Hatching & Maturation
You've acquired an egg or a baby Scoria, but you don't want them to stay that way forever. Read on to find out how to hatch your egg and get your Scoria to mature!
Hatching Eggs
So the Kindler gave you or your Scoria an egg -- nice! You're close to having a bouncing baby Scoria on your hands. All you have to do is fulfill the design prompt included with your egg.
Each egg comes with a color palette and a list of rare traits for the hatchling. Some eggs also include further information such as personality, body type, theme, etc. To hatch the egg, you must submit a design for a baby Scoria that uses that color palette and traits provided.
A hatchling may be designed by someone other than the egg's owner, as long as appropriate credit is given to the designer and the artist of the masterlist image. The hatched Scoria will belong to the egg's owner and not to the designer in this case, unless the egg's owner chooses to gift or trade it away.
You must use the color palette and traits provided. You can drop colors (e.g., use only 2 of 4 provided colors) but you cannot drop traits; all traits provided with the egg must be present. Some color variation is accepted to allow for shading, blending, etc., but please stick to the spirit of the palette provided to you. If you work in traditional media, do your best to match the colors; if you work digitally, we recommend eyedropping them.
Beyond color palette and traits, other information included with the egg usually acts as a suggestion rather than a requirement. However, your individual egg will specify which aspects are required and which are suggestions.
Please see the basic Scoria design guide for more details on what your design must and must not have, though your egg may come with traits that modify some of these strictures.
Your design should show a baby Scoria, not an adult. Babies lack horns, though they do still display forge-marks. As with most species, baby Scoria tend to be smaller and cuter than adults, but how to show these qualities is up to you; we will not be judging your baby Scoria designs for size or cuteness.
Since baby Scoria lack horns, if one of your egg's rare traits alters its horns, this trait will not show until adulthood. Leaving a horn trait out of the baby design is fine, and does not count as dropping a trait.
Each egg comes with a color palette and a list of rare traits for the hatchling. Some eggs also include further information such as personality, body type, theme, etc. To hatch the egg, you must submit a design for a baby Scoria that uses that color palette and traits provided.
A hatchling may be designed by someone other than the egg's owner, as long as appropriate credit is given to the designer and the artist of the masterlist image. The hatched Scoria will belong to the egg's owner and not to the designer in this case, unless the egg's owner chooses to gift or trade it away.
You must use the color palette and traits provided. You can drop colors (e.g., use only 2 of 4 provided colors) but you cannot drop traits; all traits provided with the egg must be present. Some color variation is accepted to allow for shading, blending, etc., but please stick to the spirit of the palette provided to you. If you work in traditional media, do your best to match the colors; if you work digitally, we recommend eyedropping them.
Beyond color palette and traits, other information included with the egg usually acts as a suggestion rather than a requirement. However, your individual egg will specify which aspects are required and which are suggestions.
Please see the basic Scoria design guide for more details on what your design must and must not have, though your egg may come with traits that modify some of these strictures.
Your design should show a baby Scoria, not an adult. Babies lack horns, though they do still display forge-marks. As with most species, baby Scoria tend to be smaller and cuter than adults, but how to show these qualities is up to you; we will not be judging your baby Scoria designs for size or cuteness.
Since baby Scoria lack horns, if one of your egg's rare traits alters its horns, this trait will not show until adulthood. Leaving a horn trait out of the baby design is fine, and does not count as dropping a trait.
Baby Scoria
Baby Scoria may be appear in art and earn kindling just as their adult counterparts do. However, baby Scoria cannot purchase any upgrades at the Forge or advance in Tending levels. To be able to spend kindling, baby Scoria must undergo the maturation process below.
Maturation
To grow your baby Scoria into an adult, you must fulfill two requirements: fulfill the maturation prompt below and provide a new masterlist image of your Scoria's adult design.
Due to the nature of the maturation prompt, prompt fills may not be submitted as masterlist images, so you will need at least two pieces to mature your Scoria (though the masterlist image may be by another artist as long as you provide appropriate credit for both the art and design).
Your maturation prompt must follow the guidelines below.
Show your young Scoria discovering something new about the world or themself. This can be a lesson they learn themself as they explore and grow or a lesson that another Scoria teaches them. The nature of this lesson, and how they come to grips with it, is up to you.
Due to the nature of the maturation prompt, prompt fills may not be submitted as masterlist images, so you will need at least two pieces to mature your Scoria (though the masterlist image may be by another artist as long as you provide appropriate credit for both the art and design).
Your maturation prompt must follow the guidelines below.
Show your young Scoria discovering something new about the world or themself. This can be a lesson they learn themself as they explore and grow or a lesson that another Scoria teaches them. The nature of this lesson, and how they come to grips with it, is up to you.
- You may complete this prompt through visual art, poetry, prose, or roleplay.
- You, as the Scoria's owner, must complete the maturation prompt yourself rather than commissioning, trading, or requesting from another creator. However, you may fill this prompt with a completed roleplay thread that meets minimum scoring requirements below.
- You can and should claim tinder and kindling on your maturation prompt fill.
- The work you use to fulfill the maturation prompt should be worth at least 30 tinder, and the Scoria maturing should earn at least 10 kindling from it. (See Scoring.)
- You may claim a bonus +10 tinder and +5 kindling on your piece for completing the maturation prompt, but these do not count towards the 30 tinder / 10 kindling requirement.
- Please make only one submission for the maturation prompt -- if your prompt fill requires multiple drawings, please arrange them in one place and submit them as a batch.