öyrnmsi
Öyrnmsi is a fictional ceremonial festival described in the Nordhaven world-building corpus. It is portrayed as the annual celebration that marks the return of daylight and the beginning of the fishing season in the coastal archipelago of Öyrn. The term is said to originate from the Öyrn language, with creature-of-light imagery embedded in its etymology.
The name öyrnmsi is usually analyzed as a compound: öyr (light, daybreak) and nmsi (return, renewal). In
Öyrn is described as a cluster of sparsely populated islands with sheltered harbors and rocky shores. Villages
The festival typically spans several days near the spring equinox. Common elements include lantern launches into
In the fictional chronology, öyrnmsi has ancient roots in oral tradition, later documented in regional chronicles