Late Policy

Generally, prompts must be submitted before the date and time indicated on the active prompt. 

Late pardons (which have no cost) can only be granted by Auspice. These will generally only be made for slight lateness (up to around 5 or 10 minutes) and/or unanticipated complications such as technical difficulties. Mods can leave an entry to be pending until Auspice is available to decide whether or not to pardon the late submission. 

There is also a system of late-hours. Every three prompts you complete you get one "late-hour," which will be included on the Figment inventory spreadsheet.  If you turn in a submission late, it can be up to one hour and it expends that entire late-hour. Late-hours can be stacked and expended all at once. Mods can accept the usage of late-hours and mark usage in the "Used Late-Hours" column. 

Prompt Passes

Prompt passes can be used to complete any existing monthly prompt at any time. They are tracked in the inventory as well. Currently, you can get prompt passes from the following activities:

• completing Development Prompts.

• completing an artwork as a backup artist for an art train in the Edeia Discord Server.

• completing gift prompt entries for others.

• creating gift artwork or writing for an Edeia, Fission, or Fusion showcased in a monthly feature.

A gift entry should focus on others' characters and not your own; if interactions with your characters are involved, they should be secondary to the recipient's characters. (Generally, art and design prompts are recommended to only feature others' characters, while writings can have minor appearances by your characters.) If you use a prompt pass to submit an entry, you will not receive another prompt pass. 

An infographic on Generalized Anxiety Disorder made by Ipsivivere in-universe, also featuring Rhythm, Raein, Ki, Ro, Pacific, and Ambris. 

Since 1949, Mental Health Awareness Month (or Mental Health Month) has been observed in May in the United States. With the arrival of Reunion in 2016, many other individuals across society, if not entire nations and societies, have taken up observation as well. Research into the causes and mechanisms of mental health concerns has since incorporated metaphysical factors as well, in addition to investigating how metaphysical states such as soul pathologies and soulbonds can affect mental health. 

The purpose of Mental Health Awareness Month is to raise awareness, educate the public, and reduce stigma about mental illnesses and conditions affecting mental health, such as depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder. Activities include media showcases (films, books, games, etc.), events held by experts or those otherwise knowledgeable about mental health, guest speakers in Ideation Academy, and promotion of research about mental health and resources for mental health support.

The focus of prompt submissions should be on mental health. You can explore formally classified mental disorders (depression, OCD, eating disorders, etc.), as well as physical or neurological conditions that significantly intersect with mental health, as long as the prompt entries center the mental health dimension—causes, coping, stigma, emotional experience, and so on.

Design Prompt

Research a mental health condition or condition that significantly intersects with mental health, and create an infographic featuring one or more Edeia. At minimum, you can include one one half or partial body or three headshots. This does not need to be shaded. 

• If you wish, this can canonically be an infographic created by the Edeia or at least by their approval.

• Please be sure to use factual, verified information, though you can include subjective and fictional elements if, for instance, they can provide perspectives on personal experiences, stigma, public attitudes, etc. 

• You may include Ideation fictional lore elements if you wish, but please label any fictional elements clearly. It is very encouraged to share your infographic publicly so that you, too, can raise awareness about mental health! 

Art Prompt 

Create artwork featuring an Edeia observing Mental Health Awareness Month, whether as a participant or organizer. 

Writing Prompt

Create writing exploring a mental health condition an Edeia had or still has and how it has impacted their life and interactions with others, and/or the Edeia observing Mental Health Awareness Month. You may also explore physical or neurological conditions that they might have had before Actualization, and how they interacted with their mental health.

If I were asked to choose one flower to favor, I would choose lilies. White lilies, in particular. Its associations appeal to me—mourning, rebirth. Concepts intricately intertwined with who I am. Aesthetically, they are pleasant, as well. Their simple white coloration and elegant form are soothing to me. 

—Rhome, explaining their favorite flower.  

With spring come flowers, blooming in all manners of shapes and colors. There is something transient about them, something deeply connected with the comings and goings of life; there is something about them that has enraptured cultures across the world, giving them all sorts of meanings. How might an Edeia feel about flowers? Do they have a favorite? If so, what draws them to that particular flower? Do they make use of flowers, whether for decoration, communication, as gifts, or something else?

You may submit up to three entries for this prompt, one of each option below. If you use a previous year's prompt, you cannot double up on the same type.

Art Prompt 1

Create artwork depicting an Edeia with their favorite flower(s).  

• The flower does not need to be realistically rendered, but should be recognizable. 

• The flower does not need to have realistic colors; they can be flowers conjured by the Edeia's magic or actual flowers from the physical plane. 

• At least one flower must be present and clearly visible. 

Additionally, please include a short written excerpt/blurb that includes what the flower is and why it is the Edeia's favorite. ]

Art Prompt 2

Create artwork depicting how flowers are a part of an Edeia's life.  For instance, they might be:

• conjuring flowers to decorate their Abstraction

• growing physical flowers in their Abstraction or an external garden 

• giving flowers to others for some purpose 

• wearing flowers for aesthetic purposes

The flowers do not need to have realistic colors; they can be flowers conjured by the Edeia's magic or actual flowers from the physical plane. 

Additionally, please include a short written excerpt/blurb that includes what the flower is and why it is the Edeia's favorite. 

Writing Prompt

Create writing depicting an Edeia and their thoughts on or usage of flowers. The piece may explore the Edeia's favorite flower and why it is their favorite, and/or it could explore how the Edeia makes use of flowers in their life. 

Many seek luck in love. It is not quite true to say that I do not believe in luck, though I do believe many occurrences caused by forces and beings unknown to a particular individual are erroneously ascribed to fortune. I do not await such things. I do not rely on chance. No, I observe, I consider. Then, in some cases, I am the very hand of "luck" that people believe has brought them together. Many have thought me a god or messenger of love, and though it is not quite true by strict definition, perhaps I do often play such a role.

—Prágma, Edeia of Πράγμα, arranging matches between individuals. In some cases, without their knowledge. 

Luck: "success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one's own actions." It is something often casually spoken of, something that people see in the healthy, happy, and successful. Yet, in a way, it is philosophically antithetical to self-determination, which defines how Edeia come to be. What does your Edeia think of luck? Do they believe in it, and think of themself as either lucky or unlucky? Do they reject it? Do they think of it as something influenced not by chance but by metaphysical forces or the whims of individual beings? Do they take it into their own hands, with their magic having an influence on the likelihood of various outcomes? 

You may submit up to three entries for this prompt. You can submit up to two of the same type for this prompt, but if you use a previous year's prompt, you cannot double up on the same type.

Art Prompt 

Create artwork depicting an Edeia experiencing or causing a "fortunate" or "unfortunate" incident. Some examples: 

• Fortunate experiences: winning a raffle, receive a surprise gift, experiencing their favorite weather on an important day, finding an interesting object or location, meeting a new or old friend spontaneously, etc. 

• Causing fortunate incidents: protecting/healing /resurrecting an individual, granting a positive blessing to a mortal, helping out another individual secretly, burying "treasures" for others to find, etc.

• Unfortunate experiences: experiencing disliked weather, encountering a disliked individual, belongings breaking or going missing, etc. 

• Causing unfortunate incidents: pulling pranks on others in secret, cursing an individual for reasons unknown to them, setting traps to mess with others, etc. 

Optionally, you can include a blurb about the context and/or about the thoughts of the Edeia's relationship with luck. 

Writing Prompt

Create writing depicting an Edeia experiencing or causing "fortunate" or "unfortunate" incidents, and/or exploring their thoughts about luck and what they do, if anything, to alter their own or others' "luck."