It's July and that officially means 2024 is halfway over, somehow! While subterranean adventures and cursed tomes abound, the Championship Games shall also begin late this month - see Announce #5578 for the schedule!

Meanwhile, over at www.achaea.com/credits Globes of Shifting Continents are back!

Globes of Shifting Continents contain a variety of prizes upon being opened, including:

- Talisman caches, containing pieces from the Contenders, Renegades, and Elemental sets (pick which set you'd like when opening).
- Card sleeves, containing one card from the deck of legends in each, including two new suits(*)! These cards trade in for 33 bound credits, so even if you do not want what you get, you're not out of pocket.
- Mayan crowns.
- Bloodstained shards.
- Customisation credits.
- Artefact discount vouchers.
- A range of artefacts, from very small ones all the way up to statistic altering ones.
- Free reincarnations/trait resets(**).
- Additional tradeskill slots(**).
- Small bonuses such as racetrack tickets or shop carts. These will always be awarded alongside another prize and are not factored into the value of your globe's contents.

* Debuting this month are the SUNS and MOONS suits, in honour of the stars' return to Achaea's skies. These can be obtained by opening sleeves for CELESTIAL and include:

The Suns Suit features the Yggdrasian suns Gelartha, Tel'shaen, Telar, and Mother, with its joker being Ethian.

The Moons Suit features Noxtra, Somnustra, Lunastra, and Lae of Kunapi Island, with its joker being Abaddon.

Gelartha
Draw upon the sun of Loramere, town of Lost Gods, to reveal all shrines in your local area.
3 charges, regens 1 per hour.

Tel'shaen
Draw upon the sun of the Tash'la home world and convert an existing rare mineral into a different one at random. This can only be done once per item, and only on edible minerals.
1 charge, regens 1 per 3 hours.

Telar
Draw upon the prime sun of Kunapi Island and all native, alive, non-sentient denizens in the area will be restored to their maximum long-lived state.
This does not work on spawner denizens or bosses. Provides max 'alive for a long time' XP bonus to affected denizens.
2 charges, regens 1 per hour.

Mother
Draw upon the life-giver of Elemental Earth, and, when you are already blessed by a starburst, Mother will allow you to keep many of your defences when you next perish.
2 charges, regens 1 per 2 hours.

Noxtra
Invoking Noxtra will prevent all flight in the room for three minutes. This includes duanathar.
2 charges, regens 1 per 2 hours.

Lunastra
Invoking Lunastra in a given direction will, if that adjacent room is flooded, un-flood it and bring about a tide to flood yours in its place.
3 charges, regens 1 per hour.

Somnustra
Invoking Somnustra will bestow a restorative effect upon an outdoors location, granting enhanced willpower regen for fifteen minutes.
2 charges, regens 1 per hour.

Lae
Invoking Lae, the moon of Kunapi, will boost your intelligence at the expense of your constitution, until the next dawn or dusk.
1 charge, regens 1 per 3 hours.

** You will not receive free reincarnations, trait resets, or additional tradeskill slots if you already have a means by which to reset your race/traits via artefacts or other means in the former's case, or have 3 or more bonus slots already in the latter's case. You'll receive a different prize instead.

In addition, every 500th globe that is opened will receive a bonus prize: an OFFSPRING TALISMAN.

For globe buyers who have an Iron Elite membership, every 10 globes you buy earns you a free globe. This is cumulative across purchases, so if you buy 3 globes today and 7 globes next week, you'll still get your free globe!

Finally, for 10,000 renown you can purchase a globe from the renown shop once during July!

Penned by My hand on the 12th of Aeguary, in the year 950 AF.