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!

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

Oop it has been a while since the first update blog... well there are definitely more to come and some pretty big stuff I’m working on but for now I have an urgent update to make and also another minor one so I thought I’d dump em here together.

First,

Sphirix Trauma

As you all may know, the sphirix is actually the soul of the grifix, which takes shape using their magic. So when the soul is wounded (aka you gets a trauma), what happens to the sphrix? Well it gets wounded too! The wounds can be minor and heal as the trauma heals, or be permanent and then the sphirix ends up scared for life. This mostly happens in the case of childhood trauma, since those traumas are the most likely to stick and affect someone during their whole life.

And now the most important update,

The Tribe’s Scouts

The Grifix tribe is constantly traveling. They sometimes stick in one place for a few weeks, months or just a day. But mostly, they’re constantly traveling.

But where do they go? How do they know the road they will take is good?

Here is where the scouts come in!

Those are a few selected warriors that are the fastest and have the most stamina, being able to travel long distances fast and investigate the ground around the path they take. For those there’s almost no rest. When the tribe stops to rest, they have to go exploring to find the next route they will take, and they have to go until they find a good place for the tribe to camp the next night. Sometimes they go even further, planning the tribe’s route for the next weeks or even longer.

They’re used to not getting very much rest, and even in the case the tribe sticks in one place for longer they keep exploring. It’s quite hard for them to stick in one place.

Their armors are also much better for exploring than the other warriors’. This is how they look:

I’m sorry but I won’t make other bases for this outfit. If I’ll have to use it on another base in the future, I promise I’ll make the base first so it can be used by others too but I’m too tired to do this on more than one base.

Well this is pretty much all! Have a great day everyone ^^

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: 12/14/20

From now on I’ll do species updates in blogs like this, including a bunch of updates from different subjects.

Grifix Dreams

This is a new magic manifestation I’m introducing now. All this happens because of their magic flow.

When two grifix that have a strong bond sleep together or close to each other, they can have common dreams! This manifests like a single dream, in which they are both together.

However, this also depends on their state of mind, so if they need some alone time they don’t have this kind of dream.

Grifix Deities

The Grifix never had deities, for they worship their ancestors. But the Queens always played a very important role in the village, and even after their death, their soul will forever keep watch of the village. That’s how, he queens got to be something similar to gods for the grifix. Each king and queen in their history keeps watch of a part of their life. So here’s what each Queen and King is the “god” of:

Starla: Goddess of Day, Light, Sun, and everything that lies on the sky during the sun time.

The Forgotten: Goddess of Snow, Blizzards, Cold and Winter, but also of the home and family.

Umbra: God of Shadows, War and Nightmares.

Rosa: Goddess of Love, Friendship, Beauty and Nature.

Eclipsa: Goddess of Night, Moon and Traditions.

Selenara: Goddess of Stars and Dreams.

Please keep in mind that “God” and “Goddess” are not terms known and used by the grifix. They’re just for you to understand better what they represent ^^

Selenara is still alive, but it’s pretty clear what she will be the “deity” of. She has dreamwalking abilities, though not as strong as Luna’s. Unlike the ponies, the grifix are pretty much able to deal with nightmares themselves (like the humans). Still, Starla has the ability to enter grifix and other creatures dreams, and she can also influence them if needed.

Servants Jobs

This is really important, please read.

There are a couple of grifix that work in the castle and take care of the Queen. Those are the Castle Servants. But what do they do exactly? Well they’re split in a few categories:

CASTLE GUARDS - those are mostly warriors, more exactly guards. Supervisors usually are not sent to do this job. They don’t have this job all the time, only a few of them. All the warrior guards have an order in which they must go and guard the castle for a short period of time (a few weeks). This way there are always guards there to guard the Queen. Those keep watch of her room all night and day, and also patrol the castle. So they pretty much do what castle guards do.

THE CHEF - a grifix which makes food for the Queen and the servants (if you want your grifix to have this job, please pm me ^^ preferably not very young Grifix though.)

COOK HELPERS - grifix that help the chef with cooking.

HOUSEMAIDS - female grifix that keep the castle and everything clean, serve the food, prepare the Queen wardrobe etc.

THE QUEEN’S PERSONAL MAIDS - a few of the best and most loyal housemaids. They are always close to the Queen and she can call them anytime. They keep her personal room clean and bring her food in her room if needed. Help her prepare for the day, and all sorts of personal jobs. They are the closest grifix to the Queen and the only ones allowed to enter her room without permission or when she isn’t around.

LIBRARIAN - the castle has a very important library that contains all sorts of books and old grifix writings. A small section of the library is opened to the other grifix, but the biggest and most important part of it can only be accessed by the librarian, the Healers, Frozen Mountain and the Queen.

I’ll go more into this library in a future post. Also, please don’t create the librarian! I want to make her myself.

All the servants (except the guards, unless they are permanent ones) can live in the castle (they are given their own room), but are also free to live in the village if desired. While the servants are on duty, they all must wear the special feather ornaments which are the castle servants symbol.

The feathers can be any type of feathers, but the little wool balls are always the same colors.

If you want your grifix to be a castle servant, or already is but you want to clarify what exactly their job is, please pm me. Note that if your grifix becomes a servant, their reference will have to include the feather ornaments (you can do a version with and one without). Also if you want your grifix to live in the castle as a servant, just say.

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Well, that’s all for today! Have a wonderful day or night or whatever it is where you live ^^

Again, thank you to all the co-owners for ideas and advice, and especially Kazoowary for coming up with the servants roles.

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: 08/27/20