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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!

Spring is in full bloom in Kyvalore, and it looks like it’s time to appreciate the flowers!

We’ve got a few little updates this month that I’m excited to share with you!

I’m sure some of you have noticed our mod team has been doing some shifting around, and wanted to let you know of the changes! Firstly, arlinns has stepped down in order to have more time to focus on life and just being a player! So you’ll still see her around, just not as a site admin anymore.
Then, as the Painted Relics ARPG grows and with the goals we have in mind, we needed to really add to our team, so I’d like to announce we’ve got some wonderful new staff members!
Welcome SeaCrest Mazzira Lawlie and @emmy to the team! I’m so stoked to get these wonderful people on board. We’ve already begun brainstorming ways to bring better content and more fun to Painted Relics, both on site and on our discord channel, and begun to implement some of it already!
In the discord you’ll now find a channel called #doodle-board ! You can find the rules pinned in the channel, but it’s a fun channel to create gifts for your fellow members of Painted Relics and receive some yourself!
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Due to the lack of entries this last month in the character raffle, we’ve extended it through the month of April! We know life’s been pretty chaotic and busy for everyone, so we want to make sure you still have the chance to enter if you’d like!

We do however have a new Member of the Month, Sylvena ! Thanks for being such a warm friendly face in our discord!

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Onto some points on traits!

I’ve spent actual months trying to figure out how the best way to tackle fur growth, and every method always didnt feel quite right. Since the way fur is drawn can be so subjective I didnt want it to feel too limiting, nor something that would be hard for moderators to judge. SO I’ve just decided to remove fur growth rarities altogether, aside from a few special circumstances such as moth mane.
This means over the next week or so I’ll be combing through the site and removing all fur growth traits. Don't worry though, if you have a fur growth trait on your character or a fur growth potion, I will be granting you a same rarity potion of your choice in exchange! This will take me a little bit to comb through everyone, so please hold tight as I go through them! If by th end of next week I haven't gotten to your character or exchanged your items, please reach out as I might have missed you!

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Been hunting in a location for something specific, but having a hard time getting that pet, or that location flower? We might have something to help with that!
Two new items have been added to the game! Empty pot, and pet bait! Both items can be attached to your quest to guarantee a gather of the location's unique flower, or one of the location's pets!
The empty pot can be bought from the Botanist’s Shop, and the pet bait can be purchased from the Pet Shop!

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Are you ready to celebrate spring?
I think these new pets are!



In celebration of the spring season, there is now an egg hunt on site! There are a handful of eggs to collect on the site, each egg contains a random loot roll that could be one of these 

lovely spring pets, or maybe something else unique to the spring season…

https://painted-relics.com/hunts/4

Dont worry if you don't get the ones you were hoping for, Athalie will have these pets in her shop later this month!

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And last but not least, just some quick reminders!

Don’t forget to submit your writing and art the gallery on site if you want some bonus shards! Each entry submitted on site redeems 5 bonus shards, so it can add up quick!

And the story quest still goes on, so don’t forget to join in! Kyvalore is reaching a turning point, will you help change the fate of the world, or will you help cause it?

The next part of Painted Relics' story is here!

To read the previous parts in Rhea's quest, you can find them here on this page HERE
(I know this page isn't the prettiest at the moment as I had issues getting it working the way I wanted, so this is just a stand in till I can get it looking the way I want!)
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"The sand was rough and sharp against her paws, resembling caltrops more than grains. 

“Thanks for the -“ Rhea began to say, before seeing that the rowboat that took her here was already making it’s way back out to the parent ship, where it would sit and await her return. 

“24 hours before I head back to shore, with or without cha”  she was warned by the captain. Not the most reassuring send off.

Taking her first few steps into land, she could see why. No, she could feel why. This place had an aura to it, baked into it’s foundation. It was anger, it was dread, it wanted to hurt. Rhea took a gulp of trepidation and could feel Pik scooting around in her side bag, shrinking himself down as he surely felt the same aura. The shoreline was littered with all kinds of detritus from the sea. Logs, seaweed, shells, and remains of cargo of all kinds. Broken crates spilled their long rotted and dried husks, mingling with broken pottery and scraps of rope. 

Even the wildlife didn’t want her here. Multiple times on her short walk into the mainland she was accosted by small, four pincer-ed creatures. They wore the detritus of the beach as shells, snapping at her with angry piercing eyes and grumbling strings of what she thought was warnings. Stepping up the eroded beach into the grasslands beyond, it wasn’t any better. The tall grasses were tough and razor sharp, the trunks of the trees were ringed with thorns, and she had to defend herself multiple times from these crab-like creatures as they fell upon her from the treetops, using the hard casings of fruit as both their shell and their method of attack. 

“Gah! What am I even looking for?!” Rhea yelled out to no one in particular. The hateful aura of the isle had long gotten underneath her skin, only exacerbated by all the cuts and bruises she had received thus far. Pik was no worse for wear though, at least physically. This thought comforted Rhea, but only a little. She could still feel something, hidden in that aura. Something that called out for her attention. So she pressed on, and not happy about it. 

After another hour or so of tripping over bones of unidentifiable creatures and climbing over rocks that also seemed to have thorns, because of course, she found what she didn’t know she was looking for.

In a rocky clearing, a circle of trees stood, all bent inward as if they were whispering to each other, canopy’s intertwining to cover the area in intermingled shadows. In the center of this clearing was it’s own circle, of rough irregular stones. 30 feet across, the rectangular stones stood tall for the most part, a good few of them broken and worn down with time. It has stood here for a long time. 

In the center of this circle was a stone, cut and sanded completely flat on one of it’s sides, buried straight up and down in the rock, small piles of stones built around it in three circles. Upon this flat face was carved runes, in a language Rhea had seen a few times before. On the coin weighing down her pocket, or the parchment found in the streets a few moon crossings ago, the ancient language that held the very secrets of kyvalore that she and many of her peers were trying so desperately to decipher. The stone face was covered in this script, all available space taken up by it ordered neatly in rows, clearly a message of some kind. 

What lied at the stone’s center however, shook Rhea to her core. She saw it last, almost as if it hid itself from her until there was absolutely nothing left she could possibly look at. A figure seemed to float above the smooth stone. It was made of shadows. The shadows of the trees, the shadows of the sun, the shadows of the rocks, the shadows of the soul. It was constantly shifting, constantly flowing. It was everything, it was nothing. It was a voxibell for a moment of a second, before twisting and turning, making the form of an avilli a few seconds later. In between these seconds it was everything. After these seconds it was everything else. The only constant of this shifting form was it’s cold white eyes, Round orbs of the purest light and malice, regarding Rhea at the edge of the clearing. 

She felt it then, reaching out to her and Pikk, through her mana. It did not speak, but it was trying to, Rhea could feel the words in the undercurrent of the mana that was brushing up against her own, like the shadow of a fish in the current of a river. It pulled at her, tugged at her magic, but not in a malicious way. In opposition to the intense feeling of dread that filled her, it almost felt gentle. It was guiding her closer, it wanted her in, it wanted her to touch the stone it resided over. Could she? Could she go against every screaming instinct inside of her to get to safety and away from this island? But how could she not? Get so close to this mystery and actually discover what is going on, and just leave?

What would she do?

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Something in Kyvalore stirs.
Want to change what happens next? Check out the current story quest here !

Winter has come to a close, and the season of spring in Kyvalore has begun!

We’ve got a lot of updates with us today so I’m excited to show off what we’ve been working on!

First lets address some game changes we are bringing to Painted Relics!

Quests are now on a seasonal basis instead of monthly. We feel that there are a whole slew of quests that are there to explore with your characters now that there isn’t a need for monthly ones, at least not while our community is small and cozy! This lets us spend less time on writing monthly quests that may not get used, to spending more time on writing and creating content that will expand more of what Painted Relics has to offer!

So updates will still be coming monthly, but basic quests will now only change once a season!

With that in mind, if your character has a location set, then they will receive loot items for that location even on basic seasonal quests now!
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A lot of the site has been undergoing construction as I work to make the site more user friendly, and more representative of the style and feel I want Painted Relics to present!

The biggest of these updates today is to the questboard! The questboard has been completely changed and hopefully this will allow you to locate quests easier and get the details you need to advance your characters in their stories.

https://painted-relics.com/world/prompt-categories
On that questboard you’ll find some interesting new categories as well. Some of them are there as placeholders for quests that will be coming at a later date, such as Wilderness. But some have new things for you to explore now!

We are proud to announce Questlines!
Each location in Kyvalore is limitless in possibilities of what your character can do, but there might be a special adventure in each for you to embark on!

Each location will have a 5 part questline helping the NPCs of that location explore the town and maybe discover something exciting! Each questline will have exclusive rewards, redeem you stat points for your characters and good experience points! They play out a directioned story, where you play the main character. We cant wait to see how your characters react to the quests laid before them!
To accompany these questlines we have new NPCs that have joined the mix!

Titari
Viviana
Dargan
Saffron
Osiris

You can view the questlines for each location directly from the questboard. How convenient!
Each location now has parts 1 and 2 out for their questline, so it’s time to get questing!

That’s not the only new quest in Painted Relics though;
Introducing NPC Quests!
NPC quests are quests given to you by NPCs to fulfill tasks or sometimes item requests! Currently there is only one quest right now so we can test the waters on best methods for handling these quests, but we do intend to add more to the mix! So if you’re sitting on extra food items you aren't sure what to do with, you can look at helping our new NPC Tiyari out in Feeding The Delgu!

https://painted-relics.com/prompts/prompts?prompt_category_id=22
There may be a chance to get a badge exclusive to this quest so why not test your luck with finding the delgu’s favorite foods?

Still looking for more quests to do?
Stay tuned for later this month where the next chapter of Kyvalore’s story is released! All previous story quests will be getting legacy versions, so if you missed a chapter, you will be able to go back and still participate! Your character’s actions no longer vote towards the story of the world, but you will still gain any special items from that quest!
Story Quests will take place once per season and will last from the 15th of the first month of the season, to the 15 of the last month of the season, giving each story quest chapter 2 months for submissions.
This allows me to tally up the results of everyones quests, and write out the next chapter for where the story is taking us!

Due to some technical difficulties, the next part will release the 20th this month!
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You’ll find that the front page now shows off the monthly raffle character below the featured character of the month! This is an easy quick link for those looking to enter in for the raffle each month.
With that in mind, a beautifully colored avilli by our lovely Sadbloom is up for raffle for the month of march! You can submit entries for raffle tickets up until the last day of march and the winner will be drawn in the first week of April!

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Shops have been updated with new stock for the month! Both the Pet Shop and Rhea’s Scavenging have a collection of new things in stock!

Speaking of shops, looks like one of our new NPCs opened her shop in Everdenn!
We now have Savory & Sweets open for your basic cooking recipe needs!
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And lastly, but definitely not least, celebrating our community!

Our member of the month this month is Seagull ! Seagull has been a member of Painted Relics for over half a year and they have always been consistently interactive, encouraging, and a delightful member of our little community!

Our featured gallery has a few more entries so be sure to take a peak at the beautiful art our community makes.

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As always, thank you from the bottom of my heart for being here! I know we are still learning and growing, and sometimes being a new ARPG that is testing a lot of features is hard! I appreciate every one of you for your time, effort, and friendship! I wouldn't be able to build this little community without you.

Unfortunately this isn't the beginning of the month announcement I was hoping to make at this time! The server that our site is hosted on has been experiencing significant slowdowns which is preventing me from comfortably being able to finish loading in everything for the update! I've waited around a bit to see if it would get better but so far it is still giving me lots of trouble. The full monthly update will have to be postponed to tomorrow and hopefully by then our hosting service will have everything in order so I can load everything in as needed!

(You will notice somethings are rolled over already, such as some quests which are still functional! So you should be able to start submitting the new quests if you feel so inclined!)

Time for a scavenger hunt!

There are 8 prizes hidden across the site, and you have until midnight PST on February the 28th to find them!

You'll find the first clue on the scavenger hunt page, good luck and happy hunting!

February Heart Hunt

Happy new month kyvalorians!

This month we are excited to show off some things that we've been working on behind the scenes in order to celebrate more of the community and give the best experience to the game that we can.

As always, all prompts have been rolled over to the new ones! You'll find some lovely on theme prompts to draw or write your kyvalorians in!

https://painted-relics.com/world/prompt-categories

With prompts in mind, magic quests have gotten adjusted from various feedback, and now better structure and reward you accordingly!

I know that this month was supposed to be the next story quest, but I am working on restructuring a bit of how story quests work after our last split quest gave me some ideas on how to make it easier for both players and mods to manage and track! Stay tuned, the next story quest will be coming out in March!

I hear that now is the perfect time to work on your magic training for your characters though! Seems like it might come in handy very soon...

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We wouldn't be a growing ARPG community without you here, so going forward we will now be picking a member each month to celebrate! This member will be picked by the staff, and will receive a little giftbox, as well as being featured on our newly remodeled front page!

For our very first member of the month, we are recognizing Kurosul. For her wonderfully friendly attitude and presence in our community. She's quick to welcome new members on the discord, and brings a positive atmosphere to our lovely little group!

Congrats Kuro!

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Our frontpage has gotten completely revamped! There's still a few quicklinks on the page if you were used to using that page to navigate the site, the rest of the links are still found within the navbar!
With the remodeled page we get to show off more of Painted Relics and the community that makes it up.
https://painted-relics.com/

You'll find a few interesting things on that page, such as a featured gallery section.
This gallery is curated by our wonderful staff. Each month staff will pick a few pieces that have been submitted to the gallery and move them to the featured section. Each artist or writer that gets their work featured will receive 50 bonus shards for each piece of work that gets featured!

In order to be considered to be in the featured gallery, you'll need to submit your art into the gallery. For each submission to the gallery that is more then just a sketch, you will redeem 5 bonus shards though, so even if you're work isn't featured, it's still worth it to submit all that art!

All existing art in the gallery will be handed out backpay for your submissons! I'll be going through all the submissions and rewarding these tomorrow, so please have patience!

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Athalie's Pet Shop seems to have some new things in stock this month, and I'm not sure I've seen a loxdrin of that color before...


There are a few February exclusive pets in the pet shop! Athalie also seems to have gotten some remaining mirassel eggs from the winter market before they left town, there's not many so it's limit 1 per person, but you can pick up a mirassel this month for shards!

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And last but not least, who doesnt love a raffle?
We have a new design up for the month of February, fitting very well into the theme!

Marbled Valentine!

You can earn raffle tickets for Marbled Valentine from now until the last day of the month!

Ways to earn raffle tickets:

-Share this post HERE on twitter(Max 1)
-Draw Marbled Valentine! (Up to 3 entries)

By drawing the character for the raffle you are donating the art to go to the winner of the raffle. If you are not okay with this, please do not enter the art portion of this raffle.

Winner will be drawn on the first of March. Good Luck!

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I hope everyone has a lovely February in Kyvalore and as always, I cannot wait to see all the lovely things you create!

Hi! This should hopefully only be staff veiwable!

The season of autumn draws to a close and the colder weather, biting winds, and even snow in most parts of Kyvalore have begun to settle in. Some Kyvalorians use this time of year to focus on themselves and their family, in a way using the warmth of heart and home to fight off the chill of the season.

It's officially December, and with that another month of exciting news and updates.

With the holiday season upon us, it's time for a mini event! For the month of December, all the way until January 15^th you'll be able to redeem all quests for either shards or winter essence! Please make sure you let us know which one you are redeeming for in your entry!
A traveling caravan will be arriving to the shopping district on December 10^th that only trades in winter essence. So you have time to start saving up before the caravan arrives. I heard they will be trading winter essence for some interesting goods that arent found any other time of the year.
I wonder if thats how you can get all of the winter traits that are up on the encyclopedia now...

Check Out These Traits!

Another important note is it's the first day of the December Adopt Advent! We've got some wonderful guest artists joining us for the advent and I'm so excited to share all the wonderful designs they've been working on.

For day one however is a raffle! This raffle will close at the end of December and the winner will be drawn in the New Year!

Enchanting Hearth Voxibell

This voxibell is wise beyond his years and is already a fully trained Fire Mage!

There are several ways to enter the raffle and each entry gets you 1 Raffle Ticket!

Share a post on Twitter or dA about Painted Relics! This can be a post about sharing the advent, the winter event, or just general advertising the ARPG! (Max of once a week per site!)

Invite a friend! Once that friend joins the site you both can enter in here for a rafle ticket!

Draw or write a Painted Relics related gift for another Painted Relics member (max of 3!). This cannot be commissioned work or fulfill the requirements of another prompt. This is purely from the kindness of your heart. :)

You'll be able to claim your tickets through the prompt here:
Enchanted Hearth Voxibell Raffle


This isn't all for the winter festivities either. It seems whomever arrives on that caravan might also be stirring up something else on the 10^th... Guess we'll just have to wait and see.


A few other minor things to note unrelated to the winter festivities are:

The Design Update Token!

You can find this token for sale now in the General Store!
This is a token that lets you update the design of an existing character and change up its markings, colors, or patterns.
Please keep in mind this token is not for overhauling a character into another design as the design must still stay true to it's original feel. If you are unsure about a design update, just ask! :)


The Hallow Shop is now closed. Fang and Bone will return next year for more Autumn goodies. If you have remaining Hallow corn, you'll be able to spend it when the shop comes back around next Autumn.

It also seems the season of the moth avilli is over, and moth potions are done for the season! They will return next year in September for the autumn months!

Get ready to collect daily rewards, the advent calander is open now till the 25th!

https://painted-relics.com/advent-calendars/5


Thank you all as always for the wonderful community you help create by being here. I know it's a busy month for most so regardless if you are here and active with us, or busy with friends or family, or life in general, I wish you all the happiest of holidays, the merriest of months, and a wonderful new year!

https://painted-relics.com/advent-calendars/5