┌─── ∘️ July 2026 Newsletter ️∘ ───┐
Highsun, Season of Summer, Year 1642

(Ready for Summer by qwertgfx on Reddit)

	The second season is that of abundance and bloom, remarking a blossoming, cultivated crop. The season of colour and lasting sun, of ripe fruit and good health.
	- Compendium, Standard Calendar

The bestiary update has arrived alongside other things, such as the server updating to 1.21.1 and a new eventboard!

° New & Upcoming

Community Updates

Major Staff Pages Refresh

• The staff pages have been updated! It now references six teams instead of just four.
  • Technical, Builders and Moderation teams have been properly added to the page with their respective Admins.
  • Staff DMs, along with their duties being properly listed, have been added under the Lore section
  • Team Leads for existing teams that were outdated have been updated.
  • Nocturne and Fey teams for Lore have also been added due to their specialized roles.
  • Community now has the Media team role, which can be applied to under Community on the applications
• The broken link on the Staff Application page has finally been fixed and now properly links to a list of all the current staff on Avalore's forum.
• The Staff Application page includes a link to the Staff Structure page as well
• You can check the Staff Structure page here.

Pride Fundraiser

• The Avalore Pride Fundraiser is still active, and it'll continue to be up until the Festival of Belonging happens! The donation package contains all of last year's unique titles as well as some new ones this year. 100% of all the funds will go the donation pool to be split between the chosen charities this year.
• You can find the full post with the details here, and you can donate here!

System Guide Survey

• A survey is currently being run by @eemaartz to gather inquiries on how difficult each aspect of the server is (such as roleplay, combat mechanics, magic system etc) to get used to for the purpose of making it easier to learn for people! Please feel free to fill it in, even if you've been here for a while!
• Please note that this is NOT a tech/system survey, and will not be affecting any of the mechanics directly- simply inquiring which ones give players the most struggle to learn/
• The survey can be found here

Artfight 2026 Channel

• A channel has been added in the Discord for Artfight! Members can post and share their profiles and attacks in the pinned threads for the duration of the event. Happy drawing everyone!
• Join the Discord here!

Lore Updates

The Bestiary Update

• The Bestiary page has been completely overhauled!
  • Instead of all the bestiary entries being housed in the Compendium, they will now be in the Bestiary Forum. On the bestiary page, there is now an overview page that lists explanations of the new categorizations for the bestiary. The bestiary comes in the following categories:
• The Natural Order
  • Beasts - Griffins, unicorns, tressyms, and more!
  • Lesser Dragons - The remnants of winged behemoths that once roamed the realm and skies…
  • Fey - As mischievous as Fey can be, they still constitute a part of the natural order.
• Aberrations
  • Undead - Creatures from the grave, disallowed to rest in peace…
  • Hybrids - When Fey and mages meddle with creating life, strange beasts are the result…
  • Nocturnal Fey - Not all Fey are natural: the Hibernal, especially, are a stain upon the world.
• The new Bestiary Forum can be found here.

Updated DMing Guide

• There's also been an effort to create full-fledged statblocks for every creature that can be DMed in a combat setting, listing stats and skills for rolling checks, attack rolls and damage numbers, special abilities (boons), and special weaknesses (banes).
• DMing guide has been updated found here.

New Rare Material

• A new rare material named Mistweave has been introduced.

  • A shimmery, near-transparent fabric unique to the Mist Isles. It’s known as the premiere symbol of status and wealth both on the Isles and especially outside them. Without a master weaver’s touch, it’s said that crafts of this fabric simply dissipate into mist. This is a rare, never-before-exported fabric that may slowly begin making its way to the Spire. It can be thought to be as rare as Valkian steel, and as such, typically only obtained through events.

Teaser

• The Divine Gardener rework is almost finished!

Systems Updates

Minor Feat Updates

• The following feats have been updated:
  • Aberration Slayer - Minor buff! And now lists the Aberration types more clearly.
  • Primal Hunter - This feat will give players an advantage when fighting Natural Order creatures
  • Wings Of The Dragon - Feat-holders will gain the innate ability to detect Aberrations in their surroundings.

Teasers

• Minor combat rework
• Small projects being worked on such as mounted mechanics and background feat system changes
• Alchemy update still being worked on

Technical Updates

1.21.1 Update

• The server has officially been updated to work on 1.21.1! The 2.3.0 version of the Avalore modpack has also been released; which includes a lot of new features like tips on the pause screen, a drop confirmation prompt and huge screenshots, performance mods as well as general updates such as Figura's 1.6 update.
• You can download the modpack here on Modrinth.

New Eventboard

• Alongside the 1.21.1 update, the Eventboard has been released! The eventboard is a page on the website (and visible ingame) which allows you to post ongoing/recurring event-lines, or one-off events on an event calendar. 
  • /eventboard create event or /eb create event for a single event on the calendar
  • /eventboard create eventline or /eb create eventline for a recurring eventline.
  • /eventboard list or /eb list to see the full eventboard in-game.
• The website eventboard can be viewed here.

° Player Events & Projects
Player-lead events and projects of Avalore, curated by the editor and Community Team to feature for the month.

Player Events

Starry Night Gala by @CelestialMochi

Letter Sightings by @DropOfLove

Vampire Attacks by @yoursecondexwife

° Player Photos
Players are able to submit photos through our Photo Album forum (via our Discord server) to be featured in our newsletter, and even used as promotional material for Avalore!

Wedding on the Beach - @VinnyCall