This is a cool faction - love the idea of the festival as this hellish gladiatorial limbo! What guise would the festival take physically? The manifest mentions a festival board...
A couple of questions:
When you succumb to the revel, are you just moving your warriors to the festival, just enemy warriors or any combo?
As I understand it, you can have your own warriors and any other player's warriors in the festival. In Feast, it says you choose the attacker and defender to battle, suggesting you can force two enemy factions to fight each other. You then score 1VP per enemy warrior removed. If this is correct, then why would you ever pick your own faction to attack in the festival? Surely you would get more VP by making two enemy factions fight each other? Would you just battle with your own warriors in a situation where there is only one enemy faction in the festival? I might be missing something here.
Anyway, really interesting faction. I like how their Evening actions all focus around battling and the bloody chaos of the festival. Even having card draw linked to battling seems very thematically sound for this faction. On the theming, I wonder if there could be something else involving removing warriors to do with the abattoirs. At the moment, they are just used for recruiting and crafting (I think). But an abattoir is where things are killed, so it would make sense to me that an enemy warrior finding themselves in an abattoir clearing would not fare well! Just something to think about - perhaps another opportunity for blood to be spilled during The Butcher's Festival!