Tide Village

Tide Village is one of the eight core starting villages of The Old World. Known for sharing similarities with Sandover Village, Tide Village is another small coastal village, considered a western village even though it is located on the southern coast like Sandover. Tide Village holds an eco designation of blue, empowering fishermen, merchants, and sorcerers. Tide Village is perhaps best known for its small market and various merchants, even though the market occurs on the outskirts of the village and not within the settlement itself.

Appearance
Tide Village is a small coastal village, comprising of only a handful of homes. The homes are fashioned in a similar style to those of Sandover Village and it is like Sandover in many ways. Unlike Sandover, the homes are placed up a ridge from a beach instead of right on it, but it is a very small distance. There are numerous boats, as the people of Tide Village are attracted to the water.

Culture
Tide Village is known for being very welcoming, with villagers all knowing each other and being very comfortable in the fabric of their small society. Villagers from Tide are known for being affable, even-tempered, optimistic, and enthusiastic. From a young age, children are taken out to the beach and on boats to show them the ocean, their constant neighbor. The beach is a common spot for villagers to be found, as well as in the main hub of the town. It is not uncommon for villagers from Tide to make a hike through the high mountains and through Sentinel Beach to visit Sandover Village, which is something of a "sister village" to them.

Unlike Sandover Village, many festivals are held here, with at least one for each season and for special occasions. For the Fall Festival, thin orange cloths are secured to poles and hung to wave in the wind. Common fall foods are eaten at a communal feast in the center of the village, and the villagers put on plays and performances. For winter, houses hang blue and white "snow lanterns" to bring their village an essence of snow, which they rarely (if ever) get. Warm drinks are served at the festival's feast, to keep their spirits warm enough to last through the winter. It is also common for neighbors to make each other unique dishes and deliver them, to celebrate warm tidings in the coldest season. In spring, village children wear crowns or diadems made of flowers (for girls) and vines (for boys). The adults wear their finest green clothes and they have a large picnic together. Summer is celebrated well too, with a nighttime campfire that the villagers take turns telling stories at.