The swamp is ready.
Its fireflies have been sleeping in the eyes of its children
and they stumble blindly through the mire, lost.
The time for the lights of the swamp has returned.
The spirits of the mares and the stags are ready
to stir in the bodies of the Kimeti.
We are legendary. We are story and myth taken form.
We are souls bound to the flesh of our
Sisterbrother, our Motherfather, the Swamp.
And we are ready to awake...
What are Legendary Kimeti?
They are Chosen by Matope, often for reasons not obvious to their fellows or even to themselves, and they have been gone for so long that their origins have become the stuff of much-argued story, and some no longer believe in them.
They are said to be able to bless expectant does with especially hardy litters, and are said to bring special power to the naming dreams of unhatched foals. They are also given the power to understand the heartbeat and the rhythm of the swamp through its sacred animals--the treant, the crane, the firefly, and the owl, which gives them insight into weather and to coming changes. With their voices they heal hurt trees and with their keen eyes and instincts they find the richest foods for their people in times of scarcity. Their dreams are thick with riddles that foretell, in the most cryptic of symbols, the times to come.
And, some say, when they lift their heads and cry their strange and eerie cry to the skies,
the Fathermother's lost children hear them, no matter where they are, and return, prodigal, to her mired breast...
Unlocking your Legendary Kinthe Fathermother's lost children hear them, no matter where they are, and return, prodigal, to her mired breast...
It is no easy task to unlock a Legendary kin. They cannot be bought or traded for, and must be RPed for.
To qualify for a Legendary, you must have been engaged in at least ten finished or at least lengthy RPs with the kin in question in the Roleplaying forum (or legacy on Gaia Online), contributed at least one story to the Storytelling forum in the framestory that the Kimeti in question is telling or hearing it, and also posted a naming dream for the kin in question. Roleplaying and myths can take place at any stage of a kin's life.
Once you have completed these requirements, post a blurb about why the kin in question should be considered for Legendary status in this forum. This will not guarantee Ascension, but only put you in the running.
It should be noted that Matope's mods have very specific views of RP, and we will not tell you that your posts have to be several paragraphs or even sentences to qualify. Think Gricean theorem here: Say exactly what you need to say and no more or less, and that's fine with us. All of the shop mods have been known to post one-word dialogue replies when it was all that needed to be said. So those of you who can't BS for four paragraphs, fear not! WE SUPPORT YOU.
Legendary Ascension
When you fulfill the requisites, please post to the Ascensions forum, with the appropriate links. Once every couple of months the mods will get together, review the qualifiers, and use a set of guidelines including quality, adherence to canon, out-of-character behaviour in the thread, and depth of character development to determine a handful (one to ten) of second-tier qualifiers. These will then follow further instructions to complete for the Legendary, through a series of PM-received dreams from the Swamp which will require IC response. Any valid and original IC response will be considered sufficient for obtaining a Legendary, but they should be thought of carefully and with attention to detail, as some aspects of these responses will manifest in the Mare or Stag's finished form. In most cases all second-tier qualifiers will receive a Legendary, but there is no guarantee.
The recipients of Legendaries will receive a PM outlining the kin'snew powers and their limits, and also the updated image of their kin, including anything that changed or was added or subtracted due to the kin's response to the Swamp's dream.
Once your RP reqs are completed, you do not need to do them or post them again to re-qualify if you are not chosen as a second-tier qualifier. Your chance will come again next time Legendaries are released, and with each selection your chances will be slightly higher for being chosen. However, adding more content to your post never hurts and will almost certainly help.
If you would like to have more than one Legendary, you will have to complete the reqs for each kin.
Good luck!