Happy Birthday Wizard101!

The big news this month is, of course, our Birthday! Wizard101 turns 3 years old this month and we'll be celebrating all month long with giveaways, contests and other fun stuff.

We're very happy to have over 20 million young Wizards in our midst to celebrate this very special birthday with us, so stay tuned to the Ravenwood News for updates and celebrations throughout the month of September!

This month's big news of course is the release of Wysteria. Wysteria was once a trade post and pleasant enough small town in the Wizard City cluster, not too far away but of little consequence in the overall scheme of things, until a magical incident occurred that caused a crawling vine to grow and completely overrun the town.

Wysteria contains three main areas available to players level 25 and higher; Pigswick Academy, Pegasus Place and Tanglewood Way. Players who are level 60 will find a special tower in Tanglewood Way called Tower of the Helephant. This dungeon will test even the mightiest of Wizards. Make sure you're up for the challenge!

Players who are level 25 or higher should speak to Merle Ambrose in his tower. He will offer you the quest "To the Registrar".

This is the September 2011 installment of my Book of the Month Club. These books have been suggested by a fellow Librarian from Earth, her name is Kit Ward-Crixell and she is a librarian in New Braunfels, Texas, USA.

This month we have a very special book for you, it's a good book for a good cause. We know how much our players love pets and mounts, and this is a wonderful story.

A Friend for Einstein, the Smallest Stallion by Charlie Cantrell and Dr. Rachel Wagner is the true story of Einstein, the smallest miniature horse ever born. Einstein is too small to play with other horses, and his best friend is Lily, a dog. Einstein is famous now – he’s been on Good Morning America and eaten graham crackers on The View - and his pictures are completely adorable.

Part of the sale price from this book goes to the ASPCA’s Equine Fund, to help organizations that give good homes to abandoned or mistreated horses.

Look for this book in your school or local library and enjoy reading, young Wizards!

I'd like to address our young Wizards who think it is okay to circumvent the chat filters in place. Those chat filters are there for a reason and allow you to communicate with each other in the game about game related topics. It is not appropriate for you to try to use creative profanity by swearing around the filters. There are consequences to your actions. Doing so will result in the removal of your chat privileges, losing out on your ability to openly converse in game. You can still play the game with the Wizard you worked so hard to create but you have proven that you cannot be trusted to interact with other players in a safe way.

We appreciate that our players want to make the Spiral the best it can be, and we've placed the tools in your hand to report players for inappropriate behavior. We ask that you use the reporting feature to report creative profanity (swearing around the filters) as well as false representation of a KingsIsle employee, solicitation of usernames/passwords, predatory threats, racist comments and other such actions as outlined in the Terms of Use.