With the festive season being just around the corner, we'd like to remind you about the ExileCon Mystery Bags which are still available for purchase! The Mystery Bag is not only a great opportunity to get merchandise from ExileCon, but is also a nice gift for any Path of Exile fan.

The bags are priced at $100 USD + shipping (and sales tax if you're in New Zealand). If you want to buy one, contact merch@grindinggear.com and let them know your address and your desired shirt size (you can't pick which specific mystery bag outcome you'll get, only your shirt size). They'll calculate a total and will send you a payment link. If you pay within 24 hours, you'll be locked in.

You can view the potential items available in the bags below as well as the random outcomes possible.



Outcome A:

• 2x Path of Exile T-shirts of different types
  
• Random Plushie
  
• ExileCon Cloth Map of Wraeclast
  
• ExileCon Lanyard
  
• ExileCon Black Bags

Outcome B:

• 2x Path of Exile T-shirts of different types
  
• Random Plushie
  
• ExileCon Cloth Map of Wraeclast
  
• Path of Exile Foam Exalted Orb
  
• Path of Exile ExileCon Corrupted Vinyl Decal

Outcome C:

• 2x Path of Exile T-shirts of different types
  
• Random Plushie
  
• Path of Exile Foam Exalted Orb
  
• Path of Exile ExileCon Corrupted Vinyl Decal
  
• Path of Exile Dye-Sub Patch (Premium)

Outcome D:

• 2x Path of Exile T-shirts of different types
  
• Random Plushie
  
• Path of Exile Foam Exalted Orb
  
• Path of Exile ExileCon Corrupted Vinyl Decal
  
• Path of Exile Celestial Cat Socks

Outcome E:

• 2x Path of Exile T-shirts of different types
  
• Random Plushie
  
• Path of Exile Foam Exalted Orb
  
• Path of Exile Iron-on Patch (Non-Premium)
  
• ExileCon Lanyard

Outcome F:

• 2x Path of Exile T-shirts of different types
  
• Random Plushie
  
• Path of Exile Foam Exalted Orb
  
• Path of Exile Celestial Cat Socks
  
• Path of Exile Iron-on Patch (Non-Premium)

Outcome G:

• 2x Path of Exile T-shirts of different types
  
• Random Plushie
  
• Path of Exile Iron-on Patch (Non-Premium)
  
• Path of Exile Exalted Orb Snapback Hat

Outcome H:

• 3x Path of Exile T-shirts of different types
  
• Random Plushie

Outcome I:

• 2x Path of Exile T-shirts of different types
  
• Random Plushie
  
• Path of Exile Foam Exalted Orb
  
• Path of Exile Exalted Orb Snapback Hat

• Path of Exile Lunaris Vs. Solaris Premium Tee
  
• Path of Exile Kitava Premium Tee
  
• Path of Exile Vaal Orb Premium Tee
  
• Path of Exile Exalted Orb Premium Tee
  
• Path of Exile Chaos Premium Tee
  
• Path of Exile Shaper Premium Tee
  
• Path of Exile Untainted Paradise Premium Tee
  
• Path of Exile ExileCon Logo Premium Tee

Our Fan Art Competition is in full swing and we're continuing to share some of the submissions we've received so far. If you'd like to participate, just submit a Scourge-inspired piece of fan art in the competition thread. The competition ends on Monday the 6th of December at 5pm (PST).

As a follow up to the recently published pieces of fan art created by our players, today we'd like to share some more. This round includes digital fan art and a tattoo. Check them out below!












If the talents of your fellow Exiles have inspired you to create your own piece of fan art, make sure to submit it to our ongoing Scourge Fan Art Competition! Find out more about it in this news post.

Today we'd like to share the concept art created for the combined Atlantis cosmetics from the recent Atlantis Mystery Box. If you've missed the previous two news posts with the Atlantis concept art, you can check them out here and here.

The artworks below were created by Ryan McQuarters and Seung Gue Lee.

Microtransactions from the Midnight Pact Mystery Box are now available in the store! It's also still possible to combine some of the individual Scavenger and Overseer cosmetic effects into the Midnight Pact ones.

As a follow up, we've also released the accompanying Midnight Pact Character Effect and the Midnight Pact Stash Bundle. Please note that the Midnight Pact Stash Bundle can be equipped to your Stash and Guild Stash via the Hideout Cosmetics UI and are only available in your hideout which means that they will not be displayed in town instances.

Check out the Midnight Pact microtransactions by watching the videos below. You can also view the full range in the store by pressing M in game.







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We're ending 2021 with an action-packed series of Path of Exile events in December! We'll share the full announcement in just over a week but in the meantime we wanted to let you know what to expect.

We have six event types planned which begin in early December and run through to the first week of January. While you wait for the full announcement, we can confirm the event dates, duration and that Endless Delve is making a return! We'll also have several days of Path of Exile: Royale featuring Brutus, a version of Royale which made its debut during our recent Twitch Rivals tournament. Zizaran is also hosting another Gauntlet event which will be supported by us in the schedule and with bonus prizes.

Check out the schedule below. These events will all start at Noon Pacific Time.

• December 3 - Endless Delve (10 Days)
• December 8 - Royale + Brutus (1 day)
• December 10 - Zizaran's Gauntlet (10 days)
• December 17 - TBA: New Event Type (10 Days)
• December 22 - Royale + Brutus (1 day)
• December 24 - TBA: New Event Type (10 Days)
• December 29 - Royale + Brutus (1 day)
• December 31 - TBA: New Event Type (10 Days)

In the 10 day events, top-ranked players of each Ascendancy Class will be eligible for the coveted Demigod's Authority and participating players will be awarded with mystery boxes and eligible for randomly-drawn microtransaction prizes. We'll also be providing Twitch Drops on the first day of each 10 day event!

While we'll leave a little mystery about the TBA events for now, we can at least say that these are events we haven't run before and do not include the Turmoil, Mayhem or Flashback events from the past. We're very excited to see what you think!

Last week we started the Scourge Fan Art Competition where we encouraged our community to create a piece of Fan Art inspired by the 3.16 expansion and its content. If you're planning to participate, there is still plenty of time to submit your work. In the meantime, check out some of the first submissions below.

The community never ceases to amaze us with its talents. From digital artwork and music to tattoos and cosplays - we love seeing that Path of Exile continues to inspire our players. For today's news post we've gathered several pieces of recent Fan Art, created outside our ongoing Fan Art Competition. Check them out below!

In Path of Exile: Scourge, we introduced The Last to Die, a new NPC from an alternate Wraeclast swarmed by ravenous demons. For this news post, our Narrative Designer, Matt, has taken a moment to reflect on writing for Scourge League. Here are his thoughts:

Narrative work on Scourge League took a very different approach for a number of reasons. For one, essentially the entire league was created during lockdown here in New Zealand, so getting voice acting recorded was an interesting odyssey over multiple online recording sessions. In a sense, we got lucky that our plan for The Last to Die NPC was for her to have a limited number of lines and essentially retire soon after handing off the Blood Crucible. If she had been anything akin to the complexity of Expedition league three months before, it would have no doubt been impossible to finish her scripts. As it turned out, the voice actress for The Last to Die, Genevieve Kent, nailed the tone we were looking for despite working at a distance - and, in one case, during a massive windstorm that forced us to record lines multiple times and then edit around the wind!

The second reason things were different this time around was a new approach we decided to try for this content. The vast majority of lore for this league is inferred or implied instead of directly stated. Where Expedition had a detailed historical saga to follow, Scourge league was made in conjunction with numerous details mentioned in the core game and previous leagues. There's enough out there already that, before Scourge league even released, observant players were giving TED talks on the upcoming lore. I can't confirm or deny if any particular theory was right, but there's more fun to be had with the Scourge than might be immediately apparent.

With The Last to Die too traumatized and depressed to wax on at length about what she's seen, we have to guess with what little we know. She does tell the Exile that the Blood Crucible functions through a pact with Chaos, which is the second time we've encountered someone working with them. For those who remember Ultimatum League, the Trialmaster described Chaos as an entity who is aware of different possibilities at the same time. The Last to Die outright states that she has been to 'other Wraeclasts,' which we can reasonably infer are other possible versions of the continent. Her pact with Chaos must allow her to Shift between them, and, indeed, that is exactly what the Exile temporarily does when the Blood Crucible is activated.

If the Wraeclast we know is perhaps one of the better ones thanks to the Exile's path of destruction, then one might imagine there are versions of the world out there where events instead went very, very wrong. What exactly went wrong? What are these invaders? All we know for sure at this point is that the apocalypse is out there. We are a single beleaguered jewel floating on a sea of madness, and it's only a matter of time until doom comes knocking on our door.

As a follow up to the Deepwater Concept Art we published last week, today we'd like to share pieces of the Siren concept art. Check them out if you enjoy seeing our artists' work.

The following artworks were created by Seung Gue Lee, Ryan McQuarters and Timothy Albano.