Quote Originally Posted by Colt47 View Post
My opinion on the whole thing is that they got strapped for time and resources by COVID lockdown, had the work put in for this years normal mog-tome event, and in light of having no other promotional thing to go with they decided to appropriate it as an event specific promotion.
That seems overly conspiratorial – particularly when they already ran "this year's normal mog-tome event" only a few weeks prior to announcing this one.

It's clear that the range of items available was different to what they would pick out for a normal event, with a focus on fan-created content over the usual prizes, like the horses and beast tribe mounts that have been in every single standard event so far, and the festival-specific "Pageantry" tomes instead of the usual pattern of naming them after old tomestone currencies.

If anything, I expect we'll be getting the Irregular Tomestones of Lore event some time prior to 6.0, and if Pageantry was put in the usual cycle of being available after the event, that would push Esoterics out of the shop earlier than its pre-advertised ending time of 6.0 launch.