Hey all! It's Royal, everyone's favorite event planner! We have a small little event for y'all, so without further adoo, I'd like to welcome you to...

🦉Wing week!🦉

It's just a small event to celebrate the release of the Small Wings. Go check out the forum! You can get a free pair of wings if you post!

Please don't panic if you see the colors changing!
Royal and I are working on swapping the colors out right now!

:::UPDATE 10/01/18:::
We have gotten the majority of the site converted! There are a few more things I want to tweak, but it is getting late and I need to sleep!

Hello everyone! I just wanted to make everyone aware of a face lift we are about to put the site through. As we've been working behind the scenes to create lore, we feel as though the site has drifted away from its original concept, and so it seems necessary to adjust our branding.

Royal and I are both working to recolor the current website with a few image changes, it will be reverting to a more blue/purple theme. We will be changing the site name as well and as such the URL will be updated too.

The URL change will take place in the next few days, however, I will set it up so that origins-tree redirects for the foreseeable future. The new URL is going to be.... www.faenaria.com I will make another announcement either right before the change or right after to let everyone know!



Why Faenaria you ask? That is going to be the name of the world in which our story takes place! I'm so excited to share it with you all, so please be watching for further updates! (trying to come up with the best way to share lore and make it available beyond just news posts lol)

In addition, Royal is working on another event and I am in the middle of getting some new FA items released! Yay!

Petatars.... o.o Awful word, not using that again.

I have an update about the pets being rolled into the avatar system! I would love to hear everyone's feedback on this as I am personally super stoked. However, I'm sure everyone has questions, so please don't hesitate to post in this thread with any comments/concerns and I'll do my best to address them.

So... I was working on doing some sample pictures of the pets we have finished, but out of random curiosity, I pulled up the baby sketches we have and I'm really in love with them! I showed Royal and my fiance, both of them agreed the babies look perfect with the avatars! Here's a preview, though I will likely make them a bit larger for the final product.



Do note, these are just baby sketches, the art isn't completely finished yet like the adults. So I want to throw up a vote. Below are what the adults look like with the avatars. Please post in the comments with whichever one you prefer! Another thing to keep in mind, we won't be abandoning the adult art. Again please see the discussion thread for more details.



I also want to remind everyone that myself and Royal are frequently available via Discord. You can join the Origins server by following this link:
Origins Discord Server

That's it for now! Don't forget to vote in the comments!!

Okay not the actual grave, but gosh it seems like that, I bet!!!

I'm so grateful to Royal for picking up so much slack around here. He's been a fantabulous asset and friend to me and the site, I can't express enough that so much of the recent improvements are because of him. Thanks for keeping things (and me) going, man, you're the best!!

Alright, that's enough mushy stuff....lol

I definitely owe everyone an update about the general state of the site. It's true that we're trying to get as much of the Kickstarter rewards out as possible. I must apologize for the coding still not being released. It seems that Paul has been having some health issues and has not been able to work. The last I heard he was going to come back, however, he's gone silent again. (on all his clients) Giving him the benefit of the doubt, please keep him in your thoughts and prayers, I'd hate to get upset at him and find out he really is going through some serious RL storms.

In the meantime, I'm trying to come up with a direction for this site and community that is true to our past, my own interests/desires, and what our fanbase has been expecting. I've had some ideas and inspiration that has lead me to believe the site would be best served with another face lift, some intensive world building, and focus on the avatars. Pets will still be featured, but won't be their own separate feature. For the time being (until we can get the programming for something different) they will be released as "mini pets", allowing users to equip them with their avatars. I will try this weekend to give a more thorough idea of what this means and perhaps even release some special pets.

As such, we will be hosting a Color Your Own event to launch the "new" feature and I will soon be presenting a more cohesive plan for the future. I just started a new job this week and I'm extra tired from getting back into the swing of mornings (evil, evil mornings). Once I get my schedule better set, I will also resume streaming, and will focus on *drumroll* an avatar overhaul! We'll be getting new bases and items as well as including the pets in rotation. So stick with me here folks, hopefully things will be picking up soon!!