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Introduction

Winter arrives in your city, with a heavy blizzard rapidly covering everything in white. While your citizens, at first, are happy to be out and playing in the snow, the mean blizzard does not let up, pouring down more and more snow, making the day to day life of the citizens quite dangerous. Ultimately, a city-wide state of emergency is declared, with urgent recommendations to stay inside and stay safe.

Doing your rounds, you notice an owl flying from home to home, carrying a bag of gifts marked with the sigil of the post office. You promptly go there, and it is where you meet Janni, the postal officer. She explains to you that many gifts were brought to be dispatched just before the blizzard set in. And now wants to not only deliver those, but also wants to make sure to keep the people's spirits up in these troublesome times. Without a second thought, you join her in her quest to spread the joys of winter.

Quests & Quest Milestones

The quest line 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 give you additional rewards simply for reaching them.

Event Menu

Each completed quest will give you Postal Keys as reward. 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 year's 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 favor!

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 ones to come.
Your Daily Exclusive Prize. Hover over the building for its description.
The amount of Postal Keys you have collected and not yet spent.
Allows you to buy Postal Keys with Premium currency.
Displays how many Winter Gifts have been delivered and shows current progress towards unlocking the Grand Prizes.
Olla, the delivery owl: As you hand Winter Gifts from Postal Boxes to Olla, she 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 2020

Postal Keys

You start the Winter Magic event with 100 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 25 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 third 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 in 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, given you have the required 45 Postal Keys.

Use your Postal Keys to open a Postal Boxes. 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!

There are 3 Special Powers you can use:
	Reshuffle - At the cost of 45 Postal Keys it presents you with new rewards, closes all previously opened Postal Boxes and allows you to "shuffle" them again.
	2x - Doubles up the rewards in the next Postal Box that is opened after activation.
	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 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 previously, you will even receive two Winter Gifts.

Every Postal Box you open also contains a Winter Gift that Olla, the delivery owl, will deliver to your citizens. Once Olla delivered a total of 20 Winter Gifts, the next Grand Prize is unlocked for you.

Rewards

Evolving Building

A new Evolving Building is available in the Winter Magic Event: the Watchful Winter Owl! Your Winter Owl can be evolved through 10 stages to increase its power.

The Watchful Winter Owl provides Culture and Population and automatically produces Supplies. As an additional bonus, it also provides the production of various Goods, Mana and/or boosted Basic Sentient Goods (depending on the Chapter). As it evolves, you will receive higher amounts of these resources. When you feed your Winter Owl you will receive random Boosted Standard Goods per Neighborly Help while the feeding effect is active.

For more information on Evolving Buildings, go to our dedicated page on the topic.

Grand Prizes & Daily Prizes

Each day, you will have a chance to win a Daily Exclusive Prize from Postal Boxes but, the real goal of this Event, is to win the fantastic Grand Prizes.

Grand Prizes include the Watchful Winter Owl Artifact, which allows you to evolve your Watchful Winter Owl to the next stage. See Evolving Buildings for more information on the evolution process.

But that's not all, as there are more awesome prizes, including Knowledge Points, Ancient Knowledge, Coin Rain Instants, Rune Shards and more.

After collecting the Daily Exclusive rewards and Grand Prizes, you will find them in your Inventory

Please note: All building values and effects depend on the chapter you are in at the time you add the buildings to your Inventory.

Expiring Building

In this year's Winter Magic event, when you reach the last milestone reward, you will receive a brand new Expiring Building: the Goddess of Wishes grants you a random reward every 12 hours.

Pet Food

Pet Food is a special Enchantment designed specifically to feed your Watchful Winter owl and other Pet Evolving Buildings. Applied directly to the building from your Enchantments tab, it activates a Pet Food Boost.

Look for the recipe in your Magic Academy's Crafting tab and craft it as your Pets become hungry again after their hard work to provide their boosts.

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-===Winter Magic===
+=== Introduction ===
-[[File:wintermagic2019_add.png|700px|center]]
+[[File:Forumann_frames_winter2020.png|680px|center]]
-Greetings! I am a Goblin; everyone calls me Boblin. It is approaching the Winter season and it is a fitting time to introduce the story of Elvenezer Scratch and the three ghosts of Winter. Elvenezer is an old but rich Yeti who has spent his life producing (he would say) Elvenar's finest Elvenade. From a young age, and with his partner and only friend, Yecob Marlow, he has made his fortune selling Elvenade throughout the land. However, Elvenezer is a cold-hearted and distictly unlikeable Yeti. Profit and wealth are his only ambitions. Does he care?
+Winter arrives in your city, with a heavy blizzard rapidly covering everything in white. While your citizens, at first, are happy to be out and playing in the snow, the mean blizzard does not let up, pouring down more and more snow, making the day to day life of the citizens quite dangerous. Ultimately, a city-wide state of emergency is declared, with urgent recommendations to stay inside and stay safe.
-My story begins...After the tragic loss of his partner Yecob in a factory accident, he became the sole owner of the factory. He was now very rich! He continued to produce and sell his famous Elvenade but his cold-hearted nature grew stronger. Those who knew him avoided him at all costs.
+Doing your rounds, you notice an owl flying from home to home, carrying a bag of gifts marked with the sigil of the post office. You promptly go there, and it is where you meet Janni, the postal officer. She explains to you that many gifts were brought to be dispatched just before the blizzard set in. And now wants to not only deliver those, but also wants to make sure to keep the people's spirits up in these troublesome times. Without a second thought, you join her in her quest to spread the joys of winter.
-Decades later, strange events were to unfold. Late one night, an apparition appeared before Elvenzer: the ghost of his friend, Yecob Marlow. Yecob rebuked Elvenezer for the way he had spent his life and warned of the visits of three ghosts...
+===Quests & Quest Milestones===
-Follow my story throughout the Event and, hey, win many great prizes along the way.
+The quest line 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.
-===Event Menu===
+Solving event quests also comes with additional benefits, as each completed quest brings you closer to reaching one of the Milestones which give you additional rewards simply for reaching them.
-In this event you will play a quest line that is divided into two consecutive sections, a story part and a bonus round that will let you finish endless quests. Each completed quest will give you Red Ribbons [[File:red_ribbon.png|25px]] as rewards. Red Ribbons are automatically added to your Event Menu. These allow you to open different Gift Boxes to win unique and precious rewards, including the Daily Prizes! All Gift Boxes also contain a Candy Hammer [[File:candy_hammer.png|25px]], which you will need to build your Gingerbread House and win Grand Prizes.
+[[File:Winter_Magic2020_quest_progress.png|center]]
-[[File:wintermagic2019_event.png|center]]
+=== Event Menu ===
-By clicking the Event Menu icon you will access the Event Window which will give you plenty of information and allow you use your Red Ribbons and Candy Hammers:
+Each completed quest will give you Postal Keys [[File:Postal_Keys.png|25px]] as reward. 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 [[File:Winter_Gifts.png|25px]] to progress towards the Grand Prizes, but that's not all! In this year's 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 favor!
-[[File:wintermagic2019_explain.png|center|700px]]
+[[File:WMagic2020_EventButton.png|center]]
+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:
+[[File:WMagic2020_Explain.png|700px|center]]
 # The time remaining until the event ends.
 # The current Grand Prize you are working towards and a preview of the next ones to come.
-# Gift Boxes where you can reveal prizes. Each day there will be a new set of them.
-# Your Gingerbread House to build to unlock Grand Prizes.
-# Shows how many parts of the Gingerbread House have been constructed.
-# The number of Candy Hammers [[File:candy_hammer.png|28px]] you own. Click the button beneath the House to use one Hammer.
-# The number of Red Ribbons [[File:red_ribbon.png|25px]] you have. You can obtain more with premium by clicking the "+" button.
 # Your Daily Exclusive Prize. Hover over the building for its description.
+# The amount of Postal Keys [[File:Postal_Keys.png|25px]] you have collected and not yet spent.
+# Allows you to buy Postal Keys with Premium currency.
+# Displays how many Winter Gifts [[File:Winter_Gifts.png|25px]] have been delivered and shows current progress towards unlocking the Grand Prizes.
+# Olla, the delivery owl: As you hand Winter Gifts from Postal Boxes to Olla, she 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 [[File:helpbtto.png|25px]] button to see the help information on Winter Magic.
+You can also click the [[File:helpbtto.png|25px]] button to see the help information on the Winter Magic 2020
-===Red Ribbons===
+=== Postal Keys ===
-[[File:redribbon_banner.png|center]]
+[[File:WMagic2020_tab2.png|center]]
-You start the Winter Magic Event with 50 Red Ribbons [[File:red_ribbon.png|30px]] and every Event Quest gives you more when completed. Use these Red Ribbons to open Gift Boxes. From time to time, you will find more Red Ribbons dotted around your city for you to collect.
+You start the Winter Magic event with 100 Postal Keys [[File:Postal_Keys.png|25px]] 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 25 Postal Keys [[File:Postal_Keys.png|25px]].
-[[File:redribbon_citycollect.png|center|150px]]
+[[File:WMagic2020_daily_login.png|center]]
-Use the Red Ribbons to open one of the 16 Gift Boxes and gain many attractive and useful rewards.
+Also, from time to time, you will find more Postal Keys around your city outskirts for you to collect.
-Don't forget to also check your Mystical Object in the Magic Academy's Crafting tab. There will be a chance to gain even more Red Ribbons by completing Mystical Objects.
+[[File:WMagic2020_City_collect.png|center]]
-[[File:wintermagic2019_MO.png|center]]
+You can then use the Postal Keys to open Postal Boxes. Additional Postal Keys are unlocked upon reaching the third Quest Milestone.
-<br>
-===Gift Boxes===
+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!
-[[File:wintermagic2019_giftbanner.png|center]]
+=== Postal Boxes ===
-At the start of each day, you will be presented with a new selection of Gifts. To give you an idea of what you can win, the rewards are visible at first but you must "Shuffle" them before you can claim any. The rewards will then be mixed up and placed in Gift Boxes.
+Each day in 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.
-[[File:wintermagic2019_shuffle.png|center]]
+[[File:WMagic2020_Postal_boxes.png|650px|center]]
+<br>
+You can activate a manual "Shuffle" at any point in time, given you have the required 45 Postal Keys.
-Use you Red Ribbons [[File:red_ribbon.png|30px]] to open a Gift Box. Each one will give you a Candy Hammer [[File:candy_hammer.png|30px]] plus one of many different rewards like the Daily Prize, Instants, Knowledge Points, Rune Shards, special Buildings or more Red Ribbons.
+[[File:ReShuffle.png|center]]
-{|align="center" cellpadding="1" width="100%"
+Use your Postal Keys to open a Postal Boxes. 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.
-|style="background-color:#af895f;|
-<small>
-There are 3 Special Rewards within the Gift Boxes.
-[[File:wintermagic2019_special1.png]]
-* Reshuffle - Renews your Gift Boxes and shows you what rewards are there to win and requires a "shuffle".
-[[File:wintermagic2019_special2.png]]
+{|align="center" cellpadding="1" width="100%"
-* 2x - Doubles up the rewards in the next Gift Box opened.
+|style="background-color:#af895f;|'''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====
+[[File:WMagic2020_tab4.png|center]]
-[[File:wintermagic2019_reveal.png|145px]][[File:wintermagic2019_reveal2.png]]
+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!
-* Magnifier - shows the contents of two, as yet unopened, Gift Boxes.
-</small>
+{| style="text-align=center"|style="background-color:#af895f;
+!colspan="2" align="center"|There are 3 Special Powers you can use:
+|-
+|[[File:wintermagic2020_special1.png]]
+|'''Reshuffle''' - At the cost of 45 Postal Keys it presents you with new rewards, closes all previously opened Postal Boxes and allows you to "shuffle" them again.
+|-
+|[[File:wintermagic2020_special2.png]]
+|'''2x''' - Doubles up the rewards in the next Postal Box that is opened after activation.
+|-
+|[[File:wintermagic2020_reveal.png]]
+|'''Magnifier''' - Shows the contents of two, as yet unopened, Postal Boxes.
 |}
-===Candy Hammers===
+{|align="center" cellpadding="1" width="100%"
+|style="background-color:#af895f;|'''Please Note:'''You cannot continue to collect additional Postal Stars if a Special Power is ready to use. Only after a Power has been used will the counter start increasing again with each new door opened.
+|}
-[[File:wintermagic2019_candyhammers.png|center]]
+====Winter Gifts====
+[[File:WMagic2020_tab3.png|center]]
-Each time you open a Gift Box, you will be rewarded with a Candy Hammer [[File:candy_hammer.png|30px]]. If you have revealed the "2x" special reward previously, you will even receive two Candy Hammers.
+Each time you open a Postal Box, you will be rewarded with a Winter Gift. If you have used the "2x" Special Power previously, you will even receive two Winter Gifts.
-With the Candy Hammers you are able to construct your Gingerbread House. To use your Candy Hammers, click the button:
+Every Postal Box you open also contains a Winter Gift that Olla, the delivery owl, will deliver to your citizens. Once Olla delivered a total of 20 Winter Gifts, the next Grand Prize is unlocked for you.
-[[File:wintermagic2019_usehammer.png|center]]
+[[File:WMagic2020_event_progress.png|center]]
-This will use 1 Candy Hammer and give you up to 3 Gingerbread Bricks for your House:
+===Rewards===
+====Evolving Building====
+[[File:WMagic2020_tab5.png|center]]
-[[File:gingerbread_bricks.png|center]]
+A new Evolving Building is available in the Winter Magic Event: the Watchful Winter Owl! Your Winter Owl can be evolved through 10 stages to increase its power.
-Once 20 Gingerbread Bricks are in place, you have a completed the House and you will receive the current Grand Prize.
+{| style="text-align: center"
+|[[File:A_Evt_Evo_December_XX_Watchful_Winter_Owl.png|center|400px|Watchful Winter Owl]]
+|-
+|}
+The Watchful Winter Owl provides Culture and Population and automatically produces Supplies. As an additional bonus, it also provides the production of various Goods, Mana and/or boosted Basic Sentient Goods (depending on the Chapter). As it evolves, you will receive higher amounts of these resources. When you feed your Winter Owl you will receive random Boosted Standard Goods per Neighborly Help while the feeding effect is active.
-[[File:gingerbread_house.png|center|350px]]
+For more information on Evolving Buildings, go to our [[Evolving_Buildings|'''dedicated page on the topic''']].
+<br>
-Collect your Grand Prize and your Gingerbread House will clear so you can begin to use your Candy Hammers to construct it over again.
+====Grand Prizes & Daily Prizes====
-[[File:eventprogressbannerW2019.png|center|700px]]
+Each day, you will have a chance to win a Daily Exclusive Prize from Postal Boxes but, the real goal of this Event, is to win the fantastic Grand Prizes.
-After receiving any buildings, Daily Exclusives and Grand Prizes, you will find them in your Inventory[[File:Inventory_icon_normal.png|50px]]
+[[File:ins_evo_december_xx.png|120px|center]]
-{|align="center" cellpadding="1" width="100%"
-|style="background-color:#af895f;|'''Please note:''' All building values and effects depend on the chapter you are in at the time you add the buildings to your Inventory.'''
-|}
-===Rewards===
+Grand Prizes include the Watchful Winter Owl Artifact, which allows you to evolve your Watchful Winter Owl to the next stage. See [[Evolving_Buildings|'''Evolving Buildings''']] for more information on the evolution process.
-====Evolving Buildings====
-[[File:wintermagic2019_evo_banner.png|center]]
-A tasty Gingerbread Mansion is the Evolving Building in this event! It can be evolved through 10 stages to increase its power.
+But that's not all, as there are more awesome prizes, including Knowledge Points, Ancient Knowledge, Coin Rain Instants, Rune Shards and more.
-{| style="text-align: center"
+After collecting the Daily Exclusive rewards and Grand Prizes, you will find them in your Inventory[[File:Inventory_icon_normal.png|50px]]
-|[[File:wintermagic2019_evo_GM.png|500px|center|Evolving Gingerbread Mansion]]
+{|align="center" cellpadding="1" width="100%"
-|-
+|style="background-color:#af895f;|'''Please note:''' All building values and effects depend on the chapter you are in at the time you add the buildings to your Inventory.'''
 |}
-The Evolving Gingerbread Mansion provides different resources for your city, including Population, Culture and Crystal. As the Gingerbread Mansion evolves, it will start producing additional resources, such as Scrolls, Silk and Ancient Knowledge if you have advanced far enough in your Research.
+[[File:wintermagic2020_reward_panel.png|680px|center]]
-For more information on Evolving Buildings, go to our [[Evolving_Buildings|'''dedicated page on the topic''']].
 <br>
-====Grand Prizes & Expiring Buildings====
+====Expiring Building====
+In this year's Winter Magic event, when you reach the last milestone reward, you will receive a brand new Expiring Building: the Goddess of Wishes grants you a random reward every 12 hours.
-Each day, you will have a chance to win a Daily Exclusive Prize but, the real goal of this Event is to win the fantastic Grand Prizes. Here we have the Gingerbread Artifact which evolves your Gingerbread Mansion:
-[[File:wintermagic2019_artifact.png|150px|center]]
+[[File:GodessofWishes_2x2.png|center]]
-See [[Evolving_Buildings|'''Evolving Buildings''']] for more information on the evolution process.
+===Pet Food===
-But that's not all, as there are more awesome Prizes, including several [[Expiring_Buildings|Expiring Buildings]] that give you special rewards.
+[[File:Pet_food.png|center]]
-[[File:WhishingWell.png|center|200px|Wishing Well]]
+Pet Food is a special Enchantment designed specifically to feed your Watchful Winter owl and other Pet [[#Evolving_Buildings|'''Evolving Buildings''']]. Applied directly to the building from your Enchantments tab, it activates a Pet Food Boost.
-The Wishing Well gives you a random reward every 12 hours, the Carting Library produces Knowledge Points, the Elvenade Supply Carriage gives an exciting Portal Profit, which refills your capped Guest Race Goods once you have reached Chapter 6, the Ice Lindworm produces Ancient Knowledge, and the Ferris Wheel Galore lets you produce Boosters, Knowledge Points or Broken Shards as you wish.
+Look for the recipe in your Magic Academy's Crafting tab and craft it as your Pets become hungry again after their hard work to provide their boosts.
-[[File:wintermagic2019_reward_panel.png|680px|center]]
+[[File:Pet_food_crafting.png|center]]

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