Hello everyone! We will be holding an Avatar Item Design contest for the 2026 Fall Festival! Please make sure to read the rules carefully!


Contest Rules

1. Design Avatar Items for this Festival. Please use the provided bases to draw your designs on.

Male Avatar Base
Female Avatar Base

The following can be included all in one entry for Avatars:

1-3 Avatar Held Items
1 Avatar Outfit Item (Male and Female options allowed)
1-3 Avatar Head Item
1 Avatar Cloak Item
1 Avatar Accessory Item
1 Avatar Tail Item
1 Avatar Wings Item
1-2 Avatar Aspect Items
1 Avatar Background Item

2. You must draw your new Items on the provided Avatar bases. If you feel that your drawing skills aren't great, then you can include a description in addition to your drawing in order to help us better envision your Items. If you are unable to draw something, then we are sorry, but there will be no exceptions. Your submission must look like it required some amount of effort to create. For example, drawing a few straight lines on a canvas and saying that they're "armor" will not count towards participation.

3. Avatar Items submitted must be Themed to this Festival. This means that it can be anything related to the season, such as any holidays that occur within the season, weather, etc.

4. Please do not reserve posts. If you reserve a post, we will delete your post.

5. Please do not Ping me with your submission. Please only Ping me if you have a question.

6. Before submitting your entry, please make sure to scan the thread to see if someone else has already done something similar. Try to make your entry unique and if someone has already done something that you were wanting to do, then we highly suggest that you pick something different. If you feel that someone has "copied" your design, please do not say anything to that person - especially in this thread. We will intervene ourselves if we see something that's suspicious.

7. You may only submit ONE official entry for the Items listed above. If you wish to submit more, then you can send me a PM with drawings of your ideas. However, all PM'd entries that are sent to me will not count for prizes.

8. IMPORTANT: By participating in this contest and submitting your designs to us, you agree that we, Sylestia Games LLC, will retain full rights to your submission to use as we see fit for the purposes of Sylestia.com and Sylestia Games LLC. You will not receive any royalties or reimbursement from us if we decide to use your designs, or otherwise. Any designs that we pick will be recreated from scratch by our art team; we will only be using your submission as a reference for said artwork. We reserve the right to alter your design in any way that we see fit and are not obligated to adhere to any specific depictions or descriptions that are provided.

9. DO NOT comment on someone's entry unless you have something nice to say. If someone copies your entry, then have faith in us that we will determine the correct winner. Please do not fight over entries. If we see anyone doing this in the thread, then whoever is fighting will be disqualified and potentially receive a Forum Strike.

10. The end date is August 31st, 2026 at 11:59 PM server. After that, there is no guarantee that we will see your entry and the thread will be locked once designs are picked.


Important Copyright Infringement Notice

We are very aware that it's typical to use Google and/or other providers to search for ideas when designing artwork. However, it is extremely important that all of your submissions are created entirely by you and are not copied from another's work. If you are using other artwork as a reference, please ensure that your submission is changed sufficiently to be clear and obvious that it is indeed your work. This is extremely important, not just for ethical reasons, but also for legal reasons when we are implementing something onto our site. Thank you!



Contest Prizes

The following are scheduled to be the prizes for this contest. Please note, these are subject to change. However, we would not do so without a good reason to change them.

Winners
(Players who have their designs picked)
Prizes: [Peerless Avatar Token] x1, 3-Visible Fall Festival Themed Pet of Choice (2-Visible if Majestic) x1, Re-Colorable Avatar Items of Winner's Entries if applicable, Pre-Colored Avatar Item Set of Choice of Winner's Entries if applicable

All Participants
(With valid entries)
Prizes: [Fabled Brew Catalyst] x1, [Mystery Brew Catalyst] x2, [Premium Vial Holder] x3, [Box of Brewing Supplies] x1, [Box of Brewing Agents] x2, [Legendary Avatar Item (Fall - Retired)] x1, [Chocolate Coin] x1,000

I went more of a Halloween direction with this one. I thought up the concept of "wolf in sheep's clothing" and ran with it! I think it's super cute hehe

Pumpkin Heads and Ghostly Claws!!

Link: https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=111522&page=1#2 Author: Sprinkledonut Time Posted: 8/6/2026 at 2:56 PM I went more of a Halloween direction with this one. I thought up the concept of "wolf in sheep's clothing" and ran with it! I think it's super cute hehe

. If you do a red and a green theme, it could look Christmasy.

Link: https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=111522&page=1#4 Author: Tay84 Time Posted: 8/8/2026 at 3:55 PM [quote=2789012]. If you do a red and a green theme, it could look Christmasy.

Oh gosh, I see what you mean. I made it super fluffy to look like a sheep, but I totally see how it could be interpreted as Christmas-themed. Oops!

Not entirely happy with how these turned out, but not much of an artist and I had known I wanted to go with raven-skull theming and then I started thinking about Victorian-style undertakers and merged the concepts together for what I have decided to call: Dapper Macabre

Batty Idol
Theme:s Punk, Rockstar , bat ,and idol
List
Helds (3)
A : batty idols: microphone
B: batty idol: bat companion
C: batty idol: bat boba tea
Heads (3)
A : pixie cut With bat ears with earrings and has a ear microphone
B: bat ears, microphone , and sunglasses only
C; longer and wild hair , bat ears with earrings and sunglasses
Outfit: t-shirt with ripped pants , a steel-toe long boots with a hoodie tied around waist accessorize with spikes , lock ,keys hanging off a small chain around neck, waist , and boos
Cloak : a long jacket with fur collar
Aspect : a guard dog with bulletproof vest protecting the idol
Wings- tiny bats with piercing

Lupora Psychopomp
Psychopomps collect the souls of the dead. This reaper uses hag stones to see across the realms of the living and dead. Protector or ill-omen, they always get the job done.

Sort of based on dual ideas of death and protection. Grims are protectors of churches, but seeing one is often seen as a sign of imminent death. They are sometimes also said to be able to tell if a soul is destined for Heaven or Hell. Hag stones are similarly used for protection, and are sometimes said to allow one to see into other realms. This is typically in regards to fae mythology, but I think it can be twisted into seeing in between the realms of living and dead.





Head 1 Psychopomp's Cowl (Hood, "Lupora"/ dog skull, pointed ears)

Head 2 Psychopomp's Blind (Broad-brimmed hat, long hair, one-eyed blindfold with a hag stone, pointed ears) Third head item could have short hair, but the hat and long hair combo is specifically inspired by the Ankou in Breton/ Welsh mythology. If the ears look bad for either current head option, could maybe be replaced with ram horns.

Outfit Psychopomp's Rags (Largely skeletal, the main "flesh" of the body is intended to look like its made of smoke. More hag stones are stitched into the fabric, a large one adorning one shoulder)

Held 1 Psychopomp's Messenger (Based on a hooded crow, but could be any corvid)

Held 2 Psychopomp's Harvester/ Psychopomp's Sickle (weathered sickle, adorned with a crow's skull and stalks of wheat)

Held 3 List of Souls (floating list of souls to collect, dissolves into smoke at the end) (If any of the helds are too similar to existing items, one could potentially be swapped for some sort of held, hanging bell as grims are commonly associated with the bell towers of churches.

Wings Psychopomp's Ragged Wings (decorated with strings of hag stones, could be adorned with more trinkets. Additional feathers could be added to match with the Feathered Wings mutation on Luporas)

Aspect Psychopomp's Grim Lupora (Church grim and a Lupora. Horns are based loosely on the Jewled Horns trait, but could be made to be more ram-like as grims are occasionally also depicted as sheep/ lambs. It's mane and tail appear to be dissolving into smoke. Alternatively, Feathered Wings could be added)

Tail Grim Lupora's Tail (Dissolves into smoke at the edges. Bone is partially visible at the center. Different color variations could try to replicate different Lupora G2s or G3s)