NEW: scroll down for the autumn sudoku!

The crunch of leaves, the smell of rain, and the desire for a good cup of apple cider… It’s finally autumn!

Summer seasonal events are over and there are new a wide array of new autumn prompts to explore!

Emerging Autumn Life

Kyvalore is welcoming the new season!

All locations and seasonal prompts have been updated to new prompts! There’s a few returning prompts from the previous autumn, but plenty of new ones, so make sure you take a good looksie!

 Pukara have gone back to the seas as the air cools, but bakken are back out to play. You’ll want to keep an eye on your own things, or risk a bakken slipping in and stealing!

Athalie reports that another critter seems to have been popping up around Kyvalore though! It looks like the appeal of the season brought another out of hiding.
Can you find them and help Athalie collect info and discover another critter?

Help investigate these new findings in The Leafall Lookout !

Month of the Moth

With the coming of September, cocoons have begun to form in the life tree once more. The moth avilli have returned!
Some moth avilli are even emerging from their cocoons with new looks!
You can find these new traits on the encyclopedia under the moth trait section.


A few updates to moth avilli:
Moth avilli have a few changes to existing traits as well as the bundle of new traits.
The moth mane trait is being removed.
This trait merely created frustrations among players and wasnt constructive to try and mod by creating levels of how fluffy some things could be. This trait is being removed to allow freedom of fluff on such a main trait of avilli.
Any characters that have a moth mane trait will be getting the trait removed and will be granted a minor moth potion as compensation.

Moving on from moths, but still on the topic of manes, what about maneless?

Manes on avilli are such a staple, but it looks like some avilli recently have been found to have no mane at all, how strange!

New maneless trait for avilli!
Due to a mane being a staple feature of avilli this trait is rare! This is defined by no or very very small neck fluff on an avilli. Without this trait your avilli still must adhere to the regular mane standards.

Expect a few avilli sales this month featuring new and old moth traits!

Autumn Sudoku!

Looking for something fun to do? Give our Autumn Sudoku a try!

If you don't know how to play, here is a handy guide to get you started. Complete your puzzle and turn it in here for a prize!

Birthday Surprises!

Happy September! It’s my birthday month and I want to share the festivities with you!
Maybe chocolate cake or cheesecake wasn't your jam, what about funfetti?
Meet the funfetti gribble!

These gribbles can be found in birthday boxes that get sent out during your birthday month. If you want to receive a birthday box, please make sure that your birthday is set to viewable as that lets the site grant you your special present!

Looking for other ways to celebrate and share gifts with friends?
What about some wrapping paper to wrap up little gifts and send them on their way in the lost & found?

You can find wrapping paper in the general store to wrap up anything from items, currency, myos, and pets!
Currently it looks like the general store just has the autumn paper in stock, but I heard from a little kipin they have other styles of paper coming in the future!

Looking for more fun?

Keep an eye out this month!

Coming soon:
Autumn Harvest Hunt starts Sept 20th! 
Discord Trivia!

The Story Continues

 Havent gotten a chance yet to speak with Modeous about his magic discoveries? You still have time to cast your character into the dark and help decide the fate of Kyvalore in Memory of Mana.

This quest closes at the end of the month for casting your vote on the future of the world, but you will be able to gain a relic form in other ways in the future!

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

Seasonal Features

Ready for the next raffle? The next raffle is a little avilli designed by out own mod SeaCrest ! As always, give the raffle quest a look for how to enter and we'll see you in September to draw the winner!

SITE UPDATES

You might find that some more items like mushrooms are now sellable! We've been keeping an eye on how selling flowers affected the shard income for players with the foraging and questing to make sure that the game still feels balanced.
Common flowers being sold now sell for 3 shards, but rare flowers and mushrooms can now be sold (as well as a few other minor things, so its worth it to check! We'll be keeping an eye out on how this affects the game before we adjust more items to be sellable. <3

Shop Rotations

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

Additional Notes

I hope yall are as stoked for the autumn season as I am!
Its always my favorite season for lots of themed goodies, quests, and characters! As I’m sure you may have noticed there’s been a little bit of shifting on the staff team lately, and with it some slowdowns of approvals but it wont stay that way forever! As soon as I am able to set aside the time I will be opening up staff applications and guest artist applications as I’d love to send out the last full season in Kyvalore with a strong team to carry us forward!
Please excuse any slowness that may occur due to the short staff or training of new staff while we settle in! Once I get a new team settled in to help keep up on prompts I’ll be able to sweep back into all my backroom planning! Still so many things in store, just many things take so much time but I hope it’s all worth the wait!

Lastly, Hallow event is next month! I’m looking forward to all the scares and spooks that will be creeping into the world.

Thank you as always for sticking it out with us! We love having you here. <3< /span>

-Wisp

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

Hello all!
Sorry for my silence lately, but I've got some good news! I've moved! It's been a long time coming and quite the process. I'm still working on settling in, but I've finally got my computer back up AND my desk is clean enough to actually function at it so I'm going to start slowly working back into the swing of things both with my non PR work, and with PR!

What does that mean for this month?
We're taking a little break.
I was hoping to be able to pop in and say, hey here's some new things but the reality is I havent had the time or energy to dive in and create new things for this month with the move and settling into a new place, learning a new area, and all the chaos that comes with it (I've somehow lost my tablet pen! It's probably in a box somewhere so here's to hoping I find it soon). I had originally hoped to use much of May for preprepping these things, but unfortunately I spent part of April and a decent chunk of May very bedriddenly sick. I was hoping by posting a little later this month I would have found the time to catch up to where I wanted to be, but I've realized now it's better for me to let you all know that this month is a little bit on hold so that the next update gets the attention it deserves.
So all in all, there isn't any update this month, but as soon as I know things are back on schedule I will let you know!

Thank you all for sticking around and your patience with me on this. I cannot express how much it means to me that you are still here and I hope that all the things that I'm working on behind the scenes will be worth the wait!

I truly am sorry that this isn't any fun and exiting news, but as a little thank you for sticking with me while these last few months have been a bit of an adjustment for me, I've added a little free gift in the general store! Just a little something to hold you over till we have PR cruising along again.

Mods and I will still be processing incoming things though! So now might be the perfect opportunity to work on some storylines, magical quests, character updates, or anything you like! ♥

If you ever have any questions, concerns, or anything of the like please dont hesitate to reach out to me on discord. I'm always open to hearing from you! ♥

UPDATE 29 APRIL, 2023: Additional hints have been added to the Spring Festival Egg Hunt! Good luck!

Festival of Spring

Did you guys know we are currently hosting an NPC design contest? Now you do! And the deadline is swiftly approaching, so if you have an idea, don`t forget to turn it in before it closes! The forms will close on April 30th, this sunday. 

Below is a refresher on all of the details of the contest:

This month we're hosting a contest to design an NPC for Painted Relics!, specifically a teacher of one of the bonded elements!

A few base requirements for the contest:

• A visual depiction of your NPC design! The NPC can be either species!
• A little bit of backstory and a name for your NPC! What magic do they excel at? Where does this NPC live? Do they have any pets?
• Traits list! Each design must depect legal traits, you can use traits of any rarity, including up to 1 mythic trait.

Two winners will receive a MYO slot of their choosing & a mythic potion, a special badge to show you've won a contest! One winner will be selected via community vote after submissions close and the second will be hand selected by mods! We may choose to implement other entries in addition to the two primary winners, in which case we will reach out with a similar prize for your effort!

Got more than one idea? That's great! You are welcome to submit up to 2 different NPC ideas!
All designs must be the original work of the entrant submitting the entry. The design may be altered by the development team before implementation on site.

By entering this contest, you acknowledge and agree to the terms that winning designs will become the property of the Painted Relics ARPG and have their ownership and distribution rights transferred to Painted Relics.

If your design doesn't win, you are welcome to keep that design/concept and use as you see fit!

Ready to submit your design?

You can submit your design through here!

Feel free to share wips and ideas with other members in the discord!

The last remnants of snow on most of Kyvalore has finally melted. Durmur is warm enough to not hate everything as soon as you step outside your cozy home, and beautiful blooms have begun sprouting from every corner. Many make the trip to Lynorre this time of year to see the beautiful floating islands of colorful flowers and the flittering of the florennecs and humbles seeking the sweetest necter. Spring is here!

If you hop on over to the questboard, you'll find all the new quests!

Help clean up after a volcanic eruption in Keldeep?
Maybe explore old ruins of Runaryl and find something worth uncovering?
Or take a midnight stroll anywhere in Kyvalore! I'm sure the stars in the clear spring nights are a sight to be held.

Check out the Questboard!

(Shoutout to the lovely Corvituus for all their lovely work with prompt writing!)

The valentine scavenger hunt as ended, and with it the valentine pets have left the shop! Dont fret though, they will return again next year and sometimes you might see them pop up in raffles, or rotating through the pet shop, so keep an eye out!

NPC DEsign CONTEST

Ever wanted a chance for a design to stand out of the crowd a bit more? Have a stronger mark on the history of Kyvalore?

Well now's that chance!


This month we're hosting a contest to design an NPC for Painted Relics!, specifically a teacher of one of the bonded elements!

A few base requirements for the contest:

• A visual depiction of your NPC design! The NPC can be either species!
• A little bit of backstory and a name for your NPC! What magic do they excel at? Where does this NPC live? Do they have any pets?
• Traits list! Each design must depect legal traits, you can use traits of any rarity, including up to 1 mythic trait.

Two winners will receive a MYO slot of their choosing & a mythic potion, a special badge to show you've won a contest! One winner will be selected via community vote after submissions close and the second will be hand selected by mods! We may choose to implement other entries in addition to the two primary winners, in which case we will reach out with a similar prize for your effort!

Got more than one idea? That's great! You are welcome to submit up to 2 different NPC ideas!

Entries will be accepted up until April 10th! Voting for the community's favorite design will commence shortly thereafter and end on April 20th!

All designs must be the original work of the entrant submitting the entry. The design may be altered by the development team before implementation on site.

By entering this contest, you acknowledge and agree to the terms that winning designs will become the property of the Painted Relics ARPG and have their ownership and distribution rights transferred to Painted Relics.

If your design doesn't win, you are welcome to keep that design/concept and use as you see fit!

Ready to submit your design?
You can submit your design through here!
https://forms.gle/3ooZiBJ3mwTV8Kqi6

Feel free to share wips and ideas with other members in the discord!

SEasonal Features

The raffle from last month as been rolled!

Congrats Lawlie ! I'll send you prize over shortly! ♥

Looking towards the next raffle? 

We've got a new little face up for raffle this month!
A sweet little pink lemonade avilli!

Avilli-105

You can enter for this avilli from now till April 10th! Good luck!


Since it's a new season, we also have a new featured member, Lawlie !

SHOP ROTATIONS

Rhea, Fern, and Athalie have some new stock for you this month! Athalie looks like she might have her hands full with some troublesome gribbles. Mind giving her a hand?

Additional Notes

Thank you everyone for being patient with me as I slowly go through fixing bugs and various things on the site! I know there's still quite a few theme bugs as well as some minor other things, but we are slowly getting through them! Part of this month was supposed to be getting a lot of those things done, but unfortuately I've spent a large portion of this month not quite feeling my best as well as a good portion of staff taking hiatus's here and there to take care of things in their own life!
I've got big plans for Painted Relics, but I'm always realizing that I'm trying to bite a bit more then I can chew at a time and I'm taking the time and space to roll that back a little.

What does this mean for Painted Relics?

Not a lot of noticeable changes on the member side honestly! We'll still be running with cool things each month but the big change is there will be more predictability in how updates are ran! I'll be released a more cohesive schedule with next months update as I finalize things with my staff, but in doing so, this will let me and the PR team be able to plan better ahead and make sure each update gets delivered how we want it to be presented. One thing I can share is there will almost always be a full event each season to look forward to! A summer event, a winter event, an autumn event, and a spring event!

One thing that has been asked is what happened to Story Quests!

And I can say with full confidence, it's coming! I've got a big update for the next story quest as well as lots of structural fixes in how the story quests work! I'm excited to share them with you, but I'm holding off till they are totally ready as I feel in order to really have the weight I want this next chapter to hold, it's very important that I have all the little parts for it. I can say with full confidence that it is coming this year, and will be here before you know it.

That should cover all the bases of the big things. But as always, my DMs are open, as are the questions in the discord server if you ever have any questions or concerns. I'm excited for a lot of what PR has in store, it's just a matter of getting there, and getting there while taking the time to make the game the best ARPG I can make it.

Love you all lots and thank you for loving this world we are building as much as I do. ♥
-Wisp

Did you know there's extra hints to the scavinger hunt now?

Head on over to your scavenger hunt page here to find those extra clues!

The winter festivities were a success and the last month of winter is already knocking at our door!
The orogari have fled back into deeper parts of the shrouded mountains, but dont worry if you missed out on any orogar winnings, we get the feeling that this was far from the last time that we will see them so close to the mountain towns.

The winter essence quests have closed, but the shop remains open for the rest of the month in case you have any more winter essence to spend!

Anyone who participated in this years winter event will have the winter badge granted to them in the next few days!

THE BITE OF THE FLAME

You'll find a new recipe quest in the crafting quests!
After a rough mid winter with the orogari, Dargan is looking for Kyvalorians ready to learn the ways of the forge. Once completing the mini 3 part quest you'll get granted a forge! This item is crucial for crafting some new recipes that can be found in Dargan's recipe shop, Iceflame Armoury (the armoury is currently closed as it is experiencing a small bug, it will be open ASAP!) if you're ready to hop on crafting now, or I hear you might be able to parse together the recipes on your own with enough exploring!

Speaking of crafting...

have you looked at your recipe book lately?
The recipe book has gotten changed up to be better organized for finding the recipes you collect along your journey! You can click the tabs to explore your collected recipes and craft them right out of your book.

 


Not ready to dig into crafting quests yet? That's alright!
Looks like while on a delivery run a little aeirbis dropped all their letters!

Valentine Scavenger Hunt starts tonight!
You'll be able to search the site starting tonight until March 10^th for letters spread across the site. This news post will be updated with the link when it launches, and it will be announced in discord so keep an eye out!

While hunting around you'll most likely notice some other big changes that have rolled in.
Player Profiles have gotten a nice layout update with some new features!

• Friends Lists! You can send friend requests to other players and find your friends easily from the browse section to check in easier!

• Blocking. Need some space? You can block another player if need be. Please remember that if you have any issues with another player that you feel should be addressed by the PR team, reach out to a mod privately!

• Featured character on your profiles! Have a favorite and aren't afraid to show it? Feature a Kyvalorian on your page! Access the selection to feature the character by going to https://www.painted-relics.com/characters

• Inventory tabs! Access the important parts of your collection with little tabs on your profile.

And lastly but not least, some trait updates, some minor, some large, but lots of new things!

• New potions! Growth Potions and Shrinking Potions. These potions can either size up or size down traits. You can obtain them through Astor's Potion Shop!

• Avili Frills! A frill of feathers on the top of your avilli's head! This can range from very small, to up to x2 the length of the avilli's head. They can fluff and fan out like the crest of a bird. It can be obtained with a rare Bodytype Potion.

• Cascade Tail has been downgraded to Rare Rarity!

SEASONAL & MONTHLY FEATURES

And the raffle winner for the special January raffle is:
Sadbloom!

Congrats! Your prize will be sent to you shortly!

Miss out on winter goodies? This next raffle might help!

February's raffle will get you a little winter event bundle, with x2 winter pets of your choice, a shining bow, and a bottled winter.

SHOP ROTATIONS & UPDATES

Both Rhea and Athalie have new stock for you this month!

Both of them have some nice out of season items if there's anything you were looking for, as well as Athalie has some cute valentine pets in stock for this month only!

MINOR UPDATES

Have you noticed?
If you're scrolling through the encyclopedia you might see that most entries have a listed origin now complete with links of that location of where to find them!


Big thank you to SeaCrest for working so hard to make finding the source of items, pets, and more so easily! 

I've been slowly working through fixing up parts of the themes on the site, so if you see some minor (or even major) changes to your favorite theme, dont worry! It's just me going through working on fixing visibility, layout, and function in order to keep things smooth sailing. Fayewood's theme is getting a full update that might look pretty different, but will flow much better with the other themes and the sections on the pages. Thanks for being patient with me on this!