Five items from Majora’s Mask found in a graveyard.
Poe Soul: Found in the lamps dropped by defeated Poes, Poe Souls in Majora’s Mask work the same way as they did in Ocarina of Time. If Link consumes the soul, he is either healed a variable amount of hearts or Link’s health is depleted to half a heart.
I tried to draw Gastly and Haunter as the Poe Soul and Big Poe Soul. I love how the Ghastly drawing came out, but I am far less fond of the Haunter drawing. Can’t all be perfect.
Spirits of the recently deceased are not uncommon sights in graveyards in the days following funerals. If funerary rites are completed properly, spirits should pass naturally from the mortal plane into the lands beyond. Either due to insufficient rites or unfinished business, some spirits are unable to leave the mortal world and begin to fester in their liminal existence.
Big Poe Soul: These are dropped by Big Poes, work just like Poe souls, but can be sold for even more rupees. Link must also give a Big Poe Soul to a Gibdo to fully progress through the well dungeon in Ikana Canyon.
Spirits that have lingered too long in the mortal world begin to lose a sense of the individuals they were in life. A disembodied spirit’s existence is traumatic and fosters only feelings of fear and anger. Eventually, these caustic emotions reach a critical mass and the spirit metamorphosizes into an inhuman reflection of their trauma. At that stage most are only capable of harm.
The soil of graveyards becomes steeped with the energies of death and the psychic echoes of grief and dying. This power builds slowly so the oldest and largest graveyards have potent soil that is sought by magisters willing to include the volatile substance in their work.
Magic Mushroom: These subtly scented mushrooms can only be sniffed out when wearing the Mask of Scents. One of these mushrooms must be given to the Witches in the Hag’s Shop before Link can purchase Blue Potions every cycle. Link can also just sell the mushrooms for a pittance.
According to A Practical Guide to Mushrooms and Fungi by Sudhi Chakabasarti the Corpse Cap Mushroom is ivory in color and develops a ring pattern as it fully matures. The guide indicates that it is most commonly found near the heads of buried corpses and some theorize that it requires rotting brains to flourish. While few have studied the macabre claim in any depth, the mushroom is the key ingredient in many potions brewed to increase focus and wakefulness. A footnote in the entry states that side effects can include hallucinations and, in rare cases, connection to the Akashic Stream which most often leads to revelations and madness.
Red Potion: Blood is red. Blood is life. Potion is red. Therefore, this potion is life. Red potions are the classic healing potions. These potions fully restore Link’s health when drank.
Many erroneously believe that holy water is a universal bane to the corporeal and incorporeal undead. This misconception often stems from the faithful seeing what they hold dear as objectively holy and ideas anathema to those ideals as unholy. The multiverse sees things a little differently. Holy water crafted by a member of a faith who abhors the undead might burn the flesh of a zombie, but holy water made by those that worship undeath as a state of bodily perfect would act more like a soothing balm than a burning acid to the same zombie.
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I enjoyed my Poe Soul drawing so much that I made it my avatar for most of my social media platforms. This was one of the first times I looked at something and felt mostly positive about it. It has flaws, as all things do, but overall, I give it a big thumbs up. The same cannot be said for the Big Poe Soul, which gets, at most, a resounding meh.
For the bit about holy water, I included my homebrew rules on holy water. I hate the implication that negative energy is somehow unholy, so I ditched the holy/unholy divine/profane dichotomies and said that if one’s faith loves the undead, so does their holy water. In Pathfinder 1e, holy water doesn’t heal those who are healed by positive energy, so my negative energy holy water doesn’t heal those who are healed by negative energy, but it does harm the living just like an acid flask.
Please use my work personally however you see fit, but do not profit off my efforts without my consent.
Go out into the world and be excellent to everyone.
-Ceph
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