To start off the new year, we're launching a Talent Competition themed around The Forbidden Sanctum! Your talent could be fan art, videos, cosplay, baking, crafts and anything you excel in! As usual, we have prepared an awesome prize pool that includes Path of Exile merchandise and in-game microtransactions.

For this year's talent competition, we will not be accepting written/text based submissions such as poems or short stories.

UPDATE: We will also not be accepting AI generated art, including fixing up and editing AI generated art.

Prizes


Top Three Winners
  • Path of Exile Art Book
  • Signed Atlas Passive Tree Art Print
  • Cloth Map of Wraeclast
  • Your choice of two Path of Exile T-shirts - (Kitava, Vaal Orb or Exalted Orb)
  • Foam Exalted Orb
  • Celestial Cat Socks
  • Your choice of an Armour Set (an Armour Set from the list below)
  • Your choice of a Portal Effect (a Portal Effect from the list below)
  • Your choice of Footprints Effect (any Footprints Effect from the store)

4-5th Place
  • Your choice of an Armour Set (an Armour Set from the list below)
  • Your choice of a Portal Effect (a Portal Effect from the list below)
  • Your choice of Footprints Effect (any Footprints Effect from the store)

6-10th Place
  • Your choice of a Portal Effect (a Portal Effect from the list below)
  • Your choice of Footprints Effect (any Footprints Effect from the store)

11-20th Place
  • Your choice of a Portal Effect (a Portal Effect from the list below)

Runners-Up
  • Your choice of a Helmet Effect (a Helmet Effect from the list below)

Microtransaction Prize Pool

List of Armour Sets
  • Arcane Armour Set
  • Arctic Armour Set
  • Arctic Crystal Armour Set
  • Automaton Armour Set
  • Balefire Armour Set
  • Blood Guard Armour Set
  • Carnage Armour Set
  • Coliseum Armour Set
  • Darkprism Armour Pack
  • Demon King Armour Set
  • Desert Armour Set
  • Dragon Armour Set
  • Elite Armour Set
  • Extinction Armour Set
  • Executioner Armour Set
  • Fallen Angel Armour Set
  • Faith Guard Armour Set
  • Ghostflame Armour Set
  • Gloom Armour Set
  • Gorgon Armour Set
  • Gore Armour Set
  • Gothic Armour Set
  • Gryffon Armour Set
  • Harlequin Armour Set
  • Harpyon Armour Set
  • Huntsman Armour Set
  • Ice Armour Set
  • Ivory Chaos Armour Set
  • Lightning Armour Set
  • Lunaris Armour Set
  • Mageguard Armour Set
  • Malachai Armour Set
  • Madcap Armour Set
  • Merchant Armour Pack
  • Miracle Armour Set
  • Mystic Armour Set
  • Necrotic Armour Set
  • Pitch Black Armour Set
  • Polar Armour Set
  • Pure Light Armour Set
  • Purple Necrotic Armour Set
  • Purple Crystal Armour Set
  • Radiant Armour Set
  • Raven Armour Set
  • Rapture Armour Set
  • Ringmaster Armour Set
  • Seawitch Armour Set
  • Seraph Armour Set
  • Sphinx Armour Set
  • Steam-Powered Armour Set
  • Stormcaller Armour Set
  • Temple Armour Pack
  • Vampiric Armour Set
  • Verdant Armour Set
  • Warlock Armour Set
  • Wasteland Warrior Armour Set
  • Wild Armour Set
  • Water Elemental Armour Set
  • Wrangler Armour Set
List of Portal Effects
  • Arcane Demon King Portal
  • Arcane Portal
  • Arcane Voidgate Portal Effect
  • Arctic Crystal Portal Effect
  • Arctic Portal Effect
  • Automaton Portal Effect
  • Balefire Portal Effect
  • Daresso Portal
  • Darkprism Portal Effect
  • Demon King Portal
  • Divine Arcane Portal Effect
  • Divine Demon King Portal
  • Divine Stygian Portal Effect
  • Dreadspire Portal Effect
  • Faith Guard Portal Effect
  • Infernal Demon King Portal Effect
  • Golden Angel Portal Effect
  • Gore Portal
  • Gorgon Portal Effect
  • Havenwood Portal Effect
  • Huntsman Portal Effect
  • Kaom Portal
  • Kraken Portal Effect
  • Madcap Portal Effect
  • Malachai Portal
  • Maraketh Portal Effect
  • Miracle Portal Effect
  • Mystic Portal
  • Necrotic Demon King Portal
  • Necrotic Portal Effect
  • Orange Portal Effect
  • Project Portal Effect
  • Pure Light Portal
  • Resonator Portal Effect
  • Ringmaster Portal Effect
  • Scientist Portal Effect
  • Sentinel Portal Effect
  • Seraph Portal Effect
  • Spirit Portal Effect
  • Steam-Powered Portal
  • Stygian Ghostflame Portal Effect
  • Sulphite Portal Effect
  • Temple Portal Effect
  • Ultimate Chaos Portal
  • Vampiric Portal Effect
  • Wasteland Portal Effect
  • Wild Portal Effect
  • Wrangler Portal Effect
List of Helmet Effects
  • Abyss Eyes
  • Antlers
  • Apocalypse Helmet Attachment
  • Aquila Crest Helmet Attachment
  • Arcane Flaming Head Helmet Attachment
  • Arcane Halo
  • Arcane Mark of the Phoenix
  • Arcane Visage
  • Arctic Crown
  • Arctic Skull
  • Assassin Halo Helmet Attachment
  • Assassin Seer Helmet Attachment
  • Aureate Halo
  • Automaton Halo
  • Bent Horns
  • Black Headband
  • Black Pirate Bandana
  • Bleached Skull Helmet
  • Blood Guard Helmet Attachment
  • Brilliant Crown
  • Brilliant Feathers
  • Chaos Orb Helmet
  • Coliseum Helmet Attachment
  • Corrupted Skull
  • Cow Skull
  • Curved Horns
  • Darkprism Helmet Attachment
  • Demon King Horns
  • Despair Helmet Attachment
  • Divine Ice Crown
  • Divine Sign
  • Divine Skull
  • Dragon Mask
  • Eye Patch
  • Faith Guard Helmet Attachment
  • Fiery Eyes
  • Fiery Visage
  • Flaming Head Helmet Attachment
  • Frost Viking Alternate Helmet
  • Frost Viking Helmet Attachment
  • Ghostflame Flaming Head Helmet Attachment
  • Ghostflame Skull
  • Glowing Red Eyes
  • Gore Skull
  • Gorgon Snakes Helmet Attachment
  • Guardian Mask
  • Harmonious Helmet Attachment
  • Harmonious Hood
  • Holy Eyes
  • Ice Crown
  • Ice Horns
  • Incursion Hood
  • Infernal Skull
  • Innocence Laurel Helmet Attachment
  • Iron Brand
  • Iron Maiden
  • Lightning Eyes
  • Lightning Skull
  • Mark of the Phoenix
  • Medusa Snakes
  • Misery Flaming Head Helmet Attachment
  • Misery Helmet Attachment
  • Nightfall Helmet Attachment
  • Oriath Helmet Attachment
  • Plague Doctor Helmet
  • Purple Divine Sign
  • Purple Eyes
  • Purple Flaming Head Helmet Attachment
  • Purple Skull Helmet
  • Purple Smoking Hood
  • Rapture Helmet Attachment
  • Red Headband
  • Red Pirate Bandana
  • Rose Skull
  • Serrated Mohawk
  • Sin and Innocence Helmet Attachment
  • Sin Talon Helmet Attachment
  • Skull Hood
  • Smoking Hood
  • Spirit Charm
  • Steam-powered Skull
  • Suffering Helmet Attachment
  • Sunrise Helmet Attachment
  • Swan Crest Helmet Attachment
  • Thorned Skull
  • Twilight Helmet Attachment
  • Twisted Bone Horns
  • Twisted Horns
  • Undead Outcast Helmet
  • Vaal Orb Helmet
  • Wasteland Horns

How to Enter


Just post your submission to this thread to be entered into the competition. It's ideal if your content is easy to consume. A general guide for this is that your submission should take no longer than three minutes to listen to or view. It's permitted to post content that is longer than three minutes but in some cases it may put your submission at a disadvantage if it's significantly difficult to engage with your content.

As another reminder, we will not be accepting written submissions for this year's competition.

UPDATE: We will also not be accepting AI generated art, including fixing up and editing AI generated art.

The winning submissions will be selected based the following criteria:
  • How skillfully your talent has been executed
  • How true it remains to the Sanctum theme of Path of Exile
  • How compelling or entertaining the submission is

Conditions


  • The competition will run from the time of this post until Monday the 6th of February at 6pm NZT (5th of February at 9pm PST). Submissions made after this time will not be counted. We'll post the winners sometime in the following days.
  • Any work that is submitted must be your own and must be created after the launch of this competition.
  • AI generated art will not be accepted. We reserve the right to disqualify your entry if we believe that it is AI generated.
  • Multiple submissions are welcome.
  • If you want to create a montage or mash-up of other artists' work or videos, this is permitted as long as it follows all legal guidelines of fair use standards.

Best of luck to everyone who is participating in the competition!
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"My name is Divinia – I am a Templar academic and relic enthusiast. I have stumbled upon an abandoned Templar enclave beneath the Fellshrine Ruins, not far from here. Will you join me in uncovering its secrets?"

This fanart is a tribute to Divina and how I imagine her search for the Forbidden Sanctum must've started: Digging through old books and tomes in dusty libraries, searching for answers amongst ancient writing in the dim light from scattered candles.

For the progress of the artwork, click below. Also, right-click and open in a new window for bigger resolution.

Spoiler


Good luck to everyone participating in the competition!!

ps. Funny trivia:
- There is a Toucan hiding somehwere - see if you can find it!
- The text across Divinia's chest is a paragraph from "Lorem Ipsum".
- The text on the book pages are paragraphs from the community wiki lore page. Whoever keeps that updated, thank you! <3
- Time taken to complete: 16 days, with the last 2 weekends being the heavy lifters.


pps. AI art has no place in a talent competition. There is zero talent in typing in queries for a bot to work with. Never was, never will be.
My fanworks thread: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2868617
My hideout showcase thread: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3077898

AI "art" isn't art, it's theft.
Last edited by Natilo#1516 on Jan 28, 2023, 4:55:27 PM
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I told myself I'd finally enter the next one, and now I'm preoccupied with moving LOL, such is life.

Good luck to everyone that enters!
OMFG CELESTIAL CAT SOCKS!
AHHHHHHHH!
~Lycia, Herald of the Scourge~

Acrylic painting made on 50x35cm paper. I really pushed my skills very hard with this work. Also scanned it on 7 different blueprint scanners until I got this quality. Uploaded with printable size for 50x35cm paper or smaller. Hope you like it!


𝐋𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝: /view-thread/2875553
𝐈𝐫𝐨𝐧 𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐭❜𝐬 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥: https://ironhideout.net 🪽
𝐌𝐲 𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝: /view-thread/3483665
𝐌𝐲 𝐏𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 (𝐔𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝❢): /view-thread/3263906 | 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝: pegasusrider
𝐇𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐫𝐨𝐧 𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝟓-𝟔-𝟕-𝟗-𝟏𝟐 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝟏𝟑: /view-thread/3519150
Last edited by PegasusRideR#6012 on Feb 5, 2023, 11:55:51 PM
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i hope i did this right.these are my entries
Good luck talented exiles!
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