The Minish Cap: A dragon’s fang

 A dragon’s fang

Bomb Bag: Link must have a bomb bag if he can safely carry the explosives needed to clear cracked rocks from his path. Link is given his first bomb bag by a Picori after he successfully delves into the first dungeon of The Minish Cap, the Deepwood Shrine.

This dragon tooth was pulled from the melted armor of a would-be dragon slayer. While the adventurer’s corpse is long dead, the tooth remains hot to the touch, imbued with a mote of the immortal dragon flame. Now that you have the errant tooth, you must safely escape the ashen wasteland without earning the dragon’s ire.

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-Ceph

The Minish Cap: A sick dragon skull

 A sick dragon skull

Big Bomb Bag: These bags increase Link’s ability to carry bombs each time he obtains a new bag. One can be purchased, one is given by a fairy, and the third is a reward for fusing kinstones. If Link gets all three, he can carry 99 bombs to break cracked walls or boulders.

Getting a text from your friend that says, “we found a sick dragon skull” should mean they found a wicked cool skull, but you are friends with a thaumapaleontologists. They have been excavating a draconic grave pit filled with remains that show clear signs of severe illness. Such a find could rewrite the common understanding that dragons are impervious to all but the most heroic attacks, or it could reveal proof of a truly legendary plague lost to time.

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That right there is a Skyrim dragon skull. I am proud at how well drawing that from reference went.

ICE’s “draw down from MN” has just moved ICE agents to smaller communities in MN that have less resources to organize, leaving their residents more at risk.

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Happy Halloween!

 Happy Halloween!

Skeleton Suit: No one has to know these came from your regular clothes and not a box of costumes you only open for Halloween.

If you want to dress any of your stuff up for Halloween, you can get these as stickers at my Redbubble here.

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Amphora: Six items from my home game

 Six items from my home game

Greenbane Sling: This sling is imbued with a spell of seeking and bane toward plants. Its bullets fly unerringly towards powerful plants and its strike withers any plant material they touch.

Broadswing Hammer: This lucerne hammer allows its wielder to swing in supernaturally wide arcs. Striking a handful of foes is a simple task with this fine hammer.

Orichalcum Cannonball: This cannonball was forged from precious orichalcum, a metal hard as steel and bright as gold with other more wondrous qualities. It has also been enchanted to return after striking, ensuring the investment in such a fine cannonball is not wasted after one shot.

Bone of Wishing: The collarbone of a phoenix is rumored to grant a single wish to whoever wins the bigger half when pulled apart by two informed participants. Legend also states that anyone who lies to another about what sort of bone this is will burst into flames when the bone is cracked.

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These are all items my players have found, earned, or crafted in our ongoing campaign that started before I can even remember at this point. I am pre-writing this, so maybe it will have finally come to its epic conclusion.

Next week I begin our journey through the items in the Minish Cap. I absolutely loved playing the Minish Cap and really enjoyed drawing many of the items to come. 

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly: The Dragonspine Trophy

 The Dragonspine Trophy

Dragonspine Trophy: The giant known as the Dragon Slayer takes gruesome trophies. Slung about their beck is the spine of a dragon, ritualistically torn from its corpse so that the dragon’s speed might enhance the Dragon Slayer’s already formidable attacks.

Drewly 22nd brings with it an item I, like most people, never actually owned. DST was a very nice trinket during the time of World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade’s raids. I can’t count the number of times I led the 25-person raid into Gruul’s Lair hoping to even see this trinket drop.

What is Drewly?

Drewly is a month-long art challenge for July where you post art you have already made. No new art just for Drewly.

There are three rules:

Only post art you have already made.

Post as much or as little as you are comfortable with.

Tag your posts with #drewly and #drewly2024

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Wind Waker: A gruesome pike.

 A gruesome pike.

Skull Tower Idol: This gruesome stack of bones is another idol in the decoration trading sequence. Link must trade another idol for this one and it can be traded for an idol or flag. Since this can also be placed on the Joyous pedestals around Windfall Island, this is the best idol to max out the island’s spookiness.

You stand before a fallen keep choked with sand from the encroaching desert. Atop the gate was carved the message, “Look into the faces of those who opposed me and despair for I am eternal.” Amidst the decay, a single pike remained piercing a bleached white skull that could have been a vanquished enemy or a deposed tyrant. 

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This was my inexpertly handled homage to Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Wind Waker: Fallen hawk amulet

Fallen hawk amulet

Skull Necklace: The macabre bone amulets are carried by Moblins in the Great Sea. Link can steal them or loot them from slain enemies as long as he has a Spoils bag to carry them. Two different collectors of these trinkets offer treasure maps in exchange for Skull necklaces.

The skull of a hawk and ironwood beads, strung on braided horse hair make up this amulet. The hawk fell in defense of its friend and the wood came from the staff of the master who was overcome by the student. The former pupil now wears the charm to never forget those they sacrificed to find the path they now walk.

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The Gunslinger by Stephen King is a very good book. One of my favorite things about it is that it isn’t too big, like many of his books are, it is a quick intriguing read or listen and I’d recommend it to anyone who likes a good story.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Halloweekend: Rathmite Ancestor Skull

 Rathmite Ancestor Skull

Priests of Rathma are better known as the unnerving necromancers emerging from the jungles of the east. This skull set in black iron fittings is the honored remains of a fallen death mage, their body now a focus for the magics of a new generation of necromancers. These necromancers fiercely defend the balance from any threat, celestial, infernal, or mortal.

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The cinematic trailer for the Diablo IV necromancers has a beautiful glowing skull focus that I just love.

To celebrate the weekend leading up to Halloween we are departing our regularly scheduled programming to bring you five spooky items from pop culture. Stay tuned every day through Halloween for more item cards.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph