Reach for the stars...

[Image Description: A header image with the "Ancient Breeds" graphic logo in the upper left. In the lower right it reads "Aether: A new ancient breed." A pink and purple dragon with moth wings, six limbs, a squat face, branching horns, and two antennae flies across the magical birch forest background.]

We¢re excited to announce that the next addition to our ancient breeds system, the Aether, have now been launched. Ancient Breeds are a way for the Flight Rising team to release more regular dragon content, with a few restrictions to make that possible. You can read about the ancient breed system in our Developer Update on the subject.


Aether
Aether dragons have descended from the stars! (or as close to them as they could manage.) The Astrolab research facility was levitated as high as the species could manage in efforts to get a better view of celestial bodies for their studies. This extreme levitation had the unfortunate side effect of sending facility into orbit with no way to return. It wasn't a complete catastrophe, as being in orbit gave the Aether a fantastic view of the stars! That is, until their main telescope detached and floated away and several others malfunctioned... but it's okay¢they're back now, even if the Astrolab is in pieces!

[Image Description: Image is of three Aether dragons displaying the hatchling art of an Aether hatchling curled up and looking up to their left; the male pose art where the male is jumping to his right and looking at the viewer with a mischievous expression; the female pose art, where the dragon is hovering mid-air and curled in, looking to the right with a happy and interested expression.]

You can read more about the reentry of the Aether into Sornieth in our short story, After Orbit, and gain some knowledge of their characteristics in the Encyclopedia.

If you¢re looking to change your dragons into an Aether, breed change scrolls may be purchased from the treasure marketplace.

To celebrate the debut of the Aether breed, all active players can visit Galore¢s Glorious Gifts and pick up unhatched aether-eggs if they wish to foster these paper-loving dragons in their lairs.

You will have until Wednesday, March 29th @ 06:00 server time to claim your gift.



Aether Genes: Unique & Parallel
It wouldn't be an Ancient Breed release without an impressive slate of unique and parallel genes!

Unique Genes
You can pick up the following unique Aether genes in the Treasure & Gem Marketplace:

You can find the following unique Aether genes by completing a dig site plot in Ancient Aerie in Arlos Ancient Artifacts.

You can create the following unique Aether genes using Baldwin¢s Bubbling Brew:

You can find the following unique Aether genes by battling monsters in the Coliseum:

Parallel Genes
In addition to the unique genes above, Aether can also exhibit some parallel genes that resemble those found in modern dragons. These genes will be available through the same type of gameplay (with the exception of Boulder, Myrid, Tide, Foam, Smirch, which are available through Baldwin) that their modern counterparts are. The parallel genes releasing today are:

Aether Forum Vista
You can show off your newfound Aether appreciation by sporting the following forum vista, now available in the Treasure Marketplace:

New Emojis

A set of fluffy Aether emojis are now available!

Ancient Plans
With the release of our 6th breed we wanted to touch base with everyone and discuss some of the challenges that Ancient breeds have presented¢namely that each ancient requires a unique gene scroll item. The release of so many gene items has created item lists that are difficult to search and navigate, and many variants of each gene to hunt for.

Our engineers are hard at work on the achievements system and the site refactor; down the line we plan to address the Ancient gene influx, particularly in the Marketplace, Auction House, Scrying Workshop, and across site activities. We wanted to acknowledge the issue and your feedback about how this is negatively impacting your ability to navigate and find the genes you want, as this is one that will continue to grow with each ancient breed.

If you have suggestions regarding the sorting and aquisition of ancient genes, please post them to the Suggestions forum, as they will be more difficult to find if posted to an announcement topic.

Users have requested an additional way to personalize their forum posts and profile page, so taking a cue from Discord we're introducing a new Status field that can be used to share a short motto, your pronouns, or an actual status like "Away until March 31". And of course you can choose to leave the Status field blank if you prefer. Your status will appear below your user name in forums and on your profile page. In the forums you can think of the Avatar Title as being commentary about your avatar (or perhaps something your avatar might say), while the Status is more about you. But there are no hard and fast rules, have fun with it! You'll find the new Status field in Settings > Avatar : Here are a few ways staff is using it.                                                 &n

Congratulations to jenboop20, who has just won the Ichu Lottery! The jackpot was worth 28,000 iP and the item prize was Magical Newborn Lepardos Mirror Shard!

This week's item prize will be Spirit Lantern! Lottery is drawn every Wednesday.

Every week, we will be selecting a random pet's blog from the Pet Zone. Only up-to-date blogs will apply for this.

This week, the award goes to Rex, who was worried about his sister!(read the blog to find out more)
For having an up-to-date blog with cute pictures, they have earned their owner Angelic a free account upgrade! Congrats!

Make sure you don't forget to put your real life pet images in the Pet Zone and ADD/keep UPDATED BLOGS to your pet images, so you have a chance to win!

Who knows, they might win the next weekly Pet Zone contest.

Been doing a bunch of fruit-based quizzes lately, so this one's all about berries. Did you know that botanically speaking, a tomato is a berry? Feel free to share any more berry-based facts you may have.

It's time to head over to Miles Magic Box and see if you can figure out which item is depicted by the artistic rendering. If you do before next week, you'll win a cool prize!

The bait has been hooked, fishing line cast and we have caught puppydude for this weeks aquarium contest winner!

....Congrats!

¢¢Remember, make sure you feed and care for your fish/tank and collect your nessies bonus daily, if you want a chance to win next week!

It is once again time for Junk Wars! If you have any junk laying around your closet or shops that you want to get rid of, why not throw it to one of your fellow players?

Just for doing so, you can earn yourself a cool trophy.

Head on over to Junk Wars now, and join in on the fun!

Congratulations to the following winners of Luck of the Draw, winning $100,000 PB :
Carlyy95
Gramoo
inoviia
Gramoo
Carlyy95

If you want to be a winner next time, check out the Luck of the Draw - Available at the House of Luck in Badgeria!

Today's winning Mega Money Madness number is: 1314

There were NO winners.

If you want to be a winner next time, check out the Mega Money Madness under the GAMES icon.

Raffle Result

This weeks raffle was won by Elliesaur.

They received 2,125,800 IP!

Game Trophies

The latest trophies have been awarded, and the leaders are as follows:

First Place, with a score of 331:

Quilladin
Second Place, with a score of 127:

CLC
Third Place, with a score of 86:

Kamisheru14

First Place, with a score of 71670:

Kamisheru14
Second Place, with a score of 60300:

SongOfStorms
Third Place, with a score of 36990:

CLC

First Place, with a score of 31890:

Quilladin
Second Place, with a score of 4675:

CLC
Third Place, with a score of 2705:

Loki

First Place, with a score of 120:

CLC
Second Place, with a score of 100:

Kamisheru14

First Place, with a score of 1229:

SongOfStorms
Second Place, with a score of 1068:

Kibasama
Third Place, with a score of 1062:

Quilladin

First Place, with a score of 93:

emanresu
Second Place, with a score of 67:

Kamisheru14
Third Place, with a score of 43:

CLC

First Place, with a score of 6500:

k_liandra
Second Place, with a score of 2850:

Quilladin, _Gem_stone_
Third Place, with a score of 2040:

CLC

First Place, with a score of 169:

Quilladin
Second Place, with a score of 160:

Dex
Third Place, with a score of 109:

CLC

Anne won last week's Battle Royale with a time of 105 seconds! All who completed the Battle Royale have been awarded their cP prize and first, second, and third place have also won trophies for their profiles.

Sign up your Ichumon in this week's Battle Royale Contest!

You will need to kill 13 White Wild Attack Rabbit in the Battle Royale Map as fast as you can. The quickest user to complete the battles will receive the top prize of 25,000 cP!

Tomorrow (March 20th) we will be holding our monthly 250k Mini Bubbles Challenge.

Staff and moderators will be putting up challenges in the Games Room. Once you have beaten a staff/moderator, please DO NOT challenge them again. It is our goal to get everyone who wants to win a vault code for a brand new Rosandra Farnee Bubble. Vault codes will be handed out on Tuesday.

Good luck and may the bubbles be with you.

Congratulations to the following Card Game Trophy Winners:
First Place Card Player: Iluvtrolls
Runner Up Card Player: AnitaCupaCoffee

If you want to be a winner, play the card games bonus games!

Dicey Mice Badges

Dicey Mice Diamond Badge: 13brandy13

Dicey Mice Titanium Badge: michelle2244

Dicey Mice Leather Badge: Daughtry

Mini Match Badges

Mini Match Diamond Badge: goodwitchev64

Mini Match Titanium Badge: SweetFire

Mini Match Leather Badge: -tiger-tiger-

Crash Extreme Badges

Crash Extreme Diamond Badge: chiquitabonita8

Crash Extreme Titanium Badge: Latios2006

Crash Extreme Leather Badge: SweetFire

Mini Bubbles Badges

Mini Bubbles Diamond Badge: -tiger-tiger-

Mini Bubbles Titanium Badge: crys_4now

Mini Bubbles Leather Badge: Latios2006

Bubbas Blocks Badges

Bubbas Blocks Diamond Badge: showtruck

Bubbas Blocks Titanium Badge: Gramoo

Bubbas Blocks Leather Badge: Carlyy95