Or at least, most of us aren't... *pokes Numie* Oh, okay she's alive, she just smells dead! Goodness woman, you need to stop using that Dead Fish perfume!

I'm so sorry for the lack of updates everyone. Things have been crazy busy for several of the staff members, myself included and as such we've run into some unfortunate snags. But we're determined to keep pressing on in spite of the hiccups. We won't be able to launch a Kickstarter that encompasses everything we wanted to do right away. Instead we're narrowing our focus on the key points that really matter: upgrading the site coding and layout, revamping the wardrobe to be more user friendly and releasing the new pet, breeding and lineage systems.

This means that the battle system and RPG features (such as questing and crafting) will be set aside for a future Kickstarter. Rather than be sad about that though, we're viewing it as an opportunity to take our time planning, both what we want from these features and in setting up a super awesome KS campaign.

More updates will be coming soon as we aim to have our "Mini Kickstarter" launch around the 1st of October! Are you excited? Well we sure are!

We've tallied all the posts and now have our winners! While the goals we set weren't reached we're still going to give out some rewards, just not the ones we originally planned on.

Now, our actual first place winner is Kellyara, but since she's publicly on hiatus and I'm very certain she wouldn't want us to give her a prize that will just collect dust on her account, I'm going to skip her name and move on down the list! First, I want to congratulate Kellyara on having the most posts, with a whopping total of 90! Well done!

Congratulations! I will be sending out the rewards in the next few minutes! Enjoy your shopping spree!

Please stay tuned for more updates on the Kickstarter, we're very close to having everything together (it's so much more work than it looks like! sheesh!) and I can't wait to share it all with you guys!

Okay, so it's been camping time for seven days now, I'm a little behind the times it would appear! Camp NaNoWriMo has been in full swing since July 1st and will be ending July 31st! To celebrate, we are as always offering prizes to those who win! Check out more in the Camp NaNo Thread and on the official website!

We've finally come to the final Guardian! Better late than never, right?



Second youngest of the Guardians, Emiryls is stern and to the point. She loathes wasting time and prefers good, hard work to laying about. She'll be the first to buckle down to a task and the last to call it quits. Her somber manner often makes her the brunt of Balvun's good-natured ribbing, which she always pays back with a scathing glare or icy rebuke. The lush, verdant rain forest will be your final destination in our initial storyline. With Emiryls at your back you'll unveil an ancient secret that threatens the peace and beauty of all the realms. Will your strength and the combined might of all the Guardians be enough to save the Tree of Origins?

I hope you guys are excited for our storyline, it's going to be so much fun! We've been doing a lot of plotting on not only this first chapter, but the chapters to follow as well and I'm confident you'll all be hooked! So what do you think of the Guardians? Who is your favorite? Which realm is your favorite so far?! What other realms might you like to see? Discuss in the comments!

A final announcement... Since I had some unexpected real life interruptions we've decided to extend the posting event to July 10th @11:59pm Origins Time. At that time we'll tally up all the posts and announce our winners! We'll be altering the reward tiers based on which users have the most posts rather than by a set post count, so don't worry if you haven't managed to reach any of the reward goals! Just do the best you can!

My apologies for the rather short announcement. We'll have more things to share very soon!!