Monthly Prompts

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Welcome to the monthly prompts page! Here you will find art/writing prompts to jog your creativity, if you wish to partake of them. One new prompt is provided each month. You will receive a Figment for each prompt you complete, which can be used for purchasing various rewards.

Prompt rewards are based on how many prompts you complete. Each prompt fill will give one Figment ⬥, which acts as currency for the Figment Store. Prompt submissions, earned figments, and spending is tracked in a spreadsheet; you do not have to keep track of it on your own and you can see your balance here. It can also be seen at the bottom of this page.

Inspiration ✧, which is earned by completing NPC prompts, can be used to replace Figments. A custom will require at least one Inspiration; e.g. 9 Figments and 1 Inspiration. Additionally, Inspiration can be used to "stack" customs, Notions, and MYOs for a special trait Edeia. See here for details.

Previous Prompts

You may complete prompts of the same month from previous years. Previous prompts may be completed over the course of the entire month plus the extra days of the current prompt.

NPC Prompts

NPC prompts can be completed for Inspiration ✧, which is required for certain Figment Store purchases such as customs and semi-customs.

Writing Tips

See the link above for basic tips and guidelines for improving your writing for prompts submissions. You may be directed here if staff have difficulties parsing your writing entries.

Community Edeia: Identity

Identity is a community Edeia that anyone can use. You can use them if you do not yet own an Edeia, for instance. You can create your own Identity or use them more casually.

Submitting Prompts

Generally speaking:

A prompt cycle refers to the period of time for which that month's prompts are available—typically two months, overlapping with the next month's prompt cycle.
You may make three submissions per prompt cycle, typically one for each category (usually design, art, writing). The same or different designs/Edeia can be used in each one.
Prompt submissions can be submitted in the #prompt-submissions channel of the Discord server or in the Prompt Submissions Deviantart folder of the group. Auspice or a moderator may approve or reject the prompt. If moderators are uncertain for any prompts, they may defer to Auspice when they are available.
Unless otherwise specified, you may generally use official Edeia designs, alternate forms, previous forms, approved past forms, fusions with complete designs on the ML, and fission fragments with complete designs on the ML. If you wish to use any other design, please ask first.
Please do not use unofficial Edeia for significant roles in prompts. If you need an Edeia to play a role, feel free to ask in the Discord server if anyone is interested in having their character featured!
Prompts must be posted on some social media somewhere, such as Deviantart, Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram, etc. or Toyhouse. Toyhouse submissions can be authorized only, as long as Auspice and moderators can see it.
If you have any questions about prompt requirements, please ask for clarification rather than directly proceeding to your entry.

Most prompts have similar requirements, described in the Standard Requirements section below. Unless otherwise specified, these requirements apply to all monthly prompts.

Writing Grammar and Style

As English is a particularly complex language, there are often various errors that will come up, especially when it comes to spelling and grammar, which can make reading difficult. It is therefore highly recommended to use some kind of grammar-checking application or tool as a quick proofreading method, and to follow the suggestions that are presented. Some grammar checking tools you can use are as follows:

Grammarly, Quillbot, LanguageTool, Hemingway Editor, ProWritingAid, EasyBib Writing Assistant.

However, the tools are more of a supplement. The best way to learn grammar is to read style guides and similar resources, some of which are listed on the Writing Tips page.

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.

Standard Requirements

Design Prompt

Must be fullbody with no cropping
No background required, but you can add something if you like.
The character must be "decent," i.e. wearing clothes or something if they have parts to cover. If parts do not show normally and/or they are as decent as any other of their species would be, that is fine.

Art Prompt

Part:

for one character - fullbody or almost
for two characters - partial body (thighs/equivalent or more)
three or more characters - halfbody (chest/equivalent up)

Rendering: Fully colored with shading.

Background: Some background with some environment. Can be blurry and/or undetailed, but it should give a sense of what kind of location they're in.

Text: Optional. Provide a little blurb about the situation, whether a reflection by the character, a summary of what the situation is, dialogue, etc.

Modifications

Different elements of your entry can be made more complex to simplify other parts. Here are some permitted modifications:

Part Exchange: You can draw more of one character to draw less of another; for instance, one fullbody + one halfbody with two characters, or one partial body + one halfbody + one bust for three characters.
Complexity/Part Exchange: If the character, background, and/or props (elements not part of the character) are complex, partial or halfbody for a single character is acceptable.
Complex Background/Simple Character: If only simple characters are present (e.g. Concept, Consciousness, and similar), a full background (with distinct background, middleground, and sometimes foreground elements) is required.
Rendered Character/Simple Background: If the characters are fully rendered (depicting interactions with environmental lighting and textures such as metallic/matte/glossy/translucent), abstract background is permitted.
Linework/Complex Background: The prompt can be depicted through clean linework and simple shading. Colors/tones/values/fills are not required, and shading can be cell shading, hatching, or other techniques. A full background (with distinct background, middleground, and sometimes foreground elements) is required.

Animations

For animations / animated artwork, you can consult with Auspice, as there are many possibilities. Here are some examples of what could work:

Fully colored and shaded, full color background, two halfbody characters, minor animation (similar posing but hair/arms/eyes may be animated), animated sequence with storytelling
Fully colored but not shaded, colored background, two partial body characters, minor animation, animated sequence with storytelling
Fully colored and shaded, full color background, one partial body character, moderate animation (whole body tweening and/or looping action with ~50% of body animated)
Not colored or shaded (monochrome or lineart), at least one fullbody character, major animation (at least 5-10 unique frames depending on character complexity), can be storytelling or looping

Writing Prompt

Minimum word count: 1200 words
The writing can be written as scenes (including dialogue and/or high level of detail), as a synopsis (summary-like description of events), or a combination of the two (synopsis with dialogue, for instance). For other types of writing, consult Auspice.
You may submit a collection of disconnected short writings/drabbles, 400 words minimum each. Connected scenes do not have a minimum; it counts as disconnected if the characters are different and/or there is no connecting plot/narrative.
If you wish, you can turn on comment permissions on the submission doc to allow general critique from Auspice/mods on your writing. General audience should not comment in the doc itself.
It is highly recommended to use some kind of grammar-checking application or tool as a quick proofreading method (see above).

Challenge Prompt

You are required to make at least 10 art pieces, whether on the same or different canvas, with the following requirements:

Part: fullbody or almost (for one character; any additional characters can be drawn but are not counted for requirements)
Quality: rough quality (i.e. painting with unpolished brushstrokes or linework with sketchy lines visible) permissible
Rendering: Colored with minimal shading.
Background: Not required.

If at least 6 depict others' Edeia, a Prompt Pass can be claimed. Fusions you share with another person count as "half" for this number.

Active Prompts

August 2026 Prompt: Sport

8/5/26 - 10/5/26 11:59pm ET

Edeia on Ice — Ego, Morph, and Veunimaru as figure skaters. Poses from a Yuri on Ice Art Book cover.

Large-scale athletic competition remains a major part of united society, carrying forward much of the spirit of pre-Reunion sport while adapting its structure to a world where magic can measure, restrict, and grant physical capability with precision. The United Sports Federation was formally established in 2037, dismantling the last remnants of the old IOC structure in favor of a body built from the ground up. In place of the Olympics was the Panathlon, with various other events organized by different committees in the USF.

Sporting events led by USF typically have three divisions with different "leveling" policies. The Natural Division preserves competition as it existed before widespread magical leveling, split by brackets of capability and governed by rules rather than magical constraints. The Leveled Division normalizes whichever traits a given event does not intend to measure though magic and technology, with any individual of any species and any variant within able to choose their bracket to be leveled into. The Open Division hosts sports that would be genuinely impossible without unrestricted magical ability.

This prompt focuses on sports during the golden age of Reunion. Please see the Sports & Competition section of United Society Details for detailed lore and creative guidelines.

Design Prompt

Design an Edeia's appearance for a USF sporting event, so long as it is different from their typical appearance. They can be in any form for any division they choose, though operating in mundane brackets in the Leveled Division may require them to take on a physical, organic form, such as a humanoid or humanlike form, or perhaps the form of a species that invented a particular sport that became part of USF events. They could be wearing sportswear typical to what is worn for events in our own modern world, though there is much more flexibility in style and aesthetic for USF sports, so long as the outfits do not grant competitive advantage. They could be wearing costumes, especially for sports that have more performance-oriented elements such as figure skating.

Art Prompt

Create artwork depicting an Edeia as a USF athlete. They do not necessarily need an alternate appearance or outfit depending on the event.

If three or more characters are depicted, at least one being an Edeia, the background can be abstract.

Writing Prompt

Create writing depicting an Edeia participating or observing one or more USF events. Scenes before or after actual USF events are permitted, but the focus should be on the actual sports event(s).

July 2026 Prompt: Stories

7/5/26 - 9/5/26 11:59pm ET

Stories? They are me, and I am them. Yet I can admit I have my favorites—the ones showing personal growth and deep, meaningful connection are especially palatable to my tastes. Nonetheless, I welcome any and all to my Library. Will you offer yours?

—Auraeum, Edeia of Stories.

Stories have been part of existence long before there was a language to record it. They can be many different things to different individuals, fulfilling various purposes: recording history, conveying knowledge, entertainment, and more. Some use stories for escapism, some use them to explore themselves. Some write them, while some only receive them. What do stories mean to your Edeia, and what kinds of stories do they especially favor or dislike? Are they part of the Notions and Narratives (NoN) Club—do they share stories for literary enjoyment, or do they enjoy their stories in privacy?

You may submit up to two of the same type of entry for this prompt.

Art Prompt

Create artwork featuring an Edeia, inspired by the theme of "Stories." Please include a brief written description or dialogue (minimum 30 words) to show how your Edeia relates to stories and/or the kinds of stories they favor or dislike.

Writing Prompt

Create writing featuring an Edeia, inspired by the theme of "Stories." You can explore your Edeia's thoughts about and relationship with stories, including their favorite or disliked genres, and whether they write any or only consume them.

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