Hello everyone! We will be holding an Avatar Item Design contest for the 2026 Winter 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 October 11th, 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 Winter 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 Frost Essence] x1, [Mystery Frost Essence] x2, [Premium Ice Water] x3, [Box of Ice Sculpting Supplies] x1, [Box of Ice Sculpting Agents] x2, [Legendary Avatar Item (Winter - Retired)] x1, [Frost Token] x1,000

imgur and discord are giving me trouble so hopefully imgbb works. still a work in progress but awful proud so far! will post more as i complete it.

edit: image was not working. trying again? HUZZAH success. will add more when work is done kicking my butt

I was inspired by a mix of a Nutcracker and the Mouse/Rat King! All from "The Nutcracker", that cool ballet story! Very Christmas-y. I don't have much time to draw this month, so instead of my usual polished line art, you get a coloured sketch! Still gets the point across, I hope.

Antarctic Royals?










because antarctic has Emperor penguin, king penguin, royal penguin, and the imperial cormorant and there's somehow, not a penguin-based held/pet already?

bubble vibes

I'm feeling very russian emo winter fantasy.... we need more animal print!!

Doing this on my phone, so we'll see how well this works.

The idea here ended up being a mix of a rough-legged buzzard, a sled dog, and a relay racer. I ended up calling it Blizzard Racer. At the moment, it consists of an outfit, long and short hair, wings, tail, accessory, aspect, and one held.


On the male model, I have [Blizzard Racer's Uniform (Snowstorm)], [Blizzard Racer's Hair (Short-Snowstorm)], [Blizzard Racer's Tail (Snowstorm)], [Blizzard Racer's Sled Dog (Recolorable)], [Blizzard Racer's Baton (Snowstorm)], and the accessory pouch, of which I haven't figured out quite what to call it, and I didn't finish coloring in the rope.


The male again, but without the pouch, so you can see how the outfit looks without it.


On the female model, I have [Blizzard Racer's Uniform (Natural)], [Blizzard Racer's Hair (Long-Natural)], [Blizzard Racer's Wings (Natural)]. I also included a rough outline of the tail to try and show where it falls.


Here I have another color alt for the outfit, Sunrise, as well as some general color palatte ideas. I also turned off the color on the wings so the way the rope falls is more visible.

Winter Festival 2026:
| Winter Renaissance | Tudor Rose | Little Ice Age |








Held 1 / Head 1 - - - - - - - - Held 2 / Head 2 - - - - - - - - Held 3 / Head 3


Cloak - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Accessory - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Outfit


Background - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Aspect 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Aspect 2



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Held 1: Royal Scepter
Held 2: Pompous Puffadore
Held 3: Royal Insignia / Royal Rose

Head 1: French Hood
Head 2: Gable Headdress
Head 3: Tudor Bonnet / Round Cap

Outfit: Velvet Gown / Brocade Gown / Royal Finery
Cloak: Royal Mantle / Ermine Cape / Ceremonial Cloak
Accessory: Tudor Neck Ruff / Elizabethan Ruff

Aspect 1: Throne Room Drape/Curtain
Aspect 2: World Globe
Background: Boats in the Harbor


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Fun Fact: The period between 1300 to 1850 was known as the "Little Ice Age" due to temperatures dropping significantly in the Northern Hemisphere. The winters in Europe were so severe that the River Thames frequently froze solid and crops and livestock failed leading to widespread famine and political turmoil!

The Little Ice Age coincides with the Renaissance Period, so my design is based on the amazing fashions of the time and especially on British House of Tudor royal court fashion (1485-1603).

Here's my idea, the idea is 2 really fluffy tails , one being used as a scarf and one for warming the legs/feet, I copied the Puffadore tail there cause it was a good shape for it, but it could just be a fluffy tail or any species tail. The purple is an example of one with tips , but obviously which genes it shows could be more and different then shown , I also tried to alter it to actually wrap around the bottom legs more, kind of like how a cat does it, but it did not turn out well, I may continue working on it and change the pic, but time will tell if I succeed

Bulbori Gem Seeker
Based on Bulbori/ Snowshoe hares, and a combination of miner's gear and snowboarding gear




Head 1: Gem Seeker's Helmet (Helmet and large goggles with Bulbori ears and gems. Center gem could perhaps be made to look like a miner's helmet light? Other head options should retain the ears, maybe incorporating a face mask for one of them.)

Outfit: Gem Seeker's Gear (Paws should probably be more exaggerated to look more like hare paws. Large digging claws on the hands. Pockets can be filled with more gems or geology/ gemologist tools like a magnifying glass or small flashlight.)

Held 1: Gem Seeker's Pickaxe

Held 2: Gem Seeker's Mining Companion (Bulbori burrowing out of the ground. Intended to be a snow drift but could be dirt as well)

Tail: Gem Dust Tail (Based loosely on the Tail Wisp Mutation)

Wings: Gem Seeker's Dazzling Wings