Hello everyone, thank you for your patience, kind words, and the love and magic you've given to the Fae!

At long last an update we’ve all been waiting for (I hope!)

The Asrai are coming - imminently!

We will be rolling out beta for pre-orders this week. We have successfully completed a closed beta.

Rebranding!

First we would like to announce we will be rebranding from The Fae Folk to Enchanted Kindred

We loved our old name and it served us well as a team, but with all the changes we are looking to make a fresh start. Some site adjustments will also be rolled out during the transition.

New groups and logo to come, with updates to the site rolling out likely last. We are handling the rebrand as an ongoing process, so some things might linger over time in a sort of quasi both brands state. We will have new groups out soon as well.

Going forward we will call our Fairies and Asrai (and future releases) “Kin” though you can still call them Fae or even Critters lol. (We found calling them all Fae got to be a bit confusing whether people meant the Fairies alone or both Fairies and Asrai at times.) You'll see 'Kin' occassionally in our menu/text on our site to mean both Asrai and Fairies [and potentially future projects :o)].

How the Beta works:

We have a beta claim statue for anyone who preordered to grab a beta pack, this will come with 2 smaller food packs to help keep Asrai fed during beta. Once we move to full release you will be able to claim the asrai packs you specifically pre-ordered- beta has a generic beta pack instead to simplify the flow and even the field during testing. All beta Asrai will depart this world at the end of beta, as the database will be cleared with a bit of a heads up before we move to release day.
As such, know that while testing, your Asrai are temporary, but when Beta concludes your regular Asrai will be saved and backed up like the Fairies are.

How long will beta be?

We do not yet know how long the beta phase will be, it’s an “it depends” situation. If a big bug is caught, we might delay the end of beta a bit. Otherwise we’re planning on a couple of weeks.

What’s different about beta?

• Beta is sped up at 2x speed with a slight curve on hunger. Once released Asrai will function identically to the Fae in terms of hunger and age timelines.

• Beta Asrai will be deleted at the end of beta.

What is the ratio of female to male Asrai? 

Male Asrai are rare by default, occurring at 1 in 500 births.

Female Asrai are more common - but will still have rare traits.

Some textures will have male and female versions, and therefore rare traits may appear different between male and female Asrai, but will still have potentially extreme rarity where only 1 or a handful exist on the grid for a time. 

This will come up more over time as the game establishes.

This could be subject to balancing later in the release, but based on feedback we have already received we have decided to take the approach of having rares that are truly rare!

Referring to the Asrai (a change in previous policy)

After lengthy discussion and several prominent Asrai adventurers have tested - the Asrai have discovered they can survive in fresh, brackish, and salty water. Patterns from fish all over the world will make their way into the scales of Asrai over time at varying levels of rarity as well as fantasy inspired designs, due to their ability to survive in many environments. ^_^

Other updates

We have also provided a model update to some of the Asrai items, we will have our redelivery item for Asrai specifically as the Pearl:

The Asrai Pools shown previously will be replaced with Shells:

A few Starter Asrai to present (randomized):

When will the Asrai be available to anyone who did not pre-order?
We will definitely let everyone know, while there isn't an exact date we're hoping to complete beta by the end of the year, and with any luck a little sooner.

Where do I claim my beta pack?
If you pre-ordered, there is a Beta Claim statue near the landing point in our store sim.