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This is a Legacy Act. Specific requirements must be met to submit to this act. Please visit the Legacy Quests and Acts section of our Prompt Archive to see if an older deviantart act submission is elligible to be used here.

For details on what Acts are and what they're used for then please visit the Questing Guide.

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Depict your elnin appreciating their hometown. Perhaps they still live there, and they stop to admire the reliable old bridge that bears them over the local river every day. What does their home look like? Are there any features of the land or buildings that they think of fondly? Do they have a secret place or a favorite haunt? If they've moved away from home, oftentimes a place where they grew up will still hold a special place in their heart. You may choose to complete the act as a memory of earlier times, perhaps a depiction of your kittomhood home, or the places they liked to play growing up.

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Fun-loving elnins who aren't afraid of a bit of cold often gather in Strynhalde's snowy fields on a nice day for a little fun. There's nothing quite like making a tightly packed ball of snow and hurling it at friends and loved ones. Depict your elnin having some fun in a snowball fight defeating their enemies with the weapons of the frozen wilds!

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The elnins of Enmir enjoy telling many a story about marsh monsters lurking in the murky waters or behind the veils of drooping willows, ready to pounce on an unsuspecting passerby. Of course, to the wiser generation, these are just stories to tell children at night to keep them from roaming too deep into the marshes. Show your elnin braving the marsh monster myth and summarily debunking it. What do they find? Is it a friend that's fallen into some swamp muck and reeds or just a pile of branches with a particularly foreboding silhouette? There is no real monster, but what fright could have sparked the imagination?

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In every town, there's always one or two abandoned homes or buildings that can't help but be shrouded in a bit of mystique. Stories revolve around these empty places, people tend to avoid them, no one wants to go through the trouble of tearing them down and so, they sit, collecting dust and rumors alike. Depict your elnin exploring one of these long-abandoned spaces hidden within the town. Does your elnin need to be careful of crumbling floors? Are they frightened of local superstitions? What do they find in this forgotten place?

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Does your elnin have a particular phobia? Are they perhaps afraid of deep water, creepy crawlies, or soaring heights? Something else horrible? Depict your elnin deliberately facing down a fear of theirs. The world is full of perils that everyone has to overcome, and your elnin can't let their own fears hold them back. How else will they rise to greatness!

(Daevas [previously shylldra] should be avoided here. The visual guide for Eyre's "big bads" should be coming down the pipeline shortly, but we're hoping to steer away from things that are excessively life-threatening/immediately lethal in this Act!)

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The forests of Silveil are a strange and wondrous place, brimming with bioluminescent flora and fauna with a myriad of fascinating properties. You've been asked to retrieve a particular mystical mushroom from within the Shimmerwood for an aspiring potion-maker. Unfortunately, you're a little fuzzy on the details after the long trek out, and as you find yourself scouring the unfamiliar forests for a particular fungus among a thousand or more other similar fungi, you face a dilemma. You couldn't possibly come back empty-handed could you? I mean all these mushrooms probably do similar things right? The Shimmerwood is supposed to be relatively safe to forage, and by all accounts, these mushrooms shouldn't be deadly poisonous... Why don't you just pick one and see what happens when you eat it. Yeah, that's the ticket. Depict your elnin eating a mushroom to see if it's the correct type that their client wants and the resulting effect. Does it have the desired result? Or does something unexpected happen to your elnin?

The client wants a mushroom that, when consumed, causes an individual to become attractive to a particular species of glowworm. Should your elnin choose the correct mushroom, the effect would cause a ring of happy little glowing worm friends to poke up from the dirt around them. An 'incorrect' choice should be one of the following:

• Your elnin perceives Silveil as experiencing an inexplicable sunrise, the colors of a dawning morning spreading through the evernight.
• Your elnin momentarily shrinks to the size of a bug, the mushrooms that were underfoot a moment before suddenly looming above them.
• Your elnin begins to burp butterflies or moths.
• Your elnin views the world in disorienting shapes and colors (style a section of your piece after cubism or a similar surrealistic style).
• Your elnin is visited by little green men (yes, aliens).

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You find a map on the wall of some local tavern pointing to the famously perilous stormlands of northern Ahza and a big help wanted stamp on an open request for deliveries of storm glass. You've heard of storm glass. Once in awhile a lightning strike will ignite a dense pocket of mana and instantly crystallize it into a very rare form of anima. You can't find this material anywhere else on Eyre, the lightning is special there somehow. Or was it the storm clouds? Something like that, you're not quite sure. In any case. Show your elnin helping this mystery person by retrieving some of these rare shards from the stormlands. Caution, lightning does strike twice in these areas!

The stormlands are in a constant state of precipitation. Whether it's a soft shower or a full-blown storm, it must always be somewhat rainy and cloudy. Storm glass comes in various shades of violet, or can also be partially encased in a crumbly/brittle mineral that looks somewhat like sand or bone.

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What does your little elnin want to do when they grow up? How does this affect them? Have they apprenticed themselves with another elnin? Do they spend time stealthily observing other folks at work? Do they carry around sticks swinging them heroically at every passerby? Show your elnin preparing themselves for their bright future.

If you did the old "Prologue" journey prompt and the art is already in the quest folder (prior to December 12, 2019)  then you may use that as credit for this quest for the elnin you used. You can claim the AP for it as well long as the region you're requesting fits with the art you submitted.

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What does your elnin do for a living? What does an average day in their profession look like? Depict your elnin at work carrying out their daily occupational tasks. Perhaps show them doing a favorite part of their job, or else having a moment of reflection during their work if they're currently doing something they don't find especially fulfilling or enjoyable.

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Many elnins pick up a habit of hoarding "precious treasures". Does your elnin have a collection of some sort? Do they collect actual treasure or have they become attached to things that are of... honestly questionable value [ie, items that any sane individual would consider junk]. How do they take care of their collection? Is it proudly displayed in their home, or kept safe in a hidden chest somewhere out of sight?

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Each region in Eyre is home to a single unique Elder Tree, a colossal wonder of nature immense enough to house an entire sprawling city in its boughs. Elder Trees are said to spring from the roots of Yggdrasil itself, and that they bind the world of Eyre together to keep the fractured lands from floating apart and being lost in the Boundless. These trees have special meaning for the entire elnin race, a connection rooted deeply in their affinity for mana. Depict your elnin visiting a shrine dedicated to that region's tree (try including the tree itself somewhere in the backdrop). These shrines can take many forms, sometimes they are simple things found in the wild, stones carved with images of the region's tree or small wild gardens hung with charms and offering bowls. In the bigger towns there are often carefully tended and decorated trees, miniature likenesses of their elder counterpart, surrounded by offerings from the locals.

For this Act, please consider Yggdrasil as Ealei's Elder Tree. This Act may be difficult to complete at this time, as we do not currently have comprehensive visual guides for individual elder trees. Please see the Map of Eyre for a small cue for each region's tree and feel free to ask questions if you would like more details. We will update this Act with more information as soon as we can!

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Uh oh, one of the local kittoms has run off again and gotten lost. Depict your elnin retrieving the youngling from whatever strife they've gotten themselves into [What's that Lassie? Have they fallen down the well?]. Feel free to use a kittom you own as the lost kiddo, or someone else's if you have their permission.

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How and when did your elnin's pomu first appear? Was it a surprise? Depict your elnin seeing their lifelong friend for the very first time.

[Lore] Pomu : Elnin familiars.

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Feyfolk permeates the wilds throughout the far reaches of Eyre. Many elnins look to the fae for blessings throughout the year, but some try a bit harder than others to angle for specific things. To start out, most would seek a faerie ring (typically a circle of mushrooms but it could be a circle made of anything natural- butterflies, stones, bones, different plants, etc). Once found, tradition suggests you silently leave your gift within the ring and then depart. What does your elnin offer to the fae to get their message across without speaking? Depict your elnin offering something that relates to the sort of blessing they would like to receive. For example, if your elnin would like increased field production, perhaps they offer a very tasty crop or a pile of dirt? [Of course, you should probably be careful, who knows if offering dirt will send the right message...]

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Elenion' faerie shrouds are highly sought after for their beauty and vibrant colors. In fact, there are even special festivals revolving around this regional treasure that are held throughout the year and are popular with tourists and locals alike. At these festivals, you can pick your own flowers and have them enchanted by the visiting druids to preserve them in an almost timeless state for many many years. Your elnin has gathered their own bouquet of these delicate prizes during one such festival. What do they do with their arrangement? Do they aim for a classic floral decoration and preserve them in a vase? Nothing like a long-lasting splash of color to liven your home! Or do they arrange them with something more deliberate in mind? A flower crown for a friend? A simple hair adornment? Perhaps a draping floral boa to compliment a favorite cape. Depict your elnin with their finished faerie shroud creation!

Contains a few inspirational images for faerie shroud visuals: [link], but any type of hanging flowers in bright multi-colors are fine!

This prompt can be tweaked to instead have your elnin create a similarly preserved item from the iconic red/gold/orange flora found in the Bellmoril region, this time aided by local wizards who are particularly proud of their home region's signature foliage.

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The local crops are ripening up nicely and you can't wait to cook up your favorite meal using them! The problem is you're missing a key ingredient... Second problem, the only elnin nearby that produces it is very grouchy and doesn't like to share! How does your elnin go about procuring the ingredient? Do they haggle? Maybe win the farmer over with their charms? Or do they sneak into the field like a naughty hobbit and attempt to covertly acquire this prized morsel... Show your elnin solving this obviously serious problem [make sure to include the ingredient they're after in the image as well!].

This act is typical of [☼ Faerindell] but you may adjust it to suit other regions if you make sure that the ingredient you're after is appropriate for the region you're in!

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[🔷 This is an Advanced Act]

Occasionally when an elnin achieves a certain level of spiritual awareness [sometimes intentionally, sometimes by accident] they can experience a special type of vision, a visitation from an otherworldly or fantastical version of themselves. Some say these phantasms are reflections of their soul in some alternate world, made visible by opening the mind's eye to other realities. Others say they're a representation of one facet of an elnin's inner self, a projection from the subconscious. In any case, these visions only occur when an elnin is in a state of heightened spiritual awareness, generally whilst in a secluded or otherwise peaceful place [so probably not in the middle of a busy street]. Depict your elnin having one such vision. What does this other self look like and how do they react to it?

Let your imagination run free on this one! Guidelines on what your peculiar self should look like are fairly open as long as they're fantastical in nature [just please keep things PG, no gore/nudity/franchise characters]. If your elnin is experiencing the vision as they are attuning to nature, you could theme it appropriately: a mer-form for an ocean voyage or a graceful dryad if they're meditating in the deep woods. You could also theme it on faerie lore, or perhaps this alternate form is monstrous? Just remember that this isn't true shapeshifting, these are personal visions, and the phantasms should not interact with the environment or be visible to other creatures.

IMPORTANT! If you choose to use another CS/adopt for this act, it cannot be used to fulfil the noble mini-requirement of having your elnin interact with a human or elseworld creature, as this act treats them as a vision and not another creature separately.

This act also makes for a nice followup to the "Pilgrimage" act I think!

Notes

• The vision /otherworldly visitor should be fantastical creatures or plants minimally (not humans/generic options like average earthy plants and animals).
• If the vision is an existing CS, then you'll need permission from the CS creator to allow them in World of Eyre. Proof of permission to use the species in World of Eyre or a screenshot of the species' TOS stating the species' character can be used in outside settings should be provided upon submitting your piece to the website. If the character is a species that you have personally created you may include them in your submission, but the group will need written permission for other individuals to use your CS in World of Eyre submissions. (For a short list of species that have granted permission to multiple users see the "General Prompt Guidelines" FAQ section.) In an effort to be respectful and to keep elnins from potentially disrupting other groups, please do not submit your "Berry Bazaar" ARPG art to other CS galleries. This is especially true for CS such as Esk, which have a very insular universe and we don't want to step on any toes. Basically treat this is an alternate universe experience for any outside CS that you bring to Eyre just to be safe.
• One-off designs that are not a part of an Open Species/Semi-Open Species/Closed Species may be used within the World of Eyre setting. While we will not be requesting proof for these characters to be used in prompts, we encourage users to check the TOS of the artist who created the one-off design to make sure the artist’s TOS will not be broken if used in the World of Eyre setting.
• If you choose to use another CS/adopt for this act, it cannot be used to fulfil the noble mini-requirement of having your elnin interact with a human or elseworld creature, as this act treats them as a vision and not another creature separately.
• Please do not reference any franchise characters, cosplays, and so forth (no Pokémon, Final Fantasy, etc)!

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[🔷 This is an Advanced Act]

Royal elnins are developing the ability to help other elnins balance and focus their natural mana. Presently, Laurent [ELN021] has made himself available for this and does not request payment for his time. The Stygian King performs mana harmonization through destruction - namely of pots, candles, lamps, and so on. It's currently theorized that the pacification of Laurent's pomu-curse through violence also has a curious harmonizing effect on nearby elnins. Who'd have guessed? Depict your elnin with Laurent [cursed pomu/sword is optional], out in the world somewhere terrorizing the fine china or other invitingly destructible objects. Do items and coins really pop out or is that just a myth?

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