Sunday, August 23, 2020

Not an artist: Five rings from the Oracles games that mark an end.

 Five rings from the Oracles games that mark an end.

Whimsical Ring: While wearing this ring, Link’s sword damage is generally lowered, but some of his strikes hit much harder than usual. Link can find this ring randomly throughout his journeys in Labrynna and Holodrum.

The simple stone is actually the last fragment of a long-dead star. The star was once the sun of the core solar system of a vast interstellar civilization. The greed and short-sightedness of the civilization’s leaders eventually led them to develop a weapon that could destroy entire solar systems, and that weapon was inevitably turned back at its creators.


Protection Ring: This final ring on the list of magical rings converts any damage Link receives into exactly one heart of damage. This can reduce boss damage, but it may increase the damage dealt by minions. Link can find this ring randomly in his adventures.

Not all marriages are happy and not all divorces are sad. To celebrate the end of their poorly conceived arranged marriage, the couple exchanged divorce rings. Those rings represented the respect and trust the two shared, even if they did not love each other.

Unappraised Ring: Rings are always found unappraised. Link cannot wear an unappraised ring as such rings have no effect. Link must visit Vasu the Jeweler to have their magical properties identified before he can wear them.

In a land where what we find strange and impossible is commonplace, there is a barren plain where there is nothing but free-standing doors for miles in every direction. Those that live near the Threshold Plain sometimes unearth objects that whisper in their minds, pushing them to find a specific door. Those that succeed in finding their door have an inescapable urge to pass through the door, past the edge of the known into parts wholly unknown.

This ring was accidentally entangled in a thread of time and now has a strange effect somewhere between a gift and a curse. Whenever the wearer finds themself in a pivotal moment in history, the ring causes the wearer to become stuck in a loop where they live a single day over and over until finding some way to slip from the strand’s grasp. Wearers have succumbed to madness as they begin again, over and over.

When one wants to escape a situation without killing their way out, smoke bombs are an effective way to cover an escape. While not magical in any way, this ring has two small smoke bombs that can create remarkably large clouds of obscuring smoke. 

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The last two rings in this post mark the beginning of rings that do not represent any rings in the Oracles games. I made twenty additional rings to use most of the color swapped ring tops that I had made but not used already in the set.

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Be excellent to everyone.
-Ceph

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