The Shugo Festival is the part of Aion 2 where nobody is fighting for gear score. It is a rotating set of nine short mini-games covering racing, platforming, memory puzzles, hide and seek, tag and wave defense. Gear has no effect on the result. Every qualifying finish pays out Centuryroot Tokens, and a good placement opens extra reward picks that you pay for with Shugo Festival Reward Keys.
Quick answer: Nine mini-games rotate on the hour, each lasting 2:55 to 5:00 after a 3-minute ready phase. A qualifying finish pays Centuryroot Tokens. Each extra reward pick costs one Reward Key.
Shugo Festival mini-games: Player counts and time limits
The time limits below cover the play itself. The 3-minute ready phase at the start of each round is not included.
| Mini-game | Players | Time limit | Goal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jump Jump | 1–4 | 2:55 | Dodge lasers, grab balloons |
| Not This Tile? | 1–6 | 3:15 | Memorize tiles over 8 rounds |
| Hidden Lugi | 2–9 | 3:30 | Hide and seek |
| Odyle Flight Frenzy | 1–8 | 3:30 | Collect Odyle Drops in flight |
| Goldrin’s Treasure | 1–8 | 3:50 | Find treasure chests |
| Wraith Evasion | 1–6 | 5:00 | Collect drops, avoid wraiths |
| Mysterious Track | 1–8 | 5:00 | Two-lap pet race |
| Defend Shugo Merchants | 1–8 | 5:00 | Survive enemy waves |
| Up! Up! Up! | 1–8 | 5:00 | Climb moving platforms |
Scoring varies by activity, so an approach suited to a race won’t work in a memory challenge. Every game sets a minimum basic score; fall below it and you receive no reward, including the participation payout.
Jump Jump
You play as a Shugo in a square arena while red lasers sweep across the floor. You move with W, A, S and D and jump with Space. Green balloons add points and each laser hit takes points away. Pink balloons make you briefly invincible, so you can pass through lasers without losing anything. Bombs are marked by circular warnings on the floor and throw you into the air when they go off. As the round goes on, the lasers change from single lines into crosses, squares and grids. The Shugo Jump Researcher runs the arena and calls out these hazards during play.
Not This Tile?
At the start of each round, the correct tile colors and routes remain visible for a few seconds before disappearing. Finding a correct tile earns 100 points, and picking up a Festival Balloon earns 50. Finishing on a wrong tile costs 50 points, and you keep a round’s points only if you end on a correct tile. Your rank is based on your score across eight rounds.
Hidden Lugi
At the beginning, players are assigned the Shugo or Lugi role. Lugi earn points by gathering Odyle Drops while avoiding detection. Shugo gain many points when they identify players posing as ordinary Lugi. A round can begin with two players at minimum.
Odyle Flight Frenzy
You fly through a canyon collecting Odyle Drops, which are worth different amounts. Flying through an acceleration ring speeds you up and refills your Flight Power, which keeps you in the air longer.
Goldrin’s Treasure
You run and fly across high terrain looking for treasure chests. Opening a chest and taking its treasure scores points. Beams of light mark chests that are nearby. Goldrin’s Small Treasure Fragment gives 10 Contribution Points and the Large version gives 20. The Large fragment always drops from the level 20 Shulak Thief.
Wraith Evasion
This is a tag game centered on collecting Odyle Drops and avoiding wraiths. A wraith that catches you turns you into one, so you can no longer collect drops. Catch another player to return to normal; they take your place as a wraith.
Mysterious Track
You ride your pet for two laps around a colorful track. Obstacles block parts of the course, and pickups along the way give you boosts.
Defend Shugo Merchants
This is cooperative PvE. Players team up to hold off waves of enemies attacking stranded Shugo Merchants. Opening a Petrification Chest freezes enemies in place. Exploding insectoids are immune to petrification, though. They have little HP but hit hard when they explode.
Up! Up! Up!
As a Gravi, leap across platforms in motion to reach the greatest height you can. The course includes four checkpoints. Your rank reflects the checkpoints you pass and how far you advance toward the next one. Keyboard controls are recommended.
In Up! Up! Up!, you earn nothing unless you reach the first checkpoint.
A Seed of Detection can drop in all nine games. It reveals stealthed targets for 10 seconds.
How to unlock the Shugo Festival
The festival opens at level 10, once you finish a faction-specific Episode quest from chapter 2 of the main story. Both quests have a recommended level of 13.
| Faction | Unlock quest | Starts | Previous quest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elyos | Visions in Smoke | Caelid, Dawn Legion Base (Verteron) | Soaring Free |
| Asmodian | Urgent Pursuit | Ulgorn, Quai Campsite (Altgard) | Veiled Truth |
In Visions in Smoke, Caelid asks you to attend the funeral of Perion, the Dawn Legion’s fallen vice-commander. He sends you off with a short instruction: “Use the Windstream ahead to get to the cremation site.” You take the Windstream to the cremation site, then answer Asahr’s summons to the Dream Crossroad and turn the quest in to Asahr there. It rewards 81,539 EXP, 5,700 Kina (Bound) and a Noble Belt.
In Urgent Pursuit, Ulgorn takes you to the Nameless Cemetery to look for the missing broker Brok. First you talk to the gravekeeper Tagar. Then you defeat the Corrupted Karas Handmaiden and two Hungry Dead, and enter the Shaded Cave. The quest ends with Asahr at the Dream Crossroad. It rewards 65,160 EXP, 6,100 Kina (Bound) and a Noble Belt.
Once the unlock is confirmed, open the Main Menu and select Shugo Festival. The screen lists games available now; use the upcoming hours at the top to check what is scheduled next, or head to the Festival Shop.
Shugo Festival schedule and how to join a round
Games become available at :00 each hour, every day of the week. The hourly lineup varies, so a particular game may not be running; check the festival screen to find it. If too few players are there when a game is due to begin, it is canceled.
There is no cost to play. If you have run out of Reward Keys, you’ll see a warning before entering, but you can still join.
Shugo Festival rewards and reward card picks
Every finish that meets the minimum score pays a participation reward right away. This includes guaranteed Centuryroot Tokens and Enhancement Stones. Equipment and material rewards scale with your character level.
| Reward | Levels 10–44 | Level 45 |
|---|---|---|
| Tokens per finish | 40 | 50 |
| Enhancement Stones per finish | Level-scaled | 700 |
| Key reward package | Level-scaled | 1,200 Enhancement Stones, 3 Soul Codex, 800 Abyss Points |
After the results screen, the Monster Cube screen offers reward cards. The better you place, the more cards you can select. In Jump Jump, first place gets four picks and third place gets three. In Not This Tile?, first and second place can make six selections. Each card you select costs one Reward Key, so your key count can cap a high finish. If you placed for six picks but hold only two keys, you get two picks.
Cards draw from five pools:
- Chaos Weapons and Armor (rare)
- Shade Weapons and Armor (common)
- Odyle
- Refining Stones
- Abyss Points
Each pick also pays extra Centuryroot Tokens. You get 30 tokens half the time, 40 at a 30% chance, 60 at 17% and 100 at 3%, for an average of about 40 per pick.
Backing out before confirmation has no cost. You may also refuse the selections altogether without changing your key count. Confirming with the “Complete the reward selection? Once completed, cancellation is not possible.” prompt makes the choice final. The cards then turn over, and the rewards are added to your cube.
Since more picks come with higher placements, keys go further on rounds where you finish near the top. Skipping the picks after a weak result keeps your keys for a better round.
Shugo Festival Reward Key limits
Your keys refill daily at 16:00 server time. All characters you have on one server draw from a shared key balance, so an alt’s play uses keys from your main’s supply.
| Reward Keys | Free | Special Quai Membership |
|---|---|---|
| Added per day | 3 | 3 |
| Maximum held | 12 | 21 |
The Special Quai Membership raises the key cap but not the daily refill. It lasts 30 days, applies to your whole account, and also bundles the Market, Remote Storage and login-queue priority.
Keys are also available as items. Use a Shugo Festival Reward Key (Bound) to add one key to your balance. These keys come from reward boxes, achievements, attendance rewards, and the Content Usage Ticket Selection Chest (Bound); you must be level 13 to use one. Some versions have time limits and are marked 7 Days, 30 Days, or Season 1.
Daily keys stop piling up once you hit 12 (or 21). Any refill that lands while you’re at the cap is lost.
Centuryroot Tokens from Shugo Festival achievements
Centuryroot Tokens are a Common currency that can’t be traded. You earn them from field events, achievements and attendance. The Dimensional Invasion event, which runs at :30 every hour and uses its own key, can also pay tokens. On top of that, the festival’s achievements pay a one-time total of 2,860 tokens.
| Achievement | Condition | Tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Shugo Festival Regular I–VIII | Play 3/10/30/60/100/150/200/300 times | 30/40/55/70/85/95/100/115 (590 total) |
| Per-game I–III (x9 games) | Three stages per game | 20/40/85 (1,305 total) |
| Joyful Wings | Collect 3 Shugo Festival Wings | 65 |
| Category milestone | 8 festival achievements done | 300 |
| Category milestone | 33 festival achievements done | 600 |
These achievements also hand out Soul Crystals or Kina. Two of them grant titles. Regular V gives Shugo Festival Rookie, a Rare title that adds 10 MP while owned and 19 Combat Natural Stamina Regen while equipped. Regular VIII gives Shugo Festival Expert, an Epic title that adds 10 Critical Hit Resist while owned and 78 Combat Natural HP Regen plus 29 Combat Natural Stamina Regen while equipped.
Festival Shop prices in Centuryroot Tokens
Access the Festival Shop through the Shugo Festival menu; it takes Centuryroot Tokens and no other currency. Elyos and Asmodian players have matching stock, with the Artworks as the exception. Monthly purchase limits renew each month, whereas lifetime limits remain unchanged.
Consumables
| Item | Price | Limit per character |
|---|---|---|
 Radiant Odyle | 1,000 | 3 per month |
| Soul Crystal x100 | 50 | 30 per month |
| Empathy Candy | 20 | None |
 Daevanion Crystal (tier 1) | 50 | 10, lifetime |
| Daevanion Crystal (tier 2) | 100 | 10, lifetime |
| Daevanion Crystal (tier 3) | 200 | 15, lifetime |
| Daevanion Crystal (tier 4) | 400 | 15, lifetime |
| Stigma Shard | 300 | 35, lifetime |
Daevanion Crystals unlock by tier: you must buy every crystal in one tier to open the next. Purchasing the full set of 50 crystals costs 10,500 tokens, the same price as all 35 Stigma Shards. Both contribute to permanent character growth. Empathy Candy transforms you into the pet you have equipped for 300 seconds.
Wings and pet
| Item | Grade | Price | Owned effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violet Butterfly Wings | Rare | 2,100 | Flight Power 200, HP 50 |
| Spirit Wings | Epic | 4,200 | Flight Power 200, Defense Bonus 100, MP 50 |
| Springflower Butterfly Wings | Unique | 8,350 | Flight Power 200, Evasion Bonus 20, Block 20, Front Attack 20 |
 Wandering Merchant Lugi (pet) | Special | 3,600 | — |
Each item in this table can be bought once per character. Equipped, the Violet Butterfly Wings give Attack Bonus 40 and Defense Bonus 200. Spirit Wings give HP 400, Defense Bonus 300 and Block 50. Springflower Butterfly Wings give Penetration 500, Block Penetration 60, Attack Bonus 60 and Accuracy Bonus 35. The Wandering Merchant Lugi unlocks with 5 souls. Raising it from level 1 to 2 takes 25 souls, and from 2 to 3 takes 75.
Skins and Artworks
| Piece | Lightpath Trace | Skilled Expert |
|---|---|---|
| Breastplate | 1,100 | 5,400 |
| Greaves | 800 | 4,000 |
| Helm | 680 | 3,400 |
| Pauldrons | 680 | 3,400 |
| Gloves | 530 | 2,650 |
| Boots | 680 | 3,400 |
| Cloak | 530 | 2,650 |
| Full set | 5,000 | 24,900 |
You can purchase armor skins individually, with each piece available once per character. Accessory skin prices are 530 for the Twilight Loop Earrings, 680 for the Twilight Loop Necklace, 2,650 for the Starry Starry Night Earrings, and 3,400 for the Starry Starry Night Necklace. Artworks are Pantheon décor, with each piece available once per character; the selection varies by faction.
