OOC – The Ems of Europa are running a competition for you, the players, to leave your mark on the wild lands of Ilshenar by creating a garden design to be left there as a legacy and to recreate Hannah’s secret garden.There was more than one advantage to being the daughter of a busy, ambitious and powerful necromancer obsessed with learning about the dark forces and unseen things of the world.
Firstly Hannah seemed blessed with boundless freedom to wander the lands of Ilshenar almost at will; discovering its delights and secret places, wandering and roaming the lands with a keen mind observing the flora and fauna of the place and learning from it.
The strange thing was that Hannah seemed to have an almost uncanny ability to avoid the dangers and pitfalls which abound in Ilshenar and also the very many unfriendly beasts and monsters which live there. She put it down to her very own guardian angel that she imagined she could almost see, and, like a lot of lonely children, the guardian angel became her fearless imaginary friend and they went on many adventures together.
But Hannah’s favourite place was where she made her garden, planting seeds and caring for them and tending the plants as they grew and giving them the love she had never really been shown herself. She spent many happy hours there just toddling around, making innocent potions and mud pies and giggling to herself, whilst all the time talking to her imaginary friend.
And now, years later, she looked back on that time with great fondness tinged with sadness – a bitter-sweet memory of time long past, another age , perhaps even another lifetime ago. In her mind the small garden was a wonderland of colour and vibrancy.
It was a place to escape from the harsh realities of life as the daughter of Mericles.
All entries must be posted on the Stratics Europa forum and the competition closes on March 11th 2010 – screenshots of your design are essential. Make a small garden design which fits into the space due east of Compassion Shrine in Ilshenar using flowers and deeded items no larger than ten tiles by ten tiles with the centre being at 99 degrees 51 minutes North by 3 degrees 22 minutes West co-ordinates. The winning player name will be commemorated as part of the design. The entries will be judged by the Ems from all shards.
Good luck and happy garden designing!
Location of Garden in Ilshenar
Taken from the EM Website.
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