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

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!