The summer event is at its end, and summer coins and hidden chests seem to be less and less commonly found among the beaches and market streets of Kyvalore.

The summer sun still shines brightly in the sky, but you notice a chill in the evenings now, the last bit of summer is here, and autumn is just around the corner.

Thank you everyone for another wonderful summer event! Today concludes this years event, but we've kept all event quests open till the end of day, so make sure you wrap up those stories and finish that shading to slide your quests in! Don't forget that if you participated in the summer event, you can claim an exclusive participation badge!

Pukara and Ayserei can still be found in beachside location prompts for the remainder of the summer, and Ravinger has promised to keep his summer shop open till the end of the month for any last minute shopping!

We've got a lot of things to talk about this month, so let's dive in!

The NExt Chapter

Its been a while since we've had development towards the overarching story of Kyvalore, and I'm here to say you need to wait no longer.

The next chapter of Kyvalore's Story is here!

A few months has passed since your time with Modeus and the Letan ruins, and that poor, poor avilli. If you tried to explain it to others, they’d brush you off with a ‘haha, yeah time is going by way too quick these days’. This is different, though. That transformation, that angry and wild werebeast that was once a fellow sits weird on your thoughts, even after all this time. All this lack of time. You are jolted out of your revelry by massive talons scraping against stone walls… no, by a little beak tapping against glass. An aierbis,white plumage like fresh snow, twitches it’s head curiously at you from just outside your window. It bounces slightly, trying to balance itself on the windowsill while holding a letter with one talon. You open the window and accept the letter, the aierbis quickly glancing around for treats before flying away. The daydream felt like ill foreshadowing when you see the wax bearing the fancy seal of the Academy of Crystal Sight.

Salutations!

I hope the weather has been finding you in as good spirits as I am in currently. Since our last correspondence I have been hard at work on theorycrafting and testing. That broken skull that has proved quite difficult has had it’s secrets ripped from its long forgotten brain, and I have had a breakthrough! The details are too much for poor Royali to try and lift in a single letter, so I would invite you again to join me at your earliest convenience to share in this mighty discovery. No need for a blade this time, I assure you. I would be very pleased by your company again.

Best Regards,

Modeus

This is only a piece of the story to tell! You can find the rest of this story update on the new quest, Memory of Mana.

Memory of Mana introduces a new form for Kyvalorians, Relic forms. These forms take the image of humans that used to walk the world before it was wiped and reset with new life. While Memory of Mana will not be the only way to get these forms, it is currently the only way till we explore further into the history of Kyvalore and learn more.

You can read about Relic forms, as well as see the requirements and examples here.

But it's been a while hasn't it? Or maybe you weren't around when the previous story quests happened. That's okay! We've prepared a page for you that should give you an idea of how the story quests work, as well as explain the happenings as Rhea follows along!

You can read more at Rhea's Tale here.

Legacy Questing

Missed out on previous story quests, or want to go back with other characters to experience the story?

You can! Legacy questing for all previous story quests are coming. I'm just getting things formatted, but they will be available within a week! These quests will always stick around as something to explore and enjoy, while also getting you some exclusive rewards to the corresponding quests.
These quests still remain as once per character, and since the story has moved on, will not count towards voting towards anything.

Who knows, might be a good idea to make sure you have access to the grave isles or aetherin forest...

Find the Legacy Quests on the questboard here.

Character Forms

With this chapter of Kyvalore, kyvalorians now have the option of forms that can be displayed on their page!
Some forms require certain progression or items to be able to have that form for a character, but others dont such as outfits. You can have 1 outfit per character in order to keep the workload down for mods, but also give you the ability to express your characters personality and show it off!
You can already find alternate forms on several NPCs!

Wondering how to do it?
For adding in any form to a character, submit a design update!

In the design update, make sure you upload the image you want and let us know in the comments exactly what it is for so we can double check if you need an item and can check for it, and then under the traits tab, select the corresponding transformation! Submit the design update request as normal and a mod will get to approving your updated character when you can!

Any characters that currently have alternate images, such as existing wereforms will be updated by mods throughout the next week so no need to put in a request if you already have a secondary image on site with an alt form.

Site Updates

While I know some of you have noticed little changes here and there on the site, there's been quite a few so I want to make sure I mention them!

All themes have been heavily modified, and the Fayewood theme is finally fixed! These themes have been modified for better viewability as well as hopefully more flexible towards more updates I make in the future so I am not needing to go in and alter each theme so things work well like I previously had been doing. This meant I majorly had to rewrite some content which is why it took me so long! There are still a few minor things I will be touching up on each theme as I find them, but for the most part they are done! Thank you again for your patience with this while I sorted it out!

If you want to change your theme, you can do so from your settings! There are four different themes in there, so hopefully one fits your liking!

Did you notice the encyclopedia images? I know some did!
The lovely Lawlie made us some cute little encyclopedia images so now when looking to browse you get to see some lovely NPCs helping direct you!


Homepage, the homepage has gotten some minor adjustments, but the larger one being your avatar now displays to help welcome you! This is the first of a lot of little pages I want to make to the homepage, so please bear with me as I fidget with it more.

Character profile adjustments. Character profiles have gotten rearranged a little to include room for character transformations! You should still see your kyvalorians statbar belong your character, but if you dont, please let a mod know and we can look into the issue.

Anything not displaying right, loading well, or get funky on mobile devices? Let us know! You can either throw it in bug-reports on site or in the discord. Please include a description of the error, a link to the page, and what device you're using so I can best troubleshoot the problem!

Seasonal Features

The raffle from last month as been rolled! Congrats to SporkoRyk ! Your avilli will be sent to you shortly.


Ready for the next one? The next raffle is a little summer event bundle, in case you missed out on the ending events goodies! As always, give the raffle quest a look for how to enter and we'll see you in September to draw the winner!

Shop Rotations

Rhea, Fern, and Athalie are updating their shops today! Keep an eye out for their new stock for the remainder of the summer season.

Additional Notes

It's so exciting to be back on track with updates and content! I've got a few busy weeks ahead of me this month, but I'm already looking forward to the future. This update is something I've been playing with since the creation of Painted Relics, but had to wait till the right time to add it, as well as when I had the site up to my expectations to make it worthwhile for players and mods to enjoy the content.

As always, thank you for being here! I am so thankful to have you here enjoying and exploring in this little world that means so much to me.

-Wisp