Winter has come to a close, and the season of spring in Kyvalore has begun!

We’ve got a lot of updates with us today so I’m excited to show off what we’ve been working on!

First lets address some game changes we are bringing to Painted Relics!

Quests are now on a seasonal basis instead of monthly. We feel that there are a whole slew of quests that are there to explore with your characters now that there isn’t a need for monthly ones, at least not while our community is small and cozy! This lets us spend less time on writing monthly quests that may not get used, to spending more time on writing and creating content that will expand more of what Painted Relics has to offer!

So updates will still be coming monthly, but basic quests will now only change once a season!

With that in mind, if your character has a location set, then they will receive loot items for that location even on basic seasonal quests now!
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A lot of the site has been undergoing construction as I work to make the site more user friendly, and more representative of the style and feel I want Painted Relics to present!

The biggest of these updates today is to the questboard! The questboard has been completely changed and hopefully this will allow you to locate quests easier and get the details you need to advance your characters in their stories.

https://painted-relics.com/world/prompt-categories
On that questboard you’ll find some interesting new categories as well. Some of them are there as placeholders for quests that will be coming at a later date, such as Wilderness. But some have new things for you to explore now!

We are proud to announce Questlines!
Each location in Kyvalore is limitless in possibilities of what your character can do, but there might be a special adventure in each for you to embark on!

Each location will have a 5 part questline helping the NPCs of that location explore the town and maybe discover something exciting! Each questline will have exclusive rewards, redeem you stat points for your characters and good experience points! They play out a directioned story, where you play the main character. We cant wait to see how your characters react to the quests laid before them!
To accompany these questlines we have new NPCs that have joined the mix!

Titari
Viviana
Dargan
Saffron
Osiris

You can view the questlines for each location directly from the questboard. How convenient!
Each location now has parts 1 and 2 out for their questline, so it’s time to get questing!

That’s not the only new quest in Painted Relics though;
Introducing NPC Quests!
NPC quests are quests given to you by NPCs to fulfill tasks or sometimes item requests! Currently there is only one quest right now so we can test the waters on best methods for handling these quests, but we do intend to add more to the mix! So if you’re sitting on extra food items you aren't sure what to do with, you can look at helping our new NPC Tiyari out in Feeding The Delgu!

https://painted-relics.com/prompts/prompts?prompt_category_id=22
There may be a chance to get a badge exclusive to this quest so why not test your luck with finding the delgu’s favorite foods?

Still looking for more quests to do?
Stay tuned for later this month where the next chapter of Kyvalore’s story is released! All previous story quests will be getting legacy versions, so if you missed a chapter, you will be able to go back and still participate! Your character’s actions no longer vote towards the story of the world, but you will still gain any special items from that quest!
Story Quests will take place once per season and will last from the 15th of the first month of the season, to the 15 of the last month of the season, giving each story quest chapter 2 months for submissions.
This allows me to tally up the results of everyones quests, and write out the next chapter for where the story is taking us!

Due to some technical difficulties, the next part will release the 20th this month!
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You’ll find that the front page now shows off the monthly raffle character below the featured character of the month! This is an easy quick link for those looking to enter in for the raffle each month.
With that in mind, a beautifully colored avilli by our lovely Sadbloom is up for raffle for the month of march! You can submit entries for raffle tickets up until the last day of march and the winner will be drawn in the first week of April!

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Shops have been updated with new stock for the month! Both the Pet Shop and Rhea’s Scavenging have a collection of new things in stock!

Speaking of shops, looks like one of our new NPCs opened her shop in Everdenn!
We now have Savory & Sweets open for your basic cooking recipe needs!
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And lastly, but definitely not least, celebrating our community!

Our member of the month this month is Seagull ! Seagull has been a member of Painted Relics for over half a year and they have always been consistently interactive, encouraging, and a delightful member of our little community!

Our featured gallery has a few more entries so be sure to take a peak at the beautiful art our community makes.

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As always, thank you from the bottom of my heart for being here! I know we are still learning and growing, and sometimes being a new ARPG that is testing a lot of features is hard! I appreciate every one of you for your time, effort, and friendship! I wouldn't be able to build this little community without you.