Soulmate System

Shiji-Long are strongly driven to find their soulmates; individuals that they share a strong bond of love with. Soulmates most commonly consist of two Shiji-Long, but in rare instances may contain 3, 4, or even 5 Shiji-Long. At this time, soulmate relationships including five characters require Vashaa's consent. Soulmates may be any gender as long as both characters are consenting adults. You can read about traditional soulmate rituals here, but please note this exact ritual isn't strictly enforced when it comes to writing or drawing soulmate prompts. However, soulmates should always choose an elder, choose a gift/sacrifice for that elder, and exchange scales. Their art may be updated to reflect their new scales if desired. Characters in a completed soulmate relationship do not require any breeding vouchers or items to breed and may breed once per season. 

Soulmates can be managed and tracked directly through your dashboard under My... Soulmates or by clicking here. 

✧ Soulmates prompts can only be submitted through individual 'manage soulmates' pages. ✧
✧ Up to five soulmates may be submitted together, but five soulmates will require approval from Vashaa. ✧
✧ You may cancel a soulmate ritual before it is completed at any time. However, once the ritual is complete you must submit a prompt in order to cancel (anull) the soulmates. ✧

Features

 

Relationship Status

The 'open to link requests' icon on character profiles has been replaced with a 'relationship status' icon. There are three possible statuses: Mated, Unmated/Not Seeking, and Unmated/Seeking.

 

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Completed Soulmates

Any soulmates that have fully completed their soulmate rituals will appear in your Soulmate Dashboard under Completed Soulmates.

✧ All soulmates that previously completed the soulmate ritual quest have been automatically added into the system. However, only their final prompt will be shown in the manage soulmates screen. Newly created pairs will show all three prompts. ✧

✧ If you had a set of soulmates that had an incomplete soulmate ritual, please resubmit that ritual through the new system. You may use the same content (pictures, writing, etc). ✧

 

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Pending Soulmates

Any soulmates that you have added, even if they have no prompts submitted, will appear in your Soulmate Dashboard under Pending Soulmates. If your progress bar is completely empty, that means that the soulmates are in planned status but no prompts have been submitted yet.

 

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Unmated Characters

Any characters who are not in a relationship will appear in your Soulmate Dashboard under Unmated Shiji-Long. All characters have their "Seeking Soulmate" toggle turned off by default. If you change the state of any of your characters, make sure you click "Save Changes" beneath this box to update their statuses! This will update the relationship icon on the character's profile as well.

 

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Adding Soulmates

To add a new set of soulmates, click on "Add New Soulmates" in your Soulmate Dashboard.

✧ When you add new soulmates, no prompt is submitted. ✧

 ✧ Adding new soulmates places all characters in the relationship into a single/not seeking status on their profiles. It also automatically creates Soulmates (Planned) relationships between all characters. You can use this to track soulmates you are planning with other players even if you are not ready to submit prompts yet. ✧ 

 

 

Managing Soulmates

Each set of soulmates has their own management page. From that page you can submit the prompt for the next step in their ritual, add personal notes that only you can see, see the status of any pending submissions, or cancel the relationship.

✧ The heart between your soulmates will automatically fill up as you complete your ritual. ✧

✧ You may cancel an uncompleted soulmate ritual at any time. However, once the final prompt is completed you will need to submit an additional prompt and get approval for your soulmates to be anulled. ✧

✧ Any user with a character involved in the soulmate ritual may submit the next step. It is not restricted to the user that submitted the previous prompt. ✧

 

Soulmate Ritual Prompts & Requirements

You will be shown each soulmate prompt as you progress through the soulmate submission system, but in case you want to plan ahead all three prompts are listed below. Prompt length requirements are based on how many characters are included in the ritual. For 2 characters, each prompt must be 1000 words. 3 characters = 1500 words, 4 characters = 2000 words, and 5 characters = 2500 words. For art submissions, at least the thigh-up of each character must be shown and a background is required, but there is not a high expectation for detail. Characters cannot be added to soulmate rituals in-progress and the entire ritual must be cancelled and re-done in order to add another character. 

Mix & match

To do the quest you have to choose one of these ideas for each part.