The Day of Ascension is the holy day most directly associated with Wisdom itself, the transcendent creator of the Universe and the instiller of purpose into everything. It is an abstruse holy day, with rituals which are often difficult for any but the most devout to truly comprehend. A good holiday for pomp and ceremony, for colored smoke and mirrors and flames.
The Holy Church is mostly not a religion of the transcendent. The guidance for a good member of the church comes first and foremost from the wholly imminent Love and Reason, secondly from tradition and from the writings of those who met the embodied Love and Reason after the Fall of the Theocracy, and only rarely does anyone seek guidance from Wisdom itself. To do so is to risk the sins of arrogance and perhaps even the fate of the Priest King of Vestra, who vanished softly and suddenly away. This is the holy day of the transcendent, for recognizing the unknowable.
This is also the holiday of death, a day for remembrance of those who have died this year, for the Holy Church views the fate of the dead as beyond our knowledge.
Even in Chaeronia, this is the start of the rainy season.
