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.

If the character is very simple (e.g. Concept, Consciousness, a simple object, etc.):

Full shading
Background required. Can be blurry and/or undetailed, but it should give a sense of what kind of location they're in.

If the character cannot be depicted as a single entity (e.g. Concept's previous form as interstellar medium), you may depict them as a shaded scene that best represents their previous form.

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

October 2026 Prompt: Ideogenic for a Day

10/4/26 - 12/4/26 11:59pm ET

"Are you having fun?" Blight asked.

Omephagos rumbled in agreement, several mouths on their form grinning in delight.

—Blight in their shifted Lunarwild beast form with Omephagos, who is temporarily affected by the Lunarwild blight. See also: Omephagos's shifted beast form.

Halloween has long been an occasion for donning the guise of something else, and one day, during the Age of Reunion, Blight invited Edeia to a Halloween party where they could all become temporarily blighted and have some fun in Blight's Abstraction. That event was a success, and soon, other Edeia were offering similar experiences, whether with Blight's help or not, and as part of the spirit of Halloween or more generally. Would your Edeia seek to experience becoming an ideogenic species for a day?

For this prompt, depict your Edeia as an ideogenic species that has been created or approved by Auspice. See Community Ideogenic Species for those created by others.

For blighted species fully owned by Auspice, you do not need to ask Auspice's permission first, but you may ask for clarification on design requirements and lore in #questions-suggestions-feedback or Auspice's Community Lore. Please read the section on blighted Edeia.
For other species by Auspice, please ask first in #questions-suggestions-feedback or Auspice's Community Lore.
For species created by community members or species co-owned by community members, please ask the creator or co-creator of the species for permission, design requirements, and lore. You can ping them to ask, for instance in a general or character lore channel.

Design Prompt

Design an Edeia as an ideogenic species. If the species has a "special form" (e.g. Lunarwild beast form, Synaptid somatic form, Mercurian Mercurius form), that form can be the design.

If it is a blighted species, please note if you want the form to be listed as a blighted shift the Edeia uses outside the experience.

Art Prompt

Create artwork featuring an Edeia as an ideogenic species. Do they interact with other members of the ideogenic species? Do they interact with the source? What do they do in this state?

Writing Prompt

Create writing featuring an Edeia as an ideogenic species. You can explore before, during, and after they become transformed, as well as why they were interested in the experience.

September 2026 Prompt: Inquiries to Order

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

"Very well, then. You have me for the foreseeable future. What would you have us do first?"

"Well! If you don't mind, I'd love to give you some pets! You're so shiny... I wonder what you feel like... and if you'd enjoy it! I promise I'll stop if or as soon you don't like it!"

"I suppose this was expected. So be it."

—Order, Edeia of Order, with Hapte, Ambideia of Haptoxara and Haptorexis.

Despite Order's significant role in history and prominence among those in united society and beyond, they are known to be quite reclusive. They have rarely been seen in public since the establishment of the supergovernment, and appointments made with them tend to be all business, straight to the point. It was through these appointments that several independent requests for Order to be more available to the public in a social sense have been made; though Order was quick to dismiss these as irrelevant to public policy, after several years, Data has managed to compile a portfolio of social requests to convince Order, in addition to arguments of making Order "more personable" and "less intimidating," allowing citizens to feel more empowered to speak about public policy.

For one month, during September of 2126, Order has taken a "vacation" from their offices, replacing them with "social appointments." Any citizen is able to request a "social appointment" by requesting a time and date along with a description of requested activities, and by lottery via Data, Order will consider the request. Outside of breaking laws or disrupting order in other ways, they allow themself to accept most types of activities—even accepting visits to their Abstraction.

What kind of "social appointment" does your character request? How and where does your character engage with Order? Are they taking the opportunity to propose ideas to improve the wellness of the world without having to make an office appointment? Do they casually talk with Order, or perhaps sit down and have tea together? Will your Edeia pester Order to go bowling with them?

Please be mindful of Order's characterization. You may depict Order in their main form, humanoid form, humanlike form, or previous form—the previous form being something they might be willing to show upon request. You do not need to ask Auspice about an interaction beforehand, but you can if you wish. For this prompt, Inspiration ✧ will be rewarded instead of Figments.

Art Prompt 1

Create artwork featuring an Edeia interacting with Order for a "social appointment."

Art Prompt 2

Create artwork featuring a non-Edeia interacting with Order for a "social appointment." They must be an Ideation universe character with some level of engagement with united society.

Writing Prompt

Create writing featuring a character, Edeia or not, interacting with Order for a "social appointment." They must be an Ideation universe character with some level of engagement with united society.

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