UPDATE 29 APRIL, 2023: Additional hints have been added to the Spring Festival Egg Hunt! Good luck!

Festival of Spring

Did you guys know we are currently hosting an NPC design contest? Now you do! And the deadline is swiftly approaching, so if you have an idea, don`t forget to turn it in before it closes! The forms will close on April 30th, this sunday. 

Below is a refresher on all of the details of the contest:

This month we're hosting a contest to design an NPC for Painted Relics!, specifically a teacher of one of the bonded elements!

A few base requirements for the contest:

• A visual depiction of your NPC design! The NPC can be either species!
• A little bit of backstory and a name for your NPC! What magic do they excel at? Where does this NPC live? Do they have any pets?
• Traits list! Each design must depect legal traits, you can use traits of any rarity, including up to 1 mythic trait.

Two winners will receive a MYO slot of their choosing & a mythic potion, a special badge to show you've won a contest! One winner will be selected via community vote after submissions close and the second will be hand selected by mods! We may choose to implement other entries in addition to the two primary winners, in which case we will reach out with a similar prize for your effort!

Got more than one idea? That's great! You are welcome to submit up to 2 different NPC ideas!
All designs must be the original work of the entrant submitting the entry. The design may be altered by the development team before implementation on site.

By entering this contest, you acknowledge and agree to the terms that winning designs will become the property of the Painted Relics ARPG and have their ownership and distribution rights transferred to Painted Relics.

If your design doesn't win, you are welcome to keep that design/concept and use as you see fit!

Ready to submit your design?

You can submit your design through here!

Feel free to share wips and ideas with other members in the discord!

The last remnants of snow on most of Kyvalore has finally melted. Durmur is warm enough to not hate everything as soon as you step outside your cozy home, and beautiful blooms have begun sprouting from every corner. Many make the trip to Lynorre this time of year to see the beautiful floating islands of colorful flowers and the flittering of the florennecs and humbles seeking the sweetest necter. Spring is here!

If you hop on over to the questboard, you'll find all the new quests!

Help clean up after a volcanic eruption in Keldeep?
Maybe explore old ruins of Runaryl and find something worth uncovering?
Or take a midnight stroll anywhere in Kyvalore! I'm sure the stars in the clear spring nights are a sight to be held.

Check out the Questboard!

(Shoutout to the lovely Corvituus for all their lovely work with prompt writing!)

The valentine scavenger hunt as ended, and with it the valentine pets have left the shop! Dont fret though, they will return again next year and sometimes you might see them pop up in raffles, or rotating through the pet shop, so keep an eye out!

NPC DEsign CONTEST

Ever wanted a chance for a design to stand out of the crowd a bit more? Have a stronger mark on the history of Kyvalore?

Well now's that chance!


This month we're hosting a contest to design an NPC for Painted Relics!, specifically a teacher of one of the bonded elements!

A few base requirements for the contest:

• A visual depiction of your NPC design! The NPC can be either species!
• A little bit of backstory and a name for your NPC! What magic do they excel at? Where does this NPC live? Do they have any pets?
• Traits list! Each design must depect legal traits, you can use traits of any rarity, including up to 1 mythic trait.

Two winners will receive a MYO slot of their choosing & a mythic potion, a special badge to show you've won a contest! One winner will be selected via community vote after submissions close and the second will be hand selected by mods! We may choose to implement other entries in addition to the two primary winners, in which case we will reach out with a similar prize for your effort!

Got more than one idea? That's great! You are welcome to submit up to 2 different NPC ideas!

Entries will be accepted up until April 10th! Voting for the community's favorite design will commence shortly thereafter and end on April 20th!

All designs must be the original work of the entrant submitting the entry. The design may be altered by the development team before implementation on site.

By entering this contest, you acknowledge and agree to the terms that winning designs will become the property of the Painted Relics ARPG and have their ownership and distribution rights transferred to Painted Relics.

If your design doesn't win, you are welcome to keep that design/concept and use as you see fit!

Ready to submit your design?
You can submit your design through here!
https://forms.gle/3ooZiBJ3mwTV8Kqi6

Feel free to share wips and ideas with other members in the discord!

SEasonal Features

The raffle from last month as been rolled!

Congrats Lawlie ! I'll send you prize over shortly! ♥

Looking towards the next raffle? 

We've got a new little face up for raffle this month!
A sweet little pink lemonade avilli!

Avilli-105

You can enter for this avilli from now till April 10th! Good luck!


Since it's a new season, we also have a new featured member, Lawlie !

SHOP ROTATIONS

Rhea, Fern, and Athalie have some new stock for you this month! Athalie looks like she might have her hands full with some troublesome gribbles. Mind giving her a hand?

Additional Notes

Thank you everyone for being patient with me as I slowly go through fixing bugs and various things on the site! I know there's still quite a few theme bugs as well as some minor other things, but we are slowly getting through them! Part of this month was supposed to be getting a lot of those things done, but unfortuately I've spent a large portion of this month not quite feeling my best as well as a good portion of staff taking hiatus's here and there to take care of things in their own life!
I've got big plans for Painted Relics, but I'm always realizing that I'm trying to bite a bit more then I can chew at a time and I'm taking the time and space to roll that back a little.

What does this mean for Painted Relics?

Not a lot of noticeable changes on the member side honestly! We'll still be running with cool things each month but the big change is there will be more predictability in how updates are ran! I'll be released a more cohesive schedule with next months update as I finalize things with my staff, but in doing so, this will let me and the PR team be able to plan better ahead and make sure each update gets delivered how we want it to be presented. One thing I can share is there will almost always be a full event each season to look forward to! A summer event, a winter event, an autumn event, and a spring event!

One thing that has been asked is what happened to Story Quests!

And I can say with full confidence, it's coming! I've got a big update for the next story quest as well as lots of structural fixes in how the story quests work! I'm excited to share them with you, but I'm holding off till they are totally ready as I feel in order to really have the weight I want this next chapter to hold, it's very important that I have all the little parts for it. I can say with full confidence that it is coming this year, and will be here before you know it.

That should cover all the bases of the big things. But as always, my DMs are open, as are the questions in the discord server if you ever have any questions or concerns. I'm excited for a lot of what PR has in store, it's just a matter of getting there, and getting there while taking the time to make the game the best ARPG I can make it.

Love you all lots and thank you for loving this world we are building as much as I do. ♥
-Wisp

Did you know there's extra hints to the scavinger hunt now?

Head on over to your scavenger hunt page here to find those extra clues!

The winter festivities were a success and the last month of winter is already knocking at our door!
The orogari have fled back into deeper parts of the shrouded mountains, but dont worry if you missed out on any orogar winnings, we get the feeling that this was far from the last time that we will see them so close to the mountain towns.

The winter essence quests have closed, but the shop remains open for the rest of the month in case you have any more winter essence to spend!

Anyone who participated in this years winter event will have the winter badge granted to them in the next few days!

THE BITE OF THE FLAME

You'll find a new recipe quest in the crafting quests!
After a rough mid winter with the orogari, Dargan is looking for Kyvalorians ready to learn the ways of the forge. Once completing the mini 3 part quest you'll get granted a forge! This item is crucial for crafting some new recipes that can be found in Dargan's recipe shop, Iceflame Armoury (the armoury is currently closed as it is experiencing a small bug, it will be open ASAP!) if you're ready to hop on crafting now, or I hear you might be able to parse together the recipes on your own with enough exploring!

Speaking of crafting...

have you looked at your recipe book lately?
The recipe book has gotten changed up to be better organized for finding the recipes you collect along your journey! You can click the tabs to explore your collected recipes and craft them right out of your book.

 


Not ready to dig into crafting quests yet? That's alright!
Looks like while on a delivery run a little aeirbis dropped all their letters!

Valentine Scavenger Hunt starts tonight!
You'll be able to search the site starting tonight until March 10^th for letters spread across the site. This news post will be updated with the link when it launches, and it will be announced in discord so keep an eye out!

While hunting around you'll most likely notice some other big changes that have rolled in.
Player Profiles have gotten a nice layout update with some new features!

• Friends Lists! You can send friend requests to other players and find your friends easily from the browse section to check in easier!

• Blocking. Need some space? You can block another player if need be. Please remember that if you have any issues with another player that you feel should be addressed by the PR team, reach out to a mod privately!

• Featured character on your profiles! Have a favorite and aren't afraid to show it? Feature a Kyvalorian on your page! Access the selection to feature the character by going to https://www.painted-relics.com/characters

• Inventory tabs! Access the important parts of your collection with little tabs on your profile.

And lastly but not least, some trait updates, some minor, some large, but lots of new things!

• New potions! Growth Potions and Shrinking Potions. These potions can either size up or size down traits. You can obtain them through Astor's Potion Shop!

• Avili Frills! A frill of feathers on the top of your avilli's head! This can range from very small, to up to x2 the length of the avilli's head. They can fluff and fan out like the crest of a bird. It can be obtained with a rare Bodytype Potion.

• Cascade Tail has been downgraded to Rare Rarity!

SEASONAL & MONTHLY FEATURES

And the raffle winner for the special January raffle is:
Sadbloom!

Congrats! Your prize will be sent to you shortly!

Miss out on winter goodies? This next raffle might help!

February's raffle will get you a little winter event bundle, with x2 winter pets of your choice, a shining bow, and a bottled winter.

SHOP ROTATIONS & UPDATES

Both Rhea and Athalie have new stock for you this month!

Both of them have some nice out of season items if there's anything you were looking for, as well as Athalie has some cute valentine pets in stock for this month only!

MINOR UPDATES

Have you noticed?
If you're scrolling through the encyclopedia you might see that most entries have a listed origin now complete with links of that location of where to find them!


Big thank you to SeaCrest for working so hard to make finding the source of items, pets, and more so easily! 

I've been slowly working through fixing up parts of the themes on the site, so if you see some minor (or even major) changes to your favorite theme, dont worry! It's just me going through working on fixing visibility, layout, and function in order to keep things smooth sailing. Fayewood's theme is getting a full update that might look pretty different, but will flow much better with the other themes and the sections on the pages. Thanks for being patient with me on this!

The winter cold has blown over every part of Kyvalore. Keldeep is colder then usual, but has seen an influx of travelers ready to escape the colder weather of the world. The days are still warm in Talendor and Vitrun, but all explorers know that the nights are rough and to always be prepared for the temperature to drop to dangerous levels.
Most of Kyvalore however is enjoying the winter weather, snow angels, snow avilli and voxi building, sledding, baking warm treats and resting in a time where things seem peaceful.

While resting and taking some time to spend with family and friends, a letter arrives...

You had been called to aid the guards of Durmur, their pleas via letter reaching the farthest parts of Kyvalore. In exchange for shards, room & board, and enough traveller's tokens to get a caravan to carry you all the way to the frozen city and back, they ask for any able willing fighter to help.

New Monster in Durmur, an onogar



You can fight the onogari in a new event quest, Hunt or Hunted, and earn some exclusive monster loot from the battle!

Winter Festivities

Speaking of event quests, the winter event is back!

The magic of winter can be found and harvested with winter essence on your adventures, and the event shop is open to spend your winter essence!

There are three special quests for the event including the new monster hunt, and all current seasonal questing can be redeemed for winter essence instead of shards for spending in the winter shop!
Looks like there's some new winter faces to be found as well:



By participating in an event quest for winter essence, you can redeem a special badge showing you joined in on the event!

SEASONAL & MONTHLY FEATURES

And the raffle winner for the Dec raffle is:
sardoniczero
Congrats! Your prize will be sent to you shortly!

Next up we have a raffle that I'm super stoked about.
Did you know we hit over 100 avilli on the masterlist? I'm so overwhelmed with joy seeing all the avilli on the list that are enjoyed by so many of you!
To celebrate, this next raffle is special one, a custom design on avilli slot 100! For this event there is a rare chance for a bonus ticket in the special event quests.

You can find the full details of the raffle on it's prompt here!

SHOP ROTATIONS & UPDATES

Both Rhea and Athalie have new stock for you this month!

Both fo them have some nice out of season items if there's anything you were looking for!

Minor Updates

Parts of the encyclopedia have been rearranged to place monsters on their own section! Currently there is a known bug preventing me from deleting previous instances of monsters under the concepts section but that will be addressed hopefully sometime this month.

There is now a notice at the top of the shard guide making a note of the calc system and the changes. We hope to get things adjusted for visual reference soon, but if you ever need to stat out how much a prompt would redeem, you can always open up a prompt and test out different values to get an idea!

The last of the autumn leaves has fallen and snow has begun to fall in most places across Kyvalore. Some Kyvalorians have filled in their winter coat, ready to brave to cold and snow on their own, others have bundled up with sweaters, scarves and cloaks to protect them from the biting cold, while even some have taken this time to travel to Keldeep or Talendor, finally take in the colors clay in the canyons, the bright hues of magmic rocks, obsidian, and live temporarily in a warmer part of the world as winter sets in.

It's the beginning of winter!

With the change of the season in Painted Relics, that means that there are all new quests for the winter season!
Find beautiful baubles and ornaments among the markets of Vitrun for the holiday season, collect beautiful winter flowers on the heights of Lynorre, or maybe listen to song and stories keeping warm with cocoa in the taverns of Everdenn.

While you won't spot a bakken waiting to steal your pumpkin pie or hiding to give you a spook till next autumn, you can still keep an eye out for a different seasonal critter! Mirassels have woken up from their long heat hibernation and little footprints have already been spotted in the snow.

REWARD AUTO CALUCULATOR & Shard UPDATE

With these quests though you might notice something is a little different!

When submitting a quest you now have an auto calculator for shards on a prompt! What this allows is for you to be able to use the drop downs to select what's featured in your art or writing and it will calculate your earnable shards for you. This way you can spend less time with numbers and more time creating!
Before you dive in with the system I want to mention that there are some new bonuses and minor adjustments to take into account.

-Writing now has a location bonus called Intricate Setting!

This is a bonus for creating a deep setting that the character is in. This should be at least a paragraph's worth of details, though not necessarily all in one section, enough to set the scene and give the characters in the story some world to stand on. Unofficial NPCs now are redeemable in writings.

-Writing rewards have received small bumps in payout!
Personal Characters, Another Players Characters, and NPCs have all received a small shard increase.

-Fixed the featured character bonus for art. If you included the featured character in a prompt or art in the last 3 months, you can submit a claim for the difference!

-Due to the new calculation system, in order to make things a bit simpler for the system and for user readability when filling out the form, the character's size is now a multiplier where other values have flat rewards! Headshot is x1 the reward, partial body is x2 the reward, and fullbody is x3 the reward.


If for any reason you are unsure about the new system, are having issues, or things dont seem to add up, you can ask in the discord! We're hoping this new system will make things much easier for players and mods alike, but with any big change I'm sure there are some kinks to work out.

ITEM UPDATE

Cant have more recipes without more ingredients, right?

21 new items have been added to the game! Every location has at least 2 new items that can be found while in that location from it's foraging loot bag!

We wanted you to be able to start earnings these items now through questing to save them for new recipes coming soon! I've got big plans with crafting on the horizon and can't wait to reveal more. All of the new items have descriptions, and some of those descriptions might give you a hint of what to save the item for. ;)

WINTER Festivities and ADOPT ADVENT

It's a beautiful season of wonderful themes and I'm excited to say we have another winter adopt advent this year! We've got some lovely artists joining us with 12 designs in total.
A little calendar for the designs and their themes however will be up next week!

To celebrate the beginning of the winter season and the holidays that many of us partake in, there will also be a little holiday advent on site starting December 16th! Everyday rom the 16th to the 25th you'll be able to get a free little treat!

Last year we hosted our full winter event in December and this proved to be a very hard time to participate for many due to the holidays for both mods and players! I want to make sure that I mention that we havent forgotten the winter event with it's seasonal specialties. The winter event will be in January's update!

SEASONAL & MONTHLY FEATURES

Due to the raffle of last update having issues that weren't fixed till very late in the month, that raffle is rolling over through the month of December! Anyone that entered last month for the raffle may enter again this month for additional tickets.

Sorry for the big inconvenience on that guys! Everything is sorted now though so that issue shouldn't come up again!

SHOP ROTATIONS & UPDATES

Both Rhea and Athalie have new stock for you this month!

The ingredients that Astor needs for moth potions are now out of season so moth potions are out of stock until autumn next year.

Reminders

If you joined in on secret santa, dont forget that your gifts are due from December 25th to January 10th! I cant wait to see everyone's beautiful work!

And as always, don't forget to forage! ♥

I can't believe it's already time for the next announcement!
It's been a crazy month and truly time flew by!

The hallow event was a lovely success and looks like some of you may have even gotten a character infected while out on expeditions. I'm greatly looking forward to some new wereforms!

This month focuses on quality of life updates so may seem small, but if you're in the discord you've probably seen my site changelog updates regarding all the things I've been tinkering away at in the code on the site. This took substantially more time this last month then I had hoped, but I'm excited for the opportunities it opens for us!

UPCOMING SHARD CALCUATIONS UPDATE

This is a bit of a two parter!
First I'd like to announce that coming in the very near future is a shard calculator! This will help calculate your rewards on prompts based on how many words your writing is, or what all you include on your art entries! I am SO thrilled to finally get this added into the game since I know that the shard calculations is something that can feel like a lot and having this calculator will help us be more accessible.

Now, the reason it's not in yet, is we are making a few changes to the way shards art calculated! I'm still in discussion with mods about what feels right and fair for various levels, but we are fleshing out the bonus system and doing some minor tweaks for balance! Due to this I dont want to add in the calculator with the old values just to have to change it up once the new ones were in.
As soon as we have values solidified, then I'll get the calculator up and running!

REMINDERS

It's the last month for seasonal questing of the current prompts since next month we'll be rolling into winter prompts!
This is the last month to acquire some seasonal exclusive things such as moth potions for avilli, and the autumn pet bakken!

SECRET SANTA

Don't forget!
If you want to join in and spreading some love for the community, there's just a few more days to sign up for Painted Relics Secret Santa!
https://forms.gle/Z3VhQ6zYNA3qmLYu8

You have till November 15th to sign up!

SEASONAL & MONTHLY FEATURES

The winner for the October raffle for a MYO slot and a Curse of the Werebeast is Batty !

Dont worry if you didnt win, we've got another seasonally promoting item up for raffle next...
Next raffle is an Avilli MYO slot and a Mutation Potion!

We are having some minor technical difficulties getting the redemption prompt up for this raffle, but I will have it up soon once I figure out what's going on.

SHOP ROTATIONS & UPDATE

Both Rhea and Athalie have new stock for you this month!

While the month of earning hallow corm is over, Fang & Bone's Hallow's Grove shop is remaining open until the end of this month! If you have any left over corn to spend, better spend it before the shop closed till next year!

Also don't forget to swing by the sweet and savory shop sometime this month! Looks like Saffron might have something special for you to pick-up to celebrate the end of harvest!

As always thanks for being here! I love this little community we are creating <3

As many Kyvalorians go about their lives, the leaves fall from the trees and the season of Hallow is here. Fang & Bone are both more then excited for another season of tricks and treats, sharing their wares, for hallow corn of course, and the spookys that come with the season, but keep an eye out for a new danger lurks among the world. One that you may have helped bring.

The Hallow Event is live!

There's some new event quests where you can gain hallow corn, or you can do any location quests and choose to redeem hallow corn instead of shards! Just be sure to let us know in the comments of your submission!


Trick or Treat goes till October 31st! Click on the door to knock on Fang & Bone's door!

It also looks like theres a chance of something new in all location and event quests this month... Might want to look into the story quest to find out more!

STORY QUEST UPDATE

Weeks have passed since your trip to the island of dread and it's guardian of shadow. Even now, when your guard slips for but a moment, you think you can feel it's eyes upon you. You had brought back the relic the shadow had been presiding over, a broken skull of unknown origins, and given it to Modeus for study. Having mostly shaken off the feelings of that bitter island, it seemed like a lingering bad dream, and things have returned to normalcy. A small knock graces your door. A letter has arrived for you, in a rich brown envelope sealed by intricate wax. Despite it's small and thin profile, you can feel the weight in it as you break the seal.

Salutations,
I hope this letter finds you in fair weather and jolly spirits. An interesting commotion has arrived and I hope to ask for your assistance for one additional task, loathe as I am to inquire so. I do hope our working relationship is well enough to allow your cooperation, for it is quite urgent.

The next few lines had scratch marks and blocks around some of the words, as if it was revised as he was writing it. Either he hadn't wanted to write out a new letter, or had written many already.

I was investigating a new avenue of research out in the forests of the Letan Ruins, east of Lanris, you see. A dive into the connection between the world spirits and the mana of living beings, quite fascinati. In tow I carried that strange artifact you brought to me. I sensed something lingering within, and have been here and there trying to find anything that may stoke it's nascent mana into exposing its secrets. While investigating the forest I was atta

I was attacked by a creature of amazing strength and ferocity. I was overpowered, and had to retreat by using the lunch as bait to lure it away. It resides in the forest still, and I need you to hunt it. It will hurt people if it isn't stopped. Please come to Lanris at your earliest convenience to setout for the ruins, I can send a carriage your way immediately. Come prepared.
And when you go, please try not to hurt the poor boy, would you?
-Modeus


Sounds dangerous, but surely needs some looking into!

This story quest reveals a new mechanic, status effects!
These effects are things that your character can pick up along their journey, and this one looks like quite the big one, the curse of the werebeast!

Read more about the quest and it's requirements HERE.

WEREBEASTS & THE BEASTIAL CURSE

For the month of Hallow, something lurks about in Kyvalore, but what does this mean?

For every event quest, location quest, or story quest you partake in, you have a change of triggering an attack! If you are attacked then your character becomes infected. This infection allows for you to create a werebeast form for your character if you desire. This infection is nontransferable and stays locked to the character unless you remove the curse with a Mirror of Remembrance.

Attacks are not common but can occur anywhere in Kyvalore, so if you're trying for a curse, it may take a few tries or not at all. It is luck of the draw afterall.

Read all about werebeasts here.

SEASONAL & MONTHLY FEATURES

Due to feeling like the members of the month and featured gallery entries each month would become disingenuous when occurring so frequently we've updated Member of the Month to Member of the Season! This will be reflected on the front page of the site within the week!
This also means gallery entries will move to featured once a season. These will occur in the updates in December, March, June, and September!


However of course we will be keeping up with different characters to feature each month, and the monthly raffle!

The winner for the september raffle for a MYO slot and a Moth Potion is SeaCrest!

Dont worry if you didnt win, we've got another seasonally promoting item up for raffle next...
October's raffle is a Voxibell MYO slot and a Beastial Curse!

SHOP ROTATIONS & UPDATES

Both Rhea and Athalie have new stock for you this month!

Fang & Bone's Hallow's Grove shop is open! This shop will remain open until November 20^th, though keep in mind you can only redeem hallow corn until 10^th!

REMINDERS

Moth Potions are seasonal, and while they are in the potion shop now, dont forget to pick one up if you were wanting one before the end of Autumn!

Don’t forget to forage! Each day you have 1 stamina to forage, so make sure you set out and look for some goodies! Sometimes you’ll come back empty handed, but sometimes you might just get really lucky and find quite the treat!