Afra and the shadow well at ease

With the help of Corvääni and her corva, the aitielkh have successfully caught the wild shadows and freed Afra from their imprisonment. The avian messenger of the Goddess blesses your aiti for helping her and Afra. A question that Corvääni muttered to herself before leaving sticks in your aiti's mind, what trapped Afra in the first place? 

Afra back in their true form at the Shadow Well

You can now see Afra's profile via World > Lore >Important Figures

2024 giving gala!

The 2024 Autumnfound Giving Gala has begun! During this event players are placed onto teams (team Pumpkin Pie- led by Ket, and team Tricky Treat- led by Leonja) and "attack" one another with gift art to earn acorns, which can be spent in our Autumnfound Event Shop.

From TODAY November 1st  to November 30th You will be able to upload gift art to your team's Giving Gala gallery. All submissions MUST be uploaded to the correct gallery to be counted for points for your team. Each acorn = 1 point. 

There is no "friendly fire" in this event, you are welcome to make regular gift art and send it in via claims to receive gildes!

Acorns/points will be awarded STANDARD GIFT ART CURRENCY, you can see examples on scoring here.  Some bonuses have been removed/altered to streamline the event.

SIGNUPS ARE NOW CLOSED!

Courtesy Rules

• Please only make giftart for characters with the giftart option toggled to "YES" on their profile.
• Please understand not all users may respond to gift art and are not required or expected to do so.
• Please be kind to other players; the spirit of the event is giving and fun!
• NO BASES are to be used! Do not reuse art or poses please. Each piece should be unique.

ART REQUIREMENTS

All gift art must be clean and colored to award acorns. Please be considerate and put care into your work.

• A bust with foreground or background elements earns 3 acorns.
  • Examples of foreground or background elements include: a frame, floral background, stars, etc.
  • Busts MUST include this feature, floating heads will not be counted.
• A clean, colored fullbody (75%+ of the body) earns 6 acorns.

background bonuses

• Simple backgrounds earn 2 acorns.
• Complex backgrounds earn 4 acorns.

other Bonuses

Please check the character's profile and inventory to make sure they own said companions/accessories.

• Companions owned by elkh featured earn 2 acorns each. Bonus applies to a maximum of four companions.
• Simple Official Accessories owned by the elkh earn 1 acorns each.
• Complex Official Accessories owned by the elkh earn 2 acorns each.

Additional Characters

Additional characters must either be 1) Owned by the same owner OR 2) Characters that have already estatblished canon relationships AND both owners are on the same team.  It is recommended that you stick with only drawing one character or stick to drawing one owner's characters together.

You may not add your own character into the gift art. Any art that breaks these rules will be disqualified as the mods will not be able to award points accurately.

• Minor additional elkh, shroomkins, or Silkkassan (49% or less of the body) earn 1 acorns each.
• Major additional elkh, shroomkins, or Silkkassans (50% or more of the body) earn 2 acorns each.

Gallery and submissionsThe Pumpkin Pie and Tricky Treat  art galleries will open Today. You MUST upload your gift art to your team's folder. This is so the mods can tally up the points at the end of the event. To receive your acorns you will have to submit your art via the GIVING GALA prompt.
You may submit multiple gift arts for multiple people as a compilation in one gallery picture but only if you have given the recipiant a copy of their individual art elsewhere.

BONUS REWARDS

Fuzzy Familiar: Pumpkin and Fuzzy Familiar: Apple

At the end, each participant will recieve the companion associated with their team if they participated in the event at least once! If we reach 40 entries total, everyone will get BOTH companions! UPDATE: UNLOCKED!!!

teams!

Raffle

FIRST PRIZE: Meteor Aitielkh
SECOND PRIZE: 20 Gildes
THIRD PRIZE: 10 Gildes

Enter the raffle by going to the Autumnfound shop for one free ticket (MAKE SURE TO "OPEN" THE TICKET or else you will not be entered.) Get two additional tickets by making gift art! More information on the prompt.

See WORLD >GILDE SHOPS >Events Shop to find the Autumnfound Shop.
See WORLD > PROMPTS >Limited Prompts to find the Autumnfound prompts.

Monthly Shop Rotation + CORVA!!!

The elkh shop features Plush Satu and Felvit: Flying this month! Get em while you can!

AND!

We wanted to give everyone the opportunity to stock up on more Corva after Beast Trials! Check the Beast Trials shop to pick these companions up for 10 gildes for the first week of November only!

Site Fixes/Updates

• Lightning Master redesign & lore update (NPC entry + Figures page)
• Afra added to Figures page
• Feathered ears, ankles, and mane are now resellable for half of their value of BT.

ODDS & ENDS

• ACORNS will be available to buy for gildes starting Nov 23 and ending Dec 1st!
• The Featured Character is updated on the front page!
• There's a new Daily Calendar! Be sure to check in for some free Acorns and crafting materials!
• Yule and Hollygiving return next month!
• NEW TRAITS: Bat ears for beps & sonos! Melanic for sonos!

Ko-Fi & server Boost rewards

There are a few Bepotelkh tiers on Herboreal's ko-fi which award you monthly (and/or quarterly) goodies like premium currency and Beast Boxes! Help support the site & its creators by subscribing! While some previews are provided for discord boosters, full previews are only provided on ko-fi from the Beepersneeps Tier and up! Many, many hours go into the making of our game and the art + writing for it, so supporting us via ko-fi is a massive help. You gain access to the sponsor chat where we hold monthly sponsor-exclusive raffles, post early design WIPS and previews, and more!

You can also boost the Discord server and earn 1CG per boost per month, as well as access to the Sponsor chat. The sponsor chat get sneak peeks and sponsor-exclusive raffles. (We are thoroughly boosted at the moment!)