I apologize for the delay in getting this thread together. We've been running quite a bit behind so I wanted to get more completed before creating this thread. We still have a lot to release, so this thread will be continuously updated.


The Winter Festival of 2013 has officially begun! We hope you'll join us throughout this festive time of year as we celebrate, Sylestia style. Below are the start time and end time of the festival.

Festival Begins: December 17th at 12:00am
Festival Ends: January 5th at 11:59pm


Winter Festival Overview

http://www.sylestia.com/holiday/winterfestival/

We have created a new page that will serve as a Winter Festival Overview. You can visit this page at any time to have access to the various festivities related to the Winter Festival. You can quickly access this page by clicking the Calendar icon next to your Username on any page.


Winter Festival Advent Calendar

http://www.sylestia.com/holiday/winterfestival/adventcalendar/

Everyday up to and including Christmas Day, there will be a new prize available from the Winter Festival Advent Calendar. Be sure to claim your reward each and every day! If you miss a day, you will miss out on that day's reward.


Holiday Caroling

http://www.sylestia.com/holiday/winterfestival/holidaycaroling/

Due to the popularity of the Fall Festival's Trick or Treating, we have decided to create a similar activity for the Winter Festival: Holiday Caroling! Since this time of year is all about giving to others, Holiday Caroling is a much similar game. Simply visit your friendly neighbors and either give them a gift ([Wrapped Gift]) or sing them a carol. The host can then either give you a gift or simply thank you. Either way, both you and the host will receive Cheer Points for the 'transaction'. You can visit a player once every day and the cooldown resets at midnight.

-Earn Title: Season's Greeter from Hosting 500 times.
-Earn Title: Holiday Caroler from Visiting 500 times.
-Earn Title: The Kind-Hearted for giving a Wrapped Gift.
-Every 50 Cheer Points earns you a [Frost Token].
-Receive Winter Festival Avatar Items, [Wheel of Festive Cheer Ticket], [Lesser Genetic Mutator], [Lesser Pet Dye], [Standard Genetic Test Kit], [Standard Genetic Scanner], [Frost Token], or Lesser Philters from [Wrapped Gift].
-Earn Bonus [Wheel of Festive Cheer Ticket] for being on the Top 20 Leaderboard at the end of the festival.
-Earn the Title: Renowned Caroler for being on the Top 40 Leaderboard at the end of the festival.


Wheel of Festive Cheer

http://www.sylestia.com/holiday/winterfestival/wheelofcheer/

Try your luck by spinning the Wheel of Festive Cheer! You can find [Wheel of Festive Cheer Ticket] throughout Sylestia during the Winter Festival. You can also purchase tickets directly from the Diamond Shop.

Prizes include all sorts of goodies, with the best prize being one of six unique, Triple Visible Holiday Pets! View the Wheel of Festive Cheer link above to see all six designs.


Reindeer Roundup

This feature has been cancelled and merged with the zone's Dynamic Event

Help Father Frost find his lost herd of Reindeer! All Sylestians must band together to find as many Reindeer as they can, which are scattered throughout the Site. As more Reindeer are found, more prizes will be unlocked!


Esior's Fields Winter Festival Zone

http://www.sylestia.com/explore/newzone/?zone=esiorsfieldswinterfestival
*You should only explore this Zone if your Pets are at least Level 10

Don't miss out on exploring the Winter Festival Holiday Zone: Esior's Fields (Winter Festival)! Enjoy the unique, snowy landscape as you search for the limited-available new species (The Griffi), search for Holiday variant pets, battle Named, search for Wrapped Presents, and battle the tyrannical Ice Queen!

This zone is also the only place to find some of the Winter Festival Avatar Items - so don't miss out! Take advantage of this limited zone before the festival ends.


New Species Discovered: The Griffi

http://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=9140




We have released a new species: the Fabled Griffi! It is our 19th species to be released. The Griffi are only available in the wild during the Winter Festival. They can be found in the Esior's Fields Winter Festival zone.


Winter Festival Forum Games

Sylesti Art Contest
Create a Winter Themed Pair
Create a Triple Visible Griffi

As always, we have created some fun Forum Games! Be sure to participate in as many as you can to earn participation prizes and to have a chance to win some awesome and very rare prizes!

Also, keep an eye out for spontaneous Forum Games (such as Franken Pet, Pick A Door, Speed Trivia, etc). These games are often announced only an hour or so before they begin!


Winter Festival Basket



You can purchase these from the Diamond Shop. The [Winter Festival Basket] contains BOTH 1 Epic or 1 Legendary Avatar Item from the Winter Festival (including the Astral, Celestial, and Heavenly Nebula Set items) AND an [Enhanced Griffi Essence], [Lesser Genetic Mutator] x2, or [Lesser Pet Dye] x3.

Additionally, [Golden Egglings] opened during the festival may contain Winter Festival items.


Winter Festival Avatar Items

Coming Soon!

This is a list of all of the Avatar Items unique to the Winter Festival.

Just to check, the winter festival avatar items and winter genes/mutations for species have not been released yet, correct?

Correct.

how do we go caroling? i have yet to know how to.

Just a quick question, there were a lot of suggestions in the art forum on what winter festival mutations could be used for Ryori, so will there be any winter festival themed ryori mutations out?

Trinkuh,

At the top of the page, near your avatar, click this button and it will take you to a page with a link to the caroling page. :)

Krin, have you added named yet? I found a silent night vulnyx lazy night.

is any one else having trouble w/ snow tokens not working or is it just me

i click for them to use but it keeps saying error refresh page but it never works

am i missing something

You can't use them until the Holiday Shop is up and running. c:

wow......*facepalms*
Thx I don't know how missed that