Season VII: Avatar Creation Contest - The winners!

It’s not often we are surprised by your creativity, given how many great responses we’ve had to competitions in the past, but in your entries for the recent Avatar Contest, you may have just surpassed yourselves!
In the wake of the release of Season VII: Wolves of Ragnarok, we asked you to create a batch of new Avatars to augment the selection of profile-style pics that had just been added to the game. The response was immediate: Within hours we’d received a wide variety of entries, many inspired by the Tiny Tyrants, others that were miniature fine art portraits, and even some heraldic bearings worthy of any medieval monarch. So good were almost all of them that we couldn’t help but expand the prize pool and include a few honourable mentions.
So, without further ado, here are the best Avatar entries we received, the first four of which will be added to the game in a future update. Keep an eye on future patch notes to see when that might be.
The winners: In addition to Sovereigns and Titles, the following four will be added to the game in due course.
1st: Melianna
Sicania (EU2)
Sicania (EU2)
2,300 Sovereigns
Exclusive Title
Exclusive Title
2nd: Alesito
Eagle Range (NA3)
Eagle Range (NA3)
1,100 Sovereigns
Exclusive Title
Exclusive Title
3rd: Shou
Crystal Sea (EU1)
Crystal Sea (EU1)
525 Sovereigns
Exclusive Title
Exclusive Title
Special: Monstamango
Crystal Sea (EU1)
Crystal Sea (EU1)
525 Sovereigns
Exclusive Title
Exclusive Title
Honourable mentions: These entries were so good that we had to raid the prize fund for more Sovereigns!
ShiKi
Crystal Sea (EU1)
Crystal Sea (EU1)
525 Sovereigns
Wiins
Sicania (EU2)
Sicania (EU2)
525 Sovereigns
Toadus
Crystal Sea (EU1)
Crystal Sea (EU1)
525 Sovereigns
Akilay
Cloudwing Valley (NA2)
Cloudwing Valley (NA2)
525 Sovereigns
Samadriel
Sicania (EU2)
Sicania (EU2)
525 Sovereigns
Congratulations to the winners and thank you to everyone that entered. We’re devising new competitions and events all the time, so keep scanning the latest news for the next one to appear!