Sports and games: Archery
Archery contests are usually organized by town leaders, and encourage townsfolk and the nearby community to hone their skill at bow and arrow. Most towns in west Highland, if they have an organized fair at all, will have an archery contest in the autumn fair once the harvest has been collected.
Horse racing
In West Highland, horse racing is often an impromptu sport. A couple of racers will announce that they’ll be at so-and-so field on a specific date, and any challengers can show to compete. Stakes are occasionally money, but most often some trophy symbolic of the time of year, such as a silver crown of thorns near Easter, or a silver-and-gold encrusted statue of some local hero of the wars.
More informal races might even be for ownership of the steeds.
Fork hosts horse races in their Arena. Prizes are money or land.
Horse shoes
Farmers, guards, and equestrians alike enjoy an afternoon or evening tossing horse shoes at posts throughout Highland.
Sports and games: Riddles
Riddle-contests are binding ceremonies, though the people won’t call them that. Riddle contests will be accompanied by vows of assistance, or passage, or just being left alone. But there must always be two stakes to a riddle contest. If a caravan-leader riddles a band of brigands for safe passage, for example, the most likely counter-stake will be the right to take anything held within the caravan, whether owned by the caravan company or held personally by an individual.
Breaking a vow made at a riddle contest has dire consequences, both socially and statistically.
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