This event starts on July 1st at 00:00am LDT.
NOTE: Some bases and eyes are not available in the Lion Wardrobe yet. They will be visible when their tiers approach.

Falling Stars!

July has started, and as it's commonly known, the greatest meteor showers will begin this month, especially over the southern hemisphere; thus, Africa gets bombarded by millions of tiny meteorites! (The Earth is hit with roughly 40,000 tonnes of space debris, bits leftover from the Solar System formation EACH YEAR. Crazy, huh?!)
Your lions have noticed that the lights also appeared in forests as fireflies! Is this all connected? What's the mystery behind that?!

Remember to check out the Wiki for July info!

Clouded Forest & Fireflies
A beautiful clouded forest will open its thicket to you if you pay your toll to an eagle guard. Once per 30 minutes you can hunt for fireflies and work towards unlocking the amazing firefly shop! Make sure to sit down and enjoy the dancing fireflies before you catch them!
2018: New items will appear in ALL tiers of the shop! We made sure they're a bit cheaper :D

Celestial Lion & Meteorite Shards
This month as well, a mysterious self-proclaimed god Apedemak appears on Lioden's lands and asks you to gather Meteorite Shards in Explore.
The more shards you collect, the more amazing stuff you can unlock from his far-away lands. Meteorite Shards are useful for Celestial Lion's Tier 1 Zimbabwe Exploring, but they'll have a new purpose this year!

Crafting & Gems
On the EVENT page, crafting will be available right away. This month's favoured gems are Moonstone, Jasper, Peridot, and Labradorite.
Craft 50x Moonstones into Moonstone Base applicator (Dust: Moonstone)
Craft 50x Jaspers into Jasper Eye changer (Dust: Jasper)
Craft 15x Moonstones into Jewelry: Moonstone Veiled Circlet
Craft 15x Moonstones into Jewelry: Moonstone Circlet
Craft 15x Jaspers into Jewelry: Jasper Adornments
Craft 15x Jaspers into Jewelry: Jasper Necklace
Craft 15x Jaspers into Jasper Shawl
Craft 15x Moonstones into Moonstone Crown
Craft 30x Moonstones into Moonstone Mane Base applicator (Shards: Moonstone)

2018 New:
Craft 50x Labradorite into Labradorite Base applicator (Dust: Labradorite)
Craft 50x Peridot into Peridot Eye changer (Dust: Peridot)
Craft 15x Peridot into Jewelry: Peridot Pendant
Craft 15x Moonstone into Jewelry: Moonstone Pendant
Craft 15x Labradorite into Jewelry: Labradorite Pendant
Craft 15x Jasper into Jewelry: Jasper Pendant
Craft 15x Peridot into Peridot Nose Chain (Gold)
Craft 15x Peridot into Peridot Nose Chain (Silver)
Craft 15x Moonstone into Moonstone Bracelets

While Peridot eyes can be checked out, the Labradorite base is not yet available to view in the Lion Wardrobe just yet.. but, here's a nice preview!

What's that? It looks different than you thought it would? Well, sometimes prototype designs don't make it into the final stage of the game. We hope this design fits the gem's looks more, and the toned down colours will bring you much joy in unique lion designs.

Celestial Tiers! Unlocked by gathering Meterorite Shards!

T1: Zimbabwe Explore
You spend shards here! 1 shard = 1 minute of exploring.
This will send your lion scavenging for treasures. Depending on the amount of time you spend, the results will actually vary! 10 minutes spent scavenging will differ from 54 minutes, and 54 minutes will be less exciting than 130 minutes! Obviously, you will find unique items depending on your time spent, so have fun discovering!

2018: Fireflies Galore!
Mana Pools are a new area available in Zimbabwe Explore. Along with Medlar Fruit and more Cheetah and Serval Skins, you can find a lot of Fireflies here. Unique items for this zone are: Dwarf Bittern Pair, Sitatunga Calf, and Spur-Winged Goose.
Extra: We have added a new encounter in Explore, available only at night, where you can hunt for more Fireflies! There's a chance for you to get nothing, or anywhere between 2 to 16 Fireflies!

There's also a new decor added to each Zimbabwe area to 30 minute tier.

T2: Celestial Raffle
Just like last year, every 12 hours a new lioness will appear with a base, markings, and eyes that are unique to this month!

2018: Sunrise + Draconid
This year there will be a 50/50 rotation of Type 1 and Type 2 Celestial lionesses. There is no set order - it is random which type will be generated.
Type 1 is a Sunrise-based lioness with Draconid eyes and 1 Celestial, Sidereal, or Skyward marking.
Type 2 is a Celestial, Sidereal, Skyward, or Sunset-based lioness with Dawn, Starshine, or Sunglow eyes.

We hope this will make everyone excited for the new base - as well, everyone who wanted to hunt down the rare bases from prior years can have a chance at them again!

Yay, Sunrise base was a user suggestion. Thank you very much! Draconid eyes are obviously a salute to the meteor showers... but they're very... dragon-like. Who knows what odd creatures breed in the Celestial Kingdom?

T3: Murder Stone er, Celestial Stone
When you sacrifice a lion that is not pregnant, not nursing, not a broodmother, not in a trade or on a trade cooldown, not frozen, not secured, not hunting, not patrolling, or not in a raffle, you will receive a wonderful reward for brutally killing sending the lion to Apedemak's world. Rewards vary, and remember - we cannot bring back a lion that you've sacrificed on accident. There's many confirmations, though. It's best to name those lions "KILL ME" or "MURDER STONE" just to be sure.

* Cubs cannot be sacrificed. Even if the cubs were chased, the mother is still considered nursing until 16 days of cooldown pass.
* Celestial Stone does not affect karma.

Near the end of the month, the Frivolous Apedemak Decor will appear in the Oasis as usual!

2018 Storyline

Civil War begins...

Just as promised, weeks of preparation and hardcore coding have blossomed into a giant storyline. It is separated into 6 novels with 3 alignments and... 5 endings. Let me assure you, there's only 1 ending per account, so the rewards at the end will stay rare. You guys voted for this >:D Choose wisely!

Daily Quests
* After Novel 1 introduces you to the storyline you will be taken to a default NPC setup. You will face 3 NPCs you can do quests with, however you can only take 1 quest at once, and when you're done, there's 12 hours of cooldown.
* Cooldown is only started once you finish a quest.
* During your questing progress, other NPCs will become "locked" - and will unlock after the cooldown passes.
* Daily quests are randomized from 5 possible options and will always reward same rewards, but the event currency will be randomized to a degree.
* Every NPC will have different quests and different roleplay quote blurbs (for example, Menhit will ask you to gain karma, while Apedemak would prefer if you killed lions in your pride).
* Every completed quest will also grant you 2 reputation with your chosen NPC.
* Once you reach 40 reputation with that NPC, the others will become locked.
* Reputation does not matter other than for locking other NPCs.
* Ending of the storyline will affect the daily quests.
* (Apollyon is not introduced on Novel 1. He appears after Novel 2)

The Novels
The Novel, filled with many decisions, will reveal to you the story behind Apedemak's origins, Menhit's purpose, and Apollyon's originals as well. Your choices can stray the outcome of a Celestial war. There are multiple endings - five, to be exact. Which one will you end up with?

During the chapters, you will be able to pick sides; but, as you learn about the lore and situations, maybe your opinion will change? Maybe you will crave something else that you thought would be great for you? Sure, the Celestial path sounds great if you want a Celestial mane, but... maybe Apollyon was right all along?!

There are extra quests WITHIN the Novel that you must finish before you can progress. Oh, and there are rewards for quests AND the chapter endings - and they can vary, depending on your choices. That's why we recommend using the Wiki if you have specific needs. The Wiki has content from 2017 and will be updated accordingly.
Hey, don't worry. The Novel quests are made to be done with fairly fast. We even made Apollyon appear during the day to make it easier. <3

You can align with an NPC around Chapter 5 for the final time. While Menhit's ending is pretty linear, aligning with Apedemak and Apollyon can change everything by 180 degrees for both of each of the NPCs' endings. You could say that the guys have both "good" and "bad" endings, but is there truly such a black-and-white outcome? Only time will tell. The outcome of the whole storyline will lie in your paws, brave lions.

Novel 1 will begin immediately in the "Civil War" banner storyline that will appear in EVENT tab. We strongly advise to bookmark that page so that you have swift access. Daily quests will be in that same place, unlocked after you finish a Novel.

Rules/setup:
- Daily quests do not affect storyline
- There's extra quests inside the chapters
- Finishing a chapter should reset your daily quest cooldown
- You can reset your preferred NPC's reputation up to Chapter 5 during storyline a few times so do not fret
- Chapter 5 will give you a final choice and determine daily quests for the rest of the month
- Chapter 5 will determine what kind of ending decision you will face
- New chapters unlock on specific dates - 1st, 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th, 25th July.
- If you start/join later in the month, you will finish each chapter in order before getting to daily quest setup.
- Ending might affect explore encounters and daily questing visuals. We hope in 2019 it will also affect which lion appears in Celestial event area!
- If you prefer an ending but want other rewards, well, you have to trade with other players. Rarity will be key here.

2018 Changes:
- We have added a content warning on the event page, before you enter the storyline.
- After June's story, we felt like the July wording was a bit aged. We agreed some things could look better... such as... Cockpollyon. This should be more serious! We have updated the text in many places to have more lore descriptions, better explanations of emotions or behaviour, and to have more tact in general. We hope the change is delicate enough, but the text made more subtle for everyone to enjoy the story.
- We did not change any step of the story itself, only updated the text to be more descriptive. The novel (and its endings) is the same.

For finishing the whole Novel, you get a Curse of Divine applicator (which is a base you guys voted for to appear in 2018, inspired by Apedemak's story).
It looks like this:

- The Blade Mane Applicator will appear in the Gorilla Enclave for the next Friday update.

Good luck lions. The fate of the Celestial world depends on your choices.

Tefnut's Temple

We heard your yearnings. For some mysterious reason, you, the community, grew very fond of Tefnut, even if she appeared very briefly in the story. We want to address that - we want to satisfy you, and we want to have some fun, too.

With this, the Tefnut's Temple area will appear on the EVENT page. Similar in the concept of the community working together, we're presenting a temple to a beloved Celestial Lioness being built this year, in order to serve a higher purpose in 2019.
This year, you can donate your SB or special crafting items (such as Large Rocks) to help with the construction. Once the temple is built, a shop will unlock where you will be able to find Sunset marking applicators and Tefnut-related decors for Meteorite Shards.
It will also push us to develop a new Tefnut-based time-travel story for you to enjoy her origins and let you meet her when she was young and in love. Side quests tend to be smaller than main storylines, so 2019 won't be an event rehaul - just something extra to experience.

New, unique combo bases

Pulsar and Nadir are combo bases. Pulsar, a recolour of Arctic, is a hail to highly radiated neutron stars, and Nadir is a point opposite to Zenith point. It can also describe a very low point of your morale - we felt like this Ebony recolour fits very well.

While Nadir is just inspired by all the celestial colours of the universe, what makes Pulsar unique is that it can be *ONLY* bred during July. Otherwise, you can only breed Pulsar + Pulsar during any time of the year to produce more Pulsar babies.

Requirements are as follows (you need to breed any factor 1 base with any factor 2 base)

PULSAR:
Base factor 1: Arctic, Pulsar
Base factor 2: Blazing, Inferno, Anjeer, Prune, Pulsar

NADIR:
Base factor 1: Ebony, Black Rose, Nadir
Base factor 2: Rhodonite, Ardor, Hellebore, Nadir

New, extremely unique base:

Ahhh what this can be? A special Interstellar base, which can be obtained via Interstellar Remains applicator. It is extremely rare - the only chance you *might* find it is among Meteorite Shards...