O Solstice Night (Creatures 1284 - 1286)

[Chimera]

Oh god, lag's back Absolutely obsessed so far with the Sylphs. Year after year when they come out I absolutely adore them to bits

[Rainwater]

Hmmm. I noticed the poll. "Without doing a google search, what do you think the actual meaning of the 12 Days of Christmas is?"

Personally, it is a kitty cat dinner show song. Lots of tasty birds, milk, music, dancers, and a scratchy post of a tree to climb.

Oh god, lag's back Absolutely obsessed so far with the Sylphs. Year after year when they come out I absolutely adore them to bits

I can't wait to see the Sylphs as adults.

[Windi1]

Hmmm. I noticed the poll. "Without doing a google search, what do you think the actual meaning of the 12 Days of Christmas is?"

Personally, it is a kitty cat dinner show song. Lots of tasty birds, milk, music, dancers, and a scratchy post of a tree to climb.

LOL Now that's funny.

[Ryves]

WAIT??? There is no special drink in remys inn ???

Yeah, I was looking forward to getting pine needles stuck in my teeth or christmas ornaments hanging from my shirtsleeves or something!

I was hoping the noelino was a christmas kitty but the adorable hamster is almost as good. Eagerly awaiting the snowchin adult...

[himehana]

All the creatures are fluffy! so excited especially for the Sylph! I've missed all the past ones so going to try my hardest to collect a ton of them this event!

[Aneira]

Male Icy Snowchin:



While their size changes often when they are young, one is able to tell when a Snowchin is fully grown by the development of their paws and snowy, fluffy tails. Instead of rolling in snow with their whole bodies, they now use their paws to make sculptures, shaping the snow into a variety of things. In nature, they are inclined to shape the snow into nuts or fruits that they will then eat. Some suspect that they change the taste and nutritional value with magic, although tests by magi have revealed that their sculpted food still just tastes like snow. With training, they can sculpt beautiful statues out of snow, with dexterity unmatched by human hands.

[Stray]

Anyone know if there's a Solstice Caravan this year? The lag is so bad for me I'm have a hard time navigating the forums...

[VilaWolf]

Hmmm. I noticed the poll. "Without doing a google search, what do you think the actual meaning of the 12 Days of Christmas is?"

Personally, it is a kitty cat dinner show song. Lots of tasty birds, milk, music, dancers, and a scratchy post of a tree to climb.

Laughs at the poll in Folklorist. To assume this Can O Mystery Meat of a holiday has any one meaning or root is just adorable. Yes, the song included. There IS an actual answer, of course, via the lyricist who wrote it, but you can pull any element in the song in about 8 different ways for why they were included.

[blockEdragon]

I need sooooo many of those sylphs!

[Rainwater]

After years of sylph origins being a closely guarded secret, magi at the Keep woke up one cold morning to discover decorations hanging from every tree in sight and a gorgeous, previously unknown variety of sylph perched upon them, trilling bell calls at each other. Keep researchers have since found that they arrive from lands yet undiscovered on the far side of the world, using their masterful control over wind to make the unfathomably long journey, and the Synaran varieties were likely carefully cultivated from these wild ones. They arrive only when it snows and disappear again when the weather grows warm, and appear to have taken up residence at the Keep in particular due to the abundance of shiny things they can steal to decorate trees with there at wintertime. Male ornate sylphs claim a tree and then use whatever shiny things they can find to festoon it. They then perch upon it, displaying their bright feathers and chiming at passing females, who choose mates based upon which tree is best decorated. In their zeal to decorate, no tree is safe, not even oracle trees or vosmari, and so it is not uncommon to see brightly decorated trees slowly migrating around the Keep with a mildly alarmed sylph perched upon it during solstice celebrations.