" When the orphans grew up, and the fighting had lulled, they wished to honor and venerate these knights. As such, they would dress in bright red coats and give out gifts to children of the brume, passing along the joy they felt those starlit nights.
" 'Tis less to do with the actual stars, I suppose, and more to do with how those first orphans felt under them. "
