The holiday season can bring out so much sweetness, and it's no different in Kyvalore! Hope you've got the sweet tooth the handle them all, the seasonal Painted Relics Adopt advent starts on Saturday!

All adopts will be posted at 12:00 site time on their respective days!

Dec 21st

Christmas Cookie Dough

by Kamodo030

Shard Flatsale

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Dec 23rd

Gingerbread

by fyre

USD Flatsale

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Dec 25th

Poinsetta Prancer

by Wisparia

USD Auction

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Dec 27th

Bobbled Boughs

by Wisparia

USD Flatsale

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Dec 29th

Peppermint Dipped

by Kamodo030

USD Flatsale

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Dec 31st

New year's Wish

by Wisparia

USD Auction

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And of course, Happy Holidays from the Painted Relics team! <3

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!

Adopt ADvent

The winter adopt advent is jsut around the corner! The preview of the adopts will be going up next week, with the designs starting on the 21st of December! 

I cant wait to show you what me and the guest artists have been working on, and I hope you're ready for a sweet treat!

Call of the Wood

Have you followed the call yet?

Kyvalore's current story quest is still up to cast your vote till January 10th!
Carriers of an Earthly Ward may finally take further steps along their journey and answer the Call of the Wood and make their choice. The fate of Kyvalore is in your paws!

Oh...?

The egg, it's hatching!

Reports are in that the wilderwyld map leads to a cave containing rare eggs thought lost in Kyvalore, and they're beginning to hatch! 
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If you open your wilderwyld egg and the cukiru that emerges is blacked out, submit a claim to let us know that it's been discovered so a staff member can reveal the found critter!

Secret Santa!

Just a friendly reminder that if you joined the secret santa, your turn in time starts this month!

Gift Delivery Window: December 20th through January 17th

REMINDER

• You may post or upload your gift at any point between December 20th and January 17th.
• To receive credit for your Secret Santa gift art, you must submit your work to the prompt on the site between December 20th and January 14th. If you do not submit your work to the prompt on site, we will mark your Secret Santa as incomplete and you may be banned from further Secret Santa events in the future.
• Art gifts must be clean, lined, and colored. Sketches are not permitted. Backgrounds are not required but are encouraged for maximum gift giving fun!
• Writing gifts must be a minimum of 400 words.
• Pixel art entries must be 100x100 pixels in their original (non-scaled) size.
• You should only be drawing one character for your secret Santa giftee. If they have listed more than one, please choose only one.

Seasonal Features

The winner of November's raffle is Ravenmuffin12! A moth nectar has been sent on it's way to you!

The winter season always brings out cheer and love, and looks like this year even brought out a new friendly face!

December's raffle prize is the the stunning Voxi-175 by Seagull! Enter the raffle here for your chance to lead this reindeer home!

Shop Rotations

Rhea, Fern, and Athalie have once again rotated their stock for the month!

what to expect coming soon

• • Updating Magic Quests and Attunement System - More streamlined to gain your magic!

• • The next chapter of Questlines - Ready to see how the stories unfold?

• • Massive Gear Update

• • Updated Foraging System

• • New PetsCrafting and Item Expansion (many!!)

• • And more! <3

Notes from Wisp

We are still chugging along with streamlining more processes and updating more images, just might be a bit slower over the holiday season! Please have patience with me and the rest of the team while we take time to step back from the bustle of life and enjoy a bit more time away from the hurry and rushing of life.

As an update on where I'm at, this last month was weirdly busy for me, and I was unable to get a lot of the side projects in Painted Relics done like I had planned and hoped, but even though you can't see them yet I did make progress!
There's a lot of moving bits behind the scenes so a lot of the things to expect coming soon ARE coming and constantly being worked on! Sometimes it's just a matter of time I can dedicate, or finding balance with burnout, or simply realizing that there is a better way to do something and it now will take longer due to the larger scope, or needing to scrap some parts, etc.

Creating this game, and keeping it going is one of my greatest passions, and I sincerely strive to keep delivering content that is fun for both players and staff, and finding that balance is hard which can cause a two steps back feeling sometimes for me, but! Alas! That's just how it goes sometimes!

I truly hope you all are having a WONDERFUL holiday season so far, and that you are able to enjoy time with your family and friends and pets and any loved ones you have in your life. I hope you make time to celebrate being here today, and live in the moment, take time for you, eat that extra cookie, sleep in that extra while, play games a little longer, go outside and take in fresh air a little more, and take more time out of your day to do all the things that bring you joy in this world.

I love you all so sincerely from the bottom of my heart, thank you for being such an incredible part of Painted Relics, each and every one of you! I hope you all have a very merry holidays and I look forward to all the things we will create together in the new year. <3

-Wisp

Time ambles ever onward on its inexorable journey...Autumn is well underway in Kyvalore, and while nature prepares for the long slumber of winter, we have also been hard at work!

Call of the Wood

Kyvalore's story continues in the next stage of the Alternate Path storyline! Carriers of an Earthly Ward may finally take further steps along their journey and answer the Call of the Wood and make their choice. The fate of Kyvalore is in your paws!

Legacy Questing

In addition to our New Main Story Quest, we are very excited to announce that Legacy Quests have been added, complete with some shiny new formatting! Revisit old Story Quests with new characters to earn previously-limited rewards, including Relic Forms!

Relic Forms are currently only available with characters that take the Isle's Token route, but if you're looking for a relic form for character's with an Earthly Ward, you're in luck! While not unlocked in the current story quest, this arc that we are on will unlock relic forms for holders of the Earthly Ward soon! So worry not and travel along adventurers, more relic forms and more are just around the corner!

Note that Legacy Quests must be done in order. If you have previously completed parts of a legacy questline with a particular character, you can pick up where they left off by linking your previous submissions!

Relic Forms & More

With the opening of Legacy Quests and relic forms being able to be earned once more, the relic form information needed some updating!

You'll find not only new information, but new references to help inspire you for your Kyvalorian's relic forms.

Check out the new info and read up on relic forms here!

You can even find some familiar faces in different forms in Kyvalore!


Titari 

Ravinger


Both wonderful designed and made by our lovely ducclord <3

The Kyvalorian Bazaar

That's not all! In exciting site changing news, the bazaar is open! Have lots of extra items you've been holding onto? Or maybe you've delved into collecting and finding yourself overwhelmed and looking for an easy way to sell your extra findings while foraging?

Check out the Shop Bazaar to set up your own stall, or browse other stalls to see what your fellow players are selling!

• Create your stall and add an eyecatching icon to attract customers!
• Stock your stall from your Inventory using the Quickstock Shop button!
• Set your prices and make your stock visible to put it up for sale!
  
  Not sure where to start for your bazaar stall's icon? Why not use the bazaar stall base?
  
  Feel free to edit, change, draw over, erase, anything your heart desires on the base to make the little shop stall of your dreams.
  
  
  Click here to download the psd file for the bazaar stall!

Hallow's End

Another year of hallow come and gone, and truly what a wonderful year it was!
So much candy and festivities, tricks and treats, spooks and pranks, all the best things as Fang and Bone would say!

All the Hallow goodies might be over this year, but dont fret if you missed out, all the core goodies of hallow will return again next year!

While the Carnival Wheel may have also left with the close of Hallow, the collectable shop is here to stay! We'll be seeing more ways to earn those prize tickets soon. We have to be able to earn them, or how else would we get this new plush?

Boss Battle Update

It was a well and long fought battle, the soulflame of sahmaron flickering and fading, until eventually the fog surrounding the larger part of Kyvalore dissapates. We've fought this monster back once more, but who knows if he'll return again.
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I just want to say that you all did AMAZING and completely blew me away with how quick you were able to take the boss down! It was a wonderful test run of the new boss system and I greatly look forward to getting to use this information to use for even bigger and better site boss battles!

We still have a few battle quests in the queue to grade, but be on the lookout for another announcement with all the final stats, and the bonus rewards to collect!

Other Site Updates

The Questboard is undergoing some changes!

You'll notice a few adjustments here and there for how the questboard displays! This is to hopefully help it be more readable on various screen sizes, while still looking as thematic as always.
You can now link directly to a quest without using a search! All quest titles are now direct links to the quest itself.

There has also been other pages that have gotten a lot of while seemingly minor changes that should help adjust for fluid mobile view! Hopefully these changes help your experience on the site, and if you ever happen to find anything that needs fixing, please submit a bug report!

Secret Santa Once again!

It's time for the annual Painted Relics Secret Santa! Sign up to participate in a mystery gift giving game where you will create a piece of gift art or writing for someone, and receive a piece of gift art or writing from someone else!

See the sign up form here to register!

IMPORTANT DATES
Sign Up Deadline: November 22nd
Gift Delivery Window: December 20th through January 17th

SIGN UP RULES

1. Characters submitted must registered on the Painted Relics masterlist.
2. Characters submitted must have gift art and/or gift writing enabled.
3. Only one character will receive gift art or gift writing, no matter how many you list.
4. If you are unable to finish your gift in time, please let us know as soon as you can so that we can find a backup artist to cover your giftee.

Please provide a mode of contact that you check regularly and that you are not planning to change. If it is Discord, you must have Direct Messages allowed for the Painted Relics Discord server! Your assignment will be direct messaged to you; if we cannot contact you, you will not receive your assignment and you will not be included in the Secret Santa 2024 event. 

GIFT RULES

1. You may post or upload your gift at any point between December 20th and January 17th.
2. To receive credit for your Secret Santa gift art, you must submit your work to the prompt on the site between December 20th and January 14th. If you do not submit your work to the prompt on site, we will mark your Secret Santa as incomplete and you may be banned from further Secret Santa events in the future.
3. Art gifts must be clean, lined, and colored. Sketches are not permitted. Backgrounds are not required but are encouraged for maximum gift giving fun!
4. Writing gifts must be a minimum of 400 words.
5. Pixel art entries must be 100x100 pixels in their original (non-scaled) size.
6. You should only be drawing one character for your secret Santa giftee. If they have listed more than one, please choose only one.

You will be able to claim your Secret Santa gift art on the Lorekeeper site for standard currency and a bonus 25 shards. Backup artists will be able to claim additional rewards for each piece they complete.

The Secret Santa Claim prompt will be open from December 20th to January 17th! Submit your gift here during this period to receive your rewards. Don't forget to deliver your gift yourself!

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact SeaCrest via Discord or Toyhou.se.

Seasonal Features

The winner of October's raffle is OakAntlers! They will take home a Beastial Curse!

With the short days and long nights, lamps are essential at this time of year. It seems the light has attracted something fluttering and strange...

November's raffle prize is a Moth Nectar! Enter the raffle here for your chance to take home this magical potion!

Shop Rotations

Rhea, Fern, and Athalie have once again rotated their stock for the month.

Saffron even has her seasonal special for you this month, dont forget to grab your harvest dinner!

Reminders

Hallow's Grove will be closing on November 22nd! Make sure you purchase your Hallow goodies from Fang & Bone before they disappear into the night!

Our autumnal Seasonal Quests will be ending on December 10th at 17:00 PST! This also includes location-specific seasonal quests. Make sure you check those end times and submit your work before they end!

what to expect coming soon

• Updating Magic Quests and Attunement System - More streamlined to gain your magic!
• The next chapter of Questlines - Ready to see how the town stories unfold?
• Massive Gear Update
• Updated Foraging System
• New Pets
• Crafting and Item Expansion (many!!)
• And more! <3

Notes from Wisp

Finally getting to some of the more exciting updates that will get things moving, like getting started on that story again! So excited to see what direction you all go when there isn't a clear good or bad direction, it's merely a left or a right, right?

It's been a bit hectic in the wisp world lately, appointments and family visits and events and friend visits and of course all the regular commission and code work, so I haven't gotten as much of some of the work done on things like trait asset updates as I hoped, but! The next bit is looking pretty open for me so here's to hoping I can buckle up and crack down on them soon!
I do want to note that just because my schedule is opening up for a bit, it doesn't mean the rest of the teams is! It's the holiday season so please have extra patience with the team regarding questions and processing your quest submissions! The team spending time with their loved ones over the holidays will 100% be priority, but we will still do what we can to address everything in a timely manner.

That aside, I hope you enjoyed Hallow this year! There was a lot of features that were new and good first runs that now I get to take a step back and look at what went well, what didn't, what could have been better, and come back swinging with bigger and better things.

We're looking at lots more changes to the site over the next bit, more ways to streamline navigation, more activities, more ways to engage with the community, etc etc. I feel like we're in a bit of growing pains right now as I figure out what works best on a lot of systems and work back and fix up old ones to be their best version, but that doesn't mean it's a bad thing? It's been seriously so wonderful watching this little site grow and while we have some slower periods, I think together we can build quite the community!

Hopefully this update is as exciting to you as it was to me to work on, and I am looking forward to seeing how we move forward in the story.

As always, thanks for being here! Every one of you is wonderful, special and important to me, and Painted Relics wouldn't be the same without you. <3

-Wisp

Harvest Friends

We always need more hands during harvest, and that's just what we're getting!

Coming up are a few more friends, 4 flatsale designs going up at NOON PST each day they are scheduled, and a special halloween day auction!

Keep an eye out for the sales posts starting October 27th! <3

Trick or Treat BEGINS TONIGHT

Fang and Bone are back with another year of Tricks and Treats!



You'll be able to start trick or treating tonight at midnight, goodluck, and may Fang and Bone be kind and not give you too many tricks!

Trick or Treat!
Please note that this page will not load anything until trick or treat starts!

Autumn may have come late to Kyvalore, but it did not come quietly.

With the change of seasons brings a host of new content, both big and small.

Delve into the magical hallow haunt carnival to celebrate the spooky harvest season, collect prize tickets for new collectable items, battle with everything you've got to take down the returning monster of the mist, and more!

hallow haunt carnival

Sometimes the best way to step away from the troubles of life is to step into what feels like another world altogether.

Hurry on down to the Hallow Haunt Carnival, where you can find various games to enjoy, great food to eat, and special prizes to be won!

Its time for carnival games quests and even spin the carnival wheel once a day for a fee!

The Hallow Haunt Carnival is a new Hallow event where you can earn lovely autumn goodies, hallow themed prizes, and the new currency, Prize Tickets.

Ready to try your luck?

games room and Collectibles

We now have a games room! 

Weekly sudoku as well as the new carnival wheel are now located in the games room, where any other games we add to Painted Relics will be placed.

Earned some prize tickets from a game or event quest and looking where to redeem them?

There's a new shop that specialized in just that currency! Head on over to the marketplace and redeem your tickets for special collectable prizes and the Prized Collectibles!

This shop will have various stock rotating in and out of it at any given time, so make sure you pay attention to the stock if you're really hoping to save up for something special. If you happen to miss out on something though don't fret. Stock will always be rotating in and out, so be sure to check in often!

Prize tickets are a special new currnecy that while featured in the Hallow Haunt Carnival for it's reveal, they are a year round forever currency to earn! The collectible shop will continue to stock with new and exciting collectibles to decorate your characters profiles, trade, or show off to your friends! Maybe even earn collection acheivements for someday...

the danger of the fog Returns

Autumn rolls over the lands of Kyvalore. The air becomes crisper and sharper, the trees explode in flame blessed hues, the nights darker. A step deeper into the season and the enveloping mists roll over Kyvalore. Through the thick canopied depths of the Umbra Wilds, the red and orange beauty of the Lanris Grove, and even up high embracing the Tree of Life, the mist consumes. There's a difference this year, the air thick and dark, shrouding whole swathes of land in an impenetrable blanket. Trade routes are slowed or diverted, hunting parties disbanded, and people gone missing.

Stories begin to circulate about the mist and the strangeness that walks with it. Tales carried like treasures among caravans and travelers, from one town to the next. In Ardglass, the center of all passing trade, the pieces begin to piece together. The mists described in the mountain peaks of Durmur have the same new intensity as those of the Omena Islands. Many afraid to make trips to and from Reim, afraid to get lost at sea. More and more places seem to be added to this list of afflicted lands. Then come reports of people gone missing, unable to be found even after the fog moved on. Stories of quick hulking movement among the shadows. Of a beast. To most, it is a creature of myth, the subject of children's bedtime stories that somehow stalks through these fields of mists the world over, all at the same time. An unlucky few, however, know the beast all too well, have stared into its eyes and been somehow fortunate enough to live to tell about it. This beast has a name, whispered by panicked spirits across Kyvalore to those able to hear them...

Sahmaron.

Once again Sahmaron lingers in the woods. How and why does he keep returning? We must fight him back once more or risk more lives being lost.

A call to action has been sent out, help fight back this monster before it consumes more of the world, but be careful, Sahmaron's bite can give more then just a wound!


Visit the new boss battle page to find info on the Sahmaron battle, including the ways to deal damage and see how your score compares to other adventurer's in Kyvalore!

Hallow Shop and Hallow items

Fang and Bone have opened up Hallow's Grove once more with all the regular seasonal goodies as well as some new ones!

Make sure you grab your free giftwrap, grab seasonal recipes if you hadnt bought them last year, and enjoy the spooky and sugary goods of the hallow season.


Whats this?

Looks like the Hallow Potion has a new trait it can grant:


Spider Eyes!
Have multiple pairs of symetrical eyes on a voxi or an avilli.


Find yourself with a beast vial?
We've heard from an anonymous source that the beast vial not only works on gribble and loxdrin eggs, but also seems to work on pinehog eggs...

Poor thing.

major site updates

If you've done anything on the site at all, I'm sure you've already noticed, but there's been some big changes around!
Both character pages and the home page have gotten massive updates to better fit the theme of Painted Relics, while also making sure to display every piece of helpful information that we can without making it too overwhelming and wordy.

The homepage has gotten a decent change and now shows your active Kyvalorian, some quick links to daily activities, as well as more useful information on open character sales, and the latest adventures other Kyvalorians have gone on!

Mobile view is different from desktop view and some features are hidden or minimized in order to condense the information so it's not scrolling forever on a small screen.


Character pages have also seen a massive makeover! All character pages should correctly display a vast amount of helpful info in a lovely organized manner. All the good useful things are upfront and center showing off not only your character's images, but all of their equipment, badges, inventory, companions and more.

Find a bug with one of the new layouts? Submit a bug report!
Please make sure to less us know as many details as you can about the bug you've encountered, as well as what kind of device you are accessing the site from, as every bit helps me get to the problem faster!

Trick or treat starts october 24th

Keep an eye out for Fang and Bone because they are working on creating more mischief!

The annual Trick or Treating starts Octover 24th and will go through October 31st! 
So dont forget to check back to claim your prizes from our favorite tricksy duo.

Seasonal Features

Cant have a spooky month without spooky prizes can we?

This months raffle is for a beastial curse!
Make sure you enter the raffle as many times as you can if you want another chance of obtaining a wereform!

Shop Rotations

Rhea, Fern, and Athalie have once again rotated their stock for the month.
Make sure to snag these goodies while you can!

Trait image updates

As you may have noticed a lot of trait image updates have come to a standstill, and to remain as transparent as I can, quite frankly I had gotten a bit burnt out on trait images. I took a large break from working on them to work on other aspects of Painted Relics so I didn't feel bogged down by the large project I took on. While they are mostly done being redrawn, it's some of the larger more complicated ones like new elemental aura images I've left for last that have been daunting. 

I've taken a break from working on all the image updating both drawing new assets and loading them in that I will return to working on them shortly! Thanks for your patience while I work in this massive image overhaul while juggling all of the other updates of the site. I'm really hoping to have them done soon so we can have the best references possible and I can put that focus into other aspects of the site!

what to expect coming soon

I'm so pleased to have finally shown off some of the wonderful new content this month that we've been hinting at, but it doesnt stop there!
There's plenty more in the works, and you might be seeing one or more of the big ones as early as next month!

• Additional Relic Lore and New Relic Quests
• Updating Magic Quests and Attunement System - More streamlined to gain your magic!
• The next chapter of Questlines - Ready to see how the stories unfold?
• Massive Gear Update
• Updated Foraging System
• New Pets
• And more!

Additional Notes

Hallow!! My absolute favorite season and event to do, and boy did I bite off more then I could chew.
Always thinking I have time to add just one more thing! Just one more!

Thank you as always for your patience as I work away on these updates to bring you the content you deserve! I'm hoping to have worked on building up a backlog of content soon so I'm not spending so much time running around last minute doing touch ups and bug fixes, but maybe that's just how I work haha

I hope you're as excited as I am about all the new content, and dont forget to link your beautifully decorated character profiles in the discord! I would love to see how you all equip your characters in items, gear, pets and more. Now that that massive layout project is done I'm excited to delve in even further to give you more options to equip up your characters as best you can.

And as always, thank you for being here! Your support in Painted Relics keeps me working away on this wonderful world and you being here makes it the wonderful place that it is. <3

-Wisp

What a strange year it is, while the expectation is autumn to roll in and greet us with it's bright colors, it looks like summer is sticking around just a little longer!

THE TREASURE HUNT CONTINUES

While the Summer Treasure Trove Event was initially intended to only last a month, I asked if an extension would be appreciated and a resounding 100% of people who voted gave me a yes, so the summer treasure trove event and all of it's counterparts will be around for another update cycle!

With this slight change, we'll be postponing most of the updates intended for september to october in order to allow the extra time and focus on the treasure hunt.

It may take some time tonight for all of the quests to reflect their new dates and 

If you're looking for all the summer event details, check out the event info here!

Good luck hunting!

mORE TRAITS ?

We might be postponing most of the updates, but that doesn't mean you dont deserve new traits!
September is usually the month of the avilli, so I only felt it was right to give you more avilli traits.

Traits

Avilli Overlap Ears

Avilli Earless

Avilli Winglet Ears

Avilli Swordtail Plume

Be on the Lookout

With the extension pushing back some updates you'll have to wait a little longer, but there are plenty of things to be excited about just around the corner...

• Additional Relic Lore and New Relic Quests
• Updating Magic Quests and Attunement System - More streamlined to gain your magic!
• The next chapter of Questlines - Ready to see how the stories unfold?
• Updated Foraging System
• Extreme Crafting Updates
• More Site Games!
  
  
  And I wonder what these are...

Monthly Raffle

The winner of the last raffle is AuroreChaton! Congratulations!

The Sea Keepers Pearl will be on it's way soon!

Even though we're still in summer for a month, how could we not dip our toes into the traits found in autumn? 
September's raffle is up for a Mutation Potion!

A note from wisp

 Hello!
This time the update is a little one, but I wanted to make sure I left enough open so you an focus on the extra time for the event! Don't worry though you'll get plenty of new content to play with next month! We're hard at work on a lot, theres a lot of moving parts, a lot in the works, but a lot thats ready and waiting!

A lot of my time lately has been spent taking a step back and looking at the layout of Painted Relics. Does it deliver the feeling that I want it to? Where could it be improved? And ultimately where can I make it even better for both desktop and mobile users! I am always striving to keep making this place better and better with each update and I've got some new changes I've been putting so much time into that I think you'll be quite excited about! It's almost ready and I'm looking forward to getting to share it with you soon!

As always thats for sticking with me! We're building something special together and your support in me and the team building this little world means everything to me.

- Wisp ♥

Get Involved!

If you're not part of our discord community, you're missing out!

We have a discord community where we can hangout and chat, talk about our characters, stream (sometimes with sneak peaks!), host extra activities and lots more!

Join our discord!

Or check us out on Toyhouse!

Painted Relics Toyhouse World

Treasure Trove Map

Still looking for those map pieces and want a quick way to check your progress?
Or have you found them all and are ready to turn them in?




Check out your Treasure Trove's progress!

This will allow you to claim your reward for finishing the map automatically!

That isn't the only map out to hunt for though...

The WilderWyld Hunt

It’s the last month of summer and interesting rumors abound about buried treasure… before the season ends, you may want to check out what’s going on in Ardglass! I hear Captain Ravinger’s ship has docked… perhaps he’d like to talk with you?

THE TREASURE HUNT RETURNS

There’s treasure to be found, and Ravinger needs your help finding it all! The pirate has promised you a cut of the spoils for any you manage to find– with treasure hidden all over Kyvalore, how hard could it be?

Ready to dig in? Head over to the Event Questboard and get hunting, you may even find some new summer goodies in your search!
Good luck!

Finish 3 or more summer event quests and submit a claim to receive this years summer badge!



(Please note that not all event quests reward treasure chests! Make sure you check the rewards so you can work on what you want to work towards most!)

Site Changes & Updates

What else have we been up to?
 Let's take a look!



FAQ

The FAQ has gotten a fresh face, with all of the questions getting refreshed, updated to be more accurate, as well as having much better functionaliy in order for you to find the most helpful information as best you can!
Check out the updated FAQ here!
Give our lovely Sea a big thanks for spearheading this project!

STAT AND LEVEL UPDATES

Stats and levels have undergone even more changes!
There's still a bit more that I need to adjust and fiddle with to get it working just right, but you should be able to check out your Stat Information pages from your character in order to see your stats.

If you're feeling low on mana... Have you tried using a potion directly?
Potions and food are now automagic! Recover your characters mana or health automatically directly from your inventory!

Do note that they will only ever recover up to your max health, so kep an eye on which ones you use, I'd hate for one to feel wasted!

CRAFTING UPDATES

The Crafting system is getting some updates!

There's been some visual changes to the crafting page, with plenty more to come.

I'm working on making the crafting page the cutest and best recipe book you've seen, but making that work on mobile reliably has been an adventure to say the least!
Over the course of this month you'll notice more changes as I add it to the site so me and the other staff can make sure it's displaying well on all devices.

Crafting isn't just changing visually though... There’s so much still happening behind the scenes, we’re hard at work making tweaks and improving the system for everyone. Stay tuned, many changes are still in the works! We hope to share more with you soon about upcoming recipes and improvements.

Dress to Impress!

All Kyvalorians can now strut their stuff and show off their latest fashions in an all new Outfits tab on masterlist entries! To add an Outfit image for your characters, please submit a Design Update with them in their best ‘fit!

shard rewards and cost adjustments

This is a big one, and I understand that changes to costs of items in the game and shards rewarded can be a hard change, but we are working on some changes of shards in order to better balance the game further!

As we add more items and systems in the game it became obvious that the shards and items you can resell that you gain through activities and events was causing shards from quests to feel less worthy! While I am stand firm on my stance that I want the game to be accessible to anyone, even those that dont have the time to write or draw, I want those that do take the time to complete quests to always feel that their efforts are worth it. 

The cost of some items, gear, and all pets are increasing.
It may take some time adjustments here and there for us to find the comfortable ground for them, but hopefully we can iron this out quickly.

What this does mean though is that the value of your writing and art is going up! Approvals of your quests will be paused for a couple days to allow me to make the adjustments to shard rewards, but from here on out you will be receiving more for the quests you complete!

I will be sure to post the updated guide and the new values for you as soon as they are ready.

Traits

I’m still working on the overhaul of our existing trait images!
Many are done, but I’ve been unable to settle on how I want them to look and therefore many have gone through several renditions behind the scenes.
While you'll still see more slowly sneaking their way into the encyclopedia, let's look the ones that are new this month shall we?

Avilli Heart Horns

Avilli Kitty Tail

Voxibell Shaped Manabone

Voxibell Nubbin Tail

Voxibell Curl Tail

Gotta Catch Em All?

Trying to get all of the items that have existed in the game and want to easily see what you've gotten?
Check out your Record Book!

You can see what items you've obtained in the past, and which one's you have yet to collect!
The record book can always be accessed from your profile or under Explore -> Account!

Since the beginning of the game we've had a lot of item adjustments, and with that no longer need boxes for various things like recipes and gear, so over the next few weeks we will be working on tidying up unneeded items.


Speaking of collecting them all though...

Some new items are now discoverable in your forages in the wilderness! 

Additional MINOR Updates

• Profiles have gotten minor adjustments to flex better on mobile devices!
• Shops now have categories on the shop page to stay better organized and informative!
• Magic Bond is changing to Attunement! Temporarily both will be displayed on character profiles but Magic Bond sections will be removed with future updates, just wanted to make sure the new system worked first before removing!

Be on the lookout

We still have so much more in store and we're ramping up for something big...

I wonder who they are?

More Updates Just around the corner

• Additional Relic Lore and New Relic Quests
• Updating Magic Quests and Attunement System - More streamlined to gain your magic!
• The next chapter of Questlines - Ready to see how the stories unfold?
• Updated Foraging System
• More Site Games!

Monthly Raffle

The winner of the last raffle is AuroreChaton! Congratulations!

Avilli-178 has safely traveled to your account.

A Sea Pearl is up for grabs in August’s Raffle! Get your entries in by September 10th at 5:00pm to have a chance of taking it home!

A note from wisp

 HELLO MY LOVELY FRIENDS

It's been SO much work behind the scenes and I feel like we're finally able to start showing the fruits of our labor. I'm looking forward to each step of the way and while there will be some bumps there's so many fun things I have a hard time not spoiling already!

While I've spoken about a big exciting event coming when I'm finished with some systems and predicted aug/september depending on how this month goes it may have to get moved to october? At this point I see no reason to release it prematurely if I happen to get stuck on a site bug or something happens that causes me to fall behind on my trajectory. I will do my best to keep you waiting for this as little as possible, but I want to make sure that the finished product is truly what I set out to deliver, and hope that these little updates (and sneak peaks!) help keep you entertained while I work on giving you more of what I mean for Painted Relics to be.

As always thank you for being here, reading this long post and being excited about the next step of Painted Relics! I am always so proud of our little community and look forward to the grand things we will build together in the world of Kyvalore.


- Wisp ♥

Get Involved!

If you're not part of our discord community, you're missing out!

We have a discord community where we can hangout and chat, talk about our characters, stream (sometimes with sneak peaks!), host extra activities and lots more!

Join our discord!

Or check us out on Toyhouse!

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We have a quiet little update for you all this month, as Wisparia is traveling. Fear not, you'll see some shiny new stuff coming in the August update!

Shop Rollovers

Fern has some new flora in stock over in the Botanist's Shop!

Athalie has new friends for you to take home over in the Pet Shop!

And of course, Rhea has found some new and interesting wares for you to peruse at Rhea's Scavenging!

Site Changes & Updates

You may notice that the FAQ looks a little different! We've switched over to a new format, but it's going to take a little bit to get all the questions moved over and updated to reflect the most current information. If you have a pressing question, please feel free to reach out in the Discord server!

You may have noticed that there's a Stats Information page on each of your characters now! There are some display issues between the main character profile and the Stats Information page that we're still working on. For now, please note that sometimes we're having issues giving and taking stats, including health and mana! We won't stop you from completing quests, but please bear with us if your character is affected by this issue. Thank you!

Monthly Raffle

The winner of the last raffle is foxfetti! Congratulations!
Your Sea Keeper's Pearl has been delivered.

July's raffle features a lovely design by sardoniczero! Get your entries in by August 10th at 5:00pm to have a chance at winning them!

Keep in Touch!

Find us on Discord to hang out, chat about characters (or plans for characters), share art, and more!

You can also find us on Toyhou.se!

Summer is here! Kyvalore is bustling with summer markets, traders and travelers, pukara are out on the shores once more basking in the heat, and the seas call to many for adventure!

With summer comes summer quests and of course we have much to share about site changes and updates while we work on the major updates!

June & Summer Season Updates

As many of you know we are still on a big event freeze while I rework systems and make everything cleaner, easier to understand and better for both staff and players to get involved, but that doesnt mean summer isnt here!

The summer shop will open later this summer with it's usual summer goodies, but you can start on those summer quests now!

All locations have been updated with summer quests, as well as the new seasonal quests are here! These quests will stick around till September 10th so you've got plenty of time to get out there and explore.

As for June updates, the shops have rotated their stock! You'll find that Rhea, Fern, and Athalie have changed up their stock again so be sure to swing by the marketplace to see what they have!

Site Changes & Updates

AND NOW FOR THE UPDATES
This is really where a lot of our time has been spent, but I'm so excited to talk about what's already been done, and give sneak peaks of what's to come! We'll take each bit in sections so I can make sure I address the different points.

CHARACTER PROFILES

Character profiles have gotten some adjustments! Mainly ones that should help the mobile experience more, but should help things be a big cleaner and show off your characters even better! Badges and Inventory are now in tabs on the character's page so you can show off the cool badges they've obtained. WOuld be really great place to show off all of the upcoming badges too... 


GUIDES

Staff has gotten a little burnt out on guides! It's a lot of words and not fun content so we haven't made much headway on these, but dont fret! These are still in the works, just shifting gears to work on something else to keep the brain juice flowing! FAQs, Updated Guides, and Updated New Player quests are still in the works!

STAT AND LEVEL UPDATES

Stats and Levels are changing! There's still some more adjustments in the works and some pages havent been finished getting their makeover, so you might accidentally stumble on a broken stats page, but stats have a new look! If you're looking at your character's page for their deeper stats info, click on Stat Information on the sidebar! From here you can still find the more in depth information and level up stats when needed. 
Character levels and stat points DO work a little differently now though and we're still ironing out some kinks in the system, but you'll also notice that quests dont grant the same xp or stats that they used to, but this is intentional! We're working on a better new stat system that will feel more natural to both staff and players!
With these stat changes one thing has been removed and that is user levels. It was a far underused feature that I felt the same kind of rewards to players for playing the game could be given differently and more intentionally.

Traits

More trait time!

I'm still crunching away on traits, Voxibell traits are basically done, I'm just making some minor edits and slowly separating my master file into the images to load in for the traits! You can still follow along with this progress by checking back in on the Voxibell Trait Index page, but expect all of the voxibell traits to be swapped over to the new bases in the next two weeks!
I would even recommend checking in on the avilli guide to find yourself some peaks at the new examples as those have begun getting made and will be making their way onto the site soon!

As previously stated, some of the traits rarities, descriptions, and specifications are subject to change as I work on balancing more traits into the system.
If you have a character with a trait that is getting downgraded in rarity, you will receive a potion of that rarity in compensation, if the trait goes up in rarity, you will be automatically upgraded to the rarer trait!

If you got a potion grant randomly, a trait has changed on one of your characters to make sure it matches! If you're unsure which one, you're always welcome to reach out and ask!

And can't forget some of the new traits we've added to the list in the process!

Bat Ears

Doe Ears

Fantasy Ears


Three new ears have been added to voxibells!

I know this month and last update got voxibell traits for an update, so I'll be sure to share some new avilli traits in July!

Item Display

If you've been anywhere on the encyclopedia I'm sure you've noticed some visual changes there! Items that are part of the same now are grouped together! This helps keep the information in more readable chunks and you no longer have to scroll forever to find the different map peices or mushrooms as they all will be listed together!
The actual display of these items is still getting touched up to be more visually interesting while showing the needed information on both PC and Mobile, so if you happen to see something acting weird on either device, please submit a bug ticket to let us know!

Additional MINOR Updates

• Profiles have gotten minor adjustments to flex better on mobile devices!
• Shops now have categories on the shop page to stay better organized and informative!
• Magic Bond is changing to Attunement! Temporarily both will be displayed on character profiles but Magic Bond sections will be removed with future updates, just wanted to make sure the new system worked first before removing!

More Coming Soon

• More pet content! (More pets and maybe even more things to DO with pets??)
• More Games!
• Updated Crafting System
• Updated Foraging
• MORE BUGFIXING (Currency fixes, sudoku fixes and backgrants, etc)
• LOTS of new items, gear, recipes and badges to collect!

ARPGS FOR PRIDE

Dont Forget!

ARPGs For Pride is still ongoing!

For pride month this year, we are working together with other wonderful ARPGs to help raise money towards the Trevor Project!

Check out the Pride Event Page to find out more about the event, and dont forget to look at our partners in pride to see how you can join in to support charity!

Our Partners in ARPGs for Pride

Andras
Fenroos
Keepers of Eniv
Pouflons

Monthly Raffle

Winner of the last raffle is CloverEtoile !
Congrats! Your spring egg will be sent to you shortly!

June's raffle is up! Enter the raffle for a chance at a Sea Keeper's Pearl!

A Note From Wisp

 
This month has been a LOT of bug fixing. A lot of behind the scenes code that while it doesnt show for a lot, it ate a lot of my time! I still expect a lot of bug fixing in my future, but I'm working on trying to find the right balance between bug fixing and asset work that don't burn me out cause I am SO in love with the game and cannot state enough how excited I am to show you all more of what I've got cooking up behind the scenes! The problem is a lot of the things I'm working on just need other bits to work, or just need one more thing done, or aren't ready to be released yet, but we WILL get there.

On my last note in a news post I have a very loose expected event relaunch of July, and want to mention that I feel like that's going to be too early to be in the comfortable spot that I wanted to be in, but I can confidently say that August looks like our perfect month. This isnt set in stone as we never know what life looks like and if more big hiccups hit along the way, but I'm so excited to dig back into the story of the world, open up the doors to many more players and truly deliver the game I always intended to deliver.

As always, thanks for sticking around for this adventure! Your support and interest in the world of Kyvalore is truly what inspires me most.

- Wisp ♥

Get Involved!

If you're not part of our discord community, you're missing out!

We have a discord community where we can hangout and chat, talk about our characters, stream (sometimes with sneak peaks!), host extra activities and lots more!

Join our discord!

Or check us out on Toyhouse!

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