Sabbat Festivals
Unlike the Camarilla, the Sabbat celebrate several annual festivals.
These are sect-wide celebrations, with huge turnout
in major Sabbat strongholds around the world,
and many smaller celebrations scattered around
wherever Sabbat packs may be roaming.

Palla Grande
The close of the Sabbat year, the "Grand Ball" is a celebration of all that is dignified and darkly refined about the vampiric spirit. It is highest event in the sect calendar, surpassing even the week of Festivo in grandeur and significance. It is a reminder that the Cainite is a proud, noble, and dignified creature, superior to mortals in quality and refinement in addition to prowess. Taking place on the night of All Hallow Eve, the Palla Grande hosts the best in music, entertainment, and dining, as well as costuming on a level inaccessible to lesser creatures.

The night before the Palla Grande begins, the presiding priest prepares incense burners filled with exotic herbs and chemicals, combined with the priest's own blood. When the Palla Grande begins on All Hallows Eve, it does so in the guise of a legitimate public party filled with unsuspecting mortals. Each vampire participating in the event contributes blood to one or more of the incense burners and the resulting pink haze relaxes the mortals and makes them more willing to accept the strange sights of the Ball and the strange behavior of their Cainite hosts.

The second part of the Palla Grande occurs privately, although some mortals may be included as additions to the great Blood Feast. When midnight arrives, an acting troupe organized by the presiding priest presents a theatrical reenactment of some significant event in Cainite history; this play is as much a point of education (or perhaps propaganda) as it is a piece of entertainment. Audience participation is often a key part of the performance. Following the play, the city's Arch Bishop (or ranking Bishop if there is no Arch Bishop) receives a highly symbolic Blood Bath. Following this, the attending vampires dance until dawn as the Grand Ball collapses into a frenzy of celebration and feeding.

In addition to the normal effects of the Blood Feast and Blood Bath, the Palla Grande's participants all replenish their Willpower. The recipient of the symbolic Blood Path may make a Mental Challenge against any participant to gain access to their perceptive or oracular powers for the night.