Aurorite Ore Mysteriously Appearing at Celestial Pools

Skylar looks out at the Adventurers and their pets as they expertly gather and fish around the Celestial Pools and hunt for a path up to the Peaktop. They look up at the Aurora filled sky with determination and set their sites on the Peak of the mountain itself.

"The Adventurers are really trying their best aren't they Hop?" Skylar commented optimistically to their froggy companion, "I can just feel we are getting closer to finding the path to the top."

Hop bounced up and down with excitement, a series of croaky chirps burst from it in agreement to Skylar's statement, handing them a gathering pouch from its recent haul exploring the pools.

"Oh, what is this?" Skylar poured out the contents of the bag onto the floor:
     

"Huh, I don't think I have seen this Ore show up in the Celestial Pools before...." Skylar picked it up and examined it, the colors flashing and reflecting the Aurora in the sky, "I seem to recall this has always been found in the Eerie Caves, but now it seems to be showing up here in the waterways, I wonder if it has anything to do with the superchill?"

"Keep exploring Celestial Pools adventurers, and hold onto this Aurorite Ore, it seems like there are more mysteries ahead of us!"

A Winter Harvest At The Berry Trees

Flora tucked her hands under her arms as she traversed the forest toward the Great Berry Tree. Even with gloves, it was almost too cold! But she simply needed to make the trek out to examine the magnificent Berry Tree. She wouldn't be able to rest until she was sure that the winter chill sweeping Santae had not brought it any harm.

After a short hike, the Berry Tree's familiar broad trunk came into view. Its crown was draped with heaps of fluffy white snow, making a few branches bend perilously toward the ground, but none were broken. Flora breathed a sigh of relief. Everything seemed to be fine!

In fact...maybe better than fine? A few strange shapes were visible, nestled into the snowy branches.

They were new berries! Flora delicately plucked one of each to examine them more closely. They were cold to the touch and tingling with the telltale sensation of magic.

Excited by her discovery, Flora decided to visit the Shadow Berry Tree. If the magical winter chill had caused the Great Berry Tree to bear new fruit, would the Shadow Tree have been affected the same way?

The Shadow Berry Tree's dark bark was covered in patches of ice, and its branches also bore a burden of snow. But sure enough, just a little searching was enough to turn up never-before-seen fruits among its snow-dusted leaves.

Flora was thrilled! Thanks to the care and tending of the Adventurers, both Berry Trees were full of enough life to bear fruit during any season. This magical winter harvest was just one more proof of that!

It seems like some of these berries have a hidden avatar associated with them, can you find out how to unlock them?

Daily Event Questing Difficulties and Rewards Revision

After initial user feedback regarding the Daily Event Quest difficulties, we have repealed the difficulty types for the duration of the Winterlight Festival. Starting at 00:00:00SST 21st December, the new round of daily event quests will only be our Ranger Difficulty (easy) and award one (1) Winterlight Machine Token for completion. These quests will be a random assortment from the Ranger quests available for each user.

The decision to keep these on an easy difficulty is to both make sure that WT market does not become over saturated, and to ensure it is still reasonable for all of our users to accomplish most tasks every day. We will review the rewards pool and return to varying difficulty quests after the Winterlight Aurora subsides. We will continue to receive feedback around the daily quests as we progress through the Story of Santae.

TL;DR

• ★  Aurorite Ore is now showing up in the Celestial pools Gathering and Fishing, better hang onto it!
• ★ New Berries begin to appear on the Berry Trees for Foraging.
• ★ Two new Hidden Avatars are released.
• ★ In response to user feedback, Daily Quests have been returned to Ranger Difficulty (Easy) only until the conclusion of
• Winterlight Festival on the 12th January.
• ★ These Daily Quests are still random for each user, and the difficulty will change to Ranger site-wide at reset tonight.
• ★  Discord Patch Note: Quenaris orb drop rates have been adjusted so that you will receive no more after having a certain
• number on your account. Drop Rates for those with none or a few will remain the same, as long as your shrine is active.



Difficulties Implemented into Daily Quests!

Upon reset at midnight, daily quests will now pull from a pool of quests that task and difficulty! Each adventurer will randomly be assigned six daily quests to complete for the day. 

Each quest type will not be duplicated, meaning if you get a ranger level quest that requires you to beat Silvershade at Checkers once, you will not be assigned a hunter, sentinel or apex level quest requiring you to beat Silvershade at Checkers additional times.

The difficulty of each quest is randomly assigned, but you will always have two Ranger quests, two Hunter quests, one Sentinel quest and one Apex quest every day. Regardless of the difficulty of the quest, adventurers will be awarded one (1) Winterlight Token for their efforts.

Your daily quest will be different from your fellow adventurer's quests, so be sure to take note of which quests you've been assigned to complete before setting off! 

Happy Winterlight <3

A Surprise Present!

Best wishes to all adventurers this Winterlight season with plenty of warm cookies fresh from the oven, cuddling with minimals in front of the fire, and lots of exciting adventures all around!

We hope you are enjoying the festivities -- HAPPYWINTERLIGHT !!

You may find that redeeming this code provides you with a fun present...

Be sure to redeem this code before it expires: 23:59 SST on 31 December, 2024!

Revamped Candies and Ice Cream!

Some of Lylia's sweet candies have gotten a new look with refreshed art!
It seems Bastion snuck in a renewed batch of ice cream, too. 

Can your pet resist these delectable new sweets? Probably not -- best to swing by Lollipop's Candy Shop to pick some up today! The best dessert after a meal of sweets is, of course, ice cream from Luminary Ice Cream! 

TL;DR

★ Event Quests now have four levels of difficulty.
★ Each person has six unique daily quests that reset at midnight.
★ Of the six quests, two of them will be Ranger (easy), two Hunter (medium), one Sentinel (hard) and Apex (epic).
★ Regardless of difficulty, each quest completed will award one Winterlight Token each. 
★ HAPPYWINTERLIGHT code redeemable until 23:59 SST on 31 December, 2024.
★ Revamped art for three candies and one ice cream. 

Discover A Path To The Peaktop

Skylar sat on the snowy floor of the Celestial Peaks township with Hop, contemplating another of the Winterlight Machine Tokens they had received from Icelyn's new Daily Quests.

"Jasper said the tokens started appearing at the same time as the Aurora, right?" Skylar said, holding out the smooth, cold coin to their Quibbit companion.

Hop tilted their head with curiosity and tapped the coin with a synthwave-webbed forearm, letting out a bubbly coo of agreement.

"Which, is also right when the weather got so cold... starting this Winter! I'm sure this is all connected. Vespera must be right -- I need to go check the summit of the Peaks!"

"Adventurers! I need your help. Summiting the Celestial Peaks is no joke -- there's no clear trail that goes all the way to the top. But I'm sure if we work together, we can find a way to reach the Peaktop!

"Will you go Gathering at the Celestial Pools to examine the area for a usable path?

"Keep your eye out for more of those strange tokens while you're exploring, too!"

Community Event: Gather At The Celestial Pools

The path to the Peaktop is long, Adventurers, and Skylar needs your help to discover a safe way up to further investigate the mystery of the Luffins. You can help find the path by Gathering and Fishing at the Celestial Pools as much as you can!

A Community Tally of Gathering and Fishing expeditions will track how much information Adventurers have been able to gather about the path to the Peaktop. The higher this number climbs, the better. Your goal is to explore as much as possible before December 23rd 20:00:00 to help Skylar find the Celestial Peaktop.

Gathering and Fishing at the Celestial Peaks will also help you complete rewarding Personal Goals while Skylar is navigating the Celestial Peaks! You will also be able to progress through four difficulty levels of personal goals.

If you complete these Fishing and Gathering expeditions for your personal goals, you'll be rewarded with various prizes, such as the magical Thistletoe and Winterlight Machine Tokens, Winterlight Capsules and a Trophy!

Remember, you can collect one Token for free each day from your Daily Beta Reward and up to five more though Icelyn's Daily Quests.

The Winterlight Trophy will be awarded to everyone who participates in one part of any portion of the event.

More Fishing and Plants being discovered across Santae

As the winter snows and cool wind set in over Santae, is seems there are still many Plants and Fish that are thriving despite the superchill. This might be thanks to all that fishing up of trash the Adventurers have been doing across the globe. As you go out gathering and fishing around Santae you might find your brings are bringing in new items for your collections. 

With the help of everyone, our waters are clearing and more fish are returning to our shores! 

It also seems like one of these new plants has an associated Hidden Avatar, can you find it?