Drewly 2026: Backpath Wraithguard

 Backpath Wraithguard

Backpath Wraithguard: Did you hear there was a god living in the great city of canals? Did you want to check if you could kill a god? Did you accidentally kill the only person who could revive the protective power needed to wield the tools of the chief tonal architect? You might need the backpath wraithguard. Good luck.

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What is Drewly?

Drewly is the month-long art challenge where you don’t make any new art. Just celebrate all the art you’ve already made, finished or not.

How do I join?

Share whatever work you’d like, however you’d like to share. Tag your posts #Drewly #Drewly2026 #Drewly26.

You can see posts of Drewly’s past here.

You can also join me on reddit at /r/Drewly

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Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph 

The Minish Cap: A heart of stone

 A heart of stone

Heart: Link gets hurt a lot while adventuring, at least he seems to when I am playing, and so he needs to heal those wounds with these hearts. He can find hearts just about anywhere, cutting long grass, digging a hole, breaking a pot, and anywhere else he might find a small bit of treasure.

Freeing a proud djinn from the thrall of a wicked sorcerer earned the warrior three wishes. Wishing for invulnerability from harm, the djinn made their body impervious to any injury and the warrior's heart hardened against any loss. But a heart that cannot break is a heart that cannot love, so the stoic warrior wanders eternally with their djinn companion who cannot convince the warrior to make their final wishes.

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I made my own booster packs! Check them out on my Patreon of Ko-Fi. The process of designing and making the boosters with randomly selected cards that I made was very satisfying.

Drewly is next month. It’s a month-long challenge to celebrate art you have already made. No need to rush to make a bunch of new art, just post your art as is. Finished or not, the act of creation is worth celebrating, so celebrate everything you have already done.

You can see posts of Drewly’s past here.

How to support me:

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Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

The Minish Cap: A poisoned apple

 A poisoned apple

Red Picolyte: Picolytes are consumable supplements that grant a brief boost to the chance for finding  various items based on which picolyte is eaten. Red picolyte increases Link’s chances of finding hearts. These picolytes are available as soon as Link can clear a space for Beedle to open his shop in Hyrule Town.

An apple treated with the deadliest poison in all the realms. Eating such an apple can kill even the hardiest person. A single bite is enough to put a person into a sleep like death from which they might never wake.

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In my playthrough of Oblivion Remastered, I actually used the poisoned apples to kill as part of the Dark Brotherhood quest line. While it was annoying to set up the rooms and tedious to wait for NPCs to sit down to dinner, the payoff of watching the poisoned apple actually slay my target was delightful. I definitely did not have the patience to sit through that when I was playing Oblivion as a kid.

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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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Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Cursed Relic: Blair Witch Stick Man

 Blair Witch Stick Man

Twanas: The depths of the woods are marked with the Witch’s stickmen. When you start to see them, it's already too late.

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This was going to be my Halloween drawing last year, but I really didn’t enjoy the process, so I stalled and didn’t finish until it was too late.

Cursed Relics is a lower-stakes Inktober response challenge started by Alba BG. Check their work out.

How to support me:

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Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Cursed Relic: Journal 3

 Journal 3

The Third Journal: The final journal contains an encyclopedia of information concerning the creatures and beings that live in and about Gravity Falls.

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Getting all three journals together is usually the first step to having a pretty bad time, so collectors beware.

Cursed Relics is a lower-stakes Inktober response challenge started by Alba BG. Check their work out.

How to support me:

Ko-fi: Donations and Digital shop

Patreon: Sustaining support and Digital shop 

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See my newest releases on Linktree

Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Swordtember: The Soul Edge

 Swordtember: The Soul Edge

Soul Edge: A lifetime of violence and death birthed this cursed blade and imbued it with a malevolent will that seeks only greater destruction and suffering. If you have the opportunity to take the soul edge because you just beat its owner, don’t, it’s obviously evil and will probably ruin your life and most of the lives around you.

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Being an edgy alt kid from the late 90s, early 00s, Nightmare was, of course, my main fighter from the Soulcalibur games.

Swordtember is a month-long sword-themed art challenge created by Faith Schaffer.

How to support me:

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Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

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

How to support me:

Ko-fi: Donations and Digital shop

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Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

The Minish Cap: The Golden Touch

 The Golden Touch

Tingle Trophy: If Link can complete 100 kinstone fusions throughout his adventures, the man fairy Tingle will give Link a golden trophy to celebrate his commitment to friendship and kinstones.

When a greedy king earned a boon from the gods, they wished that anything they touched would turn to gold. The king eventually learned a bitter lesson when they turned their favored child into a golden statue. The king’s closest advisors learned an even more important lesson when they learned the king’s severed hand still carries the gilded touch, even after the death of the king and the amputation of his hand.

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Midas was not the wisest king, and he was punished for his folly. Don’t make the same mistake Midas made. Make specific wishes with reasonable limitations and safeguards.

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Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Wind Waker: The black spot.

 Wind Waker: The black spot.

Moblin's Letter: Moe the Moblin is so moved by Maggie’s letter that he sends a heartfelt reply that cannot be delivered due to Maggie’s father’s prejudice. Link must deliver the letter directly to Maggie who reads the letter as a heartfelt marriage proposal and thanks Link by giving him a piece of heart. There may be a reading of the letter where Moe literally wants to eat Maggie, rather than figuratively wanting to eat her, but that is lost on Maggie.

Being given the spot is being given a warning, surrender yourself to the will of the crew or see your blood spilled. Some deposed captains are held in the brig to be turned ashore at the next civilized port of call, others are left marooned on a deserted island, and the unluckiest are put adrift in the open sea with a jug of water and a pistol with one shot. Only the bravest, slyest. or the most foolish captains ever try to resist the inevitable fall signaled by the delivery of the dread black spot.

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Based on my reading Robert Louis Stevenson created the idea of the black spot, and other classic pirate tropes, entirely for his novel Treasure Island. Makes you question how you know what you think you know.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph