Terra Pomaria Winter Event

The Terra Pomaria Winter Event is the annual winter event hosted by the Barony of Terra Pomaria. The actual name of the event may be changed yearly by the autocrat and has been on several occasions. The most common traditional names for the event are Winter's End and The Festival of the Melting Icicles. It was the fifth annual event formed in the history of the barony, surpassing Norse Feast in AS XXX/1996 as the branch's premiere and typically sole winter season gathering. The first time the winter event was held in AS XXVI/1992 while Terra Pomaria was still a shire, three months before its elevation to baronial status. Its reoccurence has been ongoing ever since. Traditionally the event has been held within the month of February through early March. Since AS XXVI/1992 the occasion of the winter event has been continously uninterrupted with each annual gathering occuring as follows:

• The Festival of the Melting Icicles XXVI/1992
• The Festival of the Melting Icicles XXVII/1993
• Feast of the Melting Icicles XXVIII/1994
• Feast of the Melting Icicles XXIX/1995
• Feast of the Melting Icicles XXX/1996
• Passage of Arms Tournament and Feast of the Melting Icicles XXXI/1997
• St Lazarus Feast and Tourney XXXII/1998
• Winter's End Tourney XXXIII/1999
• Winter's End XXXIV/2000
• Winter's End XXXV/2001
• Winter's End XXXVI/2002
• Winter's End XXXVII/2003
• Winter's End XXXVIII/2004
• Winter's End XXXIX/2005
• Baronial Athenaeum XL/2006
• The Feast of Melting Icicles XLI/2007
• Winter's End XLII/2008
• Winter's End XLIII/2009