Curses and Gifts are modifiers that are linked directly to *you* rather than server-wide. To fulfil the modifier, you just need to use it in your next QUEST or server-modifier submission.

EXP is a guild-centered currency, not a measurement of your artistic worth. It’s used to track your adventurer’s growth within the world of Demorrah, but will never measure your own creative growth. Doing several small sketches can be just as important as putting all of your time into a single piece, and we want to ensure people who are unable to do one or the other still get points. There are so many ARPG's that will grade your work. Here, we reward that it happened at all.

That said, there are many modifiers that will add or subtract from the EXP you get from any submission. Daily Modifiers, Buffs, Curses, and even when we know you've pushed outside of your comfort zone can influence the amount of EXP a submission receives.

A Quest is the backbone of The Painted Drake’s creative system. It is a narrative art prompt that lets you shape the living world of Demorrah. Completing one earns EXP for your adventurer, and may even cause permanent changes to the worldstate, towns, or events.

Each Quest is formatted with several key parts:

🏷️ The Quest Tag (Mini Image on the Listing Page)
This tells you at a glance:
- Border Color: Reflects urgency.
White = no real impact
Black = critical worldstate risk
Most will fall somewhere in between these two extremes.

- Tassel Count: Shows the Tier (1–4).
Lower tiers = more freedom.
Higher tiers = tighter prompts with more details and less flexibility.

📜 The Full Quest Card Includes:
- Info Box: Top section with the Quest Type and Location
- Description: An in-world request or narrative hook
- Guild Notes: OOC guidance, flavor, or character reactions
- Your Art Challenge: Optional drawing challenges or prompts to help you decide what you're going to draw.
These aren't required, but Quests that use them may be prioritized for canon world effects

- [Type] Challenge: Some Quests include an extra art challenge tied to a secondary Quest Type, often with a bump in EXP
- Bottom Info Box: Shows the tag, again, and the EXP given for completing the quest.

To start, you’ll have access to Tier 1 (T1) Quests. These are designed to give you broad creative freedom while introducing you to the world of Demorrah.

🔼 Want to move up to higher Tiers?
Complete 10 T1 Quests to unlock T2 access
Complete 15 T2 Quests to unlock T3
Complete 5 T3 Quests to unlock T4

At 50 total quests, your adventurer becomes a legend and retires (Tier 5)

🆙 But what if you want to do a higher-tier Quest now?
You have options!

Every week, a Weekly Quest is brought into the Discord.
Anyone can complete it. If you go above your own tier, you get extra EXP!

You can also request an official TPD Grading.
A Mod will assess your work and may bump you up early based on an internally built rubric.
(This doesn’t lock you out of lower Tiers; You can still do T1s forever if you want.)

So how do you choose a Quest?

- Filter by your Tier
- Look at the quest types (Battle, Explore, etc.) to match your mood.
- Check the urgency. If the border is black or the Mirror bells are chiming, that quest could shape the world.

🧭 Still unsure, or not connecting?
Look at the Locations and start there. Find a Location you like, and then see if there are any Quests associated with it.

The Guildmaster prefers to keep a low profile.
She isn’t hiding, and she isn’t trying to be sneaky…
She simply never announces herself.

She is the candles lit before late-night studies, the sound of a quest pinned to the board while everyone else sleeps, the quiet comfort of knowing someone saw your work, even if no one said so.

Her name is Ember.

She carries a bell much like Beep’s and is the one who watches the Mirror of Mourning.
Sometimes, she appears as a passing traveler. Sometimes, she roams Evesta, quietly handing a scale to a new adventurer so they can begin their journey.
She’s always there. Watching. Supporting.
Her love for the Guild is impossible to miss.

But it’s Beep who makes sure everyone knows it.

Everyone has seen Ember at least once…
They just didn’t realize they had.