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