Hello everyone!
My magical eye species universe is expanding, and we need more magics to accommodate for that! If you prefer to participate in this magical eye competition by designing a paragon Hearthoot...now is your chance!
My magical eye species universe is expanding, and we need more magics to accommodate for that! If you prefer to participate in this magical eye competition by designing a paragon Hearthoot...now is your chance!
Information
You are allowed to make up to three entries for the competition.
You may make your entries on Storkie, Littleheart, or Hearthoot lines, but in this particular canvas you must make Hearthoots.
You are designing an entirely new magic type for this competition; none of the existing magic types!
You're designing Paragon Animals; creatures that completely and totally embody their magic types and have mastered them far beyond your average animal.
These can be Paragon Animals with entirely new magic types; or an 'alternate' expression and coloration of an existing magic type. Here is a post explaining how alternate magic types and expressions work. Click Me!
This is also a chance to create your dream Hybrid Magic, if you prefer!
With each of your entries, you're required to introduce your magic type, what it does, and what it looks like.
In addition, I will be judging your writing alongside your art; write about your creature, talk about how they embody their magic and why they've earned the role of Paragon. There's no writing minimum or maximum; it's up to you to write what you feel is appropriate. You can add more information about them, and their magic, to your heart's content.
New to this round: If you include the necessary information that is required for the website, or at least some of it, we will provide extra credit, use your writing, and provide bonus rewards (see the bottom for those rewards). Doing so will heavily increase your chances of your magic winning.
Bonus Content & Rewards
Bonus Rewards are gained only if entry is chosen; however, they provide a bonus chance of being chosen.
Magic Domain: Providing a properly filled out Magic Domain will net 100 Copper Coins.
Leveling Guide: Showing how magical skills progress throughout the leveling will net 150 Copper Coins.
Gifts, Divine Gifts, and Accessories: Boons to your Creature, both tangible and in-roleplay, they can earn or purchase from their Paragon. Divine Accessories are exempt, as a second Paragon for purposes of canon lore will be made. -- You earn 30 Copper Coins for each Gift, Divine Gift, or Accessory conceptualized.
Magic-Specific Prompts: Create a magic-specific prompt for someone to answer when leveling this Creature. 10 CC per Prompt submitted.
Do not include History, as that will be filled out by Kiwi when creating the lore for how the magic fits into the world.
Rules / Designing Tips
You're allowed to edit the lines as much as you'd like, including to add scars, adjust height, fur, tail shape, size, length, amount, etc. There is no limit to what you can do. Custom-lined entries are now allowed!
Design Suggestion: Include a physical manifestation of their magic somewhere on their ref. Examples would be water dripping from paws for a water animal, flames coming from their eyes for a fire animal, or plants growing out of them for a plant-magic animal.
There's no limit to traits either; get wild and creative.
No heterochromia; on principle these are Paragon Creatures, who've mastered one magic to the point they embody it. Others consider Paragons the first of their kind, which means they are very unlikely to have split magic.
If you have the same magic idea as someone else, that is totally allowed; however your concept / execution of it must be entirely different.
No covers.
If you want to enter off-oekaki, make a competition entry in this forum and link it in this thread.
Make sure your entries meet CS rules.
Finally, you're allowed to make a 'reserved' entry and work on it over the course of the competition. Please draw or design something before actually posting; please do not post an uncolored Creature!
Cats you create and are finalized here are bound by MFA TOS and my Universal Species TOS. :)
Paragons created here cannot be sold for USD.
Minimum Requirements & Deadlines
You must have a fully completed design by 2/30/2023.
You must finish your writing by February 30th.
The writing portion must have a minimum of 400 words written.
These requirements are specifically to meet the minimum requirements to earn a Standard MYO.
Judging will begin March 1st to March 10th.
Rewards / Prizes
I will be choosing a grand prize winner who will win 300 C$.
I will choose 3 Runners-Up who will also win 100 C$ each.
Honorable Mentions and entries I really like will earn supplementary items fitting for their entries; up to and including Legendary, Limited, Rare magic runes, or item edits.
These rewards are not shared between the Storkie, Littleheart, and MFA version of this competition; EACH competition will receive their own rounds of grand prize & runner up winners, as long as there are enough entries that meet the minimum requirements for each of them.
Everyone entering who meets the minimum requirements will earn a Standard MYO for the species. (If you enter twice or thrice, and those entries meet the minimum requirements, you will earn extra Standard MYOs for your work.)
Those whose magic types are chosen are allowed to keep their designs.
--- In the event multiple people are designing the same magic type, I may or may not allow both people to keep their ideas.
I reserve the right to still grant winning status to those who meet the minimum requirements if I really like the magic type proposed.
Those who are not chosen or granted the ability to keep their cat designs will not be allowed to use the designs in MFA, but are absolutely allowed to transfer the design out of species or edit them to be an existing magic, and then submit them to the species.
