Winter Soultide
As the year draws to a close in the depths of winter, Kyvalore celebrates Soultide, a festival that begins a week before the winter solstice. With snow falling outside, it is a time to share, to make new friends and celebrate the old; winters can be long and difficult, particularly without a community.
Come and learn about the yearly holiday, Soultide! A holiday that spans the longest nights of winter, where we follow the mana of our hearts and honor loved ones we hold dear, both those here with us, and those we've lost.
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In the days of Soultide, it's also not a bad time to get out, explore, and play in the snow.
The winter caravan is open again with winter themed goodies, and a new wrapping to wrap up grifts to your friends across Kyvalore.
Participate in an event quest to get special boxes containing winter rewards!
Build a snowfort, decorate for the season to bring light and warmth into your home, travel and sing songs with family and friends, or if you're feeling a bit more adventerous, attack your fellow Kyvalorians!
Join in on the sitewide snowball fight! Draw giftart for another member of Painted Relics to redeem rewards, while also throwing them a snowball!
Snowballs can be used to craft special snow pets, including a few new faces this year, and if you turn in 5 snowballs via claims, you can grab a special avatar border featuring a little snow friend!
And as always, submit at least three winter event quests this month to claim this year's winter badge!
Contest time!
Ever wanted to be a bigger part of Painted Relics, and create something that truly helps it stand out?
Well now's your chance!
Create a site banner for Painted Relics!
Banners will be voted on by the community, and the top banner will be created as a site theme to be used by players!
A few base requirements for the contest:
- Banner must be 1600 x 200 pixels
- Features at least 1(one) NPC or Monster, or feature a notable location not currently featured as a theme.
- Cannot contain player owned characters (Sorry!).
- Can contain any number of pets!
Got more than one idea? That's great! You are welcome to submit up to 3(three) banners to the competition! Just remember that quality weighs more then quantity!
Entries will be accepted up until February 10th! Voting for the community's favorite design will commence shortly thereafter and end on February 20th!
All banners must be the original work of the entrant submitting the entry. The design may be altered by the development team before implementation on site to better suit site format and styling.
All entries will receive rewards including shards and a participant badge.
The creator of the winning banner will receive one custom avilli or voxibell by Wisparia !
By entering this contest, you acknowledge and agree to the terms that winning banners will become the property of the Painted Relics ARPG and have their ownership and distribution rights transferred to Painted Relics.
Snowfall in Durmur
Speaking of site themes, did you know it snows in Durmur? Like... a lot?
There's now an alternate Durmur theme with animated snow! Enjoy the winter season just a little bit more with pesky snowflakes on your screen that are sometimes in the way, always distracting, but cheerful all the same.
If you dont particularly like the snow, there is still the normal Durmur theme without the snowflakes as well.
To change your theme, hop on over to your account settings!
Lets go gambling!
Spin the winter wheel daily for a fee through January 10th !
The wheel prizes have all sorts of goodies, from seasonal winter goods, trait potions, pets, prize tickets, and more!