The Medal of Meritorious Service & Dedication
In the words of Decipher on behalf of the team: "Despite your exemption from the ‘Sage of the Year’ award (Sorry, but rules are rules!), we have felt that the labours you undertake for us all should be recognised. You have stood by this dream for longer than most of us can wholly comprehend, and it is through your hard work that we have been given the opportunity not only to dream along side you, but to meet other dreamers like ourselves.

Through your own self-determination you have brought people from all corners of the world to one artistic epicentre, into a family of creativity that grows and prospers with each passing year. In practicality, you are the cogs of the machine that has brought us so much pleasure. As such, in recognition of your wondrous service to Santharia and as vote of thanks, confidence and any other positive force you can think of, we, the progeny of your dream, would like to present you with the ‘Medal of Meritorious Service and Dedication’."

The Sage of the Year Award 2007
We are very pleased to announce that Artimidor Federkiel is Sage of the Year in this, the first year of the Santharian Development Awards. Before the rich, deeply integrated tales, people, places, maps and other innovations, it was Arti’s vision which began the Dream over nine years ago. More importantly than this, it is his current and continued willingness to allow others a voice in what was once his alone that has grown the Lands of Caelereth into the successful, bustling and creative community it is today. Congratulations to our noble leader. You have won a prize you utterly deserve.

The Best Innovation Award 2007
Winning contribution: "The Santhworld Lorehold Module"
The Lorehold - as the first module of the Santhworld project - is quite likely the most intruiging, diverse and addictive project since the beginning of the Santharian Dream. And of course it most certainly is the best innovation of 2007, as decided by the Santharian developers themselves. Combining puzzles and discoveries with bits of Santharian lore from every imaginable source, the ever expanding Lorehold grounds are truely a work in which Artimidor and the large amount of "guest contributors" involved can take great pride! So congratulations to the Lorehold Project, may your development never end!

The Best Innovation Award 2008
Winning contribution:  "The Santhworld Nepris Project"
The Nepris Project, as part of Santhworld, wins this award for the second year running for the ingenious new battle system developed in 2008. Players gasped in horror as translucent slime creatures attempted to engulf them, struggled to complete the challenging quests and waited in anticipation to discover if and when they would need that random lump of cheese. These spectacular new interactions realized mainly by Grinch, creatively integrated by Art, have proved such a big development that Santhworld, due to these extension, has earned the prize again this year. We look forward to whatever the multitude of developers have in store for us next!

The Best Story Award 2008
Winning story: "The Eye of Skanris Keep"
While rather busy with all his webmastery duties and obligations, not to mention keeping the more unruly Compendiumists in check, Artimidor occasionally finds the time to surprise us with a new piece by his own hand. "The Eye of Skanris Keep" was one of these surprising entries this year, a bone-chilling ghost story featuring... well, maybe you'd best read it yourself. The Compendium is not responsible for any nightmares though! It does, however, proudly present this thriller as the winner of the "Best Story of 1668 Award", so let's hear it for Artimidor and his frightful masterpiece!

The Best Commentor Award 2009
The winner of this award was no other than our wonderful webmaster and Sage, Artimidor Federkiel, who in spite of many demands on his time and energy, still makes the time to comment and contribute on the many, MANY, submissions posted by his dedicated developers. Very closely following him this year was Azhira, an enthusiastic and talented commenter as well. Our congratulations to you, Art!

The Best Innovation Award 2009
Winning contribution:  "The Uninvited Interactive Story"
The dynamic duo of Artimidor and Grinch stepped away from the Nepris game development long enough to provide us a wonderful diversion... Uninvited. Entering the world of mystery and suspense, Uninvited took players on a journey of discovery. “What was that sound? Who’s up there?” and “What lies behind that locked door?” are just some of the questions players ask themselves while playing this rather spooky adventure. Using the features of Santhworld once again, Artimidor and Grinch have proven the popularity of the gaming engine in Santharia. Uninvited is certainly a worthy addition to the Santhworld family and well deserves the “Best Innovation Award 2009”. Way to go!

The Best Story Award 2009
Winning story: "The Gift"
Our Sage of Scariness, Artimidor, once again sends shivers down our spines with his award-winning tale, "The Gift". His talent for the strange and frightening is unmatched. (Rumours have it Art is in fact a disguised Daedhiran Lord from Nybelmar, and that he writes from his own experience...) So it is with great pleasure - and the occasional glance over our shoulder - that we present to him this year, yet again, the Best Prose Entry Award!

The Best Story Award 2010
Winning story: "The Journey"
We are aware of the many outstanding qualities of our dear webmaster. We know that, without his sedulous work, no entry would go up on the site, his comments are sought after and we all cannot wait for the day when finally the new Nepris module will be released. However, I wish he would find more time for an area he excels in also - story writing. That he is exceptionally good in creating haunting stories we know already, he has won the awards in this category in the last two years after all. But this time, with the story "The Journey" he outdid himself. Oh no, it was not him, he only edited this story written by Monsonius...

Good stories tether you to your book or ipad, they are entertaining, amusing, thrilling. This story though is not only this, it is brain twisting, lets you, when finished, look over your own shoulder to seek out your future or past self. "If you read this message I'm glad, for I know you have received it." What a harmless sentence at the beginning of the story. It already tells you all but as you don't know what will come, you do not take notice. But let me tell you, what the story is about with its own words:

"See, it is a story about someone who supposedly gets lost in midst of a magical place like this, but how can one get lost if one always ends up somewhere, I have to ask... Who might say where one should end up if one doesn't know exactly where one's heading?" or "Strange things happen everywhere if strange things find the mind who want to see them. Sometimes you have to keep looking to see." - And now I‘m waiting for Chyrán of Caelum‘s "The Ring"!

The Best of the Rest Award 2011
Winning contribution:  "The Mysteries of Nepris, Part II"
The Best of the Rest in Two Thousand Eleven Has been voted by people's acclaim,
And declared to be Santhworld - mysterious heaven, That brings an entire group fame.
We must praise our dear sage first and foremost, of course, Who invented the conceptual game,
But also the artists who've worked like a horse, To visualize all of the same.
For Nepris the Second has outdone the First, Though the First surely could not be called 'lame',
Enthralling and frustrating, our heads fit to burst, Entrapping both master and dame.

The writers have laboured on twists and on turns, To make a mysterious plot,
And soundmen and actors and sketchers of ferns, We truly do owe you a lot,
Plus hugs to the Grinch, who's a techie at heart, And helps us all out of a spot!
So thanks to the many who've made this success, A bit of the whole in the pot,
Santharia distilled, like delectable stew, Good whether you finish - or not!

Race/Tribe 2007 - Avennorian Additions, Commentor 2007, Innovation 2007 - History Tables Revision, Innovation 2009 - The Member Pages Overhaul, Best of the Rest 2010 - Mysteries of Nepris Teaser Movie, Poetry 2011 - The Black Knight, Commentor 2011, Rest 2011 - The Santhworld Hall of Fame