"A famed blacksmith once forged a sword that could hum in battle, singing a song that unsettled its wielder’s foes. That blade, however, was lost when the smith disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Recently, a warrior returned from the northern reaches, claiming to have seen a blade stuck in a cursed battlefield, still singing its eerie tune. But they also spoke of the spirits that danced around it, drawn by the melody.

The guild is looking for someone who can retrieve the Singing Steel… and, if needed, silence the spirits it has awakened."

🎨 Your Art Challenge:

✔Battle the spirits guarding the Singing Steel—are they former wielders? A trapped curse? Something else?

✔ Design the Singing Steel—its shape, runes, and eerie glow.

✔ Depict the battle—dynamic, powerful, and intense.

✔ Show (or describe) the cursed battlefield—a haunted graveyard, a misty wasteland, or a frozen warzone?

"The town of Marbex has a bit of an odd problem: there's a flock of massive, aggressive birds terrorizing their crops and occasionally attacking villagers. The mayor has put up a posting requesting an adventurer to drive them off or, better yet, find out what’s causing them to act this way. It's possible that something has disturbed their nesting grounds, or perhaps these birds aren’t exactly natural…"

🎨 Your Art Challenge:
✔ Design the birds—Are they oversized versions of natural species, magical constructs, or something mutated and strange?
✔ Illustrate an encounter—Show an adventurer facing off against the flock, dodging beaks and talons!
✔ Depict the environment—Where is this happening? A ravaged farm? A ruined nest? An eerie, unnatural migration pattern?
✔ Bonus storytelling—Is there a reason for their aggression? Add visual hints to their backstory.

"Someone has broken into the gallery in Luxett, one of the largest art compendiums in the Realm. The town is a few days west of here. Having stolen a precious heirloom from the gallery, the thief hid in the poster's house outside of town. The poster has trapped the thief, but they need to be returned to Luxett and made to answer for their crime.

That's where you come in."

🎨 Your Art Challenge:
✔ Design the thief—Who are they? A desperate rogue, a professional burglar, or someone who never meant to steal at all?
✔ Illustrate the stolen heirloom—A gemstone-encrusted relic? A forgotten masterpiece? Something mundane but secretly powerful?
✔ Depict the situation—Is the thief still tied up and defiant? Begging for release? Ready to fight their way out?
✔ Bonus storytelling—Add clues about their motive. Are they starving? Is there a letter from a noble house? Did they break in for reasons beyond greed?

"A young feline humanoid came to the guild begging us to intervene in the execution of their lover. The guild as an entity cannot take steps against local law, but has agreed to allow the youth a posting.

Know that while, officially, you act without the legal protection of the guild, we sincerely hope for your success.

You'll have to be stealthy, since the guild can't protect you from the legal ramifications of freeing a fugitive from the cells. 

🎨 Your Art Challenge:
✔ Design the fugitive- Why are they down there? Was it just a misunderstanding, an accident, or is this feline in love with a hardened criminal?
✔ Illustrate the feline youth—Desperate, determined, or reckless? What are their defining features?
✔ Depict the prison break—A tense moment of sneaking through shadows? A dramatic battle with guards? A last-minute escape through the rain?
✔ Bonus storytelling—Include hints about the lover’s crime. Is there a bounty poster nearby? Chains that seem too heavy for a minor offense? A key left behind in haste?

"A woman has approached the guild, asking an adventurer to explore the ancient crypt of a powerful necromancer. While the necromancer himself is no longer there, some of his experiments may be. She fears that these creations could leave the crypt and endanger nearby towns.

If the adventurer can find and destroy his gem of power, all of the experiments should collapse."

🎨 Your Art Challenge:
✔ Design the necromancer’s experiments—Are they undead horrors? Twisted fusions of bone and metal? Failed abominations, desperate to escape?
✔ Illustrate the crypt—Is it a crumbling ruin? A sprawling labyrinth? A grand tomb, untouched for centuries?
✔ Depict the artifact—The necromancer’s gem of power—Does it glow ominously? Is it sealed in an ornate reliquary? Does it whisper when held?
✔ Bonus storytelling—Include signs of the necromancer’s past. Are there old journal pages, abandoned tools, or eerie murals depicting his dark work?

"An elderly lady lives on the edge of town and has put up a posting for groceries of all things! Normally, the guild wouldn't entertain such a request, but what the woman is looking for may actually prove rather difficult.

She needs a particular root that grows only in a grove a bit north of town. It'll take a keen eye and a patient hand to retrieve the root, and it has to be done by someone strong enough to fend for themselves against some of the creatures between town and the grove."

🎨 Your Art Challenge:
✔ Illustrate the rare root—Is it glowing, tangled, or growing in an unusual way? Does it have magical properties?
✔ Depict the grove—Is it a peaceful clearing? A dense, shadowy thicket? A place teeming with hidden creatures?
✔ Design a creature that lurks along the path—A territorial beast? A mischievous sprite? Something drawn to the root’s energy?
✔ Bonus storytelling—Show a hint of Grandmother’s history. Does she have an old alchemist’s book? A collection of dried herbs? A past tied to the magic of the land?

"A wealthy merchant from Evesta went missing on his last trading expedition to the neighboring town of Harwick. His family has posted a reward for any adventurer willing to find him and bring him back, alive or dead. Rumors are circulating that he may have crossed paths with bandits or worse, but the guild suspects there may be something more at play…"

🎨 Your Art Challenge:
✔ Design the missing merchant—What do they look like? Their clothing, posture, and expression should reflect their status and the situation they’re in.
✔ Show their current state—Are they unharmed and hiding? Tied up in a bandit camp? Injured in the wild?
✔ Add storytelling elements—Props, background hints, or small details that tell part of the story without words.

"Ash has coated the town of Bulfe. A volcano two days from town has been smoking and spewing out darkness for days, and the residents are becoming concerned. Some are beginning to speak of the old ways of offering their neighbors to appease the mountain, and the mayor fears the crops will not last into the winter if they lose another yield. The Mayor asks that someone from the Guild scale the mountain and find out why it's become so volatile, but fears that the townspeople may be right in thinking that something within the mountain is causing the problem.

Go into the mountain, and quell whatever rages there. By force, if necessary."

🎨 Your Art Challenge:
✔ Illustrate the volcanic environment—Is it an active eruption? A cursed mountain? Something unnatural brewing beneath the surface?
✔ Depict the source of the disturbance—Is it a powerful elemental? A long-dormant beast? Something unnatural forcing the volcano awake?
✔ Show the confrontation—Is your adventurer engaging in battle, sneaking toward the core, or trying to reason with the entity inside?
✔ Bonus storytelling—Include small details that hint at what happened here before the quest began. Are there ruins of past sacrifices? A shrine to an old, forgotten deity?

"Haram, a village south of Evesta, has become a ghost town. One of the surviving villagers put up a posting in the guild. She said that all of the others mysteriously wandered into the southern forest at midnight, saying they heard beautiful music.

The guild will be lending your adventurer an anti-charm amulet, so while there shouldn't be any danger of you falling prey to the effects of whatever's in that forest, it still needs to be found and made to stop its song."

🎨 Your Art Challenge:
✔ Depict the forest—Is it a dark, haunting place? Overgrown with bioluminescent flora? A maze of mist and tangled roots?
✔ Design the source of the music—A cursed instrument? A spectral musician? Something far stranger?
✔ Illustrate the artifact that can stop the song—An enchanted tuning fork? A crystal that absorbs sound? A broken instrument that must be repaired?
✔ Bonus storytelling—Show remnants of the vanished villagers. Are their belongings left behind? Do their footprints lead somewhere unnatural?

"The residents of Marbex are experiencing endless night. It seems as if sunlight simply cannot reach them. One of the villagers has come to the Guild with a posting to ask us to investigate why. We suspect an artifact has recently become active and is the reason for the sunlight's disappearance."

🎨 Your Art Challenge:
✔ Design the artifact—Is it a cursed relic? A shattered sunstone? A floating, shadowy orb?
✔ Depict the eerie landscape—How does a town bathed in endless night look? Are lanterns strung across the streets? Do crops wither in the darkness?
✔ Illustrate the effects—Are villagers becoming restless? Are strange creatures emerging from the shadows?
✔ Bonus storytelling—Show visual clues to the artifact’s origin. Is there a forgotten temple? An inscription warning of its power? A scholar frantically flipping through old tomes?

"One of the local lords has put up a posting asking a guild member to escort his teenage son from Evesta to Chiptonley. It'll be a few days’ trip, and he's asking that you keep his son's identity secret.

It is not the guild's business to interfere in politics, so while they have agreed to take the posting, please accept it at your own discretion."

🎨 Your Art Challenge:
✔ Design the hidden lordling—Is he a nervous runaway? A well-dressed noble trying to blend in? A rebellious heir with a secret of his own?
✔ Illustrate his demeanor—Is he eager for adventure or completely out of his depth?
✔ Depict an element of the journey—Are they riding through forests, sneaking past watchful eyes, or resting by a fire in disguise?
✔ Bonus storytelling—Include small hints of his noble background. Are his clothes a little too fine? Does he struggle with basic survival skills? Is there an insignia hidden in his belongings?

"A man has put a posting on the board, claiming that he's hearing strange thumping in the basement and would like the guild to investigate.

The guild has put a note into the listing: 'While it has been verified that something is in that basement, we seriously doubt it's rats like the poster is claiming. Please proceed with caution.'"

🎨 Your Art Challenge:
✔ Illustrate the battle in progress—Show an adventurer mid-combat against whatever lurks below. Dynamic movement is key!
✔ Depict the creature’s attack or defense—Is it lunging? Coiling in the darkness? Using supernatural abilities?
✔ Use strong perspective—Play with foreshortening, dramatic angles, or motion blur to enhance action.
✔ Show the cramped, eerie setting—Does the basement feel too deep? Are shadows twisting unnaturally? Is there something watching from the corners?