Amphora: Six items from my home game

 Six items from my home game

Greenbane Sling: This sling is imbued with a spell of seeking and bane toward plants. Its bullets fly unerringly towards powerful plants and its strike withers any plant material they touch.

Broadswing Hammer: This lucerne hammer allows its wielder to swing in supernaturally wide arcs. Striking a handful of foes is a simple task with this fine hammer.

Orichalcum Cannonball: This cannonball was forged from precious orichalcum, a metal hard as steel and bright as gold with other more wondrous qualities. It has also been enchanted to return after striking, ensuring the investment in such a fine cannonball is not wasted after one shot.

Bone of Wishing: The collarbone of a phoenix is rumored to grant a single wish to whoever wins the bigger half when pulled apart by two informed participants. Legend also states that anyone who lies to another about what sort of bone this is will burst into flames when the bone is cracked.

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These are all items my players have found, earned, or crafted in our ongoing campaign that started before I can even remember at this point. I am pre-writing this, so maybe it will have finally come to its epic conclusion.

Next week I begin our journey through the items in the Minish Cap. I absolutely loved playing the Minish Cap and really enjoyed drawing many of the items to come. 

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Cards: The collected set of items from Four Swords Adventures.

 The collected set of items from Four Swords Adventures.

Here is the complete set of items from Four Swords Adventures. There are 68 item cards in total and this was the first set to receive a full-color treatment for each item card. Check out below for links to the collected sets in color and black and white.

Four Swords Adventures: Acidic sling pots

 Acidic sling pots

Purple Royal Jewel: The final royal jewel needed to enter the Palace of Winds is guarded by a death knight in Frozen Hyrule. Link must defeat the knight to recover the jewel.

These sling pots are filled with acidic concoctions made with water from the marshes of the dead. That foul water is still strewn with the long-dead warriors of the last true army this world has ever seen. It seems their fighting spirit empowers this acidic pot to strike true and seek out any unprotected crevice.

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Elden Ring’s Alexander has been my favorite NPC in any game in a long time and I have not even played Elden Ring yet. These pots are based on the Elden Ring sling pots and the pot people pots.

I appreciate From Software’s beautiful inventory icons, but If I linger on their inventory art too much I might have to start a new project where I draw all the items in the Soulsborne games. I won't even consider that until I am fully done with all the Zelda games, which looks difficult considering two new games have come out since I started the project.

That is a great transition to the fact that this is the last item in the set based on Four Swords Adventures. Next week we will post the collected item set.

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Four Swords Adventures: Alchemist’s Fire

 Alchemist’s Fire

Red Royal Jewel: The third royal jewel needed to open the way to the Palace of Winds is guarded by a bone knight in the Desert of Doubt. Defeating the knight is the only way to recover the jewel.

These delicate pots of alchemist's fire have revolutionized the safety of the incendiary devices industry. These pots must be primed before they will self-ignite. Gone are the days of spontaneous detonation during storage or transit. At least that is what the Guild of Arsonists claims.

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A guild dedicated to flammable devices seems ridiculous but so does an organized thieves guild that has total interoperability between all major cities of a country. Go with it because it's cool and figure out how to make it work once it is running.

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Four Swords Adventures: Lightning in a Bottle

 Lightning in a Bottle

Green Royal Jewel: The second of the royal gems needed to open a path to the Palace of Winds is guarded by a bone knight in the dark world reflection of Kakariko Village. Upon defeating the knight, the Links are rewarded with the jewel.

These glass orbs have been scavenged from the great Silver Tower that rises high above the Scarlands. Whoever made the tower had great power indeed as throwing these orbs releases lightning captured in a glass bottle. No one knows who built the great tower but it is filled with strange devices whose quality is unequaled the world over. 

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The lightning in a bottle sketch from Key and Peele is one of my favorites. If you haven’t seen it, you should check it out right now.

I am also riffing on a long history of fantasy creators dropping an unexplained spaceship in their fantasy world-building. I can’t say I always love it, but when I’m in the mood for kitchen-sink fantasy, I welcome the weird it offers.

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Four Swords Adventures: A fine bottle of oil and vinegar.

 A fine bottle of oil and vinegar.

Blue Royal Jewel: The four royal jewels possess the power to open a path to the Palace of Winds when brought together. Each of the jewels was guarded by a knight of Hyrule before Ganon conquered the land and infused it with his darkness. Now the four jewels are guarded by ghastly knights in the dark realm. Link can recover the blue royal jewel by defeating the transformed knight in The Field.

Round-bottom flasks are a sign of wealth at dinner parties as propriety dictates an attendant must be always present to hold them when not in use. Double-walled vessels are another display of wealth at parties because only master glass blowers are skilled enough to make such vessels perfectly and most are used for alchemical pursuits instead of tableware. This elegant bottle of oil and vinegar casually offered to guests at dinner is a statement to be sure for this no-name merchant on the rise.

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This drawing isn’t perfect, but I remember feeling really good about how well this drawing came out working from reference. A great piece of advice I ignored for too long was to look at pictures of the thing you want to draw to draw it better. Look at the pictures the whole time too, not just the preliminary sketches.

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Four Swords Adventures: Two powerful orbs

 Two powerful orbs

Crystal Ball: Crystal balls act as gashapon pods of Four Swords Adventures. Throwing a crystal ball on the ground shatters the ball, dropping a random item or treasure.

One orb makes all your dreams come true, often in a way you couldn’t even imagine. The other is a seeing stone, one of eight that were made and left connected so as to always be able to reach any other bearer of a stone. Both have been lost, and that's probably for the best.

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The Mirrari storyline introduced me to the wonderful lore of Magic: The Gathering. I still think about Chainer, Kahmal, Jeska, Balthor, and all the other important people running around Dominaria in the Odyssey block.

The Palantir and other seeing spheres are hard to draw in a very compelling way, but I hope I did an okay job with this one.

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