Published by: The Santae Team
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.
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