Alright, I know it's been a while since you guys have gotten one of these, but it's a bright new year and I think we're going to have a lot of fun.

Character Census Results

A special thanks to Zodia for conducting our Official 2016 Wiki-Wide Character Census!!!

* blasts confetti *

Zodia has put many hours last month tallying up characters and organizing them for our viewing pleasure. Please check out that link to his thread and see the work he's done for himself.

In a very breif overview:

• Largest Tribe: NightWings
• Largest # of Hybrids: NightWings
• Smallest Tribe: LeafWings
• Smallest # of Hybrids: LeafWings / TrickWings
• Largest decrease in population: RainWings
• Largest increase in population (Not counting Tribeless, Scavengers, or DriftWings): FlameWings (Woohoo!)
• No change in population: DeathWings

Tribe Censuses:

• 2014 Census
• 2015 Census
• 2016 Census

Tribe Contest Results

The 2016 Tribe Contest was an enourmous success. We've had a lot of very interesting and developed entries, and it was a close call in the end.

I would like to congratulate NightStrike the Dragon for winning with her tribe the TempestWings. Congrats NS c:

They have been added to the tribe map, the top-navigation, and they have their individual categories.

You are free to make a TempestWing, no permission neccessary, unless it's for council members, royalty, hybrids, or special dragons, then you should ask NightStrike on her wall.

Contest Threads:

• Contest Intro
• First Round of Voting
• Final Round of Voting
• The Results!

Promotions and Demotions

• • Aiden1200 has been demoted to match the official list.
• • Aiden1200 is pending a demotion (Jan 5th)

New Templates

Vic's Tip

This template is used to add helpful tidbits of information on help pages and the likes. For the most part, it should only be used by the admins.

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Vic's Tip

It's Dangerous to Go Alone! Take This.

RP

This template is used to make a uniform format for RP headers.

{{RP
|status = Open
|players = 
* [[User:Heliosanctus|Heliosanctus]] - [[Avialae]]
* [[User:Luster the rainwing|Luster the rainwing]] - [[Nightlight]]
* [[User:Wings-of-Bloodfire|Wings-of-Bloodfire]] - [[Graceweaver]]
|title = Stones Among Shadows
|setting = AviWing Kingdom, thirty years ahead of present time. The fresh autumn breeze sends leaves fluttering through the open walls of the AviWing palace. The three prepare for a meeting that could change everything.
|start = >this is where you write your starting post<
}}

New Help Page

Anatomy Guide

This is a huge work in progress at the moment, but LieutenantVelociraptor will be putting together pieces of tribe bases that users may be able to use to personalize their characters, even if they aren't art savvy. You can find more information here.

Other

Platypus's Tribe Sigils

Platypus the SeaWing has added stained-glass style Tribe Sigils for each of the tribes. You can find them on our Help:Resources page.

These are stained-glass style sigils for all of the canon and fanon tribes. You may feel free to use or alter these images in any way you like, but make sure to credit Platypus the SeaWing by mentioning their name or posting a link to their tumblr.

Adoption Center

The Adoption Center is managed by Outclaw and Rainbow Phoenix Fangirls. You can give your OCs up for adoption or "purchase" new ones from other users.

Removing Canon Characters

We will be removing our from the wiki.

The purpose of the canon characters was to give users a place to make alternative lore and to make a list of all fanfictions that the character is a part of.

Unfortunately, very little lore was recorded, the fanfictions lists haven't been maintained, and with only a couple handfuls of canon characters on our wiki, our canon characters haven't been able to serve that purpose.

Instead, we will be redirecting all links from canon characters to the canon wiki's pages. Then we will remove the pages.

For those of you who use wikitext links, the code for a canon wiki link looks like this:

[[w:c:wingsoffire:Albatross|Albatross]]

We hope that this might be part of a step to further integrate us with our canon sister wiki.