Frostfall Festival

Happy Frostfall Festival! The xyns of Lunerest are getting used to the chilly weather! There's lots of snow and ice around during this time, so many snow/ice-sculpting contests are held! Xyns take great pride in their art, and there's competitions with wonderful prizes throughout the month. Xyns also celebrate the falling of new snow by having get-togethers and singing songs. Sometimes xyns will leave offerings for the snow gods on top of huge mountains! However, during the winter months, the wilds get more dangerous. There's predators looking to prey on xyns during this time so xyns are extra vigilant to bring trained guards when going out!

 Get to this prompt by selecting Play > Prompts > Event Prompts!

crystalnight ball Continues

[Prompt continues through January 31.]

Your xyn has been invited to the first ever Crystalnight Ball! Xyns gather from all over Lunerest to dance and party the nights away. Not only are xyns there to make new friends or meet up with old friends from far away; xyns look for romance, business partners and whisper secrets among each other. Everyxyn is adorned in jewelry, crystals and ribbons and there are tons of performances by different xyns. There's group moonbathing, dancing and even attendance from the queens and other royalty. The ball is also heavily guarded since corruption beasts tend to be more active during the wintry months.

Draw your xyn attending the Crystalnight Ball. Are they making new connections? Meeting up with old ones? Partying? Maybe they're on guard duty?

There is also a contest attached to this prompt for best-dressed where the 1st place prize is a new enchanted artifact!

[This is probably our most complex prompt yet so please be sure to read everything carefully if you plan to participate!]

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 nEW tRAITS

Limited Xyn Traits:

Crenate Ears: Your xyn has droopy ears with curves at the bottom!
Celestine Shatter: Parts of your xyn are overtaken by celestine energy! This trait can overlay or completely replace body parts.

New Enchanted Accessories:

Enchanted Tome: Gives your character a book that magically floats nearby.

In addition to Revel's Shop update, Isis Moonstone Shop, Sprinkle's Resource Exchange and Calliope's Treasures has been rotated!

January 2025 raffle!

This month's design is the Snowxyn moxyn! This raffle runs through January 31st.

Get to the raffle prompt by going to World -> Prompts -> Raffles category

A reminder that users can participate in creating raffle designs in exchange for moonstones and special traits! Find the rules under the "Raffle Design Creation" prompt by going to World -> Prompts -> General Prompts category.

lunerest ko-fi memberships

Join to get monthly moonstones, event currency and a special monthly goodie bag at the highest tier!
See the membership tiers HERE

Staff changes

nopalrabbit will be stepping down from the mod team!
thank you so much, nopal for all of the hard work and support over the years!!!!
we have nopal to thank for so much site art like the bugs, bases and shop images as well as the outline we use for the news post every month!!!!

other stuff / Dev log

(written by key)

HELLO!!!! Wow it's been a really intense year full of changes for me but I'm finally starting to settle into my new life here and I have PLANS!!!!
Full transparency/disclosures ahead whee

-I'm going to try to even out the limited traits available per festival, that means some festivals are going to get MORE traits than others and some won't be getting new traits at all! (Gemheart Faire, for example, has the max amount of potions I want to have so it won't be getting any new traits this year.)

-MORE random lore drops even on things I don't think people will care about x"D Some I have planned are illnesses, social quirks, knight lore...

-MORE GA designs

-Events that last more than one month so I have time to not just work on Lunerest 100% of my free time x"D

-Faefolk exclusive events (first one coming up in Feburary)

And uhh that's about it!!!! For now!! I do have a pile of unfinished projects I want to do (pokes Lunerestian zodiacs with a stick) but I don't think I'll have time to finish those up this year...we shall see
I just wanted to say thank you!!!!!! SO MUCH!!!!!!! to everyone who plays Lunerest!!!! It was just a dinky little passion project on Deviantart at one point that only my friends really played and now there's... SO MANY OF YOU!!! AND I'VE MADE SO MANY NEW FRIENDS!!!!!! AND I AM ETERNALLY GRATEFUL, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!

I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO ANOTHER AMAZING YEAR OF LUNEREST WITH YOU ALL!!!!! MOONS GUIDE YOU!!!!!

xoxoxo-key❤