Mainday Feast
Dragons do not have the same diurnal sleep cycle as humans. Rather, as youth, they have an activity cycle approximately four days long, following this general pattern:
- Day 1: slightly lethargic, but alert; little to no feeding
- Day 2: normal energy level; light feeding, less than a human
- Day 3: nervous energy increases, personality is more pronounced, energy level increases; feeding reaches human levels
- Day 4: emotional swell, hunger builds rapidly, culminates in a feeding binge, dozens of times larger than a human could possibly eat, followed by a long sleep of 12-16 hours
Many dragons deliberately schedule their lives around a four-day cycle, to avoid complications should their hunger strike unexpectedly. Typically, this cycle is quantized so that feeding occurs on the rising of BaradÃn; thus, Mainday and Sainday of each week, in the Junean Calendar.
Elves were the first to notice this tendency, and named it the Feast of BaradÃn. Men noticed it later, naming it the Mainday Feast, at a time before the 8-day Junean week cycle was widely adopted, and Mainday was repeated every four days.