pride month 2024 continues

guest artist charity sale

This year we have designs by Herboreal, Nopalrabbit, Key, Thy, Erose, and Mothling! Each artist has picked a LGBTQ+ charity to feature. The designs will be listed for a sliding scale: $60-$80 for the beps and $50-60 for the fawns. To "purchase" the design you will make a donation to the charity listed for the design and send a screenshot (crop out or black out any sensitive information please!!) to the guest artist, or Nopalrabbit via Discord.

Charities Featured by our GAs!
Miracle of Love
GLBT Historical Society
Transgender Law Center
Trans Lifeline

Note: If you are outside of the US and are having difficulty making donations outside of your country, you may arrange for the artist to make the donatio nfor you, or choose a charity local to your location, Just DM Nopalrabbit or Herboreal with info.

These lovely design will go up for sale Friday June 21st 10am PST

Charity custom raffle

Donate to ANY of the charities featured to be entered into a full custom character by Nopal!

Until the end of the June, if you make a $5 donation you will receive a raffle ticket to be entered for a custom character by Nopalrabbit. If you win you may choose one from the following:

• Aiti custom with + 2 large rare trait + 1 small rare trait
• Bep/Sono custom + 3 rare traits + unlimited uncommon traits
• Habapi custom with bipedal form + 2 rare traits + unlimited uncommon traits

The winner may also add potions from their inventory to the custom. To enter please make a donation to ANY of the charities listed on this news post. Minimum donation is $5. You may donate in increments of $5 for more tickets. To receive your ticket/s you can either Send in a claim with a screenshot to your donation on via bepotelkh.com or Send a screenshot of your donation to either Nopalrabbit or Herboreal on discord. (Please make sure to crop out or black out any sensitive information please on your screenshot)

NOTE: If you have already made donations for the Limited Rainbow Clip accessory and a special user badge (see below) you will be automatically entered into the raffle (1 ticket per $5 donated)

limited pride month accessory and badGE

The limited Rainbow Clip accessory and a special user badge is still available for those who donate $5 or more to any of the following organizations and send in a claim (or DM herboreal on discord) with proof of donation:

• • Oklahomans for Equality
  • PROMO
  • Equality Florida
  • Campaign for Southern Equality
  • If you are outside the US and want to donate to a local LGBTQ charity, that is also fine! Just send in a screenshot :>
  • NEWLY ADDED AspenEyes' GoFundMe Aspen is a queer, black and disabled artist in need of help.

NOTE: Donations for the accessory and badge will be automatically entered into the custom character raffle unless the user specifies they would not like tickets.

TOTAL RAISED (updated 6/30 6pm MST): $665

Thank you all for your support!!!

Habapi Ruins Restoration: Lar CANTIO

Historic Era (past) / Loss of Magic Era (current) / Reacquirement of Magic (restored)

New Prompts: Rewards & Magic!

As a reminder, exploration prompts must be done before restoration prompts!

With the ruins mostly explored, it is now time to work on restoring them to a state of use once again. There is one new area with both an exploration and restoration prompt for Creta magic! Completing the Creta prompts will result in your habapi earning a creta pot and creta chalk.

The creta pot canonically allows your habapi to create a kilnkin, but can also be used as subspace storage, allowing for limitless items to be transported and kept near.

A habapi using creta chalk to perform creta magic.

The creta chalk allows your habapi to do creta animation magic by drawing on a surface or in the air. The magic allows the habapi to animate inanimate objects.

Discovery: Forgotten Workshop

A thick layer of white dust covers the broken tables and chalk boards. Light and plants spill in through the cracked ceiling of the open room. On one side, what seems to be kilns are lined up, though no longer functional. On the other side broken cabinets with tools, and habapi records. There are many jars and barrels that used to hold various powders, now tipped over and mostly empty.

The Forgotten Workshop First Excursion and Restoration prompts are now available! These prompts are associated with Creta magic.

Discovery: Magic

As your habapi completes exploration and restoration prompts, they can earn magic which can be used in Beast Trials! Habapi will get their own special beast box. A new Beast Trial is coming in July, so hone your magic skills now!

Explore Again and Again!

Ruins prompts are now available to be repeated with the same or different habapi. If doing the prompt again you may exchange your UNOPENED record for a random crafting rune by sending the record attached to a claim.

Set your Habapi's Location to Home!

Lar Cantio has been added as a location, which you can now set in your Habapi's profile!

See WORLD >PROMPTS > Habapi Ruins

New Traits

A habapi with  Prismatic + Extra traits.

New craftable habapi traits include Glowing, Prismatic, and Extra.

Glowing: Creates a glowing appearance. One potion covers either Horns + Hooves OR fur markings (however, the design can have JUST glowing horns and not hooves or vice-versa).

Prismatic: Creates a prismatic appearance to the horns or hooves. The horns and/or hooves appear to be translucent crystal; may be tinted with a bit of color. When they catch the sunlight, these parts can give off rays of rainbow just like real crystals. (those who use CSP can see clip studios asset shop for prism brushes). One potion covers Horns + Hooves however, the design can have JUST prismatic horns and not hooves or vice-versa).

Extra: Lengthens horns, ears, tails, or mane. One potion applies to one area; i.e. one potion would apply only to the tail and you'd need an additional potion for  longer ears).

Habapi Fluff: The habapi has extra fur. This can appear somewhere on the body such as elbows, fetlocks, rump, eartips, chin, etc.

See HOME >Crafting

Kilnkin and Runebits

Kilnkin are companions made of clay using creta (animation) magic. They automatically gather a randomly generated amount of runebits daily, with a very rare chance of finding a whole rune. Obtain a kilnkin for your Habapi by crafting kilnkin schematics. Send the kilnkin schematics in as a claim, with your character attached, and your character will be provided their kilnkin which will drop daily runebits. See Rahowla's profile for an example.

HOW TO GET A KILNKIN:

• Complete the exploration prompt (one prompt total) for The Forgotten Workshop to get a Creta pot recipe
• Complete exploration and restoration prompt (two prompts total) for either Old Grove, Cracked Tower, Twin Springs, or Underground Forges to recieve a kilnkin heart
• Craft kilnkin schematics
• Send kilnkin schematics in as a claim with the appropriate character attached and a moderator will award your character the kilnkin.

Jungle Trader

A new shop has appeared! Baruna the habapi will trade you whole runes in exchange for your runebits. This new shop is permanent.

See WORLD >GILDE SHOPS >Jungle Trader

Updated Habapi Design guide

The habapi design guide has been updated to add more helpful information on designing bipedal forms!

See GUIDES >Design Guide

New Lore

Archivist Tamossa activating a record to read the information inside.

• Habapi naming convention has been rediscoverd! The convention is (x)a(nature feature)a. For example: Tamossa (moss). Baruna (rune). Rahowla (howl). Faflora (flower). Please use this naming convention for your characters only if you want to; it is provided as a fun lore element and is not required! Habapi were separated from their records and culture for some time and may have picked up any variety of names along the way, and may choose to pick naming conventions from Bep or Human culture now too.
• Kilnkin are all made with a Kilnkin Heart which is also made of fired clay. Though they do not speak and are not sentient, the clay heart rattles around inside of them, sounding like a ceramic bell, providing them a sort of voice or song.
• Habapi records float between the front paws/hands and project the image in front of the user. Habapi writing is in a spiral. Records may contain any kind of information and commonly contain recipes.
• MORE! See the Habapi species page.

See >WORLD >LORE >Species Guides >Habapi

Site Fixes/Updates

• We're excited to announce that character pages now feature inventory items and character awards!
• The character (letter) limit has also been increased on character links but should still remain at 300 characters or below; there is now a text line warning about this. You will still get a 500 error if you put too much text!
• Encyclopedia pages for Accessory Categories and Award Categories now have image icons.
• The aitielkh shop will now only be available during Month of the Aiti (January) annually. Aiti rare trait potions have a new home in the general shop.

Changes to Shaped Marking

Shaped marking is now a restricted trait, but you'll only need one potion to cover much more than the rare potion covered. The single marking may now have multiple elements to it such as a skeleton/spine marking within reason; if the marking covers more than 1/2 of the body, it will require an additional trait potion. Read more on the encyclopedia entry. The potion for this item is available in the CG shop for the forseeable future.

MOON & STAR MARK

In lieu of Shaped Marking changing to a restricted trait, we still wanted some more commonly used "shaped" markings to be available as heritable traits, so we created Moon Mark and Star Mark (for both beps and sonos)!

Moon Mark: A secondary marking. A single moon-like mark anywhere on the body other than the mane. Can be any moon phase; can be light or dark.
Max 3 moon markings per design; each requiring a rare trait potion. This marking is not symmetrical meaning if it is on the left flank, it does not automatically appear on the right flank on the other side.

Star Mark: A secondary marking. A single star-like mark anywhere on the body other than the mane. Can be a 5-point or 4-point star; can be light or dark.
Max 3 star markings per design; each requiring a rare trait potion. This marking is not symmetrical meaning if it is on the left flank, it does not automatically appear on the right flank on the other side.

Other New Bep Traits

A few more heritable traits were added: Bloom, Blaze, and Tassel! You can read more about them in the Encyclopedia.

See WORLD >ENCYCLOPEDIA >All Traits (sort by newest for ease)

Summer Elkh Shop Update

The elkh shop has new seasonal accessories and a new monthly collectible plush toy!

See WORLD >GILDE SHOPS >Elkh Shop

Pride Month

• Pride items have been restocked in the Elkh Shop and will be every year for the month of June only.
• A guest artist charity sale will be June 21st.
• A limited Rainbow Clip accessory and a special user badge is available for those who donate $5 or more to any of the following organizations and send in a claim (or DM herboreal on discord) with proof of donation:
  • Oklahomans for Equality
  • PROMO
  • Equality Florida
  • Campaign for Southern Equality
  • If you are outside the US and want to donate to a local LGBTQ charity, that is also fine! Just send in a screenshot :>

TOTAL RAISED (updated 11am 5/1): $45

ODDS & ENDS

• The Featured Character is updated on the front page!
• There's a new Daily Calendar! Be sure to check in all month to get crafting runes and other Habapi items!
• New cycle of items in the CG shop! NEW: Companions are now in the CG shop and rotate seasonally!
• Hone your aitielkh magic skills now because next month is a new Beast Trial!
• Pride items return to the Elkh Shop for June only!

Patreon & server Boost rewards

There are a few Bepotelkh tiers on Herboreal's patreon which award you monthly goodies like premium currency! Help support the site & its creators by subscribing! While some previews are provided for discord boosters, full previews are only provided on Patreon 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 patreon 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!)

The LOst Fawn

One bright and sunny spring day, a group of fawns was playing out in the flower fields of Tuil. At some point, one of them went missing! Word of mouth spread quickly to all the elkh in the area to keep an eye out for a lost fawn, and so everyone was tasked with searching both the village and the surrounding fields and forest to find the young elkh! Reportedly, the other fawns did see a strange sight though... a  group of pollen packers carrying off a massive load of pollen?! Was that pollen ball fawn sized?! (Note that you can draw any elkh participating in this event regardless of where they're located!)

Pollen packers are wild and fluffy creatures that dine on pollen. They roll up collected pollen into a ball and carry it back to their homes to store for leaner months.

Rewards:

For every prompt, users will get standard prompt gildes, a random pollen packer companion, and a raffle ticket to enter for the lost fawn design. The winner will be able to choose from a set of color palettes for Herboreal to complete the final design. Details can be found on the prompt itself.

See WORLD > PROMPTS >Limited Prompts

Icon Contest Extension

The icon & emoji contest is being extended to May 15th. Please continue to share your emoji and discord icon ideas with us! (See previous news post for details)

Habapi Happenings

Thanks to the groups hard work, the Habapi ruins have been explored and some new features will be unlocked soon! Unfortunately, due to the emergency situation that arose for Timbre & Nopal in March, there will be a delay in releasing these features until we can get some art done for them. Thank you always for your patience!

This month's collectible plush toy is Huck!

See WORLD> GILDE SHOPS> Elkh Shop

Herboreal Commissions/Customs Update

Commissions have obviously been open scarcely this year due to my health issues. I am finding less time and energy to work. In order to be kinder to myself, I am discontinuing the ping list and "first come first served" commissions in favor working from google forms. The forms will be linked in the Bep discord anytime I open commissions. Users send in their requests for commissions and I choose based on what I feel up to working on/what suits my abilities. This means some requests may be skipped. I know this is a big change and I appreciate grace as I continue to navigate balancing my health issues with serving the group.

-Timbre

Work Permit Changes

Due to some very exciting upcoming changes to the ARPG, work permit prices have increased and can now only be bought twice a year in order to emphasize participation & character development.

ODDS & ENDS

• The Featured Character is updated on the front page!
• There's a new Daily Calendar!
• Fawn sale by Herboreal coming soon!
• This is the last month to pick up any Spring accessories or giftwrap from the Elkh Shop, and the current cyle of items in the CG shop.

Patreon & server Boost rewards

There are a few Bepotelkh tiers on Herboreal's patreon which award you monthly goodies like premium currency! Help support the site & its creators by subscribing!
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.

Storyline focus Event

Art by MouseinSweater

Storyline Focus Event is back! During these months, you may earn bonus currency for completing Storyline prompts without worrying about missing out on any special events. We hope to have these temporary bonuses occasionally during months where other events aren't scheduled. Storyline prompts include: Village Stories, Wild Pact, Oasis Dreams, The Desert Trail, Followers of Aiti, Trail of Mushroms, and Jungle Delights.

When you submit your prompt, the bonus reward you get (in addition to standard currency) will be randomly generated.

50% chance: 3 Gildes
25% chance: 5 Gildes
20% chance: 7 Gildes
5% chance: 1 Crystal Gilde

Reminder: Recieve a 10CG award for completing any Storylines Path! This reward is available all year.

See WORLD > PROMPTS

Icon & Emoji Contest

The current server icon

We'd like to freshen up our server icon on discord, as well as add some new emoji! We welcome you to submit your entries to the Event Art >Icon & Emoji Contest gallery. You can use Kord or other NPCs in your entries!

The current server emoji

Rules & Specifications:

• 128x128px is the size for discord emoji
• 512x512px is the size for a discord icon
• You may enter up to 3 server icon entries
• You may enter up to 7 server emoji entries
• Icon and emoji entries must be your own art but can be based on popular/standard emoji
• Submissions must be posted to the gallery before May 1st
• Submit to Event Art >Icon & Emoji Contest gallery and THEN:
• Submit links to your entries as a prompt (Icon & Emoji Contest prompt in Limited Prompts)
• Entries receive 4 gildes per emoji and 6 gildes per icon each (in addition to the 1g gallery bonus)

PRIZES
Discord Icon Winner: 100 gildes, 20 CG, All Purpose Restricted Trait Potion

Discord Emoji Winner - Herboreal's Favorite: 50 gildes, 10 CG, Stars of Aiti Potion
Discord Emoji Winner - Nopalrabbit's Favorite: 50 gildes, 10 CG, Debris Bunny Companion

See GALLERY > EVENT ART > Icon & Emoji Contest gallery
See WORLD > PROMPTS > Limited Prompts

Habapi Happenings

Thanks to the groups hard work, the Habapi ruins have been explored and some new features will be unlocked soon! Unfortunately, due to the emergency situation that arose for Timbre & Nopal last month, there will be a delay in releasing these features until we can get some art done for them. Thank you always for your patience!

This month's collectible plush toy is Tuuli!

See WORLD> GILDE SHOPS> Elkh Shop

ODDS & ENDS

• The Featured Character is updated on the front page!
• There's a new Daily Calendar!
• Guest Artist design sale going up April 26! There will be a preview on discord the day before.
• Beast Trials will be taking a break for the spring due to the long string of events. Look forward to a new summer Beast Trial!

Patreon & server Boost rewards

There are a few Bepotelkh tiers on Herboreal's patreon which award you monthly goodies like premium currency! Help support the site & its creators by subscribing!
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.

a "fawn" day at the races

This month for Sono Races we have a special Fawn prompt! Draw or Write about your fawn going to the Sono Races or Casa Climb event! For completing this prompt your fawn will get a Sono Races Souvenir Bandana as well as a Growth Ticket. The prompt can only be done once per fawn and the fawn must be a resident of Miatias.

See WORLD > PROMPTS > LIMITED PROMPTS > A "Fawn" Day at the Races

Spring 2024 Accessories & March Plush Collectible

This spring (March, April, May), you can find the Rainy and Frogpond sets in the Elkh Shop! Each set consists of a waxed shawl "rain jacket" with silver embroidery, as well as painted wooden mane (or tail) clips.

The collectible plush toy this month is Ambassador Lita in honor of the Sono Races!

See WORLD >Elkh Shop

Habapi Happenings

As Habapi return to their old home, many are re-learning how to use their ancestors crafting runes. Maybe something good will happen if all the current locations have been collectively explored by the group...

See WORLD > PROMPTS > HABAPI RUINS

Annual Goodie Bag Fundraiser Returns!

Goodie bags are back for this month only! Grab them in the USD shop (be sure to DM Herboreal on discord to let her know you made a purchase, especially if your ko-fi username is different from your discord or site username, as they have to be hand-delivered!)  Your purchases help keep the site running and help us continue to bring you new features! We have some really exciting stuff planned for this year; helping us cover costs of site upkeep, development, and our own cost of living is massively helpful to our ability to bring those plans to life.

Contents:

All possible bag contents are listed on the appropriate encyclopedia entries. Please read carefully so you understand what quantity of items you'll recieve!

-Bep Goodie Bag
(Gildes, CG, a retired accessory, a retired companion)
-Aiti Goodie Bag
(A magic crystal, a random beast trial potion, a random retired aiti companion or  enchanted accessory)
-Habapi Goodie Bag
(A habapi MYO or Breeding ticket, 2 random crafting runes, and one recipe-locked crystal trait potion)
-Plush Goodie Bag
(2CG and a random plush accessory)

The new Plush Goodie Bag contains exclusive plush that will not be sold in the elkh shop or otherwise be easily obtainable!
These plush feature friends we've met during Beast Trials: Villoso, Valasong, Ulpukka, Meridias, Lightning Master, and Furcifer!

See WORLD >USD Shop

Sono Trait artwork adjustments

Herboreal has updated the traits and artwork for a number of sono traits including all the ear types (to better portray the size of the ears), and to provide alternate versions of gilde traits so it's more obvious that they are also available for sonoelkh to use. The affected traits include cloudy mane, cloudy tail, ringlet mane, ringlet tail, cloudy marking, saddle marking, dorsal marking, dun marking, cinnamon roll marking, furry ears, and puffy ears.

See RESOURCES >Bepotelkh Visual Trait Index

Other Fixes/Updates

• Dark mode crafting legibility issue fixed
• Crafting page visuals updated
• Crafting added to navigation (under HOME)
• Companions added to navigation (under HOME)
• Habapi trait index added to navigation (under RESOURCES)

New Feature: USer Shops

You can now open your own shop to sell potions you've crafted, or items you've collected that you don't need!

• See HOME > My Shops to edit your shop
• WORLD > All User Shops to view user shops
• HOW TO USE: Set up your shop under HOME > My Shops first, and then go to HOME >Inventory and click "Quick Stock" on the upper right. Then, return to "My Shops" to price your inventory.
• Advertise your shop in the discord using the User Shops channel if you like!

See RESOURCES >Bepotelkh Visual Trait Index

ODDS & ENDS

• Seasonal wrapping papers have been rotated
• The Featured Character is updated on the front page!
• There's a new Daily Calendar!
• Beast Trials will be taking a break for the spring due to the long string of events. Look forward to a new summer Beast Trial!
• Commissions update: Herboreal is still struggling with health difficulties, so commission openings continue to be on hold. Thank you for your patience.

Patreon & server Boost rewards

There are a few Bepotelkh tiers on Herboreal's patreon which award you monthly goodies like premium currency! Help support the site & its creators by subscribing!
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.

Habapi Breeding

You can now breed Habapi using a Habapi Breeding Ticket, available in the General Shop. The resulting design is insta-grown, so no need to worry about an in-between "fawn" stage for this species. Habapi Breeding will use similar mechanics to bep breeding (rolled in the discord by Nopal) but some things will be different. The player may pick two kept traits when submitting the breeding, however they cannot pick Habapi Crystal traits as one of their two traits. Habapi Crystal traits (see more below) can be inheritable by chance (RNG) unless either both parents have the trait or the player uses a "Blessed Bead" breeding item to automatically pass the trait down.

New Habapi Traits

Base traits

There are new nose and pupil traits available now! Find the visual trait index here.

Crystal Traits

Crystal traits are now available via crafting! Some recipes are automatically unlocked; others will need to be unlocked by doing prompts. All will require using crafting materials which will be obtainable via prompts immediately (as well as via the advent calendar this month), with other options available in the future. Crystal traits work a little differently than Aiti Rare traits and Restricted traits so be sure to read the specifics on the encyclopedia! More Habapi Crystal Trait recipes will be introduced in the future via prompts, events and beast trials.

(a habapi with metallic horns)

Habapi Crafting

Crafting will be added to the navigation soon; for now, you can find the page here.
With the crafting feature, players can now collect crafting materials and bring them together to make new items using recipes! We're excited for all the possibilities of this feature for the game as a whole, starting with crafting Habapi Crystal Traits!

Habapi ruins prompts

After healing Meridias and the corruption she faced, the habapi felt their magic powers coming back, but had no knowledge of how to use it! With the southen dragon's encouragement the habapi returned to their old home deep in the jungle to find secrets of their past culture. Meridias and Tatera explained to the habapi that the little stone runes they found scattered about the jungle and the habapi's old collapsed home were known as Crafting Runes, and that they can store and amplify the habapi's inert magical ability.

Along the ruins, many habapi found funny glass disks, a little smaller than the size of a habapi hand. The disks featured twisted dyed rope, though many were missing rope due to passing of time, and a large hole in the middle. Nearly naked to the eye, super fine etching can be seen along the surface of these disks.

Tatera explained that these were called called records by their ancestors, and that they hold information however she did not know how to retrieve the information off of them. With her giant claw Meridias showed the little habapi how the records work, that they could be placed in the air with magic, and how once placed, the record would project written information on a surface, such as a wall, rock or the ground. These records are strewn all over the ruins and the Habapi must return to gather and clean up the mess they left behind.

Watch out for updates while the Habapi's past unfolds and more prompts are added!

New Aiti Rare Traits

Two new aiti rare traits have been released! Metallic Fur, which gives the overall coat of the aiti a metallic sheen (obtained via Aiti rare potion) and Shaped Pupil, which allows the pupil to becomes any (world/lore appropriate) shape ex: moon, leaf, heart, etc. (Obtained via Small aiti rare potion)

A quick note on new features

Nopal and I have been a bit under the weather for a few months, so we're more behind than we would like on things. Some features involving Habapi may come sporadically, including later this month or at future dates. We appreciate your patience as we slowly flesh this species out!

Crafting is also brand-new, so it may need some things worked out, such as balancing crafting materials needed for recipes. You may see the number of materials needed fluctuate as we feel out what is most balanced for players.

-Herboreal

ODDS & ENDS

• A new monthly collectible plush is available in the Elkh Shop
• The Featured Character is updated on the front page!
• There's a new Daily Calendar!
• Sono races start next month (March!)

Patreon & server Boost rewards

There are a few Bepotelkh tiers on Herboreal's patreon which award you monthly goodies like premium currency! Help support the site & its creators by subscribing!
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.

Southern Dragonhorn Antlers & Dragonmane

Dragonhorn antlers are now Northern Dragonhorn Antlers and there are now Southern Dragonhorn Antlers as well! These antlers look like massive horns reaching up and back, covered with pointed segments that look like scales. These can be applied to all elkh.

Dragonmane is now available as a Rare trait, both for beps and sonos.
This fluffy mane sprouts from the back of the head and neck only. Try combining it with other mane texture types by using a Mysterious Carving!

BEAST Boxes

The reward for participating in this event is a beast box! The level of box you recieve for a prompt correlates directly to the magic your aitielkh used in said prompt. Beast boxes are gacha boxes with a chance of winning any one of the items inside of them. Chances are listed below.

Beast boxes include beast tokens as well! The amount you get corresponds to the level of beast box (lv 1 gets 1 token and so forth). The beast token shop will open January 1st and remains open through February 7th; you will be able to use your tokens to purchase the prizes unique to this event.

Resin Incense - 30% chance
Rare Trait Potion- 30% chance
Bat Wings Potion- 20% chance
Kirin Scale- 10% chance
Southern Dragonhorn Potion- 10% chance

Aiti Rare Trait Potion- 30% chance
Bat Wings Potion- 30% chance
Kirin Scale- 20% chance
Southern Dragonhorn Potion- 20% chance

Bat Wings Potion- 20% chance
Kirin Scale- 40% chance
Southern Dragonhorn Potion- 40% chance

Free MYO Event

For Month of the Aiti, we're inviting everyone to make one free common MYO aitielkh (bep or sono) fawn!
Visit the event shop to pick up your ticket!

Get Aiti Rare Traits for your myo!

1: Submit your MYO design anytime this month and you can include one aiti rare trait on your design!
2: Advertise the event on the social media of your choice and send us a link or screenshot via claim to recieve one aiti rare trait potion!

Important notes and information:

-There are no color or marking restrictions on aitielkh (do not need to use bep markings!)
-All "base" C/UC/R traits such as manes, tails, ears, and antlers do not have rarity on aitielkh and thus are free to use!
-Aitielkh fawns do not yet sport a flowercrown or pattern, so please omit them from your design until they are grown.
-Antlers should only be single nubs as in the above example, but please pick which type of antlers they will have as an adult and add them to the trait list.
-These free MYOs are giftable and tradeable once created but cannot be sold.

Please use the following to design and submit your MYO:

-Design Guide
-Visual Trait Index
-Bep anatomy
-Bases (optional): Bep Aiti  Sono Aiti
-Masterlist examples of aitielkh fawns
-MYO Submission Guide
-Join our discord for more help!

Gilde Traits are now UC/R Traits

This month, we're consolidating gilde traits into Rare Traits and Uncommon Traits. The site and game have changed over time, and gilde traits just didn't really fit anymore. Furthermore, the prices of rare & uncommon potions are the same as gilde trait potions, so it just made sense! The traits are still available; they're just alongside all the others now! If you have gilde trait potions in your inventory, you may resell them from your inventory or use them as R/UC traits by attaching them to a MYO design!

Heldigs Charm

Introducing a new breeding item: Heldigs Charm! Heldig, the "god of luck", is often given offerings in the community discord when fawns are rolled, as users hope to get good luck in their elkh passing down desirable traits. We're making Restricted Traits more obtainable via breeding using this charm. Present this charm with your breeding claim to get a 50% chance of your choice of restricted trait being passed on to the fawn.

The number of charms able to be used on a breeding is limited only by the number of restricted traits the parents have, but they can only be applied to each restricted trait once. For example, if the parents have 5 different restricted traits, you may use 5 charms and each restricted trait will have a 50% chance of being passed down. You may not use more than 1 charm on 1 trait (in other words, if the roll fails to pass down the trait, you cannot keep using charms until you get a success; there is only one chance).

You can find Heldigs Charm in the Crystal Gilde Shop.

All current and new members of the Patreon will get a free Heldigs Charm this month!

ODDS & ENDS

• MotA aitielkh companions are available for sale in the Aitielkh shop!
• The Featured Character is updated on the front page!
• There's a new Daily Calendar!
• There's a new collectible plush toy in the Elkh Shop!
• Sono races are being moved to March! Get your runners ready!

Patreon & server Boost rewards

There are a few Bepotelkh tiers on Herboreal's patreon which award you monthly goodies like premium currency! Help support the site & its creators by subscribing!
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.

Hollygiving

The snow is falling and the candles in homes are lit. There's magic and yule spirit in the air!

The Story of Hollygiving 

Bepotelkh may give out bundles of holly leaves and berries to other beps they think deserve them for doing a good deed or even just brightening their day some time in the last year. This is done in the name of the mysterious Spirit of Yule, an indescribable creature or force that embodies the magic of Yule and encourages reflection and new beginnings. It's said that the Spirit chooses some lucky beps each year on which to bestow some gifts, and that these gifts are presented by the equally mysterious Gifting Stag. The Gifting Stag is said to be a bepotelkh with flaming yellow eyes, growing in power in late December and appearing on the edge of forest clearings and the outskirts of villages. His antlers are draped in silver cone bells.

When a bep receives a bundle of holly, a human friend ties it to one of their antlers. To humans, bep antlers covered in holly are seen as a good luck charm. Beps who lose an antler (or both) while still wearing holly may choose to give one of those antlers to their caretaker or another important human in their life. These decorated antlers can be seen on doors and village gates. With wild and free beps, this tradition is similar, but instead of humans tying the holly on, they have to get the help of other wild creatures like shroomkin! In villages, holly bundles for giving are handed out to beps by their village ambassadors. In the wilds, beps must find holly bushes to snip bundles from with their teeth.

Instructions

• Choose one of your elkh to give holly to other characters. Your elkh can give holly bundles to any characters on the Bepotelkh, Shroomkin and Humans masterlists.
• You may use up to 15 of your own elkh to give out holly (a max total of 45 bundles). Please do not use more than 15 elkh.
• Each of your elkh may give out 3 holly bundles to 3 different characters (but please choose active users)!
  • You may, in ONE instance, have one of your beps give a holly bundle to another of your beps! (we decided this was too cute story-wise to be overlooked, but again, only once and with one bep!)
• Comment on this news post with the name and masterlist number of your elkh, and then write out the names of the characters as well as the owner's name in the comment. (no need to link characters, just please remember to add the usernames!) Example:

You can write out story snippets along with your hollygiving or

Just simply list the names of the characters and their owner/s

NOTE: To help out the mods, please either give the holly to three different users, or all three to one user.

• A moderator will send the holly currency to the recipients you chose.
• Holly currency can then be spent at the Yule Shop, where you will find Gudvin has all kinds of gift boxes!
• The gift boxes each enter you into a different raffle. See the below image to learn what you're entering for and buy the corresponding box.
• Open the raffle ticket box to be entered into the raffle!
• The last day to give holly is December 25th!
• The hollygiving raffle will be rolled on December 27th and winners will be contacted on the same day.
• If we get a high number of entries, we will increase the number of winners for each raffle!
• You can enter all the raffles as many times as you want!

Hollygiving Raffle

Use your holly currency to buy raffle tickets at the Yule Shop! Each box contains 1 entry to its corresponding raffle.

 ✮Raffle Box 1: MYOS✮

Contains 1 raffle ticket to enter you for the chance to win your choice of ONE of the following:

• Aiti MYO ticket +1 restricted trait of your choice +1 large rare trait + 1 small rare trait
• Bep/Sono MYO ticket +1 restricted trait of your choice +1 rare trait +unlimited uncommon traits
• Bep/Sono MYO ticket + 5 rare traits +unlimited uncommon traits

✮Raffle Box 2: Restricted Traits✮

Contains 1 raffle ticket to enter you for the chance to win your choice of ONE of the following:

• uni antler
• dragonhorn potion
• stars of aiti potion
• jacob's antlers
• fallow antlers
• overgrown mane potion
• kirin scale
• kelpie's curse

✮Raffle Box 3: Restricted Traits Small✮
Contains 1 raffle ticket to enter you for the chance to win your choice of ONE of the following:

• feathered wings
• cupie wings
• bat wings
• spade tail
• dark sclera
• shining halo
• runic star
• trailing stars

✮Raffle Box 4: Rare Trait Potions✮
Contains 1 raffle ticket to enter you for the chance to win your choice of 1 ONE of the following:

• Rare trait potion
• Large aiti rare potion
• Large gilde potion

✮Raffle Box 5: Companions✮
Contains 1 raffle ticket to enter you for the chance to win your choice of ONE of the following companions:

• chickalee
• goldlet
• queenfisher
• gracklet
• snowy owl
• red squirrel
• mountain fox
• mountain jay
• jackalope

✮Raffle Box 6: Nopal Custom✮
Contains 1 raffle ticket to enter you for the chance to win your choice of ONE of the following:

• Aiti custom with +1 large rare trait + 1 small rare trait
• Bep/Sono custom + 3 rare traits + unlimited uncommon traits
• Habapi custom with bipedal form + 2 rare traits + unlimited uncommon traits

Hollygiving Prompt

For the month of December, you can also enter the limited Hollygiving Prompt to earn gildes! Draw or write about your bep giving out holly bundles, or maybe even dressing up as the gifting stag!

See WORLD > PROMPTS > LIMITED PROMPTS

Next Destination: Kutoa!

Beautiful new location art by LordStarryFace which has been added to Kutoa's Location Page

The Avian Express is still going strong despite the winter weather! Have your elkh explore the quaint and cozy town of Kutoa. Beloved laid back town filled with sheep, shepards and textile workers! Earn a Kutoa stamp for your elkh's stamp book, a wolfhound companion and a wolfhound plushie by completing this prompt. As a reminder these prompts are here to stay, but it's best to do them as they're released if you'd like to keep up and get more rewards! All Exploration Prompts earn gildes for the first month they are introduced; after that, you can earn the items by doing the prompt anytime, but no base gildes will be awarded (but you can still earn bonus gildes).

Kutoa's wolfhounds have long fur that their caretakers braid for an extra level of protection from predator's teeth and claws.

See WORLD > PROMPTS > EXPLORATION PROMPTS

Winter Shop Update

New winter accessories are available in the Bepotelkh Shop!
Includes a stylish warm shawl and matching mane clips for Silkassan elkh and a matching collar for Miatian elkh! As a reminder, you can adjust the colors of any official accessories to best match your character.

Plushies, plushies and more plushies! You can pick up boarlet, fuzzy familiar (white or black) shroomkin or heldig plushies at the Bepotelkh Shop in December only!
The Heldig plush is the first of what are to be once-monthly collectible NPC plush, so be sure to grab this one while it's available!
Plushies can be added to individual character's inventories for maximum cuteness. They also can be included in prompts for accessory gilde bonus!

All of the above items can be found by going to WORLD > GILDE SHOPS >BEPOTELKH SHOP

2023 Yule advent

Return of the yule advent featuring classic and new guest designers!

Dec 12th Yule Witch by Herboreal
Dec 13th Forest Gnome by Nopalrabbit
Dec 14th Jingle All the Way & Dashing Through the Snow by Lord-Starryface
Dec 15th Holiday Comforts & Slay Ride by Erose
Dec 16th Lights in the Snow by Rainspeak
Dec 17th White Elephant by Thy
Dec 18th Spooky Yule by Gabrielsknife
Dec 19th Yule Tide by Nopal
Dec 20th Yule Bells by Herboreal
Dec 21st  Holiday Treats by TheWyvernAndTheFox
Dec 22nd Yule Spice & Jingle Helper by Key
Dec 23rd Yule in Pirillo by Nopalrabbit
Dec 24th Yule Log by Herboreal

December raffle

This mischievous turkeytail shroomkin is up for grabs if you enter this month's FREE TO ENTER raffle! Pick up your free ticket in the Yule Shop

See World > Gilde Shops > Yule Shop.

ODDS & ENDS

• There's a new Featured Character on the front page!
• A new advent calendar is up!
• Don't forget about our Yule Letter Exchange and Yule Art Exchange! Letters must be shipped by Dec 11th and Art Exchange presents should be added to the Yule Exchange sub-gallery between DECEMBER 21st until DECEMBER 31st. We will post reminders in the discord!
• A very exciting new Month of the Aiti and a new Beast Trial begin in January, so get ready by honing your aitielkh's magic skills!
• Sock markings have been updated to be used at any height on the leg, see the enclyopedia entries for more information.
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Patreon & server Boost rewards

As a reminder, there are a few Bepotelkh tiers on Herboreal's patreon which award you monthly goodies! Help support the site & its creators by subscribing!
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.

A strange looking debris bunny hops in to bring you mid-month news

The Bepotelkh yule card exchange Returns!

That's right, our snail mail card exchange has returned! In this beloved secret santa style event you will send out a physical card or letter and receive one in return! We will use a google form to collect the participants information will be open until 7PM MST Sunday November 19th and then Nopal will assign the participants on Monday November 20th. 

IMPORTANT: You MUST be 18 or older to participate, and by completing the form you understand and agree that the moderator (Nopal) and one other Bepotelkh.com member will receive your mailing information. All addresses will be kept private and disposed of after the event.

Intructions:

• Cards can be handmade or store bought!

• Some ideas for handmade cards are traditional media like paints or markers or mixed media with paper cutouts! Bepotelkh themed is great but it can also just be celebratory or have animals etc. (please nothing overtly religious).

• It is NOT required but you can also include things in your card like stickers, recipes, poems etc. (just make sure the card isn't too full/heavy!)

• We are expecting to have international members participate so please be aware that the stamp may be a little more expensive (In USA a domestic stamp is $0.66 and an international stamp is $1.50), So please be prepared to use a few extra stamps or buy an international stamp (you can order stamps at USPS.com if you're in the US). We also ask that if you are partnered with a group member outside of your country that you ship your card early!

• The absolute deadline to send your card is Dec 11th. If for whatever reason you sign up but then can't ship your card by the 11th please contact Nopalrabbit via Discord (Nopalrabbit) or TH (Nopal) ASAP.

• Fill out the form **HERE** by 7PM MST Sunday November 19th.

2023 Yule Art ExChange!

Secret Santa art exchange sign-ups are now open!  We are allowing for written entries this year so please make sure to specify if you'd like to receive ART ONLY or EITHER OK. If you are a writer you will automatically be put in the latter pool (this is to ensure enough people will be accepting prose gifts but won't guarentee that you get prose).

Instructions:

• Please read the instructions and fill out your form carefully! Sign-ups end Sunday November 19th.

• Once you are assigned a bep, make your gift by December 21st. All art pieces (traditonal or digital) must be colored, pixel art must be at least 100x100px, written pieces should be no less than 450 words. Art does not have to be full-body but please put love into your entry as this is a gift giving event!

• Please make sure you link to your character's profile (either on site or Toyhouse) with information about your character's personality and background if you are accepting written gifts!
  
  

• Please only enter this event if you believe you can finish and deliver your piece on time. If you realize you can't finish in time, please let Nopalrabbit know as soon as possible so we can find a backup artist! (And if you'd like to volunteer as a backup artist please let Nopal know!)

• Give your gifts out starting DECEMBER 21st until DECEMBER 31st. There will be a reminder in the discord! Make sure you directly message your secret santa with their gift! (or reply to their comment in this post), You may also submit your entry to the Yule Exchange sub-gallery (not until Dec 21st tho!). On December 21st the Yule Exchange turn-in prompt will open under the limited prompts category where you can turn in your entry for your rewards!

  • Remember, this event is about gift giving, people may be shy or busy around the holidays and not give an immediate reply to your gift! This does not mean the receiver is not grateful. If you are not okay with this please do not enter the secret santa.

• There will be an exclusive in-game goodie bag gift for participants in addition to gilde awards (see currency guide for gilde breakdown)
  
  
• Respond to Nopal's YULE ART EXCHANGE comment below with the following form completed. You have until Sunday November 19th to join in, the next day you will receive a DM either on Discord or Toyhou.se with your assigned secret santa.

Lorekeeper Username:
Discord or ToyHou.se Username:
How are you making your gift: ART / WRITING
Would you like to receive Art Only or Either OK: Art Only / Either OK
Link to Bepotelkh character(s) you'd like used for the gift:
Holiday theme: Yes/No/Indifferent

surprise november raffle!

This funny little bunny Habapi is up for Gift-to-Enter raffle!

See World > Prompts > Limited Prompts

ULPUKKA SUBDUED

Aitielkh willing to brave the dark and damp gathered in Glimworm Gulch to subdue Ulpukka. Returned to her former self, she vanished once again into the depths of the bog. Not all walked away unscathed, though; some elkh left the scene forever cursed. Whether they see this as a boon or an embarrassment is up to the individual, but regardless, these special elkh can now breathe underwater! It seems that ambassador Juhla was one such elkh. Though he seems a bit sheepish about it, it seems like he may enjoy his new abilities as he jumps from the docks of Glimworm Gulch, living life to the fullest as always.

You can see Juhla's kelpie-cursed form on his masterlist entry by clicking "IMAGES".

Everyone who participated will receive a Lv2 beast box as the group made the goal! Great work, everyone!

See WORLD >WORLD MAP >FIGURES >UKPUKKA
see BROWSE >NPCS >NPC-029: Juhla >Images

New magic is creeping in...

Introducing Shadow Step and Earth Sense!

New magic abilities have been discovered by aititelkh deep in their magic training. Will your aitielkh learn Shadow Step becoming master of shadows, turning into a shadow at will and unlocking a mysterious teleportation skill? Or will your aitielkh learn Earthsense and be able to use magic to communicate differently with the world around them, even seeing into into the past?

These new magics are ready to be learned through new Aitielkh Magic Trials! Read more in-depth about the new magic abilities over at the encyclopedia.

See WORLD >PROMPTS >AITIELKH MAGIC TRIALS

AUTUMNFOUND PROMPTS (last month!)

Autumnfound Prompts are still open for submissions! There are options for domestic elkh, wild elkh, aitielkh and shroomkin! We have also brought back the special Samhain Night shroomkin prompt! All prompts will be awarded acorns which can be turned in for gildes (1:1) at any time!

See WORLD > PROMPTS >Limited Prompts to find the Autumnfound prompts.

ODDS & ENDS

• The Featured Character is updated on the front page!
• There's a new Daily Calendar!
• We have updated the rule about breeding with mysterious carvings. When you roll fawns with a mysterious carving the combination trait you choose will now only count as one of your kept traits, instead of both. When you use the carving please still mention which traits you want to combine in the comment of the breeding claim. You may also use two mysterious carvings now (or more if you include resin incense on the claim). The design guide has been updated to reflect the rule change.
• Autumnfound continues this month! You can still do the Scavenger Hunt (see previous news post) and Autumnfound prompts to earn acorns to spend in the Autumnfound Shop! The shop closes Dec 1st, so get your purchases in now! Remember you can turn in your acorns for gildes 1:1 anytime by sending in a claim with the amount of acorns you wish to trade in.

Patreon & server Boost rewards

As a reminder, there are a few Bepotelkh tiers on Herboreal's patreon which award you monthly goodies! Help support the site & its creators by subscribing!
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.