The Winter Veil Festival is the last festival of the year in Azeroth, and is celebrated for a week from December 15th to January 2nd.

Dwarves and minotaurs alike chant an ancient legend and celebrate a time to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new as the snow covers the earth.

Each race has a different understanding of this legend, and the way they tell it varies depending on the race.

The word "Winter Veil Festival" is derived from a supernatural thing: Grandpa Winter.

Grandpa Winter will appear around Azeroth at the end of the year, and with it will be a bitter cold wind. His awakening means that the earth will be shrouded in snow, so some people say that it was Grandpa Winter who covered the earth with a winter curtain.

Although most of the continent of Azeroth is covered in snow, it is a place of rebirth.

The people of the world of Azeroth gather at this time to revel, to celebrate the beginning of a new life.

There is no snow on the barren land all year round, and even when it comes to the Winter Veil Festival, there is still not a single snowflake on the ground, but this does not affect the enthusiasm of people to celebrate the Winter Veil Festival.

When Yang Yi rode into the Dead Water Village on the Cargo Transporter, he found that many pioneers had joined in the celebration of the Winter Veil Festival.

It has been more than two years since the Pioneers came to this world of Azeroth, and many of them have slowly integrated into the life of this world.

The pioneers did not pay much attention to the origins of the festival itself, nor did they pay much attention to the traditions and legends surrounding the Winter Veil, for whom the Winter Veil was just a celebratory festival.

All the pioneers cared about was that they could celebrate well during the festival, taste the food and exchange gifts, which is a custom of the Aboriginal people during the Winter Veil Festival.

The goblin merchants seized the opportunity of the festival by using the image of Grandpa Winter, an incarnation of the legendary Titan of the Dwarves, for commercial purposes, as a mascot for them to sell various goods.

Compared to the last time Yang Yi left Backwater Village, Backwater Village not only built a lot of new buildings, but also built a circle of village level 3 log walls around the perimeter of the town's level 3 city wall.

The two walls completely isolated the inside and outside of the backwater village, and when Yang Yi entered the backwater village, there were two completely different scenes inside and outside.

Quite unlike the lively celebrations outside, the fish-men in Backwater Village are gathered in groups of three or five, looking a little boring.

Some of the fishmen heard the commotion outside the city walls and were curious to get out, but were stopped by the fishmen specially arranged by Slark

Without Yang Yi's permission, Slark wouldn't let any of the fishmen go outside of Backwater Village.

"Slark, you're doing a good job, the backwater village is being built quickly." Yang Yi praised as soon as he came.

"Lord, Dead Water Village has built a circle of walls, a hundred fish-man huts, five warehouses, an inn, a grocery store, a barracks, an armory, a gladiatorial arena, and an auction house." Slark reported.

The blueprints for the Colosseum and the Auction House were specially purchased by Yang Yi from goblin merchants, and the two buildings were built between the log wall and the earthen wall, and this area will be open to the public in the future.

Yang Yi built these two buildings in the commercial area as a weapon to attract people to the backwater village.

Yang Yi nodded after hearing this and said, "Very good, the next step is to find a piece of land in the backwater oasis to reclaim farmland, and build a seaweed and seashell farm in the lake to cultivate seaweed and seashells." Strive to be as self-sufficient as possible in food in the future. ”

"Yes, lord!"

"Slark, why do the fishmen in the village look listless?" Yang Yi asked.

"Lord, these fishmen wanted to go out to participate in the Winter Veil Festival, but I stopped them." Slark replied.

Yang Yi saw that the gate of the log wall and the gate of the earthen city wall of Dead Water Village had been closed all along, and it had only been opened for a while when he came in with the team, and now it was closed again.

"Slark, you go and tell the fish-man to open the door of the wooden wall. Invite the goblin merchants outside, and now the area between the wooden and earthen walls will be open to the public. Yang Yi said.

Sooner or later, the Fishmen of Ratchet Town will have to come into contact with the Aborigines and pioneers.

Yang Yi decided to take advantage of this winter curtain festival to move the celebration venue to the open area, and then the fish people took advantage of the festival to communicate more with people outside.

This is also to pave the way for the inauguration ceremony of Backwater Village three days later.

The long-closed wooden gate was opened by the Fishmen, and the pioneers and natives outside the walls found that the Fishmen did not intend to reclose the gate immediately after the gate was opened.

A fish-man ran out and posted a notice on the bulletin board outside the gate, announcing the opening of the commercial district of Dead Water Village.

The pioneers of good deeds first fenced off the bulletin board.

Ignoring the pioneers surrounding the bulletin board, Slark came out with a team of fishmen and followed Yang Yi's instructions to spend some money to invite all the goblin merchants outside to the wooden fence.

When the goblin merchants saw the coins, they smiled and carried their stalls and goods into the commercial area of Dead Water Village, where they soon found a place to continue their business.

The Pioneers also followed the Goblin Traders, who discovered that the commercial area of Backwater Village was large, but only four buildings had been built.

They are an auction house, a gladiatorial arena, an inn and a small grocery store.

The auction house is a level 1 auction house in the town, which is actually an open-air auction house, except that there is a roof on the top of the auction table, and the bidders below can only sit on the bench in the open space.

Yang Yi didn't want to spend money and effort to buy drawings and build an auction house, but the aboriginal auctioneer must have an auction house before he was willing to work, so he had to break the bank.

Many of the pioneers did not come to Backwater Village to attend the inauguration ceremony, but to participate in the auction.

According to the First Nations, Orgrimmar and Thunder Bluff near the Barrens regularly host large auctions.

However, these two cities are the main cities of the tribe orcs and minotaurs, respectively, and they are easily not allowed to enter the pioneers, so the pioneers have no chance to participate in the auction at all.

The auction held by Dead Water Village was arguably the only opportunity for the Pioneers near the Barrens to participate, and more importantly, the fish-people of Ratchet Town had already put a list of items to auction on the bulletin board.

There are quite a few good things on the list, which is why so many people come.

In Dead Water Village, fish people curiously surround these goblin merchants who sell snacks and small gifts, and the goblin merchants who sell food are the most popular among the fish people.

Only then did the goblin merchant discover that the fish-people in Dead Water Village were not only rich, but also willing to spend it on food, which was completely different from the pioneers outside.

Most of the Pioneer's money is saved and used to buy equipment, and it is rare to spend too much money just to taste the food.

Food merchants bring in small gingerbread, candy bars, and ale wine and other food sales, which envy the cold gift merchants.

Seeing that there was a lot of business to be done here, food merchants began to think of pioneers to buy meat, eggs, fish and other ingredients to prepare food on the spot.

Even gift merchants have joined the buying market, wanting a piece of the action.

The Winter Veil Festival celebration in the commercial district of Dead Water Village didn't take long to turn into a food festival.

Yang Yi saw that the commercial area of Dead Water Village was lively as soon as it opened, and he asked Slack to arrange some fishmen to patrol the beach to maintain order.

After that, Yang Yi took the two little followers of Ben Bo Ba and Mo Momus to the village of the Dead Buffalo on the small peak on the opposite side of the lake.

Yang Yi learns from Slark that Bane is in the mountains, so he picks a snowman doll from a goblin merchant as a gift for the Winter Veil Festival.

There is a tradition of exchanging gifts during the Winter Curtain Festival, and Yang Yi also follows the local customs.

On the steep mountain road leading to the Minotaur Village, several big black bulls are holding large wooden sticks to guard the intersection, and no outsiders are allowed to approach the village.

Ben Bo Ba stepped forward to report Yang Yi's identity and told them that they were looking for Bane the Minotaur.

Several big black bulls discussed sullenly for a while, and only then did one of them go to the village to inform Bane.

Soon after the black bull entered the village, Bane came down from the village on the hill.

"These big black bulls are really ignorant, and they don't let us enter the village, but instead let the chief's son, Bane, come out of the village to meet us." When Ben Boer saw Bane coming down, he muttered to Yang Yi in a low voice.

Yang Yi chuckled lightly and didn't say anything about it.

He had now heard of the situation inside the Minotaurs, and knew that these big black bulls of the Dead Water Tanotaurs were all Minotaurs of the Wild Totem Clan, and the Minotaurs of this clan were inextricably linked to the Minotaurs of the Terror Totem Clan.

It is said that the Wild Totem Clan, like the Terror Totem Clan, is derived from the second largest clan of the early Minotaur - the Radiant Totem, which can be said to have the same root and the same species.

The common traits of the two Minotaur clans are the same dark skin, the same opposition to the Alliance faction, and both are belligerent.

However, compared to the Wild Totem Clan, the Terror Totem Clan has a more narrow-minded and stubborn racial tribal consciousness, and is more belligerent and savage. They often raided other tribes of the Minotaurs, believing that Kane Bloodhoof's friendship with the Orcs was a big mistake and was therefore excluded from the Horde's camp.

The Wild Totem Clan is actually the moderate faction of the Radiant Totem Clan, while the Terror Totem is the radical faction, which deviates from the peaceful ethos of Orc Great Chief Thrall and Minotaur Chief Kane.

"I heard that the patriarch of the Wild Totem Clan is a female minotaur named Magassa Wild Totem, who actually controls the warlike Terror Totem Clan, and the Minotaur Chief Kane let Magassa stay at Thunder Bluff just to spy on her."

"These big black bulls don't look like good stubble by any means, and Bane's efforts to help these minotaurs seem to be trying to change their minds, hoping to uphold his father's idea of uniting all the minotaur clans."

Yang Yi felt that Bane was still too young, so he had such an idea.