The tide on the western coast rises¢¦ why and what is causing it?

Welcome to Realm of Lyth¢s month-long aquatic-themed event: Turn the Tides!
Follow the storyline via 4 week-long event prompts, and help determine the future of Lyth as we know it. Participate in extra activities, and collect new items to unlock additions for your Lythians that are more fitting for the increased water level.

Storyline

Earn rewards by following the storyline and completing prompts each week. You may complete all of the prompts up until the event ends, but story updates and prompts will only be released once per week.

Each week will have its own rewards, with additional rewards for completing prompts from all 4 weeks. To see more information including guidelines and rewards, visit the storyline page from the event hub.

Design Advent Calendar

To celebrate the event and the month of MerMay, a series of 8 special aquatic-themed designs made by various designers will be released throughout the month.

Previews and more information are available here.

Bottled Messages

Sift through the rising water to find messages and other items from the now-underwater cities of the western coast.

Throughout the event, you can collect a prize once per day by visiting the Bottled Messages page. You may even find some ingredients to make yourself a Water Form Potion for more than one of your Lythians¢¦

Crafting

With this event comes the live release of crafting! Crafting is a feature in which you may combine your ingredient items to create new items.

You must first discover recipes before you can actually create them. To discover new recipes, use your items on the discover page to attempt to find a recipe. Neither a failed nor successful attempt will take the ingredients from your inventory, however you can only make 3 attempts per day.

Once you have found a recipe, you can craft the item using your ingredients from the main crafting page. Actually crafting a recipe will use up the ingredients in exchange for a new item, so be sure you want to make the new item!

If you find a recipe, feel free to share the combination of ingredients with others!

Free Raffle

And last, but not least, we are holding a free raffle with Lythian design, companion, and item prizes. To gain entries to the raffle, you must advertise Lyth and/or the Turn the Tides event on various social media websites.

You may gain up to 4 entries for the raffle by advertising in various places! To report your entries to us, please us this Google Form, and view all raffle guidelines on this page.

Good luck out there, navigators! Something approaches and it is up to you to help the citizens of Lyth. Remember: your choices have a larger effect on the world around you than you may realize.

Good evening, CE players!

We have yet another exciting update for everyone so keep reading to learn more about our most recent development progress, bug updates, new releases, and more.

First off, we are thrilled to announce our breed registry woes are officially behind us! Breed registration now includes a 2-step verification process to ensure all proposed registrations meet our criteria. In addition to our 2-step verification, we have resolved issues with missing manes and added special permissions for private gene owners to utilize their genes in new registrations. We hope this gives you all additional excitement to create your own beautiful breeds!

On that note, we do have a few lingering bugs which will be fixed early next week:
- Error when setting breeds to private (please PM a staff member to have this done manually at this time)
- Mane/Tail brush error (tail updating, but manes staying the same)

Both of these errors are very easy fixes and unfortunately resulted from our breed registration upgrades. However, they have been identified and will be resolved very quickly!

Next up we wanted to briefly touch on what changes are slated for this week. We are continuing to focus on bug resolution and live feature refinement, so the following areas will be addressed this week in addition to the fixes mentioned above:

- Foal ownership revision (whoever pays the breeding fee will receive the foal post-breeding)
- Elder quest game errors (level resetting)
- Approved Creators for player breeds (add approved creators to your own private breeds + have the ability to charge coins/gems for access to creation)

I hope you are all excited about these fun little updates!

Finally, we have released chapter 8 of the Celestial Lore! For those of you who may be unfamiliar with the Celestial Lore, this is a fantastic story following the Royal Kingdom family and will tie into our pending "alliance" feature. We highly suggest everyone take some time to read the chapters if you would like more information on the backstory of Celestia or enjoy a little bit of fantasy light reading. Each chapter features beautiful art - which is always a fun plus! If you are familiar with the Celestial Lore, let us know your thoughts in the comments!

To wrap up this news post, we want to thank everyone for your continued support as we push forward with our development. It has been so wonderful interacting with so many new players the last few months!

Have a wonderful evening, and stay tuned for additional updates.

Good evening, CE players!

We have yet another exciting update for everyone so keep reading to learn more about our most recent development progress, bug updates, new releases, and more.

First off, we are thrilled to announce our breed registry woes are officially behind us! Breed registration now includes a 2-step verification process to ensure all proposed registrations meet our criteria. In addition to our 2-step verification, we have resolved issues with missing manes and added special permissions for private gene owners to utilize their genes in new registrations. We hope this gives you all additional excitement to create your own beautiful breeds!

On that note, we do have a few lingering bugs which will be fixed early next week:
- Error when setting breeds to private (please PM a staff member to have this done manually at this time)
- Mane/Tail brush error (tail updating, but manes staying the same)

Both of these errors are very easy fixes and unfortunately resulted from our breed registration upgrades. However, they have been identified and will be resolved very quickly!

Next up we wanted to briefly touch on what changes are slated for this week. We are continuing to focus on bug resolution and live feature refinement, so the following areas will be addressed this week in addition to the fixes mentioned above:

- Foal ownership revision (whoever pays the breeding fee will receive the foal post-breeding)
- Elder quest game errors (level resetting)
- Approved Creators for player breeds (add approved creators to your own private breeds + have the ability to charge coins/gems for access to creation)

I hope you are all excited about these fun little updates!

Finally, we have released chapter 8 of the Celestial Lore! For those of you who may be unfamiliar with the Celestial Lore, this is a fantastic story following the Royal Kingdom family and will tie into our pending "alliance" feature. We highly suggest everyone take some time to read the chapters if you would like more information on the backstory of Celestia or enjoy a little bit of fantasy light reading. Each chapter features beautiful art - which is always a fun plus! If you are familiar with the Celestial Lore, let us know your thoughts in the comments!

To wrap up this news post, we want to thank everyone for your continued support as we push forward with our development. It has been so wonderful interacting with so many new players the last few months!

Have a wonderful evening, and stay tuned for additional updates.

Hello! We've got a few big news things today so let's get right to it:

June is Pride Month! A time to celebrate under normal circumstances, but these times we are in are not normal by any means. We have planned for some time to create site items to sell for charity during June, but given the situation around the world, we have reached the decision to split donations from these sales between the Transgender Law Center and this ActBlue initiative which automatically further splits donations between bail funds and Black initiative funds.

The first Pride was a riot and we would not have this time to celebrate if it weren't for Black trans women who made it possible. We hope that by splitting the donations, we can help a little bit of both worlds. It's Pride Month, after all, but if our stance isn't also clear: Black Lives Matter.

We currently have a frame and four pets available in exchange for donations that we will forward to the charities mentioned above. To facilitate sales, we have set up a Storenvy page, from which you can purchase each of these items: here.

More information is available in each listing! Pets can be purchased featuring any Pride flag of your choice.

As of right now, we intend to reward items and make donations on approximately a weekly basis. However, we are currently NOT intending to end sales of these items, and as sales slow down, donation forwarding may be done on a monthly time frame.

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Now that we've made a frame purchasable with real life money, it was prudent to make further expansions to the frame feature. Thus we are excited to release the ability to preview frames, update your Lythian frames, and also use items to unlock new frames!

You can access the Frame Previewer by visiting Activities -> Activities Hub -> Frame Previewer. This page will allow you to see all available frames and test them out with your Lythians to see what might look best.

When you've decided to update your Lythian's frame for real, you can do so from their profile, by clicking the new ¢Change/Update Frame" button. Any frames they have unlocked will be permanently available to change between.

You may unlock new frames from items via your inventory -- if you received a Frame of the Sea from the Turn the Tides event, that item can now be used!

And finally, a new shop has opened up in the marketplace! Tessa the Flyte has a variety of frames available for you to purchase with Loonoles! Returning players from Astral Story may recognize these -- they are based on designs from Astral Story, and if your Lythian had unlocked any pre-merge, they have now been made available to those Lythians again. (This includes some event designs from October 2019 which are now able to use the ¢Summoning Circle 2019" frame.)

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Last, but not least, the MYO Forms have received massive upgrades, and masterlist art/design updates are now fully available on-site!

The MYO forms themselves should be fairly straightforward, but if you have questions or need help, we are always available! Additionally, with these updates, both the submitter and staff can now leave comments within the forms themselves, and discuss back and forth regarding uploads. You may also edit MYO submissions if an issue is found or something needs changed.

FPCs can also now be selected for their first design upload on the MYO page!

Art/design updates can be accessed from a Lythian or Companion's profile. The ¢Update [Lythian/Companion] Art/Design" button will lead you to a form where you can:
- Update art without design changes (or very minor design changes) (Lythians &Companions)
- Update designs with item usage (Lythians only)
- Update both of the above on alternate forms (Lythians only)
- Unlock new alternate forms (such as with the Water Form Potion) (Lythians only)

As with the MYO forms, simply fill out the information and submit! If you have questions or experience issues, please do feel free to contact us!

As these functions are completely available on-site, the DeviantArt journal for MYOs and art/design updates is now retired.

Hello! We've got a few big news things today so let's get right to it:

June is Pride Month! A time to celebrate under normal circumstances, but these times we are in are not normal by any means. We have planned for some time to create site items to sell for charity during June, but given the situation around the world, we have reached the decision to split donations from these sales between the Transgender Law Center and this ActBlue initiative which automatically further splits donations between bail funds and Black initiative funds.

The first Pride was a riot and we would not have this time to celebrate if it weren't for Black trans women who made it possible. We hope that by splitting the donations, we can help a little bit of both worlds. It's Pride Month, after all, but if our stance isn't also clear: Black Lives Matter.

We currently have a frame and four pets available in exchange for donations that we will forward to the charities mentioned above. To facilitate sales, we have set up a Storenvy page, from which you can purchase each of these items: here.

More information is available in each listing! Pets can be purchased featuring any Pride flag of your choice.

As of right now, we intend to reward items and make donations on approximately a weekly basis. However, we are currently NOT intending to end sales of these items, and as sales slow down, donation forwarding may be done on a monthly time frame.

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Now that we've made a frame purchasable with real life money, it was prudent to make further expansions to the frame feature. Thus we are excited to release the ability to preview frames, update your Lythian frames, and also use items to unlock new frames!

You can access the Frame Previewer by visiting Activities -> Activities Hub -> Frame Previewer. This page will allow you to see all available frames and test them out with your Lythians to see what might look best.

When you've decided to update your Lythian's frame for real, you can do so from their profile, by clicking the new ¢Change/Update Frame" button. Any frames they have unlocked will be permanently available to change between.

You may unlock new frames from items via your inventory -- if you received a Frame of the Sea from the Turn the Tides event, that item can now be used!

And finally, a new shop has opened up in the marketplace! Tessa the Flyte has a variety of frames available for you to purchase with Loonoles! Returning players from Astral Story may recognize these -- they are based on designs from Astral Story, and if your Lythian had unlocked any pre-merge, they have now been made available to those Lythians again. (This includes some event designs from October 2019 which are now able to use the ¢Summoning Circle 2019" frame.)

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Last, but not least, the MYO Forms have received massive upgrades, and masterlist art/design updates are now fully available on-site!

The MYO forms themselves should be fairly straightforward, but if you have questions or need help, we are always available! Additionally, with these updates, both the submitter and staff can now leave comments within the forms themselves, and discuss back and forth regarding uploads. You may also edit MYO submissions if an issue is found or something needs changed.

FPCs can also now be selected for their first design upload on the MYO page!

Art/design updates can be accessed from a Lythian or Companion's profile. The ¢Update [Lythian/Companion] Art/Design" button will lead you to a form where you can:
- Update art without design changes (or very minor design changes) (Lythians &Companions)
- Update designs with item usage (Lythians only)
- Update both of the above on alternate forms (Lythians only)
- Unlock new alternate forms (such as with the Water Form Potion) (Lythians only)

As with the MYO forms, simply fill out the information and submit! If you have questions or experience issues, please do feel free to contact us!

As these functions are completely available on-site, the DeviantArt journal for MYOs and art/design updates is now retired.

Thank you so much to everyone for participating in the Turn the Tides event! The epilogue is now available to view on the Storyline event page.

All prompt claims have had their rewards sent out -- if you are missing anything from any part of this event, please let us know!

Additionally, the raffle has been rolled and prizes have been sent out as follows:
NA14 - Fluffy-imp
AX47 - Yams
Orch MYO - walls96
Orch MYO - LilMissLillie
Water Form Potion - solsurfing
Water Form Potion - Syleira

Thank you again for participating! We have a Google Form available with survey questions, if there is anything you would like to let us know regarding this event, or things you'd like to see from future events!

Thank you so much to everyone for participating in the Turn the Tides event! The epilogue is now available to view on the Storyline event page.

All prompt claims have had their rewards sent out -- if you are missing anything from any part of this event, please let us know!

Additionally, the raffle has been rolled and prizes have been sent out as follows:
NA14 - Fluffy-imp
AX47 - Yams
Orch MYO - walls96
Orch MYO - LilMissLillie
Water Form Potion - solsurfing
Water Form Potion - Syleira

Thank you again for participating! We have a Google Form available with survey questions, if there is anything you would like to let us know regarding this event, or things you'd like to see from future events!

[center] We are celebrating Father's Day from June 9th, 2020 to June 30th, 2020. We have 2 new item to commemorate this holiday.

[img]https://solpets.com/images/items/item_748.png[/img] [img]https://solpets.com/images/items/item_749.png[/img]

Thank you @Silcoon they look amazing! Thank you @Plaguebourne for the item descriptions. [/center]

Week 4 of the Turn the Tides event has arrived, and a new prompt is now available on the Storyline event page. Additionally, we have extended the event deadline for all prompts for one additional week until June 15th at 23:59:59! This gives you some extra time to complete the final week's prompt (as well as the other prompts if not completed yet)!

For completing all four weeks, you can earn the final event rewards of a water alternate form potion, a special frame, and an achievement!

The choice you made in the previous week will affect the prompt you see this week. Similarly, you cannot see the prompt this week until you choose for week 3.

Last, but not least, we welcome BattiDanni to the team as our new moderator manager! You'll be seeing her around the site and Discord as well from now on!

Week 4 of the Turn the Tides event has arrived, and a new prompt is now available on the Storyline event page. Additionally, we have extended the event deadline for all prompts for one additional week until June 15th at 23:59:59! This gives you some extra time to complete the final week's prompt (as well as the other prompts if not completed yet)!

For completing all four weeks, you can earn the final event rewards of a water alternate form potion, a special frame, and an achievement!

The choice you made in the previous week will affect the prompt you see this week. Similarly, you cannot see the prompt this week until you choose for week 3.

Last, but not least, we welcome BattiDanni to the team as our new moderator manager! You'll be seeing her around the site and Discord as well from now on!

[center] [img]https://solpets.com/images/buildings/wishingwell.png[/img]

All you do is choose a item from your wishlist. You will be able to choose 1 item (or 2 if premium user) per month to wish for at the Wishing Well. The more sPoints you throw in the better your chances of your wish coming true!

Wishes are granted once a month.

The wishing well is located on the West side of Shine City near the money tree.

Thank you Silcoon for the artwork. :) [/center]

Featured Lythian This month's Featured Lythian is...

HA52 Enter
Owned by: SunglassesArlo
Congratulations!

Gifting Gacha Increased Rates Items with increased rates in this month's Gifting Gacha are:

Skeletal Apple

String

Shiny Beetle

Flower

Spira Shell

Gold FAKER

Featured Lythian This month's Featured Lythian is...

HA52 Enter
Owned by: SunglassesArlo
Congratulations!

Gifting Gacha Increased Rates Items with increased rates in this month's Gifting Gacha are:

Skeletal Apple

String

Shiny Beetle

Flower

Spira Shell

Gold FAKER