Simril is ruined! Someone or something has been pillaging all the food stores of Luskan, leaving very little leftover for the feast of Simril, let alone the long, cold winter to follow. Your party has been hired to hunt down this ruiner-of-holidays and recover the stolen sustenance.

It's time for our final event of 2025: celebrating Faerûn's winter solstice with Simril 9!

We are incredibly excited for players to get their first chance to unlock the last new Champion of 2025, Lark Silverstring, the tiefling bard of the Fallbacks party. Lark is a Support, Speed, and Debuff Champion, so we have little doubt he will find his way into many of your formations.

Coming next week on December 10 will be our second Featured Champion for Simril, Nordom the Modron. Nordom has been reworked with an emphasis on providing more utility while reinforcing his link to Modron Cores. You'll be able to learn all about the Nordom Champion Update when the blog goes live on Friday, December 5.

Now, on with the show -- let's talk about Simril Year 9!

Featured Champions

Lark

Learn more about Lark in his Champion Spotlight.

Nordom

Learn more about Nordom in his Champion Spotlight when it launches this Friday, December 5th.

Flex Champions

Flex Slots allow players to unlock additional Champions and earn chests during events, choosing from a pool of retired Champions associated with the event. This collection of retired Champions includes the Champions from previous years of the event as well as some Champions whose events have been retired. This event's Flex Slot pool includes:

Event Augments

• Augment 1: Challenge Week (New Augment)
  Description: A Mastery Challenge will start on the third week of the event, providing opportunities to prove your formation-building skills and earn unique rewards.

• Augment 2: Golden Weekly Offers (Returning Augment)
  Description: One of your weekly offers will be Golden during this event. Golden offers provide an additional 10% discount! The Golden tag persists when an offer is rerolled.

• Augment 3: Auto-Blacksmith (Returning Augment)
  Description: Event Champions whose recruitment adventure or variants you complete gain common rarity equipment in all slots if they don't already have better. Every tier two or higher event variant completed automatically applies 100 Tiny Blacksmithing Contracts to the variant's Champion's equipment for free!

• Augment 4: Boon Enhancements (Returning Augment)
  Description: An additional boon buff at each level increases the damage of Tiefling Champions!

Event Feedback

Are you excited about Simril and Lark? Let us know what you think!

The best way for us to hear your feedback would be for you to join our community on an officially-supported platform:

• The Official Idle Champions Discord.
• The Official Idle Champions Subreddit.
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A consummate showman and performer, Lark loves the spotlight, but his desire for attention might end up getting him killed. Hunted by mysterious enemies with deadly intent, Lark has nevertheless managed to forge a degree of notoriety and a small fan following as a bard, all while evading his pursuers and any questions about who is hunting him and why. Lark left his old band of performers and initially joined up with the Fallbacks in order to surround himself with powerful protectors. He didn’t expect to catch feelings for the group in the process, but he’s adjusting. The show must go on, after all.

Lark is a Support, Speed, and Debuff Champion who boosts the damage of Champions in the middle of his formation. He favors sharp words over sharp weapons, but when all else fails, he’ll reach for his crossbow, Last Resort. This impulsive showman has a habit of running off on his own and landing himself in trouble.

To learn more about the bard of the Fallbacks, read on!

Lark

Abilities

Basic Attack

• Vicious Mockery (magic) - Lark attacks a random enemy, dealing 1 hit. Lark prefers to attack enemies he hasn't attacked yet.

Passive Abilities

• Uggie! - Uggie joins the party, starting next to Lark unless she's already in the formation next to another Fallbacks Champion. Uggie increases the damage of all non-adjacent Champions by 100%.

Formation Abilities

• Devil May Care - Lark increases the damage of all Champions that aren't in the first or last column by 100%.
• Uptempo Uggie - Uggie's buff is increased by 400% when Lark is in the formation.
• Bardic Perspiration - When Uggie is with Lark, and at least 50% of the area's quest requirements are met, Lark sprints off to the next area, leaving the formation (and Uggie) behind. When the formation catches up to him, Lark has already antagonized several enemies, spawning 1 enemy in the next area before the formation even arrives.
• Updated Basic Attack: Uggie's Bite (melee) - Uggie leaps out and bites a random enemy, dealing 1 hit. Uggie will prioritize enemies she hasn't attacked yet.
• Rapt Audience - When Lark attacks an enemy and does not defeat it, the enemy gains the Charmed debuff. Charmed enemies take 100% additional damage for each Charmed debuff that Lark has applied in the current area, stacking multiplicatively and capping at 10 stacks. If Lark attacks an enemy he has already Charmed, it still increments his Charmed count for the area. Once Lark applies his maximum number of Charmed stacks in an area, he switches over to use his crossbow, named Last Resort.
• Updated Basic Attack: Last Resort (ranged) - Lark fires his Crossbow at the closest enemy dealing 5 seconds of BUD based damage.

Specializations

• Band of Misfits - Lark increases the damage of Devil May Care by 100% for each unique class in the formation, stacking multiplicatively.
• Center of Attention - Lark increases the damage of Devil May Care by 175% for each Fallback Champion and/or Champion with a Charisma score of 13 or lower in the formation, stacking multiplicatively.
• Path of Nightmares - Lark increases the damage of Devil May Care by 150% for each Tiefling and/or Evil Champion in the formation, stacking multiplicatively.

Ultimate Ability

• Enthrall (magic) - Lark's powerful performance deals 1 ultimate hit to all enemies and charms them, making them more susceptible to additional damage.

Equipment

Feats

Lark Feedback

Are you as excited for Lark as we are? Let us know!

The best way for us to hear your feedback would be for you to join our community on an officially-supported platform:

• The Official Idle Champions Discord.
• The Official Idle Champions Subreddit.
• Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Bluesky, or Instagram.