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Taborea lies covered in a blanket of snow. Christmas is fast approaching, and everyone is busy preparing for the festivities: buying gifts, cleaning their houses, preparing their meals.

But it is also the time of thieving monsters! Be on your guard: the monsters are after stealing your food over the three weeks up to New Year's Eve. There'll be events, competitions and great prizes for you to look forward to!

You'll find all the important details in this thread. It's worth checking out regularly to keep up with the latest.

Winter has come to Taborea and the world is covered in snow, Taboreans are preparing winter supplies and festival food for the Snowflake Festival and the New Year's celebrations. Even monsters are preparing for their winter sleep. What are your plans for the festive time? Are you planning to visit Varanas Festival with your guild mates or maybe organize a meeting with your close friends in the guild castle to decorate it with Christmas decorations? Show your winter activities – it’s time for a Runes of Magic Winter FanArt competition!

Competition rules:

1. Every registered Runes of Magic player may participate in the competition, excluding members of the Runes of Magic Teams.
2. By participating in the competition, you give permission to Gameforge to use your submission on any Gameforge official page (such as, forums, webpages, Facebook, and Twitter).
3. Every submission must follow the competition theme.
4. Your work must be an original creation made by you (drawn, painted or created in a computer graphics program) without the use of renders, stocks, photos or pre-made elements. In-game screenshots or official Runes of Magic artwork (or parts of them) may not be used.
5. Participants may enter only one submission for the whole competition.
6. We will choose 3 winners from each community (RoM EN / DE / FR / PL / ES / IT / US / AU / MX). Participants will be grouped by the servers that they would like to receive the reward on. Winners will be announced on the forums and on our social media pages.
7. The Runes of Magic Team may change the rules for the competition at any time, due to unforeseen circumstances that could affect a fair result of the competition.

Competition theme:

• "Winter time in Taborea"

All FanArts, which:

1. Infringe copyrighted material or are not made by the applicant,
2. Are submitted in an incorrect file type,
3. Do not match competition theme,
4. Use animations,
5. Violate the Term of Use, Forum Rules, and/or Game Rules of Runes of Magic

will be excluded from the competition immediately and without warning. The Runes of Magic Teams will judge the FanArts taking into account the effort, creativity and the visual effects of the submitted works.

How to participate:

1. Each user can send only one submission.
2. All submissions have to be sent via e-mail to: event@runesofmagic.com
   
3. Your submission must consist of one of the following formats: JPG, .BMP, .PNG, .GIF, .TIFF.
4. The competition starts on: 15.12.2014
5. The competition ends strictly at: 04.01.2014 23:59
6. All submissions after the competition end will not be considered by the judges.
7. The following information has to be included in the submission e-mail

Quoted

Title of the email: RoM Winter FanArt
Your community: (example RoM US)
Your board nickname:
Your account name:
Your e-mail address:
Your server and character name:

Note: The e-mail must be sent from a valid e-mail address (linked to your Runes of Magic account) and one that you check regularly.

For each community of Runes of Magic, The RoM Team will chose 3 winners (3 winners per community, total 27 winners).

Rewards:

1st place:

- 1000 diamonds
- VIP status for whole account on the selected server with the following benefits for 6 days:

• +50% bonus to EXP *
• +50% bonus to TP (only from monsters) *
• +50% bonus to drop rate *
• Ability to record transport points without ink (unlimited)
• 1 Phoenix's Redemption per day
• 1 Daily Quest Ticket per day

2nd place:

- 750 diamonds
- VIP status for whole account on the selected server with the following benefits for 5 days:

• +50% bonus to EXP *
• +50% bonus to TP (only from monsters) *
• 1 Phoenix's Redemption per day
• 1 Daily Quest Ticket per day

3rd place:

- 500 diamonds
- VIP status for whole account on the selected server with the following benefits for 4 days:

• +50% bonus to EXP *
• +50% bonus to TP (only from monsters) *
• 1 Daily Quest Ticket per day

* These buffs will last for 24 hours - they will be renewed at log in each day for as long as the VIP status continues.

Christmas and the New Year is the festive season, and a time for you to share the joy with other people!
Eve, Frank, Hilary and Owenstein also would like to share their best wishes with all Taboreans – You can visit them in Varanas Central Plaza (channel 1) between 15.12.2014, 15:00 to 30.12.2014, 10:00 CET and exchange some items for some awesome presents.