The Minish Cap: The blade that was shattered is forged anew.

The blade that was broken is forged anew.

Broken Picori Blade: The Picori Blade sealed Vaati within the bound chest, but it was broken when Vaati escaped his imprisonment. Link is given the broken blade and the task of restoring its former power by King Daltus. Link my gather the elemental essences to first reforge the broken blade into the White Sword and eventually the Four Sword.

“All that is gold does not glitter,

Not all those who wander are lost;

The old that is strong does not wither,

Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,

A light from the shadows shall spring;

Renewed shall be blade that was broken,

The crownless again shall be king.”

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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It's not the best Narsil and Andúril fan art, but it is mine.

It is impossible to state how much of an impact The Lord of the Rings films had on my life. I was 10, I liked all sorts of kid stuff, and then this serious fantasy epic appeared on the big screen, and something clicked. After that, I was hooked on fantasy. I was a reluctant reader, but I’d read fantasy. I played with fantasy toys. I went searching for fantasy video games, and I found Morrowind and WarCraft 3, and the rest is history.

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The Minish Cap: The sword of a warlord

 The sword of a warlord

Smith’s Sword: This sword was forged to be the prize of the sword-fighting competition held during the Picori festival, which was ultimately interrupted by Vaati’s evil schemes. Link is given the sword by his grandfather, the greatest Hylian smith, and tasked to take it to the King. We covered the Smith’s sword as a functional item at the start of this set. This represents the smith’s sword as a quest item. 

After the empire abandoned the Isles, warlords began to carve the land into small feuding fiefdoms. A particularly well-provisioned warlord, known for carrying the sword of an imperial governor, established a small but bountiful fief during the chaotic post-imperial years. It was from that strong core that the young warlord would steadily expand their sphere of influence until they controlled enough of the Isles to be considered its first true king.

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King Arthur was almost assuredly not a real person in the way we think of him. While the Arthur we all imagine is probably a myth, there may have been a charismatic and influential leader in Britain in the post-Roman period who was known for his amazing sword and the forging of a fledgling British kingdom.

Maybe that leader used an awe-inspiring Roman Spatha that was cast using a stone mold and polished to a mirror sheen. It might take the magic out of the story a little bit, but I personally love seeing the mundane, plausible side of mythic tales. It makes the mythic tales all that much more grand.

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The Minish Cap: Flying Carpet

 Flying Carpet

Wind Element: The fourth and final elemental essence Link recovers in the Minish Cap. The wind element is found in the Palace of the Winds, which is literally in the clouds. Returning to the elemental sanctuary, Link can infuse the fourth element into the white sword and create the Four Sword of Legend. This unlocks the blade’s full potential, allowing Link to split into four copies and containing the power to seal great evil.

This carpet was woven as a gift for a proud sorcerer, but was spurnned as too mundane. The carpet languished in the sorcerer’s dungeons until a peasant, intended to be a sacrifice to a greater genie, wished for freedom to a lesser genie also imprisoned by the sorcerer. The lesser genie used the wish to grant the carpet intelligence and flight so it could spirit the peasant and genie far away from the dungeons of the vile sorcerer.

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In the original tellings of the story of Aladdin, Aladdin lives in ancient China and meets two different genies. There is the weaker genie of the ring and the greater genie of the lamp.

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Drewly 2022: Collected

 Drewly 2022: Collected

Everything I shared for Drewly 2022.

Looking back, this time really represents a level up for me. I know I have a lot to learn and plenty of room to grow, but I can start seeing how I like to draw things really coming through in this set of items.

The skull hammer is one of my favorite drawings ever, and I also really enjoyed drawing Illidan’s warglaives from WarCraft.

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Drewly 2023: Collected

 Drewly 2023: Collected

Everything I shared for Drewly 2023.

The egg from Alien turned out well, but the silly rock from Over the Garden Wall is probably my favorite from this set.

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The Minish Cap: The Black Cauldron

 The Black Cauldron

Water Element: The third element Link recovers is found in the Minish-sized Temple of Droplets. Link must defeat the relatively titanic Big Octorok, probably a regular-sized Octorok, to win this element. Link infuses this third element into the White Sword to improve the White Sword’s abilities, most importantly allowing Link to split into three copies of himself.

The nascent Wight King had been secretly raiding graveyards and battlefields to gather enough bodies to create a skeletal horde. Each body must be boiled in the evil cauldron for a night and a day before it rises in undeath as Cauldron Born, soullessly obeying the will of the cauldron’s master. After years of quietly defaming the land’s dead, the Wight King has announced themself to the world at the head of a vast skeletal army poised to conquer and pillage.

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The Chronicles of Prydain were not on my radar as a kid at all. I was actually a fairly reluctant reader as a kid, having issues with focus and restlessness. The series did inspire one of my favorite movies as a kid, the impeccably strange The Black Cauldron, which inspired today’s drawings. I recently read through the whole Prydain series as an adult and enjoyed it. I look forward to reading it out loud to my little one when they are a bit older.

I am still winding down from Drewly 2025 this year. I’ve got two more Drewly related posts I want to get out into the world before I slow back down to about one post a week sharing my item cards projects.

Check out everything I’ve shared for past Drewly’s here:  #Drewly #Drewly2022 #Drewly2023 #Drewly2024 #Drewly2025

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Drewly 2024: Collected

 Drewly 2024: Collected

Everything I shared for Drewly 2024.

I am particularly fond of the Summoning Stone, the Place of Power, and all three Lord of the Rings items.

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Drewly 2025: Collected

 Drewly 2025: Collected

Everything I shared for Drewly 2025.

I finished all of this long before July. Nothing new for Drewly, but it was great to share work that was just lying around, finished and ignored

I don’t love everything in there, but I am proud of myself for the number of things I have actually finished. I look upon my works and I am inspired to keep creating.

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Drewly: Fate cutting shears

 Fate cutting shears

Fate cutting shears: These small scissors were forged by an anonymous benefactor as a gift to a child destined to be sacrificed. They are sharp enough to cut through even the strands of fate. Clipping their tether to the sacrifice, the child became a fateless hero, able to steer their own way across the fabric of destiny.

Today is the last day of drewly. A month-long celebration of everything we’ve been able to make. Thank you so much for sharing the month with me and my work.

Now that we are done looking back at what we have made, go out and make something new! Everyone has the potential to create inside of them, nurture that spark by making what you want to see more of in the world.

What is Drewly?

#Drewly is the month-long art challenge for July, where you don’t have to make any new art. Just post art you’ve already made and celebrate all you’ve accomplished.

Check out everything I’ve shared for past Drewly’s here:  #Drewly #Drewly2022 #Drewly2023 #Drewly2024 #Drewly2025

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Drewly: Spoon Wand

 Spoon Wand

Spoon: In the hands of most, this is a simple spoon. In the hands of the vengeful, this spoon is a discrete implement of punishment that can cast fear and ill fortune on the wicked.

Today’s drewly post is one of nine domestic wands I imagined a simple mage might use in their everyday life.

What is Drewly?

#Drewly is the month-long art challenge for July, where you don’t have to make any new art. Just post art you’ve already made and celebrate all you’ve accomplished.

Rules:

Share art you have already made.

Share as often as you want.

When you share, tag your art with #Drewly and #Drewly2025

I will be posting art every day of Drewly, so check back in tomorrow for something new.

Check out everything I’ve shared for past Drewly’s here: #Drewly #Drewly2022 #Drewly2023 #Drewly2024

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Drewly: Fork of Horrible Madness

 Fork of Horrible Madness

Fork of Horrible Madness: Just holding this simple-looking fork makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end. It almost whispers to you, but that would be crazy, It's just a fork.

Drewly is inspired by the Fork of Horripilation, a cursed artifact of a mad god.

Horripilation means when your hair stands up on end.

What is Drewly?

#Drewly is the month-long art challenge for July, where you don’t have to make any new art. Just post art you’ve already made and celebrate all you’ve accomplished.

Rules:

Share art you have already made.

Share as often as you want.

When you share, tag your art with #Drewly and #Drewly2025

I will be posting art every day of Drewly, so check back in tomorrow for something new.

Check out everything I’ve shared for past Drewly’s here: #Drewly #Drewly2022 #Drewly2023 #Drewly2024

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Drewly: Kitchen Knife

 Kitchen Knife

Kitchen Knife: Mamma Cassi runs her crew out of her kitchen and she is never seen without one of her big knives. Most people think the knives are just for adding a general sense of danger, and they are, but they are also Mamma's wands. Mamma Cassi is both an accomplished crime boss and a member of a secret coven of witches, both of which require minions and sacrifices.

My wands project continues, and drewly is where a lot of those wands get shared.

What is Drewly?

#Drewly is the month-long art challenge for July, where you don’t have to make any new art. Just post art you’ve already made and celebrate all you’ve accomplished.

Rules:

Share art you have already made.

Share as often as you want.

When you share, tag your art with #Drewly and #Drewly2025

I will be posting art every day of Drewly, so check back in tomorrow for something new.

Check out everything I’ve shared for past Drewly’s here: #Drewly #Drewly2022 #Drewly2023 #Drewly2024

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The Minish Cap: Haunted Candelabra

 Haunted Candelabra

Fire Element: Atop Mount Crenel, deep in the Cave of Flames, the Fire Element is guarded by a turtle dragon that Link must defeat. After defeating the beast, Link can take the Earth and Fire elements to the Elemental Sanctuary and begin the reforging of the Picori blade. With two elements, the newly dubbed white sword has the power to split Link into two copies.

This candelabra was recovered from a supposedly haunted manor. According to local gossip, the lord of the manor was cursed, and so were all of his unfortunate servants. The candelabra is certainly a curio, as its candles never burn lower, and it has a habit of tipping towards beautiful women.

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Lumier is a surprisingly lecherous character for a kids' movie. I guess that is probably a problematic stereotype of the French manifesting in children's media.

If you are worried about Lumier being lonely, Cogsworth is going to eventually show up in this set, so he will just have to be patient.

Drewly today is my normal weekly item card post, where I post drawings inspired by all the items in all the Zelda games. I am currently posting the items from The Minish Cap. I’ve got complete sets for the first 11 Zelda games and a bunch of other item sets already posted here.

#Drewly is the month-long art challenge for July, where you don’t have to make any new art. Just post art you’ve already made and celebrate all you’ve accomplished.

What is Drewly?

#Drewly is the month-long art challenge for July, where you don’t have to make any new art. Just post art you’ve already made and celebrate all you’ve accomplished.

Rules:

Share art you have already made.

Share as often as you want.

When you share, tag your art with #Drewly and #Drewly2025

I will be posting art every day of Drewly, so check back in tomorrow for something new.

Check out everything I’ve shared for past Drewly’s here: #Drewly #Drewly2022 #Drewly2023 #Drewly2024

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph