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! ♥