Snowfall Season

Duration:  December 1st - March 1st, Realm: ALL

Winter is coming, get cozy!

Prompts

Earn the new seasonal currency, chocolate cookies , by completing the newly released Seasonal Winter prompts! Due to January being a month of site maintenance, there will only be two prompts with more rewards this year so that you can make up for one less month of time more easily.

You may also want to visit the new daily, Cato's Cookies, for free cookies each day during winter.

Seasonal Traits

This season comes with new traits that work on any species: Crystallized and Plushified! Pay a visit to the Greenhouse and Joyous toys to exchange your cookies for a new look! (Note: fluffy has been removed due to upcoming changes in January with V3!)

Wintery Companion Variants

Some new forms have been added for these critters!

Backgrounds

Fuchsia has prepared some new and old wintery travel locations to you ! Visit Tranquil Travels Agency  and check out some of the seasonal backgrounds you can buy only during winter!

Winter theme 

Of course we also have this season's theme up for grabs again! Get it while it's still cold from Evecubes!

CERBERUS

You. On behalf of the Lord and Lady, stop right there.

CERBERUS

You are an adventurer, I can sense it.

Narrator

(The Arma Caeli seems to glower at you, agitated.)

CERBERUS

You feeble creatures have no idea what you've done with your foolish actions, even now.

CERBERUS

Although it seems you are finally noticing the...consequences. Judging by your latest attempts to counter the - what do you call it? - rift instabilities.

CERBERUS

Sorry to say, but you're not going to find success in that. The reflection has been compromised too much.

CERBERUS

You may even just be making it worse with your ignorance.

Narrator

(Cerberus laughs, but there is no joy in it.)

CERBERUS

Fear not! That's precisely why I am here...and why my brothers and sisters have spread across realms.

CERBERUS

You might be powerless but we...we are connected to the reflection. Born from it. A bond you trespassers will never come close to understanding.

CERBERUS

Be grateful that we have been sent on this mission, for we will seal all rifts for you - permanently.

CERBERUS

The reflection needs peace to heal, rid itself of all the foreign objects you dragged there.

CERBERUS

You wonder why I tell you all of this? It's simple.

Narrator

(The Arma Caeli cracks a mischievous smile.)

CERBERUS

It's because you won't remember anyway.

CERBERUS

We've developed a means to make you forget all of this ever happened. Realm travel, other realms, rifts and the reflection.

CERBERUS

A spell of unprecedented dimensions that will be set up spanning all realms, so that you may never wander and destroy anymore.

CERBERUS

I suggest you spend the time you have left with this knowledge wisely, while you can.

Narrator

(The heavenly being laughs before vanishing into thin air. You feel queasy.)

A cruel Reality

Duration:  December 1st - January 1st, Realm: Any

Faced with a cruel reality presented by the Arma Caeli Cerberus, the true conundrum is unveiled. At risk of losing all memories of other realms and the means to travel to them, what will your character do? Will they submit to the plan laid out before them to save the reflection? Or will they fight for a fairer cause, to retain all memory, bonds, and relationships they forged across realms? Whichever be the case, show us your character's struggle and strife! You never know what change your efforts may bring. Do not lose hope!

For this update, a new event prompt has been added. It will grant you magic, and allows you to flesh out your characters actions following this cruel revelation. 

PLEASE NOTE. Even though the plan of the Arma Caeli is to bring an end to realm travel, this does not mean it will succeed. Please refer to the V3 plans or discord channel for this- None of your inter-realm plots or characters will be broken up or removed, unless you choose that option!

Monthly Prompt

Monthly Prompt
Earn your easy extra  80 !

Lucerna

Adventurer! I am so glad to see you.

Lucerna

I loathe to ask this of you, but I was tasked to recruit any adventurer I can to our cause. Something...curious is going on.

Lucerna

You may have noticed this already, but recent rift activity has been weird to say the least.

Lucerna

We recorded many more of them forming than normal. And those that do - strange creatures have been sighted emerging from them!

Lucerna

Not to mention the risk of regular people getting sucked into the reflection, possibly to never find their way back...

Lucerna

I can barely stand thinking of it.

Lucerna

Which is why I hope you will accept this quest. We need any help we can get.

Lucerna

Please get out there and report any rift you find to us so we can close the area down.

Lucerna

If you prefer, you may also want to capture any strange beings trying to enter your Realm from them.

Lucerna

Or perhaps, if possible, you could assist the reflection rescue attempts. Anything will do.

Lucerna

If you complete such missions, we will reward you, of course. Please give it some thought. We must get to the bottom of this.

Bracing unstable Rifts

Duration:  November 1st - January 1st, Realm: Any

Lucerna needs your help! Rifts have become unstable, appearing more often and dragging unsuspecting people into the reflection. Strange creatures have also begun appearing, and the situation is seemingly getting out of hand...Something big is brewing, we just don't know what!

To help Lucerna, you must complete event prompts! They will grant you magic and some fun items from inside the reflection...

Riftborn Invasion

We don't know much about them yet but these Riftborn critters have been appearing around rifts. They don't seem to have inherent elemental powers, but... Maybe you can make some use of them? 

Special Rift Event

For the duration of this event, you may use up to 2 seasonal traits for your rift designs! This is valid for up to 3 designs per person. Get creative and share some love around. You will also be rewarded for it with one of the event prompts!

Participation Award

As always, a new award waits to be claimed for event prompts! 

Monthly Prompt

Monthly Prompt
Earn your easy extra  80 !

Change is near, but do not despair!

It has probably been rather obvious that the decision would sway this way, but as promised I am making it official now. Realms Away will see some bigger changes, but I genuinely believe it's for the best in the long term. If I lose my motivation to work on this site, the only other thing is closing it down and that'd suck most to me.  I even debated if I should call it Realms Away V2.5 instead because it is not like we are destroying everything and building something new (A Realm Reborn style). While changes are coming, a lot will also stay the same. It's a change of focus, not a change of species or content available (although I would argue that content improvements are coming, if anything!)

Because I could not possibly cover everything I worked on the past month in preparation of this post, I made a little slideshow/presentation for you:

> You can view it here. <

This should cover most bases, I think. It may not be perfect yet because some things can't be anticipated beforehand, but those things we will work on fixing as fairly as we can as well. Of course, the discord channel v3-discussion is still open for your questions!

And yes, if you don't plan to read through the document, there will be a new 2 month event starting tomorrow. It is a change from the original plan but it will explain and lead into the changes lore wise too!

Finally, thank you for being so kind and patient to me. I get that change sucks sometimes and that some of you may still be left disappointed despite our best efforts. But I'd at least like to ask you to maybe still give it a chance. Realms Away is my passion project, and I will keep striving for more fun things to do.

Halloween draws near...

It's the spooky season and your characters may want to pick up one of these halloween themed companions~ Check them all out on the companion index!

Bats and Pumpkins

These two all-new companions, Vespi and Pumpel, are now available at Freaque Antique and the Greenhouse!

A mean look

Starbi, Bozzard and Caragoo unlocked new elemental variants befitting of october...