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unfortunately, it's turning out i'm just a little too busy to stick around right now! dropping soleil for now, but thank you to everyone who was threading with me! (no one say anything if fw awakens something in me next month.)
Soleil has been dropped and is now available!
- Mod N
Micaiah is now available!
- Mod N
Lilina has arrived!
Welcome back to the Officers Academy!
Please make sure to refollow the Masterlist and all your fellow colleagues. All of your previous possessions have been returned to you so that you may continue to grow towards your true potential.
May the Goddess light your path.
- Mod N
ATTENTION TOA MEMBERS!
We hope that you’ve been enjoying our seventh anniversary event, Nos Mutamur in Illis! We have another anniversary goodie for you. As per our long-standing tradition, it's officially time to prepare for...
The Anniversary Mission Board!
For our next mission board, the mission tasks will all be created by you! That’s right: we’re taking your suggestions for 15 new mission tasks.
What’s more: all tasks on this mission board will grant a skill point. Sounds pretty great, right?
The general theme for the mission board will be freeform and open to all houses. If you need examples as to how to write your ideas, please look through our mission board tag.
Note that submissions should, to the best of your abilities, be formatted as though they are ready to be put into a proper mission board. Concepts and vague ideas will be thrown out.
We will be accepting your submissions (link here!) for anniversary mission board tasks from today until August 17th at 11:59PM EST, after which we will close the form and put the suggestions up for a vote. You may include as many prompt proposals as you like for any of the skill point categories. We look forward to seeing your suggestions!
- The House Leaders
It’s been a joy and an honor to write the first FE character I fell in love with for as long as I have, but even before the new activity rules I was struggling to split my time between two muses. Despite my best efforts since the rules changed, I have not been able to give Ninian the attention she deserves. With apologies and many thanks to her thread partners who made my time with her so memorable, I will be letting her go for now.
Ninian has been dropped and is now available!
- Mod N
Jaffar has arrived!
Welcome to the Officers Academy! You have been counted among the residents of Abyss.
Please remember to follow the Masterlist and all your fellow colleagues. You have been granted an Iron Sword, a Killing Edge, and the Wrath Strike combat art to start your journey with. We look forward to seeing the growth of your true potential.
May the Goddess light your path.
- Mod N
What’s Going On?
Welcome to Nos Mutamur In Illis, our 2026 anniversary event! All participating muses have been invited to the Herald of Spring Festival on Oleander Isle, an island that produces much of Garreg Mach's exotic fruit imports. However, when you arrive, you discover that the island is much worse off than you expected, with its fields and orchards all but completely dead. Nevertheless, the mayor seems intent on pulling off this festival, which doubles as his daughter's 16th birthday party, despite the town's struggles. Please continue reading below for information and rules.
Muses who are not participating in the event will be left behind in Garreg Mach. The Herald mission board will be extended through the end of this month, but no new missions will be added. If you are not participating in the event, use this month to catch up on past threads or thread together about your classmates and colleagues who have left for the event.
Nos Mutamur In Illis General Rules
Signups are closed and will not be reopened.
All players must join the server for the duration of the event. They may leave as soon as the event concludes.
You may only start Nos Mutamur In Illis threads between August 1st and August 31st. Event threads may be continued after the event, but no new ones may be started. Likewise, only IC posts made between 8/1 and 8/31 will count toward prizes.
Your muses have already arrived on Oleander Isle, so there will be no pre-departure interval for interactions. You may still write them if you wish, but pre-departure interactions will not count towards event participation.
We encourage creativity and exploration. Answers will reveal themselves as the narrative progresses, so ask questions, think outside the box, try new things, and consider what your character would do in these situations.
Your muses may be KO'd but will not "die."
Please tag all event-related IC posts with #TOANMI2026.
ACTION POINTS
Starting locations have been revealed in the introductory post but AP can be spent to move to adjacent districts (any district whose border touches the border of the district you are currently in). Each player will have 5 AP to spend every week. This will coincide with one single day in Baile.
Each district has several points of interest and activities associated with them. You must spend AP to engage in GM activities, and cost will vary depending on how involved something will be.
Each event "day" will be separated into Day and Night, with different activities taking place during different periods. Some activities will restrict a player from engaging in other activities in the same day period, so spend your AP wisely.
Asks and paralogue threads (threads that are not attached to any GM-led activity) do not cost AP.
Moving to an adjacent district costs 1 AP.
You do not have to spend all of your AP but unspent AP will not roll over to the next week.
DISTRICTS AND INTERACTIONS
Players will only be allowed to interact with other players who are currently in the districts that they land in. The mods will keep an updated document with the map and current locations of all players, as well as movements made during the week, so that players can tell who they can write threads with.
Players must share information IC, not OOC, in order for another player character to act on that information.
A channel associated with each district will be set up in the discord server, and players will only be able to access the districts that they are in or have moved to in order to limit confusion.
Most GM activities are not expected to last very long on the OOC side, so emphasis is placed on players turning the results of their AP into full-fledged threads with each other.
NPCs are available to thread with depending on each GM's availability. At minimum, chatplays will be conducted in the discord server for dialogue exchanges.
Points of interest and their activities may be simple item discovery, worldbuilding information, GM-led investigations, or fully gamefied events and automated tasks.
All activities that cost AP will have an impact on the narrative. Your character's choices matter. Don't fret over whether you're getting more or less information from your GM than someone else.
Whatever district you end in for one week, you will start in for the next week.
SECRET ABILITIES
The mysterious voice left you a present. Each of you has received a secret skill tree to help you around Baile. Level 1 will be DM'd to you soon, and you may not share this with anyone else OOC. IC interactions where your characters explain your abilities are fine.
Every player who starts in the same district receives the same skill tree.
There are 3 skills in your skill tree, but the last 2 must be unlocked. You will need to write a total of 1400 words during the event and use your level 1 skill once in order to unlock level 2, and write a total of 2800 words and use your level 2 skill once in order to unlock level 3. DM the mod who sent you your level 1 skill when you've reached the requirements.
Skills can be used to assist other players as well, but information must be traded IC.
You also have an item that you received from the signup quiz. This can be used once in whatever way you see fit. Be creative.
Nos Mutamur In Illis Schedule
August 1st - 10th: Day 1
August 11th - 20th: Day 2
August 21st - 29th: Day 3
August 30th - 31st: Finale
Prizes and How to Get Them
Two sets of prizes will be awarded for Nos Mutamur In Illis.
PARTICIPATION PRIZE.
All muses entering the event automatically receive one of these prizes upon joining. You may message the masterlist as soon as you have made your first event post.
Canon Lord characters: You are granted access to your exclusive promotional class. This class will have mastery requirements of a Master Tier class and will also require rank A in Authority and a drabble. Please message the masterlist to claim it. To see muses that qualify and their corresponding prizes, please refer to the fourth page of this sheet. You will also be granted your Personal Skill. Please refer to the section below.
Characters who have not claimed a Personal Skill: You will be allowed to claim your Personal Skill. Please refer to this sheet for examples and guidance on crafting one for yourself. Characters who already have personal skills in their respective games will receive their canon skill, so you do not need to design one. If you need help designing your skill, please ask for advice in the personal skill workshop channel in the Discord server. All personal skills must be submitted to the masterlist’s inbox for approval by the end of the event. If you do not submit your personal skill by the time grand prize claims end, you will not get your personal skill.
All others: If your character participated in past lore events and has already received all participation prizes that they are eligible for, you may claim an additional ability that you qualify for from the ranking chart.
If you prefer to hold off on choosing your participation prizes (i.e. waiting on skill points, etc.), you may do so until the grand prize claim period after the event.
GRAND PRIZE.
This will be awarded at the end of the event to any muse who reaches a minimum of 12 IC event posts. Contains:
One free skill point
Two choices from an event-limited selection of prizes
And a third prize — unknown for now
And as always, feel free to message the masterlist or use the Discord if you have any questions.
- The House Leaders
"Prepare to make port!"
After three days at sea and a series of strange dreams, you dock safely and disembark for the town of Baile, but not to the welcome party you expected. Men and women wearing soot-covered rags have gathered here brandishing torches, pitchforks, and all their fury. They do not aim their rage at you; you're simply in the way as they clamor over one another to seize the ship that brought you in. The port is a flurry of frenetic activity, its docks lined with smaller boats that have either been destroyed or set ablaze. Smoke billows from something in the distance, so dark and thick that it shrouds the entire island in premature night. Then the earth beneath your feet rumbles with the surreal boom of an explosion coming from the church.
Your ship, your only way off this island, has been commandeered already and shoved back out to sea with only a handful of the townsfolk on board. Seeking answers and desperate for a way back out of this hellscape, you run for the town hall in search of the mayor who had invited you all here, but find little more than chaos down every street and alley. Someone bangs their fist on the locked door of a house, yelling something that disintegrates into the roaring din. The feast that had been set for the Herald of Spring Festival has become a celebration for flies alone as it sits, hardly touched, on its rows of tables in the town square. Dozens of people lie on the ground around it.
From the forest to the north comes an inhuman roar, then human screams, but they're soon drowned by the shouting mob gathered around the town hall. One girl kicks and fights against the man who drags her away from the door. Magic flashes out from behind the town hall as bright as the sun, casting the crow that watches the scene from its steeple in an ominous silhouette, then some mangled, incomprehensible shadow rises unfathomably tall through the smoke. It's something not of this world, perhaps not of reality at all, and drops dread as heavy as an anchor into the pit of your stomach.
Unseen, someone careens off the cliff below the lighthouse. Maybe it's you--
"Oh, you don't like my dreams very much, do you?"
As you plunge into the sea, you startle to the sound of a voice in your head. You're still in your cot in the belly of the ship destined for Oleander Isle, and a glance around the room finds no owner of the voice.
"I probably shouldn't call them dreams, now, should I? Shh, I don't need you to answer. You know what they say: we're our own worst critics. This was my little project, but now that you're here, I think I'll sit back and watch the show for myself. They won't be very happy with me, but I've never cared much for what they think."
"Prepare to make port!"
"Heehee, sounds like that's your cue. I've left you a tiny present, so feel free to thank me when we meet again. Until next time!"
The voice is gone.
After three days at sea and a series of strange dreams, you dock safely and disembark for the town of Baile. Mayor Callaghan and his daughter Holly greet you enthusiastically at the docks, and thank you profusely for the donations for the festival. The mid-morning sun shines brightly overhead, and they're quick to bustle you off to your lodgings for the next few days. Due to the size of the inn, and the number of guests who have come for the festival, your room and board will be scattered all over town. But that shouldn't be a problem, should it?
Mayor Callaghan swings open the door to the town hall with a hearty "Welcome to Baile!"
NOS MUTAMUR IN ILLIS
The town of Baile is not what you had been led to expect. As one of Garreg Mach's importers of exotic fruit and produce, Oleander Isle should be a verdant, bucolic hamlet. Instead, it is little more than dead fields and a decaying town desperate to squeeze the means to their survival out of the earth.
DISTRICT 1 : Camilla Niles Selena Ares The northern farmland. Your host is the Saunders family, a hardworking family of 4—a mother, a father, and two sons—who tend to the land to provide a harvest for Baile.
DISTRICT 2 : Takumi Nyx Leo Poe Skoll The southern farmland. Your host is the Ellis family, a family of 5—a grandmother, father, and three children—who run their ranch to provide meat and dairy. In what little free time he has, Mr. Ellis has recently taken up wood carving.
DISTRICT 3 : Roy Michalis Forde Celica The gristmill. Your host is Maeve, the widowed owner of the boarding house. Mostly home to mill workers and their families, this district is as reliable as it is modest.
DISTRICT 4 : Edelgard Linhardt Sin Elise The crossroads. Your host is Bran, the young new owner of the tavern. Nestled at the heart of the island, people from all parts of town pass through on the daily.
DISTRICT 5 : Joachim Ishtar Veyle Griss Chrom The port. Your host is Lawrence, one of the stevedores. Being the only port, most of what goes through this area is cargo either to be loaded on ships going out or unloaded from ships coming in. You all came through here first.
DISTRICT 6 : Mark (M) Berkut Hilda L'arachel Azama The poor residences. Your host is Gracie, a mother whose children have all long since left her for their own pursuits but who maintains a sense of levity regardless. While your host thinks positively about the future, the homes that line the area and their inhabitants are clearly destitute.
DISTRICT 7 : Tine Clair Ayra Katarina The marketplace. Your host is Callum, the man who runs the local butcher shop. The marketplace is comparatively bustling, but while everyone is eager to sell to you, you can't help but notice glares the different people running the shops throw one another in the streets.
DISTRICT 8 : Alear (M) Shigure Marisa Xander The old garden. Your host is Gorka, the eccentric groundskeeper. While once a beautiful park full of flowers and greenery, it has since dried up and died like everything else on the island.
DISTRICT 9 : Eremiya Ashe Tina Byleth (M) Innes The town hall. Your host is Callaghan, Baile's mayor. This is the seat of governmental power on Oleander Isle and will be the location for the upcoming Herald of Spring festival.
DISTRICT 10 : Eirika Kana (M) Henry Eir The wealthy residences. Your host is Rudy, househusband to one of the merchants. Opulent mansions are at odds with their empty, dead gardens, but the amenities within this district give the elite ways to idle their time.
DISTRICT 11 : Kurt Tamamo Dimitri Andrei The forest. Your host is Agatha, a devout old woman. Vast trees house a few old cabins favored by the faithful who serve as neighbors to the wildlife of Baile.
DISTRICT 12 : Lene Marth Zasha Kris (M) The church. Your host is Rome, the head priest living in the church. A historic building of prayer that provides solace and community service to the residents of Baile.
DISTRICT 13 : Yunaka Sue Yuri Travant Kana (F) The clinic. Your host is Doctor Moray, an austere man with a seemingly permanently furrowed brow who runs the local clinic alongside his wife. While it is clear that he is intelligent and does good work, the graveyard outside haunts the area.
DISTRICT 14 : Lachesis Uka Nel Subaki The lighthouse. Your host is Katerina, the keeper of the isle's lighthouse. This beacon rests upon a cliffside that also hosts the island's ore mine, though few travel through it due to the associated dangers.
DISTRICT 15 : Carina Rafal Seliph Sylvain The beach. Your host is Sepp, one of the last remaining fishermen in Baile. A few rundown shacks dot the sandy shoreline, but the sea, just like the land, has been dead as of late and only a stubborn few remain committed to the fishing life.
Stay tuned for more information about mechanics.
Hello lovely everyone! The time has come once again to put him back on the shelf, so with a hearty thank you to all of his thread partners, I will go ahead and drop Sigurd. See you on the other side!
Sigurd has been dropped and is now available!
- Mod N
And with this August, TOA turns seven—that's old enough to enter second grade. Here's to many more fun years to come!
Housekeeping
Current Month in TOA: Lone Moon
This month is event month, so there will be no new mission board! But like last year, the June & July Mission Board will be extended to run through the end of August. The Unaffiliated requirement remains in effect for the Unaffiliated & Faculty-specific tasks.
The event will run from August 1st to August 31st. Signups are now closed - stay tuned for more information at noon EST! Now that the event signup period is over, everyone is free to take the associated quiz for fun now.
We will be releasing our annual anniversary board submission form on August 4th. This year, we will not be taking submissions for anything but mission board tasks—with the coming of Fortune's Weave, we will likely already have plenty of new content to add to the handbook in the near future. Stay tuned regardless!
Our lore bible is now live! Much appreciation goes to our lore archivists, who have now spent close to two years compiling all of this information. While this document will continue to be updated, there is plenty to review here for those interested.
Please don’t forget to leave feedback on our [feedback poll] for this month! We do check the responses regularly, so if you have concerns during the event, the feedback poll is an appropriate place to pop in. Alternatively, the mods’ DMs are always open. We’re wiping the Wanted List this month so our character wish list will be fresh for the new year.
An Update Regarding Academy Brooches
After some careful consideration, the moderation team has decided to give the Academy Brooches muses earn over the course of their tenure a functional use: muns may now use their muses' Academy Brooches to guarantee being placed in the same group as another muse of choice in our semiannual Expedition and Lore events. Further details are as follows:
If two muses want to enter one of these events together, both must use an academy brooch to do so. If Muse A spends a brooch to enter with their friend Muse B, and Muse B does not do the same, the selection is invalid and the brooch is not spent.
Both muses must spend a brooch of their own. Muse A may not spend two brooches to "pay" for their friend Muse B so that they can be placed together.
If a mun decides to use a brooch in this way, any other placement preferences they have expressed to the mod team are invalidated for the course of the event, including preferences expressed about separation from specific other muns. Use your own discretion in choosing when to use a brooch.
Brooches can only guarantee pairs—Muse A, Muse B, and Muse C cannot all use a brooch to enter as a trio.
Fields for brooch use will be included on future signup forms starting with Expedition 2027.
Seeking Artists for Affiliation!
It has become increasingly popular for our muns to commission artists for depictions of their muses for Garreg Mach-specific designs and, especially, for their outfits for the Ethereal Ball. After some discussion, the mod team thought it might be worthwhile to consider having an official list of affiliated artists. Our goal would be to have a collection of artists who members of the community have personally worked with, and whose integrity, quality, and professionalism can be vouched for, which would be mutually beneficial—our community members have a list of people they know they can go to when they need art, and those artists get a boost to their business.
We have launched a form that you can link to artists you have had a good experience working with in case they are interested in affiliating with us. We do request that you only link artists you have personal experience working with.
Our goal is to have this Artist Affiliate initiative finished in some form by March of 2027—in time for next Ethereal Ball.
Other
BIRTHDAYS
August Mun Birthdays: Ivo (1st), Gensokyo (5th), Penny (19th), Ren (20th), Mik (28th), Log (28th), Kuno (29th), Leon (30th)
August Muse Birthdays: Laslow (7th), Yuri (12th), Ares (14th), Travant (17th), Clair (17th), Sanaki (18th), Hinoka (18th), Marisa (24th), Corrin (M) (25th), Soleil (31st)
MUN ANNIVERSARIES
1st year: Aira (23rd)
2nd year: none
3rd year: none
4th year: Kano (4th)
5th year: Vivi (8th)
6th year: Soji (8th)
7th year: Ree (5th)
MUSE ANNIVERSARIES
1st year: Kiran (23rd)
2nd year: none
3rd year: none
4th year: Seliph (10th), Camilla (23rd)
5th year: none
6th year: none
Muses who have been in the group for a solid year will also be granted an Academy Brooch to put in their inventory. These characters are also granted a new opportunity to change houses if they wish to do so.
- The House Leaders
Activity Check: July
We’ve conducted the activity check for July!
If your muse is both:
Not listed below
Has made the activity requirement for this month (3 IC posts, regardless of any exemption status)
you may claim your activity skill point! Simply add it to your Total Skill Points on your stats and allocate it wherever you please. If you have reached a new letter rank and would like to claim a new ability, please message the Masterlist.
Warned:
none
Booted:
Lana @angea
Hector @of-ostia
- the House Leaders
hi! marin again, could i please drop my reserve for sharena and reserve micaiah from radiant dawn in her stead? thank you very much!
Sharena has been dropped and is now available!
Micaiah has been reserved!
You have one week (8/6) to submit your blog and application to the Masterlist. Thank you for your reserve!
- Mod Cecil
Azelle has arrived!
Welcome back to the Officers Academy!
Please remember to refollow the Masterlist and all your fellow colleagues. All of your previous possessions have been returned to you so that you may continue to grow towards your true potential.
May the Goddess light your path.
- Mod N
Hello, major apologies to my thread partners, but also extremely grateful for the warm welcome. Unfortunately, my personal life just demands more of my time right now so I will set Citrinne free. Thank you and fly high! 💖
Citrinne has been dropped and is now available!
- Mod N
Roy has arrived!
Welcome back to the Officers Academy!
Please make sure to refollow the Masterlist and all your fellow colleagues. All of your previous possessions have been returned to you so that you may continue to grow towards your true potential.
May the Goddess light your path.
- Mod Cecil
Ishtar has arrived!
Welcome back to the Officers Academy!
Please make sure to refollow the Masterlist and all your fellow colleagues. All of your previous possessions have been returned to you so that you may continue to grow towards your true potential.
May the Goddess light your path.
- Mod N
Marisa has arrived!
Welcome back to the Officers Academy!
Please make sure to refollow the Masterlist and all your fellow colleagues. All of your previous possessions have been returned to you so that you may continue to grow towards your true potential.
May the Goddess light your path.
- Mod Cecil