Four Swords: An infamous bow from Four Swords.

An infamous bow from Four Swords.

Bow and Arrows: Like most items in Four Swords, the bow and arrows are only found on a pedestal in various levels and can only be used in the level they were found. The bow and arrow are mostly used for shooting otherwise inaccessible switches and attacking enemies from a safe distance.

Depending on who you ask, this bow is either the last best hope of a hopeless people or the tool of a heartless terrorist hell bent on destroying all that is good. No matter what you think of the bow’s mission, no one can deny its effectiveness. In the hands of an expert, the bow can shoot farther and straighter than any bow on the continent.

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Welcome to any of the new visitors to my humble blog. It has been exciting seeing new visitors and I hope you have found something that inspires you throughout my backlog. If you have an item you would like to see get my treatment, let me know and I will try to accommodate your request.

I also want to shamelessly plug myself for a moment. I opened up a Ko-fi where you can donate directly to me. If you have founds $1 or $3 or $5 or some value from all my images, please consider sending me a tip. I spend a lot of time creating these images and posts because I love to do it, but it doesn’t hurt when other people show their appreciation in tangible ways. 

For full disclosure, I have never really played The Witcher, but I did play through all of Witcher 2 and am currently working through Witcher 3. That means my experience and knowledge of Iorveth is somewhat limited. His bow is cool though, so I drew it. 

With crazy heat waves being punctuated with freak storms and fires, it is a great time to remind everyone that climate change is a real problem. One that will take every human working together to solve. Unfortunately, every human includes billionaires who would rather push the tourist industry into space than figure out how to make the planet habitable for all people forever.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

 

Four Swords: Two returning weapons from Four Swords.

Two returning weapons from Four Swords.

Moon Glaive: Night wardens in the worship of the moon goddess use these three bladed glaives in their endless crusade for total domination of the night. The most talented of the moon goddess’ army can throw the glaives with deadly accuracy. In addition to their great skill, some are blessed with divine powers to cause thrown glaives to ricochet between enemies and then return.

Seas of Amphora: Five more items from my homebrew campaign

 Five more items from the Seas of Amphora

Emesisian Goat: Mammon’s infernal vaults contain an indescribable amount of wealth. Much of it is simple currency from a hundred worlds, but some of the wealth is much more unique. One such trophy is a golden goat idol that ceaselessly streams milk and mead.

Axe Week: Air Axe for the last axe of Axe Week

 Air Axe of Lewa Mata

Air Axe: Wielded by Lewa the Toa Mata, or elemental guardian, of Air that inhabited the southern jungles on the island of Mata Nui. The Toa could not have known that the island they called home was actually a slumbering titanic spirit machine created to explore and observe the universe. In trying to discover the secrets of their powers and their home, the Toa unintentionally revives Mata Nui and sets off a chain ration that would reshape their world and others.

Axe Week: Black Axe's Black Axe

The Black Axe

The Black Axe: This fearsome axe was forged two hundred years ago by a grieving smith that wanted to protect his fellow mice from the many predators that stalk the lands. The great axe has been passed from one wielder to the next as chosen by the descendents of the smith that originally forged the axe. To wield the axe is to become a tireless defender of all mouse kind from the innumerable dangers of the wilds.

Axe Week: Bruenor Battlehammer's Dwarven War Axe

Bruenor Battlehammer's Dwarven War Axe

Flaming Silver Dwarven War Axe: Growing up in the frozen lands of Icewind Dale Bruenor always dreamed of reclaiming his clan’s ancestral home, Mithril Hall, from a great Shadow Dragon and its horde of minions. Eventually, Bruenor and his companions rediscovered and liberated Mithral Hall from its shadowy occupiers.  Reconquering one long lost dwarven city wasn’t enough to sate Bruenor’s lust for adventure, so he set off to find Gauntlgrym where his axe was silvered and enhanced with flame by the gods.

Axe Week: AND MY AXE!

Gimli's axe joins the Fellowship of Axe Week.

Gimli’s Axe: Gimili, son of Gloin, fought with the Fellowship of the Ring during the War of the Ring. His axe felled many of Sauron’s forces, especially during the bloody siege of Helm’s deep. In the peace that followed the War of the Ring, Gimli led many of his folk to establish a new home in the Glittering Caves beneath Helm’s Deep.

Axe Week: A day-three triple-axe FIRE SALE!!!

Three useful axes.

Fire Axe: Need to get through an obstacle in an emergency? That obstacle might be a door in a burning building or an unexpected assailant in an urban fight scene. No matter the obstacle, a conveniently paced fire axe is your answer. Found behind glass in a hallway near you.

While not explicitly referencing one specific axe, using the emergency fire axe in an action or horror movie is a time-tested trope. It is a reasonably accessible object that is an effective enough semi-improvised weapon.

Axe Week: The Bloodhoof Runespear

The Bloodhoof Runespear

Bloodhoof Runespear: This titanic pole-axe is the ancestral weapon of the Bloodhoof tribe's leaders. The spear has been passed from one chieftain to the next for twenty generations. Each bearer of the spear carves their story into the haft of the spear so that the weapon itself is a chronicle of its people’s history.

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Axe Week: The Green Knight's axe to inaugurate Axe Week

The Green Knight's axe to inaugurate Axe Week

Axe of the Green Knight: This mighty axe was left for Sir Gawain by the Mysterious Green Knight to remind Gawain of the oath he swore. In one year’s time the young knight must present himself to be struck in the same way he struck the Green Knight. Unfortunately, Sir Gawain cut the Green Knight’s head clean off in a single swing.

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Four Swords: An explosive start to the next set of items.

An explosive start to the items from The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords.

 

Bomb: Four Swords is a very different game from the main branch Zelda games. Each level is procedurally generated based on the zone your team is in and how many warriors the Four Sword has broken Link into. In these levels, there are item pedestals where any of the Links can grab the item and use it as their one tool in addition to their sword and shield. Bombs can be used as tools to destroy weakened walls or blocks to access hidden areas or as weapons.

You and your stoner cousin and best friend are heading to the biggest party of the century. You know the host dropped serious coin on getting the most audacious fireworks known to civilization. You two are just gonna have to sneak into that fireworks tent and snag a couple of extra special pieces to have on hand for the perfect moment. What could go wrong?