The Starter Quest is a series of prompts for initial development of a Phelion.

Rules

• You can only use a Phelion for the Starter Quest once. If a previous owner completed a Starter Quest, you may complete another to redevelop the character.

• Every prompt fill must be posted publicly (i.e. Tumblr, Deviantart, etc.) with a link back to the quest page or the species page. If these options are not available, I may accept Toyhou.se, but you must ask first.

• Previously created art and writing can be used for the quest, if they have not been used for a quest before.

This Quest follows Standard Requirements. 

Rewards

• Qualification of your Phelion for Story Quests and certain Event Quests

• A total of 300 credits ▮, 100 for each part. 

Quest Details

Part 1: Absorption

Who was your Phelion? What kind of person were they before they became something beyond humanity?

Design what your Phelion looked like when they were human. It must be at minimum a fairly clean colored sketch, at least shoulders up. You may commission someone else or use Picrews for this part only. If the image is not fullbody, please describe their build and what clothing they might typically wear.

Next, give a glimpse into the sort of life your character lived as a human. Perhaps illustrate a typical scene for them, or a usual activity. You may create artwork, a comic, or writing as per the requirements in the rules.

You must submit your entry in the Phelion Quest/Prompt Submissions of species-submissions forum of the Discord server with the following form:

[Starter Quest Part 1: Absorption]
Phelion Used: (profile link or image link if not available)
Human Design: (+ any written info as necessary)
Entry: (link or attach image(s)/writing)

Auspice or a mod will approve the entry, after which you may proceed.

Part 2: Integration

When or how did they discover they could be a Phelion, or what were their early days like with such knowledge?

Did they discover strange abilities? Did another Phelion find them? Did an Aphel attack them? Alternatively—what was it like for them to realize they were a Phelion? To join the Academy? What was their life like after they joined? Create an entry illustrating or describing a relevant moment. You may create artwork, a comic, or writing as per the requirements in the rules.

You must submit your entry in the Phelion Quest/Prompt Submissions of species-submissions forum of the Discord server by replying to your previous part with the following form:

[Starter Quest Part 2: Integration]
Entry: (link or attach image(s)/writing)

Auspice or a mod will approve the entry, after which you may proceed.

Part 3: Mergence

Who are they now?

You must provide what roles and divisions your Phelion is in. Note that the Didact role has a separate quest.

Next, make a piece of your character as a Phelion. It can be general artwork or something capturing a moment of their present life, or at least a moment after they have settled into life as a Phelion. You may create artwork, a comic, or writing as per the requirements in the rules.

You must submit your entry in the Phelion Quest/Prompt Submissions of species-submissions forum of the Discord server by replying to your previous part with the following form:

[Starter Quest Part 3: Mergence]
Roles:
Entry: (link or attach image(s)/writing)

Auspice will approve the final entry.

The Development Quest is a quest involving filling out the Development Form for your Phelion.

Rules

• The Phelion used for this quest must not have been used for a Development Form reward previously.

• After the quest is complete, the information should be put on the TH profile somehow. It can be freely altered and shifted around, but the profile should not be empty.

Rewards

• 100 credits ▮

Quest Details

You must fill out the following form:

The Aphel Encounter is a short quest you can take to get an Aphel-touched trait on your Phelion.

The Aphel-touched are those who have survived a brief connection to the Aphel hivemind. Those who do often have an instinctive sense of approaching Aphel attacks, but also may be influenced by the Aphel hivemind on occasion with generally weak effects: they may be put into a brief defenseless daze during an Aphel invasion as the will presses on them, and they may occasionally experience episodes of something like dissociation as they feel the echoes of the hivemind. There is special mental training that some might go through to turn the effect on Aphels, using their connection to briefly paralyze those nearby. This is difficult and can easily result in the opposite happening, however.

Rules

• You must own at least two Phelions.

• You have not completed this Quest before; there is a soft limit of one Aphel-touched Phelion that can be acquired through this quest. 

• Previously written history can be used; i.e. if you have some backstory already and want to work the Aphel encounter into it.

• After completion of the quest, the backstory should be put on their profile. It can be modified later.

Rewards

Aphel-touched trait on your Phelion, in addition to eligibility for any quests requiring an Aphel-touched Phelion.

Quest Details

Write a brief backstory of your Phelion that includes the Aphel encounter resulting in a touch to the Aphel hivemind. The minimum word count is 200 words, and you can include as much of the rest of your Phelion's backstory as you wish.

Remember that to become Aphel-touched, an Aphel must attempt to absorb the Phelion's fragments, which usually occurs after severe incapacitation, leaving them unconscious or nearly so. The Aphel could fail, which usually requires the intervention of another, or they could succeed and the former Phelion is left hanging by a thread to life. They will then usually only recover by reintegrating with new fragments, but it can leave them changed.

You must submit your entry in the Phelion Quest/Prompt Submissions of species-submissions forum of the Discord server with the following form:

[Aphel Encounter]
Phelion: (profile link; must be viewable by Auspice)
Backstory: (Paste or link to Google Doc with comment permissions)

Auspice will approve the entry. Please add the lore to your Phelion's profile and then reply to Auspice; after this, your Phelion will officially be Aphel-touched.

The Aphel Extraction Quest you can take to get a Fallen and/or Arisen trait on your Phelion. These are individuals who have experienced all their fragments being successfully extracted by an Aphel. 

Rules

• The base form of your Phelion must be designed, with a full-body reference. You can make it yourself, commission Auspice, or commission someone else. 

• You can complete just Part 1 for the Fallen trait, or both parts for the Arisen trait. 

• Previously written history can be used; i.e. if you have some backstory already and want to work the Aphel encounter into it.

• After completion of the quest, the backstory should be put on their profile. It can be modified later.

• You can complete this Quest for as many of your Phelions as you want, but only once for each Phelion. 

Rewards

• Part 1: Fallen trait on your Phelion. 

• Part 2: 

  • Fallen trait becomes Arisen trait on your Phelion. 

  • 100 credits ▮

Quest Details

Part 1 — The Fall

Write a brief backstory of your Phelion that includes the Aphel encounter resulting in their fragments being extracted. The minimum word count is 200 words, and you can include as much of the rest of your Phelion's backstory as you wish.

Please be sure to review the lore on the Fallen. 

You must submit your entry in the Phelion Quest/Prompt Submissions of species-submissions forum of the Discord server with the following form:

[Aphel Extraction Part 1]
Phelion: (profile link; must be viewable by Auspice)
Year of Extraction: (you can refer to the Phelion timeline)
Backstory: (Paste or link to Google Doc with comment permissions)

Auspice will approve the entry. Please add the lore to your Phelion's profile; after this, your Phelion will officially be Fallen.

Part 2 — The Rise

You must do the following: 

1. Write a brief backstory of your Fallen that describes how they reintegrated with fragments and achieved mergence once more. The minimum word count is 200 words, and you can include as much of the rest of your Phelion's backstory as you wish. The form will require a few additional fields; see below. 

2. Provide the design of the Arisen form. You must include both ML image and reference image (see Design Update info). Please upload them to the TH, but put [Pending Approval] in the image description. You have the following options: 

   • Use the exact same design. 

   • Design it yourself. 

   • Edit official Phelion design by Auspice. Do not modify and replace the original official image, but you can make edits and upload a new image. You are permitted to make minor edits (changing colors, adding/changing some elements of the design, etc.) to Phelion ML and reference artwork made by Auspice. 

   • Commission Auspice through any of the Credit Store acquisition methods.

3. Create an entry involving your Phelion throughout the process of their Fall and Rise, whether it is the moment of their Fall, their time under medical care or as a Fallen, their process of reintegrating and achieving mergence, and/or their experience as an Arisen. You must upload this part on some public platform, such as dA, Tumblr, Bluesky, or Toyhou.se (publicly viewable). This part follows Standard Requirements. 

Please be sure to review the lore on the Arisen. 

Please submit your entry as a reply to Part 1 in the Phelion Quest/Prompt Submissions of species-submissions forum of the Discord server with the following form:

[Aphel Extraction Part 2]
Year of Rise: (you can refer to the Phelion timeline)
Infused Phelion: (N/A or link to TH of Phelion who infused your Fallen)

Backstory: (Paste or link to Google Doc with comment permissions)
Design: (link to image in TH gallery)
Entry: (link to public post; attaching optional) 

Auspice will approve the entry. Please add the lore to your Phelion's profile and then reply to Auspice, after this, your Phelion will officially be Arisen.

The Didact Qualification is a quest you can take to get a Didact role for your Phelion.

Didacts are instructors, overseers, and mentors to other Phelions. They must be qualified in the subject they teach, in addition to undergoing some additional training and procedures. Instructors teach courses, overseers handle and watch over practical exercises, and mentors personally guide the education of another Phelion; there may be some overlap, such as someone who is an instructor for a practical Defense course. There can be informal mentorships from non-didacts as well, but these do not count towards a qualification.

Rules

The Phelion used for this quest must have completed the Starter Quest or the Development Quest. 

• Note: if you want to include Didact lore in your Phelion's Development form, you should complete the Starter Quest first. 

Rewards

• Didact role on your Phelion, in addition to eligibility for any quests requiring a Didact.

• Your Phelion will be added to the official Phelion Didact Profiles sheet. 

• 100 credits ▮

Quest Details

You must complete two parts: 

• Part 1 — Didact Profile

• Part 2 — Teaching: artwork, comic, or writing according to the Standard Requirements. 

Part 1 — Didact Profile

Please fill out the form below. You can see examples on the Didact sheet.  

[Didact Qualification Part 1]
Phelion: (profile link; must be viewable by Auspice)
Year of Didact Qualification: (you are encouraged to refer to the Phelion timeline)
Division: (Defense, Research, Exploration. This is the division(s) they teach in; you can indicate be multiple.)

Description: (A description of what they are like as a Didact. See suggested questions to address below, but feel free to include anything that may be relevant to their role as a Didact. No word limit or maximum.)

• What are the topics your Phelion teaches? 

• What is the typical timing, structure, and location of their classes? 

• What are their teaching methods? 

• Do they take in students as an advisor formally, or do they prefer guiding students more informally?

• Do they think of their role as a Didact as a calling, or more like a job or sense of duty that they put down at the end of the day?

History: (optional. If you want to provide more story details about how they became a Didact and how they might have changed over the years, please include it here.)

Please submit your entry in the Phelion Quest/Prompt Submissions of species-submissions forum of the Discord server and wait for approval. 

Auspice will review, potentially adding lore feedback along the way. If they approve, you must add this content to their profile, though you can format it however you like. They will not approve Part 2 unless you have done so.  

Part 2 — Teaching

Create an entry involving your Phelion acting as a didact to another Phelion (or multiple). The other Phelion may be yours or someone else's. This part follows Standard Requirements. 

You must upload this part on some public platform, such as dA, Tumblr, Bluesky, or Toyhou.se (publicly viewable). 

Please submit your entry as a reply to Part 1 in the Phelion Quest/Prompt Submissions of species-submissions forum of the Discord server with the following form:

[Didact Qualification Part 2]
Entry: (link to public entry; optionally attach file)

Auspice will approve the entry, after which your Phelion will officially be a Didact. They will be added to the Phelion Didact Profiles sheet. 

The Creature Form Training quest is a quest you can complete to get a permanent/official creature form for your Phelion. This form can be used for official activities such as quests and prompts. You can have multiple permanent creature forms for the same Phelion, but you must take the quest multiple times.

Note: Phelions can take temporary creature forms without this quest; they are generally quite uncomfortable, like holding a difficult stretch, and only last for a few minutes. Through training with a particular form by remaining in that form as long as possible and getting used to living in that form, they can extend the amount of time they can remain in that form. This will involve being quite exhausted whenever the transformation is released, and several hours (a day at first, shortened as training goes on) are generally needed to recover before they try again.

With about a week of training, it is possible to extend the sustained duration to about a day, and recovery time is shortened to around 12 hours (that is, if they held the form for an entire day or did not shift back to their regular form without enough recovery time in between, they would need half a day to recover before turning back again). Further improvement is summarized below:

Stage 1: 

• Training Time: 1 week

• Form Duration: 1 day

• Recovery Period: 12 hours

Stage 2: 

• Training Time: 1 month

• Form Duration: 1 week

• Recovery Period: 6 hours

Stage 3: 

• Training Time: 3 months

• Form Duration: 1 month

• Recovery Period: 3 hours

Stage 4: 

• Training Time: 1 year

• Form Duration: 3 month

• Recovery Period: 1 hour

Note that even with Stage 1, the form can be functionally permanent if the Phelion shifts back to their main form often, as it is only if they are sustaining the form that they will hit the limit. At any stage, the form is no longer uncomfortable until the last half hour or so of their limit.

During training, the Phelion should shift back to the creature form not long after their recovery is complete, or else it will take much longer. This is allowed, but you should make note of it if you want for it to be the case. Progress made from training is permanent and will not be lost even if the Phelion does not return to their creature form for long periods of time; they can even take a break in their training if they want. It will just take longer due to lost momentum.

Rules

• The Phelion must be owned by you.

Rewards

• Permanent/official creature form for your Phelion, which you can use for prompts and quests. The creature form will be added to the Creature Forms gallery of the species.

• 100 credits ▮

Quest Details

There are two parts: the design and the entry.

Part 1: Design

You may commission/ask someone else to make the design, or do it yourself. It must be clean and fully colored, using the same color palette as the Phelion. Shading and background are optional.

The array and tendrils must be present. It can closely resemble their main form, or you can have more freedom with the shapes.

You must also provide a minimum 60-word excerpt explaining the process of their training and reasoning behind going through the effort of training their creature form, and what stage of training they got to. As an example: 

"Cobalt first took her creature form to mirror her alien friend Aether, but she found that she greatly enjoyed being in that form despite its physical discomfort and decided to train in order to maintain it. He spent many of his explorations in his creature form alongside his friend, who would stand guard over him whenever he needed to recover. In time, she was able to reach Stage 3 of training that form, and now freely changes forms as she pleases."

You must submit your entry in the Phelion Quest/Prompt Submissions of species-submissions forum of the Discord server with the following form:

[Creature Training Quest Part 1: Design]
Phelion: (profile link; must be viewable by Auspice)
Excerpt: (you can paste directly)
Design: (link or attach image)

Auspice will approve or defer the entry. If it is approved, you must then upload the image to your Phelion's TH gallery and request that it be added to the Creature Forms gallery; you can do this by adding a character to the image with ID 16706954.

Part 2: Entry

You must create a work involving your Phelion in their creature form or training for it. This part follows the Standard Requirements. 

You must upload this part on some public platform, such as dA, Tumblr, Bluesky, or Toyhou.se (publicly viewable). 

Please submit your entry in the Phelion Quest/Prompt Submissions of species-submissions forum of the Discord server as a reply to your previous part with the following form:

[Creature Training Quest Part 2: Entry]
Entry: (link to public entry; optionally attach file)

Auspice will approve or defer the entry. 

The Qualifying Exam is a quest you can complete to explore how your Phelion achieved their qualifications. Please be sure to read the lore on roles and divisions, as well as courses and qualifications. 

Rules

• The Phelion used for this quest must have completed the Starter Quest or the Development Quest. 

• You must specify which division the quest entry is for. 

• You can complete this quest once per Phelion per division; though you can freely add and remove division qualifications to your Phelion while you are developing them, once you complete the Qualifying Exam quest for a division, it is considered canonized and their qualification for that division should not be removed.  

Rewards

• 250 credits ▮

Quest Details

You must complete two parts: 

• Part 1 — Story: synopsis 

• Part 2 — Exam: artwork, comic, or writing according to the Standard Requirements. 

Part 1 — Story

What kinds of courses did your Phelion take—structured classes, unrestricted independent studies, internal courses, external courses? How long were they a student for this qualification? Who did they have as advisor(s)? What was the content of their qualifying exam? 

Your entry should explore all these questions. 

• Minimum 600 words, no maximum.

• A summary/synopsis format is recommended, but you can include narrative/dialogue elements. If you choose to use a narrative format, you still must address all the above questions. 

You are encouraged to collaborate with others and involve other Phelions who are Didacts—you can see who they are in the Masterlist and read about them in the Didact profiles sheet. 

Please submit your entry in the Phelion Quest/Prompt Submissions of species-submissions forum of the Discord server with the following form:

[Qualifying Exam Part 1]
Phelion: (profile link; must be viewable by Auspice)
Division:
Year of Qualification: (you are encouraged to refer to the Phelion timeline)
Story: (link; please use a Google Doc with comment permissions unless you have reason not to)

Auspice will review, potentially adding lore feedback along the way. If they approve, you must add this content to their profile, though you can format it however you like. They will not approve Part 2 unless you have done so.  

Part 2 — Exam

Create an entry depicting your Phelion in the process of completing their Qualifying exam. This part follows the Standard Requirements. 

You must upload this part on some public platform, such as dA, Tumblr, Bluesky, or Toyhou.se (publicly viewable). 

Please submit your entry in the Phelion Quest/Prompt Submissions of species-submissions forum of the Discord server as a reply to your previous part with the following form:

[Qualifying Exam Part 2]
Entry: (link to public entry; optionally attach file)

Auspice will approve or defer the entry.