More evil mages have appeared in Britannia, summoning creatures from beyond the veil between worlds. Their conjuring ways seem to be learned from an ancient tome whose origins are unknown....

[A new method of unlocking the Summoner's Tome has entered Britannia]

• Players can only utilize faction rewards from capturing a town if they've been in their faction for at least 7 days
• Leaderboard rankings will begin fixing themselves - you will enter the leaderboard upon your next faction kill
• Any player holding a sigil will be shown on the minimap

All Town/Faction Stones have had their states reset again. We believe we have fixed the root cause of the ongoing sigil issues, but ask once more for you all to give it a go! Timers are all once again set at one hour so it will be easy to test. You may still recall with the stone for the moment.

Global messages still need some tweaking.

An item called the Skull of Hallows Eve has been added to the Halloween Candy vendor. This item will allow you to activate the Cove invasion spawn at the Black Gate in North Cove. The spawn requires 6 players total to start it, so you will need 5 other players to be near the spawn with you when trying to activate, only one skull is needed per invasion. There is a 2-hour cooldown between spawns and the encounter needs to be finished within 4 hours or it will deactivate and reset automatically. The spawn will be available until Nov 8th. Looting Rights is now skipped for the ending boss as well.

A Faction store has been added to town stones- usable when your faction controls a town. This store is used to spend your personal silver on items for yourself. Currently two items are for sale, and more will be added soon:

• War Horse - a new mount that can be transferred/sold to any player, including non-faction players
• Faction Cloak - a blessed black cloak

Additional sigil capture bugs have been squashed as well. More to come!

After next restart, the Lone Wolf Cloak, Cloak of the Dragon Slayer, and Citizen Cloak should no longer fail constantly upon crafting.

Halloween Mask rares should now (potentially pending a restart) utilize the Mask equip slot instead of Head slot- thus they will be wearable over armor.

• A bug that caused people who have held the sigil to have grey skin after losing it has been fixed
• Barber visits are temporarily free for faction members in case of Purple Emergency

Arcadion, an evil and powerful daemon, has crossed the veil between worlds and is plotting terrible endeavors that may endanger the citizens of Britannia. Brave warriors: take up arms and defeat this most evil foe!

The Summoner's Tome is now live and in game! It may be acquired by defeating Arcadion, a brand new boss. The Summoner's Tome requires 60.1+ Spirit Speak and Magery to use and can contain 7 brand new summons! Details on the Summoner's Tome can be found here: https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/summoners-tome

• Sigils will now be properly deleted on logout, etc- even if carrying multiple (even though there's no reason to steal multiple :) )
• Minor bugs have been addressed
• Faction Stones stuck in invalid states have been fixed
• Tools for monitoring any additional issues with the sigil capture system have been added

The Black Gate Model will be returning to the transition token vendor shortly! Check after next restart.

The new Factions system is now live! Faction Stones and Town Stones have been placed in the world. Players wishing to join a Faction should visit that faction's Faction Stone.

Details about the Factions system are outlined here: https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/factions

Faction Stone and Town Stone locations have been added to the official map under the Faction category: https://map.shardsofbritannia.com/

• Fixed an issue with Gravedigging not working at all
• Increased candy drops on pumpkins & mobs once again
• Halloween Gravedigging camps have had an additional 2 pumpkins added
• Increased stock level for Gravedigging vendor
• Fixed an issue with some overworld spawns preventing some areas from being spawned as intended like Britain Graveyard and Trolls at Despise entrance, and some others, we will continue to audit and adjust spawns as needed so they are subject to change

Gravedigging is now live! Check out the details here https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/gravedigging Throughout the duration of the Halloween Event, Gravedigging will offer chances to yield more candy and items!

In other news, there have been numerous reports of Halloween forces assembling in what appears to be preparations for large-scale battle. They may be planning to siege one of the towns soon, so keep your eyes peeled and stay vigilant!

• Fixed issue with Werewolf & Dire Wolf mobs not having any loot
• Slightly increased candy rate from pumpkin smashing

Candy Vendors have been spotted at multiple Graveyards around Britannia!

Fixed several house decorations that were previously not able to be placed:

• Glowing Cauldron
• Black Gate Model
• Low Display Shelf
• Medium Display Rack
• Small Two Shelf Market Rack
• Ornate Trophy Stand
• Wooden Curved Display Case
• No Refund Sign
• Hearth Fireplaces (all plain, forest, desert)
• Small Dark Booth
• Inn Bar
• Ornate Chest

Please let us know if/what other items cannot be placed, providing the exact name of the deed or object helps tremendously. Thanks!

The Summoner update is now live in game! For details about this new playstyle, check out this wiki article: https://wiki.shardsofbritannia.com/en/skills/spirit_speak

Many thanks to everyone who helped test!

Discordance can now be "refreshed" on a target (as with Peacemaking and Provocation currently)- thus resetting the timer of the effect on a mob that already has the effect on them.

(After next restart) Lumberjacking has been slightly tweaked to give more chance to gain per attempt.