Carnival of Life, known as the blood mettle in honor of a forgotten God, following traditions lost in time. It had been quite some time since Life was defeated in battle, and with kukuris and people alike the excitement for a chance to see her new form was almost touchable.

In the endless void, the lights swirled around Death, who herself shone like a beacon in a dark ocean. In front of her, between her reached out wings as if in a gentle, touchless hug, was a tiny speck of light. Compared to the others flying around, it was dim, colorless, and motionless.
"Fear not sister, for do you not see all they've done to welcome you back. To welcome you home."
The dim light flinched, and for a moment more was silent before it spoke in an unsure and hoarse voice. Compared to Death's soft and gentle voice, even in its sad state the voice was strong and commanding, and frequently caused jitters in the nearby lights.
"I never knew of this place... of thine place. Is this what it is for living to end? It's warm and comforting yet I feel such unease, as if mine heart is pulled down and throat strangled. A pain greater than the one I felt on your attack."
Death tilted her head, thoughtful, before delicately bringing her head closer to give the little speck of light a gentle boop with her nose.
"This place is not for unease, for here you do not feel at all. But you, sister, do not belong here. Here you do not progress, nor experience new, nor improve. Here is what you are, nothing more, nothing less."
She pulled her head back, and smiled - such warm and authentic smile, much unfitting a God and instead someone who's looking at her sister after a long, long while. "But that's not what life is about, is it?"

The coliseum was full of life, excited chattering, and kukuris doing warm up spars. As Death descended from the skies, an excited hush fell over the area. In her usual soft manner she landed on the ground, and tucked her wings slightly in front of herself as if whispering to something in-between them. With a powerful motion she then threw her wings open, spinning sand and dust into air in what seemed to be a controlled, spiraling motion. And within that motion, a spark appeared, first dim, and as if taking a deep and careful breath in, a sudden spark. Almost too bright to look into, with prismatic colors reflected around it before it backed down enough to be tolerable to look at. And somehow, while being only a light, it felt like it opened its eyes. It... She took a deep, audible breath.
"I... Am Life. Long ago I chose to observe the living, learn alongside them, courage them at their lowest. Somewhere along the way, I forgot to treasure the fleeting moment which it all was contained in. I..."
The light turned behind it, as if sadly looking at her sister. Death's motion was small, almost unnoticiable, but a nod. Life's light motioned back to the crowd, then pressed slightly down. A bow?
"I am... I'm... sorry."

The crowd was silent, for almost uncomfortable amount of time. While Life's light did no motion to appear lifting herself, the light felt trembling as if in fear. Yet in the same moment she took a breath to speak again, the crowd erupted in cheers, claps, kukuris howling and shrieking in encouragement. Life's light flinched up and back, feeling tense at first, and then relaxing. Observing the crowd for a while in stunned silence, and then... a warm, hearty chuckle which then erupted into laughter.

Life had returned, and it was time to bring back the true traditions of Carnival of Life - and restore her true form as well.

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Week 2 Countdown:

October 20th, 2024 - 11AM PST, 9pm UTC+3

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Progress

Each entry will help bring Life back to her physical, true form. It will take a team effort!

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General Rules

► You may only participate in one fight per week (collab or solo).
►►► You may not join a collab if your one entry of the week has been done.

► You may use a starter if you do not own a Kukuri yet.

► Rewards will be redeemed at the end of the event.

► Familiars, other kukuri, handlers and import pets may be present but may NOT actively help their kukuris fight. The kukuri must fight under their own power.

► The entry must be posted in your gallery. No Sta.sh entries.

► With collabs, only one person has to post the image. It will count for both of you.

► Only 2 people may participate in the collab (You and a partner)

► All Kukuris can use magic in the event.

► While we will post comments with links to entry rolls for you, it is good practice to save links for every entry so that you can easily redeem awards at the end!

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Magic Rules

► Your kukuri is allowed to portray magical powers in entries! As long as it's clearly magical, it's allowed (for example elemental powers like fire, water, ice, earth, lightning, darkness, light, poison, wind etc). You can't fully cover your whole kukuri in an element, only partially (we still must be able to tell which kukuri it is). Limbs and horns can be covered in elemental power as long as the kukuri is otherwise recognisable

► Kukuri is not allowed to portray extra body parts like wings, tentacles, extra limbs, extra tails etc. Furthermore, your kukuri cannot erase limbs using elemental powers.

► Your kukuri can create illusion of itself, but not fully visible clone. We must be able to tell which kukuri in the entry is the real one, so make the other one magical! We also allow spiritual and ghost forms

► Kukuri is allowed to be able to fly, but it must have visible visual effects other than floating in air
► Your kukuri can't shrink or enlarge in size!