Happy 1 year for Painted Relics!

I cannot believe that we have already reached this point. It feels like such a short span of time has happened, and yet here we already are!
It fills me with so much awe and joy to be able to grow this little community and to have each and every one of you be a part of it, so truly and honestly thank you from the bottom of my heart for being here. Your presence and creativity help make Painted Relics what it is, and I look forward to continuing to grow Painted Relics and seeing how things play out with all of the plans I have in store for our little ARPG!

Now before we dig into all the new updates, lets cover a few things!

I want congratulate two members:
The new member of the month, @Sporko ! Thank you sporko for being another wonderfully friendly face in our discord! I'll send you your MotM reward soon!

And the winner of the April character raffle, denimlich ! Your new character has already been granted to your account!


The story quest is still ongoing, but dont let the end date sneak up on you, it's only just over 2 weeks away! Dont forget to get your part of the story in for the story quests to help change how the story of Kyvalore unfolds.
https://www.painted-relics.com/prompts/prompts?prompt_category_id=18

An important thing I wanted to note is that now with 1 year of being open and active, Painted Relics is officially out of silver beta, and into bronze! We've worked out a lot of kinks in the base systems, and things are running smoothly and balanced, so silver beta is over! Thank you everyone who stuck with us through some of out system testing such as the shard balancing as I know that was a bit rough at first! Since we are moving into the bronze step of beta, I am excited to play with all the more fun aspects of the game that I've been planning. Cant wait to show them to you all soon!
I'll have a redeemable bronze badge for players soon to show that you were here in PR's early days!

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A one year anniversary sure does call for some exciting announcements though doesnt it?
Don't worry, cause we've definitely got you covered!

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Off the most northwestern coast of Kyvalore, a stranger flew in to shore, wide eyed and eager to explore the greater regions of Kyvalore, but where did they come from?

They first arrived in Fayewood, and drew eyes wherever they walked, or... flew? This voxibell has wings! They tell of their homeland called Runaryl, an island filled with voxibells that could fly who had been in hiding over the years in fear of the greater world of Kyvalore after the fall of the old world, but they are here to explore the greater world!

Now introducing the wyvern subtype! This subtype is exclusive to voxibells, and introduces some fun new traits, like winged forelimbs!
You can read all about this new subtype, and it's traits here:
https://painted-relics.com/world/subtypes?name=Wyvern
https://painted-relics.com/world/traits?rarity_id=9

But what about that strange traveler who was first to leave the wyvern isles?
Well, we've got them up for raffle this month:

Raven's Treasure

https://painted-relics.com/prompts/prompts?prompt_category_id=19

Or looking at the new location? You can now find it on the map, and listed under locations!
Any character that has the ability of flight can make it to the new island. This includes avilli, wyvern voxibells of course, and any character that has fully bonded with air magic!
(The map is currently not clickable for it yet due to a small bug, I hope to fix this within the week!)
https://painted-relics.com/world/locations/13

If you're wanting to get into the spirit of the new content and enjoy a change of atmosphere, The Wyvern Islands is a now a new theme on the site!

You can change your theme at any time by going to your account settings!

Plus, with a new location on the map, looks like there might be some new items to find, and even a new kind of pet.

Meet the toonin!
https://painted-relics.com/world/pet-categories?name=Toonin

Looking to get some of these traits yourself? Astor seems to have quickly made contact with the residents of Runaryl and acquired some wyvern potions for their shop.
Each wyvern potion grants up to THREE wyvern traits to a voxibell!



If you're more interested in premade characters though, we'll have you covered. I'll be making sure to do a couple wyvern voxi sales soon to help celebrate this new subtype!


The addition of wyvern traits aren't the only new traits though!
We now have elemental traits! These traits are exclusive to characters that have bonded to a certain magic. These traits are considered at-will traits so can be turned on and off at the characters discretion. Each element adds something a little special to the characters,. If you have a character that has bonded with an element, and you'd like their elemental trait added, please submit a character update and a mod will get that trait added on for you!

https://painted-relics.com/world/traits?rarity_id=8

Now that we've covered the new content, lets talk about the rest of the celebrations!


Both voxibell and Avilli MYO slots are on sale in the cash shop for the duration of the month! So if you were in the fence about picking one up, now might be the perfect time!

We'll be hosting a trivia event in the discord later this month with lots of hards to giveaway, and even a bigger prize for the overall winner! so maybe it's time to start reading up and preparing!

And if you needed another reason to be more active in our discord, I'll be doing at least two streams this month doing some free sketches for our lovely members. I'll try to post with at least a days heads up for these and do them at different times to help out with different timezones!

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That should wrap up all the goodies for this announcement. As always, thank you for your patience and understanding as we work on this little game, learn from it, and grow from it!

It means so much to me that you are here and I hope that Painted Relics can always be a comfortable and fun space to be.
Happy one year to Painted Relics, and I look forward to so many more!