Despite the chill of the night and the impending darkness of Cylus, Zi’da is a season filled with celebration and hope. The chill of the night air brings families together before a warm fire to tell stories. Various traditions have developed over time with emphasis on family including the lighting of special heritage candles, gathering in temples to offer thanks to patron Immortals, great feasts, and the occasional exchange of thoughtful gifts. Periods of time, or a single night, are spent honoring this idea of unity, friendship, and family.
Parents tuck their children into bed the night before these celebrations with promises of sweets and trinkets to play with come morning. It is this hope that has crafted some of the most enchanting stories about one beautiful, generous woman. These stories have multiplied over arcs with little agreement on how she looked and acted. It was the children that helped give her life. Their dreams portrayed in image of a young woman decorated with bright baubles and theatrical jewelry. She had glittering eyes that shined with life, and her face always carried a smile. She was capable of casting magic that appeared as glitter dust from her palms. Ponies, dancers, soldiers, and various other magical things would be made from this glitter dust, dancing around the scenes the young dreamers made.
Jesine, the mortalborn of Imagination, Dreams, and Sleep, took a particular interest in these dreams each arc. As time progressed, she could not help but desire this woman to walk with her among the dreams. Jesine dreamed that, together, they would be able to encourage togetherness, kindness, and peace across Idalos for a short time each year. With each dream she watched, she began to form a better idea as to what this creature would look like.
Myths of Saoire’s creation has circulated throughout Idalos. One thing is for certain: She is a humanoid creation of Emea that is capable of entering the physical world for a short time each arc. Sightings of her are spoken of during Zi’da. She is a thin woman with pale skin. Her hair is always neatly tucked up beneath a crown that changes with each appearance. Sometimes, her head is adorned with glistening orbs of varying colors or small parcels that she will take down to give to a small child. Other times, the bristles of the fir tree branches are decorated with red holly berries, vibrant fruits, and pinecones. Her arrival to an area is always accompanied by the smell of warmth, spices, and juniper. She is quick to arrive and quick to disappear, providing gifts and wisdom to those that she visits.
Once the celebrations come to an end, Saoire steals herself back to Emea to watch the mortals of Idalos - her children - with anticipation of her next visit. New stories are generated of her to share the following arc. This season provides a glimmer of light in a world often too overwhelmed with fear, war, and dismay.
Parents tuck their children into bed the night before these celebrations with promises of sweets and trinkets to play with come morning. It is this hope that has crafted some of the most enchanting stories about one beautiful, generous woman. These stories have multiplied over arcs with little agreement on how she looked and acted. It was the children that helped give her life. Their dreams portrayed in image of a young woman decorated with bright baubles and theatrical jewelry. She had glittering eyes that shined with life, and her face always carried a smile. She was capable of casting magic that appeared as glitter dust from her palms. Ponies, dancers, soldiers, and various other magical things would be made from this glitter dust, dancing around the scenes the young dreamers made.
Jesine, the mortalborn of Imagination, Dreams, and Sleep, took a particular interest in these dreams each arc. As time progressed, she could not help but desire this woman to walk with her among the dreams. Jesine dreamed that, together, they would be able to encourage togetherness, kindness, and peace across Idalos for a short time each year. With each dream she watched, she began to form a better idea as to what this creature would look like.
Once the celebrations come to an end, Saoire steals herself back to Emea to watch the mortals of Idalos - her children - with anticipation of her next visit. New stories are generated of her to share the following arc. This season provides a glimmer of light in a world often too overwhelmed with fear, war, and dismay.
Welcome to the first annual Holiday Event! The Staff of Standing Trials are overjoyed to bring you this event to celebrate the various traditions around the world. Although In Character sightings of Saoire will be available, we want to invite those interested in participating to join our Secret Gifter event!
For the first week of December, we will allow people to sign-up. Your names will be placed into a lottery where you will be secretly paired up with another participant. On December 8th, you will receive the name of our Secret Person. You will be asked to give a gift to the person that you are matched up with. Please comment below with the code provided to sign-up for our event!
The Special Gifter has two options for participants to choose from.
Jade
Kingdom
To ensure the quality of the gift, all gifts should be turned in via PM to Nymph before December 21th. Participants that do not provide their gift before this date will not be privileged to receive their gift. There are no IOUs during this event. If you wish to participate, please be reliable and commit yourself to your Secret Person. This is the holiday season! We welcome you to celebrate with one another.
Gifts will go out between December 23-24. The gifter will be contacted by Nymph to see how they would like their gift to go out.
For those that would like to meet Saoire, please contact a local Prophet or Nymph with your request.
For those who participate, a medal will be awarded to you upon completion of your portion.
For the first week of December, we will allow people to sign-up. Your names will be placed into a lottery where you will be secretly paired up with another participant. On December 8th, you will receive the name of our Secret Person. You will be asked to give a gift to the person that you are matched up with. Please comment below with the code provided to sign-up for our event!
Code: Select all
[b]Name:[/b]
[b]City of PC Location in Zi'da:[/b]
[b]Special Gifter Option:[/b] See Below
[b]CS Link:[/b]
[b]Special Notes:[/b]- Option 1: Special Gifters are paired up with another participant from anywhere in Idalos. These gift ideas consist of OOC items that come with thoughtful notes similar to "what I like about the character character/player I have been matched up with." Gift options include:
- Boxcode
- 10 Point Bank Collection Points
- A monetary gift of 50 nel
- An item worth 45-50 nel (Discounts may apply)
- Other (With Permission from a Mod)
- Coders
- Nymph
Rumour
Jade
Patrick
Duncan Oison
- Nymph
Jade
Kingdom
To ensure the quality of the gift, all gifts should be turned in via PM to Nymph before December 21th. Participants that do not provide their gift before this date will not be privileged to receive their gift. There are no IOUs during this event. If you wish to participate, please be reliable and commit yourself to your Secret Person. This is the holiday season! We welcome you to celebrate with one another.
Gifts will go out between December 23-24. The gifter will be contacted by Nymph to see how they would like their gift to go out.
For those that would like to meet Saoire, please contact a local Prophet or Nymph with your request.
For those who participate, a medal will be awarded to you upon completion of your portion.
