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I have several that I’m in the process of working on and developing.  In Ironstorm up where Brendin is from they celebrate Yule but it’s a mishmash of various traditions due to the mixed population there (a combination of Northmen/Nors (Norse), Arians (Roman/European), Keltaics (Celtic and Gaelic), and Eya (Indian/Middle Eastern)).  There’s the very Norsen practice of getting ridiculously drunk and singing the old legends of the Nors before they crossed the Heath and passed on, like Herør Þengill (King War-Arrow).  Then you have the Eya traditions of dancing and singing from sundown to sunup.  Each culture celebrates the longest night of the year for different reasons: the Nors recognize it as an auspicious night where the dead may wander; the Arians, a bit more optimistic, see it as the end of winter and beginning of springtime; the Keltaics view it similarly but also have their myths wrapped up in it; and the Eya see it as a blessed night and a time for feasting because long nights are positive in their culture (they come from a desert where the night was safer than the day) and it is the time of the Son’s birth.

There are other holidays celebrated in other places but that’s what I’ve come up with so far.