Winter Magic 2024
Introduction
As the snow falls in Elvenar, the Winter's Stage is set for something far more magical than your average winter festival - The Act of Giving! Led by the wise Yeti Yotoham and the ever-mischievous Boblin, this play promises to be a performance like no other. With yetis, goblins, and a lesson in generosity at its core, Yeti Santa will try to teach the goblins that giving can be just as rewarding as hoarding... if they ever listen.
But that's not the only story you will want to catch. Frostbeard’s Monologue will keep you guessing as to whether he's frozen in thought or just literally frozen, while the soul-stirring tunes of A Frosty Fugue will tug at your heartstrings. And for those sitting in The Cold Corner, well, bring a blanket!
This winter join the fun, savour the music, and witness a spectacle that will leave you warm inside... despite the snow!
Quests & Quest Milestones
As in previous events, the questline consists of a story section and additional episodic quests, which start as soon as the story is completed. This means that you will be able to finish the first series of quests right away, while later quests have new additions released on a daily basis, allowing you to continue to play one additional event quest on each new event day. Solving event quests also comes with additional benefits, as each completed quest brings you closer to reaching one of the Milestones, which gives you additional rewards simply for reaching them.
Event Menu
Each completed quest will give you Postal Keys 
as a reward and they are automatically added to the Event Menu. With the Postal Keys you can open Postal Boxes to win precious and unique Event Buildings and other items. Opening the Postal Boxes will also grant you Winter Gifts 
to progress towards the Grand Prizes, but that's not all! In this years Winter Magic Event, when opening a Postal Box, a Postal Star is added to the Special Powers counter. Once you have gathered the required amount you can then use it activate Special Powers to further turn the odds in your favour!
By clicking the Event Menu icon you will access the Event Window which will give you plenty of information and allow you to put the Postal Keys you gathered to use:
- The time remaining until the event ends.
- The current Grand Prize you are working towards and a preview of the next one to come (Click on the "Claim" button to collect the Grand Prize).
- Displays how many Winter Gifts
have been delivered and shows current progress towards unlocking the Grand Prizes. - When you see that you have reached 5/5 Reroll charges, and you want to change your Daily Prize, just press the Reroll button, confirm your choice, and you will see your Daily Prize change for the day!
- Your Daily Exclusive Prize. Hover over the building for its description.
- The amount of Postal Keys
you have collected and not yet spent. - Leagues: allows you to see your progress through the Leagues (please check the bottom of the page for more information)
- Allows you to buy Postal Keys with Premium currency.
- Uli, the new delivery trainee owl: As you hand Winter Gifts from Postal Boxes to Uli, Uli will follow the path to the current Grand Prize.
- Postal Boxes which you can open with Postal Keys to win a reward and obtain Winter Gifts and Postal Stars.
- Special Powers: "Reveal Two" and "Double Reward" - When the required number of Postal Boxes have been opened, you can use these to reveal two random rewards or double the reward in the next Postal Box opened. "Shuffle" can be activated using Postal Keys whenever you want to get a new set of Postal Boxes.
You can also click the 
button to see the help information on the Winter Magic
Postal Keys
You start the Winter Magic event with 50 Postal Keys and each Event Quest will give you more as a reward for completing the given tasks. Every day you play during the Event, you will receive a Daily Winter Magic login reward of 30 Postal Keys .
Also, from time to time, you will find more Postal Keys around your city outskirts for you to collect.
You can then use the Postal Keys to open Postal Boxes. Additional Postal Keys are unlocked upon reaching the second and fourth Quest Milestone.
Remember that the Winter Magic event only lasts for a few weeks, and after that you will no longer be able to use your Postal Keys to open Postal Boxes and earn awesome rewards, so don't waste time!
Postal Boxes
Each day the Winter Magic Event starts with a total of 16 locked Postal Boxes that are just waiting for you to open them using Postal Keys. At the start of each day, you will be presented with a new selection of rewards hidden within the Postal Boxes. To give you an idea of what you can win, the rewards are visible at first but you must "Shuffle" them before you open the doors to claim them.
You can activate a manual "Shuffle" at any point in time, once you have the required 45 Postal Keys.
Use your Postal Keys to open a Postal Box. Each one will give you a Winter Gift plus one of many different rewards like the changing Daily Exclusives, Instants, Knowledge Points, Rune Shards, Special Buildings or more Postal Keys.
| Hint:If you have already found the prizes you were looking for, using the Shuffle button to get a new set of closed doors might be a good strategy. |
Special Powers
Each time you open a Postal Box, 1 Postal Star is added to the Special Powers counter. Once you have gathered the required amount you can then use the respective Power to further increase your odds!
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Reshuffle - At a cost of 45 Postal Keys it presents you with new rewards, closes all previously opened Postal Boxes and allows you to "shuffle" them again. |
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2x - Doubles up the rewards in the next Postal Box that is opened after activation. |
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Magnifier - Shows the contents of two, as yet unopened, Postal Boxes. |
| Please Note:You cannot continue to collect additional Postal Stars if a Special Power is ready to use. Only after a Special Power has been used will the counter start increasing again with each new door opened. |
Winter Gifts
Each time you open a Postal Box, you will be rewarded with a Winter Gift. If you have used the "2x" Special Power before opening a Postal Box, you will receive two Winter Gifts.
Every Postal Box you open also contains a Winter Gift that Uli, the delivery owl, will deliver to your citizens. Once Uli has delivered a total of 20 Winter Gifts, the next Grand Prize is unlocked for you.
Rewards
As always, many different items and buildings can be won in the Winter event. Make sure to play regularly to make the most out of all your options!
Evolving Building
This Winter event brings back a new Evolving Building Set. This means that a new Evolving Building is integrated into a Building Set, yes you have read that right! Which also means that you can have the best of both buildings in your city.
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You can collect The Act of Giving in the first waypoint on Grand Prizes lane, it can be evolved up to 5 stages to add new production options and also provide more of the options already added. When you evolve your Evolving Building to a new stage you will be able to choose which of the resources you want to produce in the next 24 hours as this Evolving Building has a switchable production. It gives Population and Culture as standard benefit and for production in the first level, you can only choose to produce Boosted Basic Standard Goods and Mana. As you evolve the building to a new stage, more production options will become available, such as Barracks Light Melee Units and Spell Fragments.
For more information on Evolving Buildings, go to our dedicated page on the topic.
Building Set
This Winter event also brings you a new Building Set - The Winter's Stage. Like previous Sets, these are special buildings that increase and add new productions when they are placed directly next to each other. This can mean that their regular production is increased, or that new productions are added once several set buildings are combined!
The buildings that are part of the Building Set are dispersed throughout the Quest Milestones and Grand Prizes lane. Collect the following 5 buildings to complete the full Building Set: Evolving Building - The Act of Giving, Revelers Banquet, Frostbeard’s Monologue, A Frosty Fugue and The Cold Corner.
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The Winter's Stage Evolving Building Set provides many different resources for your city such as: Population, Culture, Supplies, Coins, Boosted Basic Standard Goods, Mana, Barracks Light Melee Units, Spell Fragments, Divine Seeds and Training Grounds Mage Units. By completing the set, the building's set will increase the production of these resources.
For more information on Buildings Set, go to our dedicated page on the topic.
Royal Prize Pass
The Royal Prize Pass is an additional feature, which can accompany any regular Event in Elvenar.
For every event step completed, you will make a step towards the next Grand Prize, and an additional Prize within the Royal Prize Pass!
In the Grand Prizes window, available from the Event screen if the Event is using the mechanic, you can see the upcoming event prizes that are waiting for you to be unlocked.
Here, for every step earned from collecting Event Currency, you can unlock one of the event Grand Prizes, among which you can find various high-rarity instants, Artifacts, and so on. The Royal Prize Pass adds Royal Grand Prizes, which can be collected with the regular Grand Prizes.
The Royal Prize lane becomes available with purchasing the Royal Prize Pass and you can do so at any time in the event! Previously unlocked Royal Grand Prizes will also be available at any point, should you decide to purchase the Royal Prize Pass. Purchasing the Royal Prize Pass in this Event will grant you exclusive rewards that are not available anywhere else in the game, such as: Alcove of Sweet Naps
Grand Prizes
The Grand Prizes Line is always the most appealing one, as this is where you can win and gather the necessary Artifacts to evolve your Evolving Building to the next stage!
Grand Prizes include The Act of Giving Artifact, which allows you to evolve your The Act of Giving to the next stage. See Evolving Buildings for more information on the evolution process.
For every 20 Winter Gifts delivered you can collect the next available Grand Prize, which can be a precious Artifact or a unique and exclusive item such as an exclusive Portrait that is not available anywhere else in the game!
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Daily Prizes
As with past events, this event brings you wonderful and unique buildings from the event. This year you will not only have the opportunity to collect old familiar buildings, but also one brand new building - The Discordant Choir.
But that's not all, as there are more awesome prizes, including Knowledge Points, Ancient Knowledge, Coin Rain, Units, all kinds of Instants, Rune Shards, Goods and more, much more!
Be sure to complete all the Event Quests so that you can have a chance to win every single one of these wonderful prizes.
| Please note: All Resources depend on the Chapter you are currently in, if the described resource is not yet available, you will receive another resource instead. |
| Please note: All buildings with resource production need a street connection to the Main Hall. |
Expiring Building
As usual in the Winter Magic event, when you reach the last milestone reward, you will receive an Expiring Building: The Goddess of Wishes, that will grant you a random reward every 12 hours.
Leagues
In this event you will have the chance to participate in Leagues and win even more fantastic prizes!
Solving Quests and progressing through the event by collecting Exclusive Event Currency, not only helps you to earn wonderful prizes, but also to progress up through the Leagues.
There are five different Leagues you can reach by progressing through this Event: Hobby, Iron, Bronze, Silver and Gold League. Each League is limited to a number of players with the required amount of points for that League. If a league is already full, you will move to the next League down but remember, the positions on the Leagues are recalculated every hour, so do not give up hope and keep progressing through event to be able to progress in the Leagues!
- Hobby - All Players
- Iron - Top 50%
- Bronze - Top 20%
- Silver - Top 5%
- Gold - Top 1%
For the Hobby League you only need to start playing the event, as for the rest of the Leagues, you need to keep progressing through the Event itself in order to progress through the Leagues.
Each League has a minimum amount of points that needs to be reached. The League requirements are based on the progress of all players playing the event and it is recalculated every hour, so you might notice some changes on the required points to achieve the next League.
If you hover your mouse over the Leagues icon in the event window, you will be able to see what your rank is and how much further you have to go until you reach the next League.
Leagues Prizes
In Leagues there are even more fantastic prizes to be won such as Expiring Buildings, Knowledge Points, Royal Restorations, Artifacts, and even an exclusive Portrait that is not available anywhere else in the game!
Each league has a set of awesome rewards, the higher the league the better the rewards! In order to receive the rewards of the league you desire, you must be in the top ranking of that League.
At the end of the event you will see a reward window that displays your League position and the prizes you have won.
Related Events
In Elvenar there is always a story behind every occurrence, and with our Events it couldn't be any different. Check out other related Winter Magic event pages so you don't miss a single glimpse of the story of the engaging characters!
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| 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
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