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Well NCsoft and their legendary PR has decided to answer some more of the communities questions. Notice how nobody asks how they plan to stablize the economy ingame because they messed it up due to banning bots or how they banned 25% or so of their userbase for 'botting'. Instead they decided to appeal to the RP crowd and their christmas spirit. One only hopes that the dubbed 'Aion patch 3.0' delivers the awesome content the showed via the benchmark.

Onto the QnA:

Hashmeer on [West]Kaisinel asks:

“We’ve heard rumours of a Christmas Event! Hopefully it will be better than Harvest Revel?”

You bet it will be better! We’re excited about this year’s Christmas event, one that we’re calling the Solorius festival. The Holiday is a day to honor all the Daevas who ascended over the last year, and more broadly to honor Daevas for their service to humanity. The holiday actually goes way back in the game’s lore, predating the Cataclysm. Now both hemispheres celebrate it in more or less the same way.

Many things will be happening. You will want to watch out for Santa Shugo for the chance to buy some Holiday themed items (go capitalism!) and if you get hungry during the festival you can always visit the bakery for a slice of cake. Of course no cake would be complete without some Victory Nectar to wash it down.

Next week will announce the remainder of the Solorius festival’s happenings , including seasonal pine trees, a giant – nay – huge piano to play on with your friends and plenty of appropriate, red attire to waltz around in.

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The spirit of holiday approaches slowly but surely and the Daevas of Atreia gather once again to prepare for coming happenings. Bakeries and workshops light their furnaces in anticipation, spreading warmth and cherish to their kin. Gladiators tell stories of war to their sons, Assassins brew the finest of holiday spirits, Mages contemplate how to cover Eltnen with snow and Chanters from all corners of the world join together in jolly holiday tunes. Who could forget such classics as: “Deck the Halls with Boughs of Azphel”, “Jingle Krall” or “Frosty the Shugo”?

That said we are lucky in this realm of the living to have computers, internet and other modern curiosities for reaching out to each other. Read on to see what your fellow Aion players have been up to in the past week!