It's been a while since the last lore update, so we got some big stuff to cover. 

Let's begin!

Empire traditional foods

Submitted and composed by RubyNoble1

✦ Tokku: A bowl or cup of shaved milk ice made with musk ox milk, traditionally topped with cloudberries and cloudberry syrup. (inspired by Bingsu)

✦ Litsat: A dish consisting of cooked fish (traditionally Salmon) marinated in arctic water (containing salt), Pepper, and parsley leaves. On the side is cooked reindeer moss with parsley.

✦ Ratir: A dish consisting of Arctic Bunny meat cooked with sage. With Reindeer moss seared with sage and parsley.

✦ Askat: A Cloudberry Liqueur, Cloudberry can be processed down into liquor, this became a traditional alcohol for the Grifix later on in the generations, At the same time as Tokku became traditional.

✦ Vinn: A soup consisting of rabbit or arctic owl meat, water, Eskimo potato, reindeer moss, 1 bay leaf, topped with salt, pepper, and Parsley.

✦ Atak: A traditional “medicinal” tea, made up of bearberry, although the taste is good, it is recommended not to drink too much, as it can cause a bit of a stomach ache.

✦ Varin: A snack consisting of fried shrimp with sage, this snack is most enjoyed on a skewer similar to Arin.

✦ Arin: Not to be mistaken with Varin, this savory treat is arctic owl meat marinated in sweet cloudberry syrup and pepper. This is most enjoyed on a skewer.

✦ Lit: A sauerkraut made up of roseroot, traditionally fermented with sage, pepper, and boiled salt water. Put into a jar and sealed by wrapping cloth around it. Then digging a hole and leaving it in there for 18 marked days. (it is recommended to mark the spot it is in). 

(Lit, Tokku, Askat, Varin, and Arin are most enjoyed and famously bought on holidays and especially the New Year's Holiday)

Ingredients:

✦ “Butter/oil”: Sea lion fat

✦ Herbs: sage, parsley, eskimo potato, bearberry, roseroot. Grown by the Herbalist Guild, they are plants that grow at the south of the Frozen Empire. The Hunters Guild sometimes find them in their expeditions, but they are mainly supplied by the Herbalists Guild.

✦ Meat: Rabbit, Arctic Owl, Shrimp, and fish from the arctic.

✦ Seafood and fish: obtained through long expeditions made by the Hunters Guild to the Ocean. The Empire is far from the shore, so it takes a very long time to get to somewhere where one can fish, therefore the Hunters catch very big quantities for provisions.

✦ Salmon: can be found in rivers slightly south of the Empire.

✦ Cloudberry, bittersweet and can taste sweeter when turned into syrup. It can also provide Vitamin C. The Herbalists Guild have been able to grow those for a long time, even before they discovered the formula to magically growing plants in the Empire. They also grow naturally around the Empire in the warmer seasons, but even so are hard to find outside. They are however, very important in preventing scurvy so the grifix consume them throughout the year.

✦ Vegetables: Reindeer Moss, also grown by the Herbalists Guild, can also be found outside the Empire.

✦ Musk Ox Milk: can taste sweet. It seems that the Crystal Empire has a consistent drading market with the Musk Oxes. The Miners Guild sometimes obtains Ox Milk as payment for minerals.

✦ Pepper: from the herbalist Guild. It's a relatively new ingredient as they only started growing it recently but it gained a lot of popularity amongst the grifix.

✦ Salt: derived from the arctic ocean water brought by Hunters from their expeditions.

✦ Bay leaf, Parsley, sage,  and Pepper: Hertbalist Guild.

✦ Bearberry has actually adapted to the Artic climate, likewise Cloudberry.

PS: If anybody wants to contribute with foods, it would be very helpful, especially for the other grifix settlements. They will soon be added on the site with artworks, so it would be nice if we would have some for the other settlements as well.

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The harpsong House

Regulated by CrystalIzzy77

Patreon/ goddess: Harp Song

Founder: Melody

House Mother: Celtic Harp

Apprentice: Faith

Speciality:

Hierarchy

The House Mother

Instrument Crafters

Music Writers

Performers:

History:

Hello and welcome to the 10th lore update!! The first lore update has been done on 08/27/20, so it's been... exactly 800 days? That's funny. A bit over two years, but I didn't expect it to be such a fun number of days XD

Anyway, I asked all the species members to submit random ideas for this special edition lore update on Discord. All the information will be added in this post and all the people who submitted will receive a special limited item:

OLD DRAGON NECKLACE

Category: Event items

Rarity: ✦✦✦✦✦

 

You found this item in the forest, close to the village. You wore it once and thought of something, which then seemed to... become reality. But that only happened once, now the necklace is useless to you. 
You wonder who it belonged to? Does it really have supernatural powers? If so, why can they only be used once?

Uses: Collectible

Source: Given as a reward to users who submitted ideas for the 10th lore update

So, let's begin!

RubyNoble1's SUbmissions:

✦ The same way the Frillback Pigeons came to be through selective breeding, something similar happened to the Starfell Clan. It is quite common that the Starfell Grifix have feather fluffs that look this way.

✦ There are some rare vegetables that actually grow in the snowy biome of the Frozen Empire. They are extremely rare. The grifix love them.

✦ Some gems are prominent in the Frozen Empire: amber, seraphinite, and Dendrite Quarts. Amber is used as the symbol of the Frozen Empire since it represents warmness in the freezing cold.

 

✦ The Grifix in the Frozen Empire are much fluffier and have more feathers especially around the wings since they have adapted to the cold weather over time. They also can have insulated feathers (instead of fluffy feathers they have insulated feathers and fur that allows them to keep their heat in the cold weather).

 

✦ Shaped Freckles: this is a new trait category which will allow some sort of freckles customisation. However, it will be locked behind this item that you will have to purchase from Wolfsbane's Store. Some shapes will be locked behind special events.

SUN STAINED BRUSH

Category: Collectibles

Rarity: ✦✦✦✦✦

 

This old brush seems to do more than manipulate paint... Selenara told you it belonged to her predecessor, Queen Rosa.

Uses: Unlocks usage of Freckles Shape traits

Purchaseable At: Wolfsbane’s Store

Emizu_TH's Submissions

✦ Everfree Village grifix parents tell little myths to their cubs to make them behave, or just have fun seeing them get excited over the information and spreading it around: "If you (inset action) at (location or infront of a random item) during (time), you will be (insert effect which is totally not real, but kids trust it anyways because they are kids)." These are often influenced by the Queen who is reigning at that time. Back in Eclipsa's reign this myth was similar to "standing infront of a lake during an eclipse will make you trip thrice in a row". But there were also myths like "helping with the harvest while wearing a flower on their head during the Great Harvest Holiday will bring you good luck", so that kids can be tricked into helping. In the future, these types of rumours help shape their personality, discipline, etc. The myths are different from family to family, but it also happens that the cubs tell them to eachother and they spread around the Village. Sometimes two different versions of a myth appear and cubs start fighting over which is the true one.

✦ There is a common tradition that if parents place a egg looking rock or object near their egg, it will protect the egg to not be eaten by predators. This variation of Rumours varies in different locations.

The origin of this story is old, from back in the Old Kingdom, when grifix were slightly more exposed to predators and started placing egg shaped rocks near nests to distract them. As grifix settlements evolved, the tradition lost it's original meaning in some places, and changed more to some sort of superstition.

The Divided grifix will Surround their egg with a lot of rocks, almost making some sort of rock bed.

Lost Tribe grifix place moss and leaves on top of the egg to make it in with the surroundings.

Everfree Village grifix place a painted rock near the egg, decorated with the same patterns the egg has. they say they do this to fool the evil spirits that might want to harm the cub inside, so that the evil spirits will attack the rock instead. When the grifix born reaches adulthood through the Sphirix Shape Ceremony, they take the rock that was placed near their egg outside and break it.

Summer_Stars's Submissions

JOKE PLANT LANTERN

Category: Collectibles

Rarity: ✦✦✦

 

Dangerous is this plant to the Grifix species. Because of a certain hair growing event,  the grifix cubs are warned to avoid plants like this.
This lantern has multiple purposes: to be of a thing to fear, or serve as a good light source. 
Still, what is it doing here if it is so dangerous? Is that glass really enough to protect you from it's influence?

Uses: Collectible

Purchaseable At: Wolfsbane’s Store

This was all for the 10th lore update, our first milestone! Should we hold events like these every 10 lore updates, or have bigger milestones? It did take us over 2 years to get here, so I think 10 posts is enough.

Either way, see you next time and hope we will reach 20!

Hello and welcome once again! MysteriousShine here. In this lore update I will cover two new underguilds: Yokai no Ie (Entertainers Guild) and The Jewellers Guild (Tailors Guild). I am so glad to see once again people contributing to the lore of the grifix like this!

After that I will cover information on some new traits, but most important STYLES which are a trait category I've been using for a while but people still seem to not understand what they are so maybe I should clarify it in a post.

So, let's begin!

YOKAI NO IE

THE JEWELLERS GUILD

This guild is regulated by RubyNoble1

Thank you RubyNoble for coming up with this aewsome underguild, I think the backstory of it is awesome and hope it will get filled with characters once!

Now I'll go into some new traits and what the Trait Styles are!

NEW TRAITS

Please don't use these posts as notifications for new traits as most new traits are not announced here but on Discord. It's just now and then I add them to lore updates.

EAR LAYERING

WING EXTENSIONS

Sphirix Wing Alteration clarification:

The feathers are shaped in such way that they resemble the wing shape of the sphirix. The wing is NOT the wing of the sphirix animal, it is just altered to have a similar shape.

The image displays a butterfly EXAMPLE. It can be any animal, that is just an example.

Styles

Styles are NOT traits. They do NOT have to be selected or anything like that. They are purely for inspiration.

They are often trait combinations that can look cool together, ideas, all sorts of stuff like that. They can all be found here, and you can always give me more ideas for them. Each of them has listed in the description what traits you must use to obtain that style. The rarity I picked for each is just the highest rarity of the traits it contains.

Again, they are not traits, they are just possible combinations and ideas with the already existing traits.

I'll dump here all the styles that exist for now, you can pick any for inspiration and click on them to see what traits they require. This will NOT be updated so do not use this post for reference in the future.

They also have no specific order. I just copy-pasted them from the visual trait index where you can find them updated whenever you need.

Arrowhead Fluff Style (Common)

Leaf Ear (Common)

Petal Fluff Style (Common)

Rib Fluff Style (Common)

Star Ray Fluff Style (Common)

Sun Ray Fluff Style (Common)

Teddybear Ear (Common)

Fur x Feather fluff material (Rare)

Heart Fluff Style (Rare)

Phoenixtail Ear (Rare)

Valkyrie Fluff Style (Rare)

Chicken collar fluffs (Epic)

Fur x Smoke fluff material (Epic)

Pigeon Collar Fluffs (Epic)

Smoke Cluster Tail Fluff (Epic)

Smoke Tail (Epic)

Spiral Fluff Style (Epic)

Unlayered Double Underside Ear (Epic)

Bat Sphirix Wing Alteration (Legendary)

Bee (Insect) Sphirix Wing Alteration (Legendary)

Butterfly Sphirix Corruption (Legendary)

Butterfly Sphirix Wing Alteration (Legendary)

Dragon Sphirix Wing Alteration V1 (Legendary)

Dragon Sphirix Wing Alteration V2 (Legendary)

Fish Sphirix Wing Alteration (Legendary)

Frillback Sphirix Wing Alteration (Legendary)

Pterodactyl Sphirix Wing Alteration (Legendary)

Whale Sphirix Wing Alteration (Legendary)

Feel free to trace any of the wings if you want to use them but don't know how to draw them well enough. Or ask me for it if you want to use wings for an animal I didn't make examples for and I'll draw it for u.

I'll make this shorter Lore Update in order to clear some stuff that were left out in the past lore updates, and maybe also clarify some website stuff.

Queen ivy

She is the subject of many legends and stories amongst the Lost Tribe, but those are yet to be revealed to us. Today I shall only tell you about who she was...

Design by kazoowary, MidnightStar and MysteriousShine

Queen Ivy was a grifix from the Starfell Clan who used her special abilities to make the First Warriors approve of her. She could see sphirix, and wanted to rule the Tribe alone so she wouldn’t spoil her pure blood so she never chose a king.

She was a trickster and tricked the First Warriors into believing she'd be the best for the clan, but once she was in power, she tried to break off all the connections to the First Warriors and to lead the tribe into a better future, but was stopped doing so. In the fear of being betrayed/manipulated again, the First Warriors declared that no queen should ever rule again. 

She was a dark spot in the history of the Starfell Clan, but secretly they all admire her. Maybe it is the silent wish for liberation of all grifix that made her name last through the ages, like a faint echo of a prayer for change.

The first children

Ever wondered what happened to the children of the First Warriors? Who were they?

Well the first warriors had two types of children: "legitimate" and "illegitimate" but they obviously didn't call them like that. The illegitimate children were simply... not theirs.

The First Warriors had a bunch of children who's parents were unknown. Some of the first warriors didn't want the others to know who they made a child with so they often asked Bluebell to apply a special lotion on the egg that made it absorb magic from all the grifix around it, and this way the child would take traits from everyone and be, biologically, a child of many. Not all the children on the First Warriors were like that though, but those who were were treated like they weren't anybody's child. Amongst those there was Mossy Peak, Nighttime, Moon Gemstone, Hena and others. The First Warriors used these children to their advantage, promissing to treat them better or reveal who their actual parents were in exchange for various things. 

The crystal academy

I'll jump to some Frozen Empire lore now.

Like I mentioned before, the Crystal Empire is a university center in Equestria and contains records of knowledge that has been saved from before the Great Cataclysm.

The university from the Crystal Empire is called the Crystal Academy, and its libraries hold almost all the world's knowledge between their walls. It is only, perhaps, the Frozen Empire's library that hold more knowledge than this.

The Crystal Academy also regulates most of the trades in the Empire, including the trades with the Frozen Empire.

If you want one of your non-grifix characters to attend the Crystal Academy contact MysteriousShine. All sorts of creatures attend the academy so as long as it is not an original species it's likely they'll get accepted in the grifixverse like this :D

Site stuff

Lastly, some updates on website stuff:

- I added a link to download the grifixverse font in Navigation. The font is free to use BUT ONLY fir grifixverse related stuff. Please respect this, I worked a lot on this font. Get it here: GRIFIXVERSE-REGULAR.TTF

- I added the "achievements" prompt section. Usually just having one grifixverse character should assure you to complete at least three achievements. They are usually locked behind completeing other achievements, so there's a certain order you can complete them in. Just check whichever ones you have available: ACHIEVEMENTS (they offer rewards such as limited items, MYO Slots and Star Points or even coupons).

IMPORTANT! The event has been moved here. This post is here just for archive purposes.

Twilight Sparkle became the most adorred ruler of Equestria, and once with that the longest period of peace in Equestria began. Twilight united all the nations of the world under friendship and harmony, and Equestria became a place populated by all sorts of creatures. However, that harmony was protected by nothing but a thin layer of stone...

Year 300 after Twilight's corronation, it all fell appart. The three gratest villains of Equestria broke out of their stone prison and set to wreak this world appart, and break harmony once and for all. It was so sudden, and no creature expected it. From the core of this civilization they emerged, in the royal gardens of Canterlot, just a short flight from the throne room. It was all over in a matter of minutes. She was gone, our Queen. She was gone, our Harmony.

*smack!*

The grifix closed the book. 

"That means it all ended for us as well in that moment. Our old enemies, the changelings, were back. They could sense us, feel our love, kill us. But that wasn't even the worse part. An enemy like we never saw before, who could feed of the very core of our being: magic. When Tirek emerged, the Queen knew that it was time for us to leave. She summoned to the Everfree the Chief of the Divided and the Guide of the Lost and united the three for the journey. But she came not with us. The Divided felt not worthy to follow us, so they stayed with her, all but a few. One was Jade Hoof, one of the founding grifix of the Empire. But we were not queenless or guideless without Selenara, for great leaders stood ahead of us. The Dark Queen Eclipsa came back from the lost to build the beautiful empire she failed to build during her reign. The eternal Aeterna left the Smokey Mountains to guide us to the promised land. And in front of all, the children of the Sun themselves, in which Selenara and the folk put their trust, Dusk Garden and Silver Scroll, were meant to protect the grifix from the unknown. And so we set on the jouney to the Unknown, to find tthe Promised Empire in the heart of the Frozen Mountains north of the Crystal Empire, the only place untouched by the war, protected by the Crystal Heart."

The Grifix build a new empire in the north, between mountains covered in snow throughout the year. Aeterna's sphirix, the immense roc bird who used to guide the queens to their grave, grows even larger, enough to cover an entire city, and the grifix build their new city inside the sphirix. The magic and the soul of the sphirix keeps the city warm and the sphirix safe from freezing.

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Hello everyone! I am so glad to finally begin this MYO event, as I have been working on this for almost a full year! This is also the first MYO event on our new website, meaning that the site is fully functional now, and the species has successfully migrated here!

Once with this MYO event I am introducing a new grifix settlement, one that will take us to a new world, in the future of Equestria! But the lore behind this is too big, and too much to introduce at once, so I will introduce just a portion of it for now, and the rest will come in future MYO events!

To begin everything, please make sure to read this, as it will introduce you to this new location and tell you everything you need to know! If you don't read it you'll probably not understand the rest of this post. But don't worry, it's pretty short.

Now that you were introduced to the Frozen Empire, you should know that the Empire is organized in 12 major guilds. This MYO event will allow you to create characters from three of them: The Tailors Guild, The Hunters Guild and the Entertainers Guild.

If you decided what guild you want your grifix to be part of, make sure you read the wiki about their guild! Here they are:

THE TAILORS GUILD ✦ THE HUNTERS GUILD ✦ THE ENTERTAINERS GUILD

A little specification about the Entertainers Guild: you are free to come up with underguilds for this guild and design their headmaster! But they will all have to be approved by MysteriousShine. In fact, know that I encourage this, I really hope someone does come up with more entertainers underguilds.

If you are looking for various information about the grifix species, look here: Navigation

Here's a trait guide to make it easier for you to design your character: Trait Guide

Usage of God traits is not allowed. Everfything else is free during this MYO event.

See the other Frozen Empire characters: Frozen Empire Masterlist

rules and how to enter

✦ Read and respect the species Terms of Ownership.

✦ Read this if you are new to the grifixverse: Get Started, Grifix Species Summary, Grifix Features

✦ Join our Discord server and register on this site

✦ Make a comment saying you want to join, and what guild you want your grifix to be part of. I'll reply with a question, answer it.

✦ You have three MYO tickets, meaning you can design up to three characters. If you want more, here's how you can obtain more MYO tickets: Share this event with someone that wants to join, and tell them to mention your username when they reply to my question. For every person you bring to the MYO, you get one more ticket! You can, for example, share the event on a discord server or on your social media and ask people to mention your username when they join.

✦ Feel free to chat about the MYO event and show WIPs in the #tapestry-of-frozen-dreams-myo-event channel on the discord server. Once your character is finished, post it in the #MYO-approval channel. After it will be approved there, I will create the MYO slot for your character on the site.

✦ In order for your character to be approved, it will also need to have a short character description that fits the grifix lore, and a reference made according to the Get Started page linked above. 

Take part in the event to obtain the limited item PIN OF FROZEN DREAMS:

This myo event will end on 01/01/2023.

All hail to another Great Harvest Holiday that I missed cause I wasn't paying attetion to the time! But worry not. I shall do something for it anyway, even if I am a few days late. I'll introduce a new legend, which revolves around the Great Harvest Holiday!

Click on the titles to go to the respective page, they are links. Still, all the information on the pages can be found in this post, but in the future they might be updated and this page won't be.

THE SPIRIT OF THE GREAT HARVEST HOLIDAY

The idea belongs to kazoowary, the art is made by MysteriousShine but it is provisory, it may be changed later, as well as the story. But after all, every legend is different depending on who speaks it, so is there really a canon version to it?

Next I shall introduce some of the Entertainment Houses! The first two were created by me (MysteriousShine) but the others were created by other members and I cannot express enough how much I love them! They exceeded any of my expectasions!

!IMPORTANT! The Entertainers Guild underguilds will no longer be called "underguilds", they are now called "houses" cause I find this term to be more suitable. 

THE MOONSHADOW CRANE

This outfit is mandatory for Moonshadow Crane grifix under 16, so you must include a version of your grifix wearing in the reference if the grifix fits in that category. You can find bases using this oufit in the base gallery.

THE RED MOON HOUSE

TRINISETTE BOUQUET

House regulated by Emizu_TH

FAFNIR'S TREASURE

House regulated by Dawn-n-Night

Lastly, I observed recently that there are some misunderstandings regarding the way sphirix are named, which made me think of it, so I'll explain a bit how they are named in each settlement:

the everfree Village, the lost tribe, and the frozen empire:

The sphirix in these settlements aren't always named at birth, and their name is whatever the grifix starts calling it. Unually they get a name whenevr the grifix starts talking and names it whatever. That sometimes leads to some weird names, but that's how it is (the same way children name their teddybear). Sometimes though, the parents name the sphirix but that's a bit weird for them to do since they can't see it. In the Everfree Village they can ask the Healer for name suggestions, since the Healer can see it.

the divided grifix camp

There is a strange grifix living deep in the in the Divided Grifix Camp. Grifix normally don't walk that far into the cave, so they don't interract with him. They sometimes bring him food but he seems uninterested in it. He doesn't seem to need that food to survive. They call him the Prophet, but truth is he never gave any prophecies or anything. In fact, he never talks. He is blind, but seems to be able to see sphirix. The Divided grifix bring their new hatched babies to him, and he names their sphirix by writing the name on the ground with a stick.

That is all for this lore update! Hope you enjoyed reading it! See ya next time and have a wonderful time till then!

This post contains info on:

• The Return to the Shore of Origin (Lost Tribe Holiday)

• The 7 year cycle calendar (Lost Tribe lore)

• The Light Beans for every grifix !IMPORTANT!

• Updates on the Heartfire Holiday (previously Friends' and Lovers' Day)

• The Great Green Orb (Divided Grifix Camp lore)

• The Great Green Orb Magic Celebration (Divided Grifix Camp holiday)

• New Traits

Hello! It's been a long time since the last lore update, so now I am back with quite a lot of new lore! This is also the first lore update on the site! Yay! Enjoy! :D

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It was a few years since the death of the First King, Pine. Most of the first warriors were dead as well, and their children forgot of the vow to seek revenge on Starla and the First Village. In a beautiful place besides the sea they settled. The ocean breeze was blowing over the camp, and they could easily catch fish in order to sustain themselves. Nearby on the cliffed shore there were a bunch of caves that were easily accessible most of the time and they could use for cover, but not permanently because the entrance was underwater for eight days every month due to high tides. It was a great place to settle in. They spent a few years there, almost half a lifetime for a grifix, time in which they got used to the nature cycles and built customs upon them. All was great until Yantarka lost herself and her father made them leave to seek for the First Village. But those customs they built back then had not been thrown away. The cycles of the ocean shore will forever guide their journey.

There is a turtle species that visits that shore once every seven years in order to lay eggs. That marks the beginning of the seven-year-calendar for the Lost Tribe. This is a calendar they use to organize their travels, having a couple key-points which mark when and where they should be. Despite the Tribe trying to find something, and therefore trying to cover new places, they still have a couple places they always return to. One of them is the shore they set off from.
The calendar has a year for each of the seven warriors - or so the legend used to say, but every grifix nowadays knows that there are only six First Warriors, so there is one more year in the cycle. That’s why the years are labeled like this, in this order: The Bear Year, The Lizard Year, The Scorpion Year, The Salmon Year, The Owl Year, The Butterfly Year and The Warrior Year.

At the end of the cycle they head back to the Origin Shores, in order to begin the next cycle in the place they started from. Yantarka enters the caves in the cliff right before they are sealed by the tide, and spends eight days there without food or water in order to reconnect with the First Warriors. Most of the times she’s too weakened to get out at the end, so she must be helped by her personal maids from the Starfell Clan, those being the only other grifix allowed to enter the caves, due to their pure blood.

During those eight days, the beach is covered in turtles that come to lay their eggs. The grifix catch each one and engrave tattoos on their shells and paint them with their personal patterns, mostly the same pattern as on their sphirix or their mask. Then they set the turtles free into the ocean. Each grifix hope that they will find their turtle when they return next cycle and that the patterns haven’t faded away. The young grifix often fight over who’s turtle will definitely come back next cycle.
Once the eight days are over and Yantarka returns with a prophecy, the grifix set off once again.

The prophecy Yantarka receives in the cave is gonna determine which way they must travel this time.

LIGHT BEANS?? LIGHT BEANS?????

Now this is a pretty important update about the species. Remember the light beans trait? Well guess what, in fact all grifix have those for a short period of the year, just some have them permanently!

For a short period in spring, the magic of the grifix increases so much as it condenses around their fluffs and forms solid shapes, which is what the light beans are. It takes around two weeks for them to grow, condense, and fall off. They all fall off during the same day, which is known as the Heartfire Holiday (previously Firends’ and Lovers’ Day, I just renamed it).
In the case of grifix that have those permanently, which are those with the “light beans” trait, they still fall off that day, but pretty quickly grow back and stay on during the whole year, and two weeks before the Heartfire Day they may grow bigger.

Now, how do the light beans work? Why do they glow?
They glow because they absorb magic from the air and turn it into light.

What happens with them after they fall off?
Well pretty much nothing. They work exactly like before, still glowing. After a year the glow kind of fades away, but for that year they can be, in fact, used as lights by the grifix.

Wait, the lights hanged around the village… is THAT what they are???
Yes! They are light beans that fell off!

What about the blue ones?
Strangely, the blue light beans seem to change their color to yellow shortly after they fall off, so all the lights in the village are yellow.

So what happens during the Heartfire Holiday with the light beans?
As previously mentioned, the Heartfire Holiday is somehow the equivalent of Valentine’s Day, so it is a day about lovers. The tradition says that the grifix must gift a light bean to the grifix they’re in love with.

The Great Green Orb Magic Celebration

image credit to @/greenskulltok on tiktok

There is a place in the Gorge where the strangest thing can be found. Deep under the Earth, bright lights and luxurious vegetation seems to thrive, in a cave where sunlight can never get. How can such vegetation grow in a place with no sunlight? And what is with the strange green light shining through the whole place? Yet that is not the strangest thing there is. A bright orb of green light is sitting in the middle of the cave, and seems to be the origin of all those strange phenomena. But still, that orb is stranger the more you look at it.
It resembles the most something that defies all explanation: a light bean. The texture and everything when one touches it, is the same as that of a light bean. But how could there be one this big? Not to mention that it’s light never fades, regardless of how many years pass.
But the strangest thing is, it absorbs anything that touches it, anything can be pushed through and enter the orb, for never to come out again. Everything but a grifix. To the grifix touch it is solid and impossible to pass through.
Even stranger is the fact that since it was discovered, a whole new trait started to spread among the Divided Grifix Camp: green light beans.

There are many legends surrounding this object. One, popular among the youngsters, says that it fell off a giant, green grifix eons ago. But the most accepted legend is that it is a portal to the realm of the stars, where the Gods reside.
This led to the Great Green Orb Magic Celebration, a holiday in which all divided grifix travel down to the orb, including the sicker ones, and insert stuff into the orb, mostly food and beautiful rocks,nor even gems if they find any. These are offers to the gods. The sick grifix hope that the gods will acknowledge them and ease their suffering this way.
This holiday is held during the Spring Solstice. The Orb seems to be at its brightest that day.
Some divided grifix also offer their fallen light beans, but for the divided grifix those don’t always grow or fall off normally, so most divided grifix don’t even have light beans to offer, so they compensate with other stuff.

As for what actually lies inside the orb… it is a mystery, but I must say, it must be strongly linked to the history of the grifix.

New Traits: green light beans

Along with the story of the Great Green Orb and new light beans lore, I believe it is the perfect time to introduce green light beans! Here they are:

GREEN LIGHT BEANS (RARE)

EXTENDED GREEN LIGHT BEANS (EPIC)

LEAF LIGHT BEANS (LEGENDARY)

It'll still take a while for all this info to be uploaded on the site, so if this sin't an old post don't bother looking for it ^^"

Until next time, hope you enjoyed!

It’s been a long time since I done this, but we got a bunch of new members so I thought I’d do this, and also go a bit into how can the grifix owners contribute to the lore of the grifixverse 

But first let’s talk a bit about some random lore of the divided grifix!

The Sky Burial

I’m still unsure about the ways the Everfree Village and the Lost Tribe bury the dead, but I know exactly what the divided grifix do!

The Grifix live their life taking from nature and from other animals. Any dead body will help another survive. No corpse goes to waste in the gorge, there is always something that will prosper from the dead. Why should the grifix dead be any different? The Divided Grifix take the deceased ones to a high place with a ceremony, and after that they leave the corpse there, covered in whatever flowers they can find in the rocky gorge. If it’s winter, they put rocks they find pretty on the corpse, and a bit of snow, but they don’t cover it. After that they leave, so the vultures and other animals can gather and feed from the corpse. This way, after taking from nature their whole life, they return what they can back to it, as a way of thanking the world for allowing them to live so far.

You may recognize this practice from the Tibetan buddhists, I always found it such an interesting practice. And I believe it fits the divided grifix very well  (though it’s not exactly the same)

The Camp of the Divided Grifix and the Cave Paintings

I went a bit into how the camp of the divided grifix looks, but I’d like to clarify a bit, especially the cave part, since I never drew it completely.

The Camp is mostly a round area, surrounded by tall walls. Some areas are climbable, allowing the grifix to go up the walls (reminder that a lot of divided Grifix don’t have wings, so they aren’t all capable of flight). On one side, the walls don’t close, leaving a part where they can easily walk out. On the opposite side, there’s a cave. The cave entrance goes somehow laterally, and it’s not very big. Exactly opposite of the wall opening there is Nebula’s tombstone, close to the cave entrance, small colorful flag garlands hanging over it. From the cave there is a small spring flowing out. It’s really small, you can easily step over it and it doesn’t even have to be a big step. It flows from the cave out the wall opening, cutting the camp in two. It’s a good source of water, and it flows throughout the year, rarely ever drying. On the walls of the cave there are cave paintings, done by Grifix throughout the ages. Most of them are paintings of Mother, but there are also paintings of Milky Way, Andromeda, Thunder and sometimes Wolf. Mother is portrayed as the main goddess, of death, Milky Way the secondary goddess, of life. Andromeda is the main antagonist of their mythology, but Milky Way is also often portrayed as a negative character. Thunder is a secondary goddess, her persona being connected to the tree of the universe, being somehow a goddess of faith and destiny, but that doesn’t play a very big role in their culture. Wolf is pretty forgotten in their mythology. He does exist, but his persona is mainly ignored and rarely drawn on the walls. All the stories and paintings originated from Wolf, who decided to paint images of Nebula on the cave walls, and then his son, who decided to paint all his family. However, the stories got altered with the generations, even forgotten sometimes. The Grifix tried to come up with an explanation for the images, so they godified the characters in the pictures, thus creating their own mythology.

PS: there are also crystals deeper in the cave!

Here’s a little illustration of Nebula’s tomb I did a while ago. The cave is right behind those rocks, you can enter from the left, hope this makes it clear eno

Now these are all the lore crumbs I have for now! 

But as always, I am always looking for suggestions, ideas, questions or anything that can help expand the lore! There is no way I could’ve come up with all the grifixverse lore on my own. So I’m telling this to everybody, and especially new owners (cause they might bring some fresh stuff), if you have any lore ideas, questions, anything! Please ask. It helps so much with developing the species! Any random question, even if you don’t find it important, can lead to a lot of new stuff! So don’t be shy! I’m always looking for new traditions, legends, holidays for the Grifix, so these are a few of the things you could come up with! Also, I’m reminding all of you that this is the easiest way to earn rights for the species: helping me expand the lore!

But please, ask any of these things on the discord server, it may bring more people into the discussion.

Now that is all for now, see you next time, and have some wonderful holidays!

This has been first posted on Amino. All the information here will be uploaded on the site eventually, this is just for archive purposes.
Date: 12/25/21

Hello again! Today I’ll be introducing officially a bunch of new traits that have been actually used before, and also clarify some old ones! I’ll start with the clarifications, leaving the best for the last ^^

1. Spiky hair?

This has kinda been ignored a few times, even by me... but I think I have a better explanation than the old one for this.

Basically, what I meant from the beginning, was that the Grifix have a different hair texture than the ponies. The pony hair is a lot like the human hair, being somehow silky, while the Grifix hair has a texture closer to wool. It has much thinner and dense hairs. This makes it harder to keep untangled so they usually keep it shorter, and naturally it’s not very curly and rather spiky. But there can be exceptions ^^

2. Winter coat

I first introduced this trait hoping that it would get the Grifix protected on Equestria Amino, but that didn’t happen. I kept the winter coat as a thing up till now but people pretty much ignored it and tbh I didn’t quite like it so much myself.

So, from now on, this’ll be an epic trait.

Specifically, all grifix get thicker fur during the winter, but they don’t change it’s colors. If a grifix has this trait, not only do they get thicker fur during the winter, but they also change their fur colors to an animal pattern.

If you want your grifix to have this trait, from now on you’ll have to include it in their reference.

3. Goat nose

This is just a pretty basic trait. It’s Epic. The Grifix would just have a goat nose. You can see the example here:

4. Hair fluffs

This is a bit more complicated. The Grifix having this trait do not have hair at all. Instead, they have fluffs covering their head and tail. Those fluffs can’t grow very long and have the same color as the rest of the fluffs. If case the Grifix has a different fluff material, the hair fluffs also have that material. So it can look like they have feather, cloud, smoke etc. hair. But those are actually fluffs.

Examples for this trait on characters (cause some characters already have it):

Has the legendary version

Has the legendary version, but with feathers

 

5. Sphirix constellation

In this trait the sphirix has a constellation inside. This is a legendary trait.

Example:

Art by kazoowary

That’s all! There might be a while until I’ll update these traits in the traits wiki, so sorry about that... anyway, see you next time ^^

This has been first posted on Amino. All the information here will be uploaded on the site eventually, this is just for archive purposes.
Date: 01/23/21

In the Tribe, there are Grifix with animal names and grifix with plant names... but what about names of unliving things? Why is Soleila named... Soleila (meaning Sun)?

Well the answer to that is... there are grifix with names of unliving things, but they are neither Warriors or Healers! But they are all part of one ancient family, the Starfell Clan. But the story of this family is quite a complicate one and it will take us into some older questions about the Grifix, such as incest.

To begin with, the grifix from the Starfell Clan can only marry grifix from the Starfell Clan. Practically, incest. So now... how did this last for almost 2000 years? Why are they still... living and mostly healthy? Well as you might know, the Grifix breed through magic. They also live naturally in very small communities so incest doesn’t affect them as much. But still, they don’t practice it with their close relatives. It’s weird and they wouldn’t usually do it. So in conclusion to that, the Grifix are not affected by incest but it’s still mostly prohibited for them, out of moral matters.

Going back to our main subject, WHAT is the Starfell Clan?

They are an ancient family descending directly from The Butterfly First Warrior, Bluebell. They take pride in their pure blood and only breed with other Clan grifix. In the Tribe hierarchy, they would be under the healers but their blood legacy earns them a lot of respect. Even though they are neither warriors or healers, they do have a purpose and that is providing pure blood queens and serving the royals. Whenever a new king steps up, they will marry a female from the Starfell Clan, which has been raised especially for that. The other young females of the Clan become servants for the Queen and the Priestess. The Clan is so conservative, as they never show their face in front of a grifix from outside the Clan, excepting the Priestess. If someone else were to see their face, most of the Clan grifix would feel threatened and panic.

But what did the thousands years of incest do to this family? Well one effect is that they are usually more ill than other grifix and their immunity is not very strong. But there is one other effect, which only rarely pops up at the Clan grifix. Sometimes, a grifix is born with a special ability: seeing sphirix. It’s a rare ability but they never know how the tribe would react to it. Some grifix with this ability have been killed by the other grifix, some punished by the First Warriors for having too much power, while others learned to use this ability and rise through the Tribe hierarchy by pleasing the First Warriors. Most of them however... keep it a secret even to fellow Clan grifix.

Their symbol is the crowned eye, a symbol which is only worn by royalty in the Tribe.

You can see that the King, Queen and Yantarka have this sign on their mask

But what if a Clan grifix falls in love with a grifix who is not from the Clan?

Then they can choose to leave the Clan. They lose their legacy and become a warrior or a healer. They can still keep the crowned eye on their masks or outfits, and even their children can have it.

Unlike other parts of the hierarchy, they do not have a specific outfit, but they always wear something. You can take as example Rust:

That is pretty much all the info. Wanna make a grifix part of the Starfell Clan? That’s okay but keep in mind that the design and backstory will have to be approved by me, and if they’re not they’ll just become a warrior or healer. Unless you are a co-owner, it’s very unlikely that I will allow you to create one that has the ability to see the sphirix so don’t ask me about that.

The MYO is closed for now, but it’s very likely I will open it again at some point, so look forward to it!

That is all for today, see you soon with some other grifix lore updates!

This has been first posted on Amino. All the information here will be uploaded on the site eventually, this is just for archive purposes.
Date: 01/03/21