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 going to Play -> Prompts -> Event Prompts 

Legendseekers part 1: the moons wane

This year, we're doing a multi-part, lore-heavy prompt chain called Legendseekers.

Legendseekers will be a series of prompts that happen every 2 months this year. There will be a long-standing story that your xyn follows! You must use the same xyn for the entirety of Legendseekers. Each section will disappear after two months and your xyn must have completed the previous prompt to continue the story. You may only complete these prompts once per user. There will be a difficult catch-up mechanic at the end of the series of prompts. 

Each prompt will get a custom roleplayed response when approved, please keep these secret until the next Legendseekers prompt comes out!!!! You'll be able to share once the next prompt is revealed. This will transfer to every Legendseekers prompt in the future, so for Legendseekers part 2, you wouldn't be able to share roleplay responses until Legendseekers part 3 comes out but you're free to share the information you got from Legendseekers part 1!

Your xyn's choices and actions will have an impact on the overall story.

The prompt kicks off with the first prompt: The Moons Wane. Two of Lunerest's moons seem to be losing power and the queens cannot find a solution. Your xyn has been called upon to help!

Check out the prompt under Play -> Prompts -> Event Prompts category

This prompt has a lot of writing/requirements as well as branching paths so please be sure to read the prompt thoroughly!!!!

new Trait tier + traits(+?)

Suneater's Curse didn't really fit well into the "Majesty" trait category so we're introducing the Mythos trait tier! This is reserved for extremely rare traits with multiple effects like the Suneater's Curse.
Along with that we're introducing Moonstricken, you can read more about it on the Illnesses and Afflictions page! It will be rarely obtainable via Legendseekers.

New rare traits for vexyn and pixyn!

Serrated Fangs are now available to vexyn via rare trait sticker.
No Antennae are now available to pixyn via rare trait sticker.

There are also new trait potions mixed into the prize pools for Legendseekers that I won't announce here, but you can sniff around the encyclopedia if you're curious!!!!
There are also new companions mixed into the Legendseekers pool, more items may or may not be added into the loot pools with new prompts.

faefolk mounts

Faefolk are getting a new companion type this year, mounts! They'll be worth more currency than normal companions when drawn with your faefolk. You'll be able to find mounts for sale in Patchwork's Shop! There will be new mounts for each season this year. The winter mount is the Rime Beast!!!!

More information on the individual mounts is on their encyclopedia entries!

Faefolk aren't as good as getting around as xyns- they have less magic, stamina and aren't very fast with their little legs. Faefolk are very in tune with nature so they're easily able to tame and communicate with the fauna of Etoille! Intense tack for mounts isn't popular and they're treated with utmost respect. 

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

January 2026 raffle!

This month's design is Diamond Graffiti by gray! This raffle runs through January 31!!!!

Get to the raffle prompt by going to Play -> 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 / Patreon Bonuses

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

Dev Log

^by 11hr!

Happy New Year, Lunerestians!!!! I am so grateful to every one of you!!!! Lunerest has grown bigger than I could ever imagine and I'm eternally grateful for you all that like to participate in my world!!

This year, I will be focusing on lore, site improvements and lore-heavy events as evidenced by Legendseekers. There will be less new traits and items, but I'm hoping that the lore and site features more than make up for it!!!! (there may also be some unannounced items as prizes in some of the loot pools of Legendseekers...👀) I will be compiling lore and adding a lore rolodex where you can click links to find lore. I'll be releasing more lore and lore pages and hopefully this year we'll be upgrading to Lorekeeper v3!! There will likely be site downtime when we look to switch so the advent calendar might be a bit wonky. We will definitely announce the planned downtime!

I probably won't be doing adopts every month like I used to and will just do sales when I feel like it!!!!

I've dipped my toes into making games like Sparkle Derby and will be focusing more time/effort into that this coming year. 

There will likely be reruns of old events this year alongside Legendseekers. I hope you all enjoy what I've cooked up and I look forward to another excellent year of Lorenerest, I mean, Lunerest. 
See if you can guess the monthly plushie theme this year ;D lol.

THANKS EVERYONE!!!!!
Love,
key

happy year of the fire horse!!!! 🔥