The Kebanzu 2024 fall event has arrived!

As the colors of the leaves start changing and a cool chill lingers in the air, kebanzu start celebrating the arrival of Soulsrest.

The Fall Event Begins: October 1st at 10 am Pacific Time

The Fall Event Ends: November 1st at Midnight Pacific Time

Kebanzu celebrate the festivities of Soulsrest in many different ways, whether it be visiting the sacred memorial groves or going out in costumes.

> You can find all the information for the fall prompts Here! <

2024 fall storybook prompts

Fogbrew Hollow is a cozy, forested hub known for being charmingly spooky all year around. Where most hubs have beautiful vistas and sunlit fields, Fogbrew is set in a sprawling, dense forest, lit up by glowing lanterns and enchanted, spectral flora. For the most part, the ghostly facade of Fogbrew is just that - a cover to protect the quaint little town within. However, during this year’s month of Soulsrest, something supernatural seems to be stirring on the edge of the hub!

Locals report that they have seen lights flickering in one of the big, old, derelict cabins on the edge of town. Smoke comes from the chimney at odd hours of the night, voices have been heard, and shadowy figures have been seen in the windows. The place should be abandoned, but local ghost hunters say these are all classic signs of a haunting!

Completing each of the Storybook Prompts will earn you an Exclusive Badge, and a randomised Loot Box of Traits.

Completing ALL of the Prompts conjures up...purrhaps a new friend?

> ! Check out each of the prompts Here ! <

Happy Haunting!

new SEASONAL SHOP items & Trick or treating!

Make sure to check out the Candy Corn Exchange for the new seasonal traits, and grab your seasonal Spooky Pets & Mounts while they're available in the Pet Shop!!

🍭 Gummy Horns 🍭 Cost:  2	🍮 Gummy Tail 🍮 Cost:  2
🦷 Candy Teeth 🦷 Cost:  2	👁️ Trailing Eyes 👁️ Cost:  2

During the month of October, make sure to stop by Sam's house to collect your weekly trick-or-treating !
The Seasonal Weeklies mean that every week you have a chance to collect 1-3 CO or the chance at a random, surprise Spooky Trait!!

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The Kebanzu 2024 Summer Event is now Live!!

The Kebanzu Summer Event is here once again, and this year we are excited to announce the arrival of the 2024 Summer Storybook Prompt and the Terramesia Summer Games!

The Summer Event Begins: July 3rd at 11 am Pacific Time

The Summer Event Ends: August 12th Midnight Pacific Time

Welcome to the Terramesia Summer games! 

Kebanzu from all over Terramesia have been invited by Summer to the Southern Red Desert to participate in and spectate the highly competitive show of specialized skills and physical prowess.

Do you have what it takes to compete?

Team Gold wins with 448 Points!!

During the course of the Event, you can choose to represent one of three teams to earn points for: Team Cardinal, Team Sapphire, or Team Gold!

Keep in mind, you can only choose/enter for one team throughout the event, so make sure you state clearly in your prompt or prompt description which one you are entering!
If you wish to switch teams, you can only do so once via a claim.
To prevent unfair, last-minute team switching, Team Scores will be hidden for the last week of the event

Team Cardinal Team Leader: Carmine Team Points: 398   Represented by fiery reds and their iconic Serpenti mascot, Team Cardinal brings the heat!

Team Sapphire Team Leader: Saori Team Points: 259   Team Sapphire represents the Riptide Shores with their dazzling blues and Summer Kit insignia!

Team Gold Team Leader: Emiran Team Points: 448   Hailing from the Golden Harbor, these kebs sport shining yellows and a golden Axolith emblem!

Kebanzu have the opportunity to participate in four different categories to earn points for their team!

Each prompt may only be entered once, so use your entries and points wisely!

Click the header/title of each Sport Category to find more details about each prompt!

As you earn Sand Dollars with each prompt, you also earn Points and a Badge Award representing your respective Team!
Points are 1:1 to SD, and make sure to check HERE to see how many SD you can earn per entry!

The participants of the winning team at the end of the Event will earn a 👑special addition✨ to their Team Badge AND the following rewards:
- 1 Summer Pet/Mount
- 25 SD
- 25 CC

Participants of the Runner-up Teams will recieve the following rewards:
- 15 SD
- 15 CC

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Good Luck and most importantly, Have Fun!

2024 Summer Storybook Prompts!

As well as the Terramesia Summer Games, there are also 3 Storybook Prompts to also take part in!

The Luau Festival, hosted at the Banded Beaches Hub, is a collaborative celebration that takes place every year.
There will be delicious food and drink, dancing and music, fun and games on the beach, and the all important Luau Stew that everyone brings ingredients for!

Completing each of the Storybook Prompts will earn you an Exclusive Badge, and a randomised Loot Table Trait! 

> ! Check out each of the Prompts Here ! <

We hope you enjoy the Festival!

And last, but certainly not least, we bring you...

new SEASONAL SHOP items & sand dollar digging!

Make sure to check out the Sand Dollar Exchange and grab your seasonal Summer Pet/Mounts while they're available in the Pet Shop!!

🥕 Vegetable Horns 🥕 Cost: 3	🌽 Vegetable Markings 🌽 Cost: 3	🌱 Earthen Body 🌱 Cost: 2
💨 Bubble Breath 💨 Cost: 1	☀️ Summer Pet/Mount ☀️ Cost: 10	🌊 Deep Water Palette 🌊 Cost: 2

And while you're out and about looking at the new items in shops, stop by the shores and see if you can dig for any stray Sand Dollars with Summer!
The Seasonal Weeklies mean that every week you have a chance to collect 1-3 SD or the chance at a random, surprise Summer Trait!!

This Event is brought to you with lots of love from the Keb Staff, and we hope you have an absolute blast of a Summer!

Jobs Update!!!

Well hello everyone! It's been in the works for years, and here it is! The Jobs Update!!

Guilds

Starting today your kebs can join one of the six Jobs Guilds on Terramessia:

• Academic - Characterized by the pursuit of knowledge, learning and education. 
• Crafting - Characterized by the pursuit of creativity in a functional sense.
• Creative - Characterized by the pursuit of creativity in an expressive sense.
• Gathering - Characterized by the pursuit of gathering resources from the natural world.
• Pastoral - Characterized by the pursuit of agriculture, tending to the land and animals.
• Public Service - Characterized by the pursuit of service towards others.

You might remember the guild leader design contest and the winners announced via discord, all of these kebs are now live and running the guilds!
You can see all of the guilds' respective pages here! 

You will be able to switch guilds if you like, but if you do, it resets your progress in your current guild.

Prompts

There are 15 (yes, fifteen!) new prompts for each guild that your kebs can join and participate in to rank up through the guild and get some really awesome rewards.
These rewards can be pets, traits, mounts, a new currency for the 6 new Guild Shops, badges for your characters, and more!

Prompt Requirements

Guidelines:

Drawings: Color with a background, Full or Half Body
Writing: Minimum 750 words

Base rewards:

15 ES (+10ES for extra character)

Currencies

We have also added seven new character-specific currencies. These coins are known as Glint!

There's Guild Glint which increases your rank in the guild, from Initiate to Master!

Then there's guild-specific glint that you can spend in the new shops!

Shops

There are six new shops to spend your Glint! This features some very special items that aren't available for currency anywhere else!

Academic Shop	Crafting Shop	Creative Shop
Gathering Shop	Pastoral Shop	Public Service Shop

and So much more!

You'll have to explore around to see it all! There's just so hecking much, we can't really fit it all into one announcement!

Please send love to Feniick, as he did the writing for this project!
Reddemonspy for the awards and guild icons, EterniiTea for doing the web work and helping with the glint designs, and last but certainly not least-
Tigenki, RK-V00, Azure, and Mothman for helping with other guild art assets as well!

Lore Update

We are so excited to share this piece of lore that we have been working on. While the magic system itself is still a work in progress, we have some information about the magical elements that shape the world. Huge thanks to Reddemonspy for making the beautiful accompanying art, and to Feniick for helping to develop the elements.

Magical Elements of Terramessia

In the beginning, three elements combined to bring life to Terramessia.
The Dust and soil gave way to Nature, spurred on by a Spark of life.

From Dust, Humans sprang forth, their adaptability and endurance ensuring their survival.
From Nature came the Sahiir, who protect the cycle of life, death, and rebirth.
From Spark came the Taenin, who harnessed flame to fuel their inventions.

The forces of the outer Cosmos maintained a barier around the world keeping it protected, but isolated.
While another force within held Chaos, wild and unpredictable, which threatened to disrupt the balance.

Kebanzu, at home in their plane of Chaos, disrupted this force by the over harvesting of the magic that formed their world.
When their world was disrupted, Chaos was set free into Terramessia along with the Kebanzu.
The shockwave of this disruption also freed the force of the Cosmos and allowed for new visitors to land in the world.

Cosmos returned to the world with the arrival of the Ren Fairs, bringing balance.
In the years since the end of the great hibernation, the elements are in harmony once more, and new magic has begun to sprout...

The Kebanzu 2024 Spring Event is now live!!

🌹 ✨ 🌹 ✨ 🌹 ✨ 🌹 ✨ 🌹 ✨ 🌹

The first event of 2024!!! ✨ 💖

The first two Spring Prompts - Library of Alexandria and Stargazing - are now open for entries! Two more prompts will unlock on April the 10th and a further two on the 20th!

But what's this? Light Song's sword has gone missing???!!! 😱 The storybook theme this spring is a journey most perilous! Will your character answer the call? There are three storybook prompts in total that unlock as you play - there's a shiny storybook badge reward plus bonus reward if you complete all three and exclusive badges to collect along the way! 🙌

🌹 Check out the first 2 prompts + starting storybook prompt here! 🌹

Don't forget that you can add Valkyrie to your prompts as a bonus 5th keb!!
Her Masterlist entry is here,  and full set of references is here!

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Two new traits have been added to the Enchanted Rose Exchange!
💨 Enchanted Breath✨ | 🍓Fruit Horns🍇

🌹Check out the Enchanted Rose shop here!🌹

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Dates and Deadlines!
🌹 The Spring Event begins: April 2nd Pacific Time
🌹 The Spring Event ends: April 30th at midnight Pacific Time

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Daily Enchanted Rose Foraging!
You can top up on daily ER here during the Spring Event!

ULTIMATE MARBLE RACE SCAVENGER HUNT 2024

ARE YOU READY TO WATCH THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE OF SKILL AND SPEED??

HERE AT THE CROSSROADS WE HAVE ONLY ONE NATIONAL SPORT and that is

ULTIMATE MARBLE RACING

Sound the alarm and GRAB YOUR LUCKY MARBLES BECAUSE OUR SEASONAL HERALDS ARE READY, THE COMPETITION IS ABOUT TO GET REAL HOT AND THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE WINNER

>>> IF YOU ARE UP TO THE CHALLENGE, visit the Scavenger Hunt page for MORE information!! <<<

Western Grasslands

"Come for the capra stay for the charm!"

The Hub

Sunset Peninsula

"The sun never sets on this party!"

The Hub

Lore Event - Enchanted Crystal Maintenance

No further movement or attempts at breaking into the hubs has been noted from the Marked Exiles in the two years since the chaos in the Mythic Forest, but Amon and some of the other Hub leaders have asked citizens to keep an eye on any exposed veins of Enchanted Stones or Enchanted Crystals.

Mines in Golden Harbor, Wartorn Wastes, Frostfell, Charbrook, and the Red Divide have all asked for citizens to come by to see how to properly care for and harvest magic from the source.

In order to keep track of the locations that you have visited, we've set up a new Scavenger Hunt! Take a look around using the hunt page below:

Enchanted Crystal Maintenance

It has been two years since the strange wild magic events plaguing the Mythic Forest occurred. 

Scouts within the hub alerted hub leader Amon that there had been sightings of humans within the boundaries of the hub which was concerning as the enchantments built into the hub generator should keep outsiders away from a certain proximity. 

In order to further investigate, a group of Kebanzu were sent out by Lightsong to scout the areas where the humans had been seen and make sure their hub had not been discovered or infiltrated. 

After a hike through the dense tree growth, the scouting party discovered a human wearing what appeared to be pre-war clothing - spandex running shorts and a sleeveless vest with wireless headphones - technology which was hard to come by for those outside of specific hubs and nearly impossible to find intact among the non-keb communities.

 The team decided to follow this man at a distance as he appeared to jog casually through the forest, not seeming to be obstructed by the roots and undergrowth along the way. 

Eventually, the man led the team to the ruins of a human city that had been destroyed during the wars and overgrown over the past centuries, reclaimed by the forest around it. To their surprise, many humans appeared to have been living in the ruins here. The scouts donned their human forms to disguise themselves and try to get more information, but only were met with more confusion. 

The humans in this town seemed to frequently be lost in thought, getting directed and forgetting who they were talking to or what was being said. They also appeared to not all be wearing clothing from the same pre-war time periods. Finally, one of the scouts noticed that some of the humans here vanished entirely once they lost line of sight and would reappear in other places, seemingly replaying certain events on a loop. 

Shortly after this revelation, one of the waves of unpredictable wild magic serged through the area causing the forms of the humans to warp and distort. It became apparent that these were restless souls, and something within the flares of magic had disturbed them, causing them to appear and walk about. 

In order to deal with this, the party  decided it would be best to try and find the source of the strange magic. The waves seemed to emanate from within a building sporting a large banner reading Historical Center and Museum, its large  automatic glass doors long since shattered and stuck half open. Inside, some of the not fully broken fluorescent lighting flickered despite the age. It was quickly discovered that someone had been here recently and hooked up a generator. More confusing still, the generator was clearly Kebanzu in make and utilized Enchanted Crystals to power itself. 

The scouting party discovered that within the catacombs that the museum was built around and over, there were hidden Kebanzu rhunes, left from a time when humans and kebs existed in harmony. Using the rhunes to decipher a passcode, the scouts discovered the entrance to an old abandoned Enchanted Crystal mine. The crystals here roiled and shone with a harsh red and violet pulsating glow. 

Every few minutes a new wave of chaotic magic rippled through the crystals which caused a variety of odd effects. The scouts were able to follow these ripples to the heart of the mine, where a giant crystal growth had sprouted. Around the base of the crystal, scuffed but still visible, were the remnants of a magic sigil. Large drag marks through the dirt showed a clear line of where a massive chunk of the crystal had been smashed off and taken away. Billowing magical energy poured out from the crack and seemed to be the cause of the disruptive bursts of strange energy. Using the magic at their own disposal, the scouts were able to mend some of the shattered fragments of the crystal and cleanse it from whatever ritual had been performed. 

Upon returning to Lightsong to report their findings, Amon gathered scholars to dive into the ritual and try to figure out why other Kebanzu would have done something so destructive to one of their own hub territories. The result of their research pointed to only one group: The Followers of the Exile King. Said to have been the main driving force that spurred the other nations to war, the Kebanzu who called himself the Exile King was sentenced to the first ever curse created by the Druids. Trapped in a feral form, rendered him unable to interact as a sentient being with others, and fully exiled from all society for his crimes. His followers were similarly cursed to be unable to enter a hub without express permission, though evidently they had been able to find a way around that.

Magical announcements were sent to the various hub leaders across the world of Terramessia to inform them to keep on the lookout for the Marked Exiles and to tighten security. Without a leader, surely they wouldn’t be of too much trouble, but it is best to take precautions.

[[For additional information regarding the wrap-up from the previous Lore Event, please find the News posting here: (X) ]]