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Last week's round of What Am I has ended.

The item description was: This hard candy has a blend of mint and lime
The answer was: Lime Mint Hard Candy.

13 out of 14 Ichuans answered correctly.

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Today's winning Mega Money Madness number is: 7686

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Congratulations to our Snapz! of the week winner: Debowski


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Yesterday's correct answer was I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.


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A flurry of red lights mingle with the green in the night sky. If you're lucky, you might catch a glimpse of a red figure soaring through the air. It's official: Prosperity has finally awakened!

As the red Aurora soars through the chilly winter night, the feathers from his wings shower down onto Terrafrost. If you happen to catch one, you will feel overcome with a sense of strength and ambition that you might not have had before.

Prosperity is grateful to those who participated in last week's awakening!



Now, Generosity and Prosperity await the awakening of the third and final Aurora; their beloved partner Peace! And with Aurestal more than a week away, Terrafrostians still have plenty of time to help awaken them!

Here's how you can take part in this week's awakening:
-Feed, play with, and give collection items (including repeats) to your pets!
-Participate in this fun new thread where users will be discussing the holiday season!

Be sure to do these activities before December 22nd, 23:59:59 IcePets Time! As with the other awakenings, you will be awarded Aurestal Event Points when you do your part, which can be spent at a unique store that opens at the end of December.

In today's update, a veteran moderator returns! We also have the Item Caption Contest winners and many answers to your many questions in Ask the Team. This is a big update, so pull up a seat, refill your coffee, tea, or water, and settle in!

Welcome back, Alphaeon!

We're excited to welcome back a veteran volunteer moderator¢@Alphaeon!

Alphaeon's also a veteran moderator of the Bug Reports forum and you might see this blue and gold macaw flying about there from time to time! Please give a warm welcome (or welcome back) to the newest member of the volunteer moderator squad!


Item Caption Contest 7

In our last Community Update we announced the Item Caption Contest and now¢a couple thousand entries later¢the results are in! The winners are credited in the tooltip of the item, and they'll receive a copy of the item they wrote for, the writer's vista applied to their account, and 1000 gems.

Thank you to everyone who participated, and congratulations to our winners!

(There's a bit of a delay with the captions in the forums, but you can read them in the Game Database!)


Ask the Team

Do you have a burning question about Flight Rising lore that hasn't been addressed yet? Are you curious about our development process or philosophy? Maybe you're interested in learning more about the game itself?

If you do, send us a message through Contact Us using the category Ask the Team!

How It Works

1. Navigate to our Contact Us webform.
2. Select the "Ask the Team" category in the dropdown menu.
3. Fill out the required fields, including your question.
4. Submit your completed webform.

You will receive an automated reply confirming receipt of your question. When you use the "Ask the Team" category your question is tagged for the team to review.


Ask the Team Answers

Questions submitted to us through the "Ask the Team" category will be answered in our Community Updates.

Note: While we won't be able to answer every question sent to us, all questions are documented for the Flight Rising team to review, both now and in the future.


As Always

We don't provide estimated release dates, privileged information, or discuss account actions with third-parties.

We understand there may be a preference for the weekly/bi-monthly stickied thread. Our goal with this new format (Contact Us webform category and answers in Community Updates) is to answer more than a small (and rushed) handful of questions at a time.

Now on to your questions!



Lore

The direct lore answer to your question is that the egg would survive and simply retain its element, shielded magically by its outer shell.

The development lore answer that removing the old egg rot mechanic was part of our choice to make all dragon eggs a bit more hardy and magically robust in nature. It's also part of the reason why we created things like Nocturne, Bogsneak, and Banescale eggs in addition to the unhatched elemental ones.

Plague healers are an interesting bunch because rather than administer treatments that counter illness, they use a mixture of magic and contagion that stress the affected dragon further, allowing them to reach a stronger, healed, and resistant state faster than other elements. Plague healers will treat physical injuries with sutures, bandages, and braces, but they won't clean the wounds or apply ointments.

There's something to be said here about moths being attracted to electrical light sources...

No immediate plans or events, but it's possible we'll be fleshing out Talona and her followers in the future a bit down further down the line.

While the elemental flights are incredibly important to the overall lore and gameplay for Flight Rising, there are many, many dragons that may have "hatched into" their origin element, but have since eschewed banners and exercise no allegience. While not uncommon, how these free agent dragons are regarded differs from clan-to-clan. The couriers were likely some of the first to strike out on their own, and did so en masse!

Males have these long claws as well! They're used to disembowel prey and can fold neatly back out of the way when burrowing.

Prudence is an adult Roc, but is much smaller than average¢how could such a delicate flower survive on her own!? Fiona simply had to take her in! There's absolutely no way such a defenseless jewel would have been able to fend for herself in the wild!

1. Joxar is so enthusiastic about festivals that he spends just about every waking moment between preparing for the next one.
2. The Trading Post is a collaborative meeting space for Sornieth's most prolific hawkers and merchants, but the 'post' itself is uprooted every so often and the entire company moves to another location to reach new customers. At each new location, there's a chance a new dragon will join the roving caravan. And sometimes the group will set up shop in the mountains, beaches, or valleys where no roads exist and part of why we can't call it the Crossroads in canon!
3. Pipp and Tripp are caravan orphans, adopted by Swipp during his travels. Their adoptive mother is off finding new merchandise and deals from far and wide! They see her serveral times yearly, but she isn't a large a figure in their life as their father and the other denizens of the Trading Post are.
4. Tomo and Scribbles have been companions for a long, long time, and only Scribbles probably remembers just how long. They're steadfast friends!

This was mostly a vampire joke, considering Nocturne dragons are very bat-like in appearance. But we suppose that would extend to other reflective surfaces as well!

The liquid shadows falling from Shadowbinder's body are produced constantly, and do linger for decades unless countered by direct intervention from Lightweaver.

The shadow primal eyes are a lesser manifestation than Shadowbinder's, and linger only for a few moments before dissipating.

She can assume both gaits, though is slightly faster on all fours. This doesn't matter much, as on the occassions where she requires swiftness, she'll fly.

Dragons reach their final adult proportions by the time their very first (e.g. from birth) breeding cooldown has expired.

When the Icewarden sealed away the gaolers, the Orders basically calcified. The only gaolers not currently re-evaluating their social structure as it pertains to modern Sornieth are the Overseers and the Sentinels. Failure is not an option for these Orders as the consequences would be far-reaching. Whatever changes are made within their home territory will be built around providing continued support for the Overseers and Sentinels.

You'll have to wait and see!

Yes.

Emperor dragons are no longer living dragons. Scrolls work on dragons who are alive and are also active on Sornieth. Dragons who are alive but have attained exaltment in service to their elemental deity are also not eligible.

If we tried to answer this question, we'd be here all week counting the many dragons and their many fine toothed combs.

Development

Generally, the question we ask ourselves every time we start creating new creatures or areas is: does this look like it would fit within the world of Flight Rising? In this case, a Serthis just felt like it made sense for Sornieth.

We're still working on merch behind-the-scenes but don't have any major updates ready to share. Thanks for taking interest!

One of the things that's special about our team is that we bring a lot of different styles and workflows together to make the game. I think we'd love to start exploring sharing some of that with you in our official Dev Stream, so keep an eye out for announcements about that in the future.

Since this is a pretty technical question, we went right to the source and got an answer from @Kaepora. Here's what he had to say:

Skins, quite honestly, took us by surprise. We knew that there would be a legion of talented artists joining Flight Rising, but the community that sprung up around creators has been amazing to see.

This is a suggestion and request we hear often. Flight Rising is a virtual pet simulator with breeding as the core mechanic. A custom dragon creator bypasses the breeding mechanic entirely. We realize that it's fun to customize dream dragons though, so we created the Scrying Workshops Predict Morphology feature to allow you to dream up the best dragons possible!

Any references to violence or gore in player-generated content posted on our site must be in line with our existing lore:

Adventure Mode (or whatever we ultimately call it) is currently in the very early stages of development, and has absolutely not been scrapped. One thing we'd like the community to know is that there are a vast array of moving parts to Adventure Mode and it actually requires a lot of internal tool development as well, so the work is slow-going. The feature will not only be an additional regular activity on the website, but a progression of Flight Rising's ongoing story. Our team (comprised of folks all over the country) got together for a team summit one weekend last fall (2019) to really dig into the backbone of the story and framework we wanted to build so we can plan for the longterm. It's a large undertaking!

It's still too early for us to share very much, but a lot of your lore-related questions (as well as some of our open cliffhangers) stand to be addressed in the addition of this feature.

Om nom nom nom!

We used to have a mechanic like that! Egg Rot was deeply unpopular, so away it went.

We don't have plans to implement a way to cancel or discard nests given the random nature of nests. We added a pop-up modal asking players if they're sure they want to breed two dragons before the nest is laid to prevent accidental nests.

By keeping an eye on our Employment Opportunities page! While requirements may vary from position to position, all applicants must be 18 years of age or older, be able to work in or contract to the United States, and have job experience or a portfolio relevant to the position they're applying for.

Who here hasn't written a little blurb (or a lot!) of fanfiction?

Seriously though, fan fiction is just that¢fan fiction. We ask players don't post anything on our site that violates our Terms of Use or Rules & Policies and that you don't monetize fan fiction that uses our IP. We retain all rights to our IP, copyright, and trademark.

Like a lot of startups, Stormlight Workshop began pretty small. In the early days, team members wore a dozens of hats and had to be extremely flexible to the different needs a blossoming project demanded. Thankfully, we've been successful enough to expand the team and allow people to specialize into roles they are particularly adept at. Division of responsibilities and delegation have been a huge boon to Flight Rising as it continues into its 8th year, and given many of us the peace of mind to contribute to its ongoing growth with a lot more certainty and deliberation.

We name them!

We have a page in the Knowledge Base for that!

Tag away! Thank you for the consideration, but please, feel free to tag the account when you're sharing your fan art. And if you use #FRFanArt when you post your fan art, it could be retweeted, reblogged, or spotlit in a Community Update.


That's it for today's update! The FRFanArt Spotlight will return in our next Community Update, which will also spotlight the player run elemental festival events!

These were released into the park! Happy hunting!

Admin Announcements: ID Thread

Congratulations to Boltmika, who has just won the Ichu Lottery! The jackpot was worth 35,500 iP and the item prize was Demon Skoilo Plushie!

This week's item prize will be Draco Egg! Lottery is drawn every Wednesday.

While taking a relaxing sleigh ride through the fresh fallen snow, admiring winters wonderland, we came to a sudden halt!
Our eyes opened wide, dancing in delight, we snuck between trees, to have a closer look.
It was a magical snowscape created by Boogiee. Making this player todays snowscape winner!

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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 Tazz, who sadly passed away :( -- (read the blog to find out more)

For having an up-to-date blog with cute pictures, they have earned their owner MoonbabyAmanda a free account upgrade! Congrats!

Make sure you don't forget to put your real life pet images in the Pet Zoneand 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.

¢ Deepest condolences to *MoonbabyAmanda* on the loss of your furbaby :(