Sovvan Night Challenge 2025

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Welcome to the second annual Sovvan Night Challenge!

Autumn is the season of change, the season of harvest and the time to celebrate the year’s bounty. It is also the time to mourn the year’s losses. Sovvan is the night of the year when the veil between life and death is thinnest. Celebrated with a great hunt, feasting, songs, and dancing throughout the day, and bonfires and scary stories at night while candles glow in every window to ward off evil and guide lost spirits home.

The Challenge-
You have thirty days to create something for the theme of Sovvan Night from one (or more) of the prompts, it can be fan-fic, poetry, art, or meta analysis. Choose any characters from any period in Valdemar’s history or even your own OCs, just so long as it is set in Valdemar or the world of Velgarth.

Your Sovvan Night fic does not have to be set actually on Sovvan Night, as long as it fits into the overall theme. It can be scary, spooky, or horror-themed, it can be sad, bittersweet or tragic, it can even be a silly crack-fic or crossover with pop-culture Halloween standards. Just create something new!

The Challenge begins October 1st, with all works to be posted to Ao3 on October 31st (Halloween). You have 30 days to write, draw, or create something inspired by the prompts list. An Ao3 Collection to host all submissions will be made titled- Sovvan_Night_2025

The Prompts-

Autumn
First Frost
Harvest Feasts
Black Cat

Atmosphere
Fog
Full Moon
Candles

Mysteries
Disappearances
Weird Woods
Ritual

Ghostly
Ghost Meeting
Vengeful Ghosts
Possession

Death
Date With Death
The Shadow-Lover
Remembrance

Afterlife
In the Hereafter
Day in the (Un)life
Reincarnation