Events

Events are limited-time occurrences, providing participating players with rewards such as a new hero, hero tokens, skins, and other various useful resources. Events typically only appear once however their formula remains similar. Events either revolve around Realm Siege to obtain currency, or Tournament.

* Divine Star Holiday Event
* Hero Release Events
* Hero Rework Events
* Other Small Events (usually a limited-time shop bundle)

To see when each event started go to Timeline page.

## Divine Star Holiday Event (Christmas)

Also known as the Divine Star Festival, this is an annual Christmas-themed event held near the end of December and generally lasting 2 weeks. The rewards are mainly Special Holiday Skins, with some extra rewards that vary based on year (Elixir, Gems, Meteors or Hero Awakening Tokens).

## Hero Release Events

Since the release of the W5 hero, Caldera, every new hero release has been coupled with an event, where the player is able to unlock the New Hero (as well as New Skins and Elixir) for free by participating in event-specific activities. *Before Caldera, Heroes were released by just being added to Hero shop, usually patched with new maps release.*

So far, Heroes included in such events were Caldera, Azura, Raida, Koizuul, Shamiko, Cyra / Elara, Osan, and Jett

Visit FAQ+Guide on new events for more information on how these events have looked historically.

## Hero Rework Events

Hero rework events are events where an existing hero is reworked with a new look, stats, and abilities. This event started off as a limited-time event then was released into the game as permanent content later. An example of this is Connie and her respective event - Connie's Awakening.

This format has been retired with reworked heroes now integrated into the lore of the current content. An example of this is Hogan reworked into BeastMaster Hogan in World 7.

## Other Small Events

Other insignificant events, these are usually

1) Promotional events and contests on social media - Facebook and Discord.

2) Other in-game "events". Rewards are obtained via the in-game mail system or purchased from the store for real money.

### Lunar New Year 2023 - Year of the Rabbit

This event started 21st of January and lasted ~**10 days**. During which players could buy **Bundle of the Rabbit** (3200Gems + Year of the Rabbit Connie).

Past Lunar New Year skins were also purchasable if missed.

### Sumi-E Ink Bundle 2022

This event started 19th of July 2022 and lasted **7 days**. During which players could buy **Sumi-E Ink Bundle** (3200Gems+ Inkwash Koizuul skin).

### Lunar New Year 2022 - Year of the Tiger

This event started 1st of February 2021 and lasted **7 days**. During which players could buy **Bundle of the Tiger** (3200Gems+ Year of the Tiger Hogan skin).

Past Lunar New Year skins were also purchasable if missed, these included Leif's Year of the Ox skin, and Fee's Year of the Rat skin.

### Momiji Bundle 2021

This event started 10th of November 2021 and lasted **4 days**. During which players could buy **Momiji Bundle** (3200Gems + Autumnal Azura skin).

### Deep Seas Bundle 2021

This event started 9th of September 2021 and lasted **4 days**. During which players could buy **Deep Sea Bundle** (3200Gems + Aquatic Connie skin).

### Lunar New Year 2021 - Year of the Ox

This event started 11th of January 2021 and lasted **4 days**. During which players could buy **Bundle of the Ox** (3200Gems + Lunar Leif Skin).

### Halloween 2020

This event started 30th of October 2020 and lasted **3(4) days**. During which players could obtain 2 new skins: Bridal Yan & Headless Horseman Raida. Skins were added via second iteration of skin crafting event. Players could also craft all other skins that were avaibale during first skin crafting (Goddesses Event) and skins from Player-Made Skin Event.

During Event special Sale Bundles were available at Store: **Token Crafting Kit** (42 Awakening Shards + 800 Elixir) - limited 1x for real money. **Stack of Halloween Badges** (20 Halloween Badges) - limited 1x for Money. **Crafting Spool** (1 Crafting Material) - limited 5x per day for 200 gems. **Pile of Essence** (2000 Essence) - limited 25x per event for 100 gems.

Along with event players got few free goodies via two ingame mails: **1)** 50 gems + 1 Awakening Shard + 1 Silver Spin Token (silver token granted access to special new "Mabyn's Secret Wheel" that had 4 possible rewards - 1 Armageddon / 50 gems / 3 Awakening Shards / 5 Awakening Shards). **2)** 50 gems + 1 Meteor. **3)** event got extended by 1 day + 1 Silver Spin Token + 250 Essence.

Game's 4th anniversary was also included into this event and only celebrated by Facebook post.

### Back to School 2020

This event started 11th of September 2020 and lasted **4 days**. During which players could buy **Study Buddy Bundle** (1200Gems + Ivory Scholar Bolton Skin).

### Player-Made Skin Event

On 27.5.2020 Fan-made skin contest was announced. On 12.6. Top 10 skins were chosen by devs. Their designers recieved 3000gems, 2freeze lv2 potions and 2 meteors. Out of those 10 it was up to a community to pick 3 best. The pool results were finalized on 18.6. designers of top 3 skins recieved additional gems and those skins were later released into game.

On 24.8. top 3 skins (**Flame Narlax, Void Caldera and Pirate Koizuul**) were released and players got to choose 1 of 3 skins for free (rest would be available during next skins crafting).

### April Fool's day 2020

This event started 1st of April 2020 and lasted **?2-10? days**. During which players could claim **April Fool's Gift Bundle** for Free (Dark Ranger Fee Skin + 300Gems, 1Meteor, 200Elixir).

### Winter's End 2020

This event started 13th of March 2020 and lasted **?3-7? days**. During which players could buy **Bundle of the Dark Witch** (3200Gems + Dark Witch Efrigid Skin).

### Lunar New Year 2020

This event started 23rd of January 2020 and lasted **3 days**. During which players could buy **Bundle of the Rat** (3200Gems + Lunar Fee Skin).

### Third Anniversary Event

This Event started 1st of November 2019 and lasted **7 days**. By logging in, players received Mabyn's **Third Anniversary Skin** from in-game mail for free. Contest was Facebook exclusive. Below are official Facebook posts.

*"It's our Birthday! Realm Defense was released 3 years ago! Your support throughout this time has been truly wonderful, and we have some really exciting plans for the future of the game. To express our gratitude, we've created the Third Anniversary Mabyn skin and are giving it to all players for free over the next week! Check your email after you get the newest (internal) patch."*

*"Dear players, in order to express our gratitude to you all for your companionship throughout the years, we have prepared another gift for you. Besides the Third Anniversary Mabyn skin, we will choose 50 lucky players who like and share this post to get 3,000 free gems. Hurry up and participate in this contest now! It will end on 6th.Nov (PST). Happy 3rd Anniversary!"*

### Back to School 2019

This event started ?early? October 2019 and lasted **? days**. During which players could get **2019 gems**, instead of the normal 1200 with first Bag of Gems purchase.