Sunday, April 2, 2023

Wind Waker: A diamond of hope.

A diamond of hope 

Farore's Pearl: This green rune-etched pearl is held by the Great Deku Tree of the Great Sea. Link is given this second pearl by the Great Deku Tree for heroic deeds in service to the Korok people. Along with the other two pearls, it is used to draw up the Tower of the Gods from beneath the waves.

This diamond once decorated the crown of one of the most excessive and out of touch monarchs in history. While their people starved, they commissioned ever grander displays of wealth. When the stone was stolen and sold by revolutionaries to feed the hungry, it became a true symbol of hope to the people.

----------

This is my take on the hope diamond. The jewel probably began its life as the Tavernier Blue, a massive violet gem with perfect clarity that was cut for King Louis XIV of France and was stolen during the French Revolution.

Gems and other transparent materials are difficult for me to capture so this set of three great gems was a tall order to complete.

Be excellent to everyone.
-Ceph


No comments:

Post a Comment

Donate:

Buy a sticker

Labels

Air AnalogDraw Anime Armor Arrow Atlantis Axe AxeWeek Badge Bag bastille BFS Blood Boat Bomb Bone Bonus Book Boomerang Boots Boss Bottle Bow Bracelet BSides Bug Camera Candle Cape Card Chaos Charm Chomp Claw Climb Clock Clothes Club Coin Collected Companion Compass Control Critter Cucco Curse Dagger Dark Decoration Delay Dig Disguise Door Double Drewly Drewly2022 Drewly2023 Drewly2024 Drewly2025 Dwarven Earth Egg Egypt ElderScrolls Electric Elven Essence Evil execution Fairy FanArt Fire Fireproof Fish Flag Flip Flower Fly Food FourSwords FourSwordsAdventures Freeze Gem Ghost Glove Gold GreatClub GreatHammer Greatsword Guillotine Gunpowder Halloweekend Halloween Hammer Hat Healing Heart Heavy Holiday Hookshot Horse Ice Iconic Inktober Inktober2018 Instrument Invisible Item Cards Jar Jewelry Jump Key Kinstone Knife Ladder Laika Late Letter Light Lightning Link to the Past Links Adventure Links Awakening LotR Luck mace Magic Magnet Mail Majoras Mask Map Mask Material Mignolaverse Milk MinishCap Mirror Misc Moon MtG Mummy Mushroom No Kings NoLinks NoSmoke Not an Artist NPC NSFW OcarinaOfTime OracleOfAges OracleOfRings OracleOfSeasons Orb OwlHouse Parts Pathfinder Pick Place Plant poison PopCult Portal Potion Pride Psychic Puppet Raft Random Ribbon Ring Rod Rune Rupee SailorMoon Scabbard Scary Scissors Scroll SeasofAmphora Seed Seinfeld Shell SheRa Shield Shooter Shovel Shrink Siege Silver Sixdaysofapocalypses Slingshot Sneak Solstice Song Spear Speech Speed Spell Statue Steal stick Stone Strength Summon Sun Swim Sword Swordtember The Legend of Zelda Throwing Time Tingle Tool Trade Transform TriForce Trinket Trophy Upgrade Vehicle Vessel Video Vision Wand WarCraft Warp Water Western Wind WindWaker Wish Witcher Zelda Items