Temple-Born Trials
Offering lumesse to the temple to birth a new soul
To Create Life
Your rootling has made a journey to one of the sacred Elden Root temples to create a new rootling. This is a big deal, and not something to be glossed over! The temple grants many open doors to the design process. However, the temple requires compensation for your entry. Below are the trials, you must choose one to complete for every rootling you create here. If two rootlings are combining their magic to complete this prompt, then players must either collaborate artwork for one prompt, or each create their own prompt-based art resulting in two pieces. Roleplays are also allowed for this trial as long as it reaches the 800 word minimum. This may also be split with one player creating the art, and one creating the writing.
Your rootling has made a journey to one of the sacred Elden Root temples to create a new rootling. This is a big deal, and not something to be glossed over! The temple grants many open doors to the design process. However, the temple requires compensation for your entry. Below are the trials, you must choose one to complete for every rootling you create here. If two rootlings are combining their magic to complete this prompt, then players must either collaborate artwork for one prompt, or each create their own prompt-based art resulting in two pieces. Roleplays are also allowed for this trial as long as it reaches the 800 word minimum. This may also be split with one player creating the art, and one creating the writing.
Trial Prompts these score the quests & trials bonus of 15LP per submission
- Discovery | the sight is one of splendor. The great, looming shadow in the distance has become a mesmerizing structure. Perhaps it looms over you like some grand old beast, or rather it is a humble treasure trove nestled into the ground that becomes more elaborate the deeper you go. Maybe this is your rootling's first time coming upon the temple, or maybe it has been here countless times- and had developed its own rituals for navigating the area. How does your rootling react to the discovery?
- Summoning the Elden Root | wherever you are in the world, the temple has a designated Elden Root. This creature will be beckoned by the birth of a new soul. How does the Elden Root enter the space? Does it emerge dramatic and bright, or maybe fade in like the vapor of a mirage? How does your rootling feel about being in the presence of something so mighty?
- The Pouring of Lumesse | your rootling must pour its lumesse magic into the trough to create the seedling. Is it elegant or messy? Is there a single drop of lumesse lost? Does the seedling form as an egg, or in its animal form? Is it bright, dark, or colorful? Does your rootling take to being a new parent naturally, or is this something it felt it had to do?
- Guiding the Seedling | if your rootling has chosen to stay with the baby and guide it in this world, how did their first meeting take place? How does your rootling respond to its child? Is there immediate conflict between them, or are they natural friends? Does your rootling have a large family that are waiting to greet the youngest addition, or is this the first of many?
You may portray these temple prompts through any art medium you choose. If you complete this through visual art, then it must have a full, scenic background included. If it is completed through writing, then each must be at least 800 words in length. If you complete them with 3D art, there must either be props of the temple included.