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An annual month-long creative challenge based on #TheWheelofTime. Organized every October. Share your creations with us using the #WoTtober tag!

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WoTtober @wottober.bsky.social · Sep 11

The Wheel has spun around yet again, and thus brings us #WoTtober anew!

Here be the awaited list of prompts for 2025!

See you in three weeks!

##TheWheelofTime

A WoTtober prompt lost with white and light grey text on a black background. The title reads WoTtober 2025. Below that is a frame with the following prompts:
1. Pact
2. River
3. Queen
4. Voice
5. Fall
6. Veil
7. Rain
8. Library
9. Hills
10. Torm
11. Music
12. Damane
13. Legend
14. Symbol
15. Pattern
16. Arrow
17. Stonedog
18. Weave
19. Spy
20. Shara
21. Windfinder
22. Brave
23. Innkeeper
24. Thirteen
25. Sindhol
26. Delving
27. Circle
28. Pretty
29. Love
30. Memory
31. Invention
Bonus prompt: Turning.

Below the frame are white logos of Instagram and Bluesky, floating over the text "#WoTtober". Next to it to the right are the organizers' socials: Instagram handles "Zuconart" and "Uno_aka_Cat", and bluesky handles "Zucon" and "UnoNomesta"

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JessiBri @jessibri.bsky.social · 2h

#wottober day 5 - Fall (Fal Dara)

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The Cambrian Mammal @naraoia.bsky.social · 1h

Back to the chapter icon theme for #WoTtober 11: music. It wouldn't be WoT without inns, and what self-respecting inn doesn't have someone playing a bittern to entertain patrons?

(A bittern sounds like a kind of zither. I loosely based this one on Hungarian examples)

#WoTSkies #TheWheelOfTime #art

Black ink drawing featuring a zither-like instrument drawn just off the diagonal. It's shaped like an elongated rectangle with a curved bulge on the bottom third of one long side, and two small steps on the same side, above the bulge. It has twelve strings, and rising sun motifs at the top end as well as smaller ones on the steps.

In addition to the bittern, there is also a slatted wooden tankard and a small round loaf of bread in the top right corner, and a large grape vine leaf in the bottom left, covering a little bit of the bittern.

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Zucon @zucon.bsky.social · 43m

The date changed to the 12th here already, buuut as promised, here's that day 10 Torm pic for #WoTtober!
#TheWheelofTime #WoTskies

#Zuconart

A digital painting, with visible black sketch lines, of a nature scene. A white-tailed deer fawn looks for food in the grass in the low center front. Behind her, taking up two thirds of the painting, is thick plant foliage, where a very large beast stalks its prey. The beast resembles a large feline in shape, but is covered in scales, has no visible ears, and has three green eyes and wide slits for nostrils. The colors are vibrant where warm hued light hits the plant life and animals, and the shadows have a colder blue-ish hue to them. The artist's signature is in the bottom right corner, along with the year 2025.

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35 y.o. he/him Minors DNI @lemgerbilking.bsky.social · 9h

#WoTtober
Music of war

Wash the spears while the sun climbs high
Wash the spears while the sun falls low...
...And then you'll ride along with me,
To dance with Jak o' the Shadows!

Jak's design is based on his namesake Zelazny's novel and Harlequins from wh40k.
#WoTSkies #art

A colored pencils drawing divide in two parts. On the left Jak o' Shadows, looking like a mixture of a jester and assassin, dances under the skull-like moon. On the right three spears raise one after another, awash with blood, with a sunrise in the desert as a background.

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Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 12h

Thinking of ways to start off Bill’s story… maybe the school bullies will get a scene…

#wordprompt
#writingcommunity

#VSS365 #Whistpr
#VSSDaily #VSSMagic
#Emoetry #WIPSnips
#BlueSkyRelay #WoTtober
#WeirdMicro

The Visitor
The head stood in a tight #raincoat, scouting the students before her gaze landed on Antoni. She took the mic. «Students. Today we will #welcome an important #visitor. You are to take to your #knee and show respect. I will see no #giddiness today.» ms. Hall said, looking out over the morning assembly

«That means,» she continued, «you will not #unearth ungodly things, no #music, and for goodness sake: not another #opium #pageant like last year. This investor will determine if we exist at all next semester, so do behave!»

In the back, Antoni looked slyly at Chase: «This is going to be epic!»
«Yeah, it’ll be #sublime» Chase replied. Their scheming had begun…

#VSS365 Raincoat
#Whistpr Visitor
#VSSDaily Knee
#VSSMagic unearth
#Emoetry Giddiness
#WIPSnips Welcome
#BlueSkyRelay Sublime
#WoTtober music
#WeirdMicro opium pageant

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WoTtober @wottober.bsky.social · 16h

From the plains of Shienar to the hills of Tanchico, let the Music move you!

#WoTtober day 11: Music.

#artchallenge #thewheeloftime #wotskies

A daily black and white prompt card for the month of WoTtober. The title reads “WoTtober 2025” and beneath it, between simple horizontal frames, is written "day 11, Music". Below it are the logos of Instagram and Bluesky with the tag “#WoTtober”.

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Uno 🔥🐐💋 (they/them) @unonomesta.bsky.social · 17h

A lil #wottober sketch for day 10, Torm.

A rough pencil sketch of a cat like torm in a slightly crouched position. It has a saddle on its back, a bridle and some leather armour pieces.

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The Cambrian Mammal @naraoia.bsky.social · 22h

#WoTtober 10: torm. I'm knackered tonight, and also, I hate scales, so quick semi-realistic lizard kitty doodle it is. Mmm, dear viewer, you look tasty 😋

(Referenced from @animalphotorefs.bsky.social's photo of a leopard licking its chops.)

#WoTSkies #TheWheelOfTime #art

Quick black ink drawing of a scaly cat-like creature with three eyes staring right at you while it licks its muzzle. A pair of lower fangs is visible. Its shoulders, upper arms and chest are roughly outlined, indicating a sitting posture with its head lowered and slightly off-centre.

The creature resembles a big cat in general shape, but its ears are tiny bumps, it has a third eye in the middle of its forehead, and it's scaly instead of furry. The body has been left blank, scales only indicated on the creature's face: larger vaguely oval or rectangular ones on the top of the muzzle, around the eyes and along the lips, and tiny pebbly scales drawn very sketchily elsewhere. There's also a small scale crest rising from its forehead.

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MadlandsShogun @madlands-shogun.bsky.social · 22h

~Music~

O’ Dancing Lasses;
dazzle with thy washed spears, yet
thou know not the Song.

#WOTtober

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Elder Spudmonkey @screaminspudmonkey.bsky.social · 17h

WoTtober - Day 10 - Torm
#WoTtober #WoTSkies #TheWheelOfTime

An ink and watercolor painting of a Seanchan soldier with a skull like helmet with two feather antenna coming out of the top spear with green tassel in right hand and reins in his left sitting on top of a copper scales torm balancing on a fallen tree branch.

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35 y.o. he/him Minors DNI @lemgerbilking.bsky.social · 2d

#WoTtober Day 9

Aran'gar checks out her new hills.
#art #WoTSkies

A black pen cartoonist drawing of Aran'gar. She oshes up her massive breasts, looking at them with a mixed expression of adoration and confusion.

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Miles Paladin🗯️ @milespaladin.bsky.social · 1d

#wottober Day 8: Library

My DnD party recently had a fight in a Feywild library so this was a great opportunity to draw them! Meet Mialee, Skylla, Billocus, Tatou (my PC) and Cerese. #dnd #inktober #octoberartchallenge #dungeonsanddragons #wildbeyondthewitchlight

A digital drawing of a group of 5 characters in a fantasy-like library setting, seemingly having an argument and lots of different emotions. A female druid elf with long, messy black hair and an impish smirk steals a straw doll from another witch-like woman who is looking somewhat flirty towards a red-haired tall male paladin that points at her with an angry facial expression. By his side stands a scared humanoid rabbit and a short haired warlock woman showing great amounts of ennui.

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Miles Paladin🗯️ @milespaladin.bsky.social · 1d

#wottober Day 9: Hills

Any reason to draw my fav OC Gaia... #octoberartchallenge #gaia #digitalart

A black and white line art of a curvy woman in a skimpy bikini laying on her back and a lot of tiny humanoids standing and sitting on her body

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Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 1d

A snippet from Paolo or Amir here, from «Earth’s Hidden Realms» ch 1 a scene that could fit in one of the realms…

#wordprompt
#writingcommunity

#VSS365 #Whistpr
#VSSDaily #VSSMagic
#Emoetry #WIPSnips
#BlueSkyRelay #WoTtober
#WeirdMicro

A side adventure

Through the #cascading waterfall he could see strange cat-like creatures, but with #leathery scales, reminding him of the #Torm from a book he knew well; A weird #evolution at ready!

Rather #fatigued he felt a strange #verve as he ventured on. His #prize awaited still. Avoiding the creatures he ventured into a cave where he found what he could only describe as an #exquisite #corps.

A beautiful creature seeming almost like glass laying serenely on a stone slab. Something someone could write a whole #oeuvre about! But something strange seemed to happen, almost as the corps was changing. Maybe to become one of the #torms?

#VSS365 verve
#Whistpr Cascade
#VSSDaily leather
#VSSMagic evolution
#Emoetry fatigued
#WIPSnips Prize
#BlueSkyRelay oeuvre
#WoTtober Torm (cat/lizard mirror world)
#WeirdMicro exquisite corps

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WoTtober @wottober.bsky.social · 1d

You have been accepted by a Torm, congratulations rider!

#WoTtober day 10: Torm.

#artchallenge #thewheeloftime #wotskies

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Elder Spudmonkey @screaminspudmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

WoTtober - Day 9 - Hills
#WoTtober #WoTSkies #TheWheelOfTime

A pencil sketch on brown toned paper of Elayne belting out the song ‘Hills of Tanchico’ with arms out to either side and fists clenched. She is wearing local garb. A slim black and color streaked dress with a head wrap above retaining her veil.

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35 y.o. he/him Minors DNI @lemgerbilking.bsky.social · 1d

#WoTtober

I used gorgonops as a base for torm.
#art #WoTSkies

A black pen drawing of a Seanchan soldier riding torm.

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MadlandsShogun @madlands-shogun.bsky.social · 1d

~Torm~

O’ bronze-scaled feline;
Three-eyes narrow, claws grip-stone;
How to make you purr?

#WOTtober

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The Cambrian Mammal @naraoia.bsky.social · 1d

#WoTtober 9: hills. Yes, I went for the low-hanging fruit. With this prompt, in this fandom, what did you expect me to do? 🤪

#WoTSkies #TheWheelOfTime #art

Black ink drawing in the style of Elissa Mitchell's iconic Wheel of Time maps. There's a pair of large, suspiciously rounded hills, loosely shaded with hatching. They're labelled "Hills" in the WoT maps' calligraphic lettering.

Below them is the edge of a body of water, its shore chonkily outlined and finely hatched/stippled like in a map, its waters dotted with little waves.

Alternatively, you may be looking down at a stylised pair of respectable-sized boobs, with the bottom of a veil hanging into the picture.

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Zucon @zucon.bsky.social · 2d

The Dancers at dawn.
#WoTtober Hills.
#TheWheelofTime #WoTskies

#Zuconart

A digital painting of a scenery view with a row of flat topped hills at dawn, and a horserider on its horse, standing on a small hill in the forefront. The furthest hill is on the left side of the image and the rider on his horse on the bottom half side of on the right. In the rider's outstretched arm is a bright white sword. Flocks of birds fly in the distance in front of the hills. The artist's signature is in the bottom right corner, along with the year 2025.

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tWoTcast @twotcast.bsky.social · 2d

#WoTtober day six. “Veil” #WoTSkies

Mat, Min and Elayne wearing veils in Tanchico

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Chris E. Sol @telaranrhiod.bsky.social · 2d

An expanded snippet from Paolo here, from «Earth’s Hodden Realms» ch 1. a small hint of his past…

#wordprompt
#writingcommunity

#VSS365 #Whistpr
#VSSDaily #VSSMagic
#Emoetry #WIPSnips
#BlueSkyRelay #WoTtober
#WeirdMicro

Excursion day…
Paolo ate a #peach while he waited for his phone’s #battery to charge up. He dreaded today. Going to the #structures at Teothihuacan - again.

All the little structures there, like artificial #hills. Built so very long ago by long dead dreamers. He’d been there many times before; of course he had.

He decided not to put in his #earring, no need to add that to today’s experience, Not brave enough for such #defiance; Though he wished he could be so.

If only the bullies would grant #respite, just a day would be bliss. ‘But alas, no #libertine day for me it’ll be. Anyway, it’s time to leave for the bus.’

‘Wish me luck’, he thought.

#VSS365 Libertine
#Whistpr Peach
#VSSDaily Earring
#VSSMagic Structure
#Emoetry Defiance
#WIPSnips Battery
#BlueSkyRelay Respite
#WoTtober Hills
#WeirdMicro Dead Dreamer

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WoTtober @wottober.bsky.social · 2d

Some Hills can flatten a whole ship’s crew.

#WoTtober day 9: Hills.

#artchallenge #thewheeloftime #wotskies

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MadlandsShogun @madlands-shogun.bsky.social · 2d

~Hills~

When one’s quite enough
to bring Lews down to his knees;
‘hill’ o’er Tar Valon.

#WOTtober

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Elder Spudmonkey @screaminspudmonkey.bsky.social · 2d

WoTtober - Day 8 - Library
#WoTtober #WoTSkies #TheWheelOfTime

An ink wash, ink and watercolor painting of Master Gill’s library in his inn. Off to the right he is playing stones with Thom. Loial is off to left sitting in a chair reading a book. Bookcases and books fill the background. The main picture is in a sepia wash while book covers are popping out all in color.

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