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

How to support me:

Ko-fi: Donations and Digital shop

Patreon: Sustaining support and Digital shop 

Red Bubble: Buy a sticker or magnet

Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly: Mehrunes Razor

 Mehrune's Razor

Mehrune’s Razor: Mehrune’s slaying dagger that is sent into the hands of mortals again and again to sow discord and wreak havoc. The most recent rumors of this dagger say the Dragonborn gathered up its pieces after it was ritualistically shattered and hidden across Skyrim.

I drew this when the Oblivion Remaster was released, but I didn’t yet have a way to play it. That has been rectified, and I have been playing way too much Oblivion than I probably should have.

Drewly day 5 is the last item from The Elder Scrolls. Check in tomorrow for something new.

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

Since you’re here, please consider supporting:

Make a one-time donation with Ko-Fi:  https://ko-fi.com/theeasyspeaker

Become a sustaining supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ItemCardswithTheSpeakingSquid 

Buy a sticker: SpeakingSquid.redbubble.com

Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly: Dwemer Battle Axe

 Dwemer Battle Axe

Dwemer Battle Axe: Morrowind had a wonderfully unique artistic style. Each type and material of equipment felt distinct and recognizable. The circular silhouette of the dwemer battle axe has been stuck in my mind for the last 20 years.

I will always remember spending way too long looking for the Dwemer Puzzle box in Arkngthand. I searched high and low through that dwarven ruin only to find the box on a shelf in a room near the entrance. I also found a bunch of dwarven arms and armor, including this amazing battle axe.

Four days into drewly. Tomorrow is an iconic item from Tamriel, and after that, we will explore other drawing projects I have running.

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

Since you’re here, please consider supporting:

Make a one-time donation with Ko-Fi:  https://ko-fi.com/theeasyspeaker

Become a sustaining supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ItemCardswithTheSpeakingSquid 

Buy a sticker: SpeakingSquid.redbubble.com

Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly: Wraithguard

 Wraithguard

Wraithguard: The third and final piece of Kagrenac’s Tools allows you to hold Sunder and Keening without suffering a mortal wound.

With drewly day 3 in your possession, you can finally siphon the divine power from the heart of a fallen trickster god. 

What is Drewly, you ask?

#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

Since you’re here, please consider supporting:

Make a one-time donation with Ko-Fi:  https://ko-fi.com/theeasyspeaker

Become a sustaining supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ItemCardswithTheSpeakingSquid 

Buy a sticker: SpeakingSquid.redbubble.com

Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly: Sunder

 Sunder

Sunder: The resonating hammer can draw out and amplify the power of the divine remaining in the heart of a dead god. Be wary, the hammer and the knife must be wielded with the protection of the Wraithguard, or the tools’ power will overwhelm your mortal lifeforce.

Drewly day 2 continues with another of Kagrenac's Tools from The Elder Scrolls. If you want to use them, you will need to wait until tomorrow when I’ll be posting the Wraithguard.

What is Drewly, you ask?

#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

Since you’re here, please consider supporting:

Make a one-time donation with Ko-Fi:  https://ko-fi.com/theeasyspeaker

Become a sustaining supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ItemCardswithTheSpeakingSquid 

Buy a sticker: SpeakingSquid.redbubble.com

Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Drewly: Keening

 Keening

Keening: A crystal knife that can be used, in conjunction with the rest of Kagrenac's Tools, to steal the power of a god.

Drewly day 1 starts with an important moment in my history. I was exploring the depths of a dwemer ruin deep in the Ashlands when I came upon a crystal knife floating in the center of a room. Knowing this was important, I instantly picked it up and equipped it. I then suffered a mortal wound and quickly died. Keening is too powerful to handle without the protection of the Wraithguard, and I had no idea. Morrowing had quite the learning curve.

What is Drewly, you ask?

Drewly is an art challenge for all the people who look at daily art challenges like Inktober or Swordtember and think, “I can’t finish a new piece of art every day for a month. I have responsibilities."

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

Since you’re here, please consider supporting:

Make a one-time donation with Ko-Fi:  https://ko-fi.com/theeasyspeaker

Become a sustaining supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ItemCardswithTheSpeakingSquid 

Buy a sticker: SpeakingSquid.redbubble.com

Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Skyrim 10th Anniversary: The longest, most Morrowind, fetch quest in Elder Scrolls.

Skyrim 10th Anniversary: The longest, most Morrowind, fetch quest in Elder Scrolls.

Stone of Barenziah: Barenziah, the former queen of Morrowind, was coronated with a lavishly jeweled golden crown. During her reign, the crown was stolen and each of its 24 main jewels were removed. These 24 crown jewels were scattered across Skyrim in places both wild and civilized, guarded and unattended, obvious and hidden. The body of the crown has been smuggled out of Morrowind, and now it will only take someone tracking down each of the 24 missing jewels to recreate a priceless piece of history.

On the eighth day of Skyrim,

tenth anniversary,

frustrating fetch-quest,

sons killing fathers, 

limitless knowledge,

one dragon priest mask,

a Talos icon,

knee seeking arrows,

Golden Dragon Claw,

and a helmet of iron and horn.

One of the most iconic experiences of non-modded Skyrim is missing one or two of these damned stones and needing to hunt through all 24 locations to see which one you missed as they, rightfully, do not have waypoints. Waypoints would ruin the experience on this sort of quest, which really reminded me of the days of exploring through Morrowind with no guide but a journal that only organized information as well as you could remember what page the information was written on.

I hoped you enjoyed my tour of iconic Skyrim items. I post item drawings every Sunday. I am currently working through drawing a card for every item in every game in the Zelda franchise. If you liked what you saw during Skyrim week, come back on Sunday to see what else I’ve drawn up.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Skyrim 10th Anniversary: A powerful amulet worth killing for.

 A powerful amulet worth killing for.

Gauldur Amulet: This amulet once belonged to the Arch-Mage Gauldur, whose wisdom, power, and benevolence was relied on by great kings of the first era. So great was Gauldur’s fame that it overshadowed his three sons who grew resentful and envious of their father. Driven by jealousy, the three sons murdered their father and took from him his amulet of power so that each might have a piece. Each carrying a fragment, the three hateful sons terrorized the lands until each was slain and entombed across Skyrim where the three fragments of the amulet remain to this day.

On the seventh day of Skyrim,

tenth anniversary,

sons killing fathers, 

limitless knowledge,

one dragon priest mask,

a Talos icon,

knee seeking arrows,

Golden Dragon Claw,

and a helmet of iron and horn.

The Gauldur amulet’s +30 to each stat is just too good to pass up in the early and mid-game. At least I found it to be.

Also, Gauldur looks a whole lot like Galdr. Which just happens to be the Norse word for a spell or magical incantation. This reminds me, and hopefully all the other world builders, that I put way too much effort into coming up with original names and not nearly enough energy into stealing names.

The party winds down tomorrow with our eighth and final day of the Skyrim tenth anniversary celebration.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Skyrim 10th Anniversary: An impossibly complete volume of lore from twisting pathways of Apocrypha.

An impossibly complete volume of lore from twisting pathways of Apocrypha.

Oghma Infinium: This magical tome of knowledge was penned by the wizard Xarxes and records the unimaginably vast information revealed to Xarxes by Hermaeus Mora, daedric prince of knowledge. Reading from this skin-bound tome instantly gives the reader a greater understanding of a selection topics, but the entire book is too vast to be fully absorbed by a sane mind and therefore the reader can only glean a small number of the secrets contained in the many pages of the tome.

As far as magical books go, the opened pages of the Oghma Infinium as it appears in Skyrim work pretty well as any generic magical book or tome of forbidden knowledge. Drawing interesting but meaningless magical runes is far more difficult for me than many other types of details. I always wonder how other fantasy artists approach drafting visually convincing magical texts.

On the sixth day of Skyrim,

tenth anniversary,

limitless knowledge,

one dragon priest mask,

a Talos icon,

knee seeking arrows,

Golden Dragon Claw,

and a helmet of iron and horn.

Two more days in the eight days of Skyrim’s tenth anniversary. Tomorrow brings us back toward the neck with an item I assume almost every Skyrim player uses for a long time.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

 

Skyrim 10th Anniversary: The wrathful visage of Rahgot, priest of the Dragon Cult.

The wrathful visage of Rahgot, priest of the Dragon Cult.

Dragon priest mask: Each of the nine high priests of the dragon cult bore a mask that now bears their name. Based on the coloration, archivists have identified this mask as having belonged to Rahgot, one of the last surviving priests of the dragon cult. Other similar masks are mentioned in the histories of the dragon cults and the frigid north. Each was made from different materials and carried a unique enchantment.

On the fifth day of Skyrim,

tenth anniversary,

one dragon priest mask,

a Talos icon,

knee seeking arrows,

Golden Dragon Claw,

and a helmet of iron and horn.

Check back in tomorrow to take a peek in a daedric book of lore.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

 

Skyrim 10th Anniversary: An Amulet of Talos banned by the Aldmeri Dominion.

An Amulet of Talos banned by the Aldmeri Dominion.

Amulet of Talos: As part of the peace treaty between the weakening Cyrodillic Empire and the Aldmeri Dominion, any worship or veneration of Talos is forbidden. Talos was once a mortal human but rose to become a god. The Elven supremacists of the Aldmeri Dominion despise the idea of a mere human reaching the position of divinity and therefore work to stamp out the worship of Talos by any means necessary. Devout worshipers of the now banned god carry these amulets to ensure the worship of Talos survives.

On the fourth day of Skyrim,

tenth anniversary,

a Talos icon,

knee seeking arrows,

Golden Dragon Claw,

and a helmet of iron and horn.

I went with the Skyrim concept art for the Amulet of Talos instead of the game art because I thought the spear head looked more compelling than the axe head shaped amulet in the game. I will say this is probably a dangerous amulet to wear around your neck, but it could come in handy as a punching dagger in an emergency.

With day four of our Skyrim celebration done we look forward to tomorrow. Another symbol of a devout follower, but to an altogether different being of worship.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Skyrim 10th Anniversary: An arrow taken from the knee of a Skyrim guard.

 An arrow taken from the knee of a Skyrim guard.

Knee-seeking Arrow: Prior to becoming a member of the hold’s guard, this proud Nord used to be an adventurer just like you. That was before the cursed day when an errant shot from a bandit struck the adventurer in the knee. The lingering pain and stiffness from that arrow shot to the knee ended their adventuring career and forced them to take up a life of public service.

Day three of the Skyrim 10th anniversary celebration brings us a famous meme from the game. As a DM I rarely track mundane ammunition for my ranged players, but I am a big fan of single-use consumable ammunition that has bonus qualities. I’d imagine a knee-seeking arrow does reduced damage but applies a difficult-to-cure slow debuff on a successful hit.

I hope you are enjoying the selection of items. I was going to be able to say that I chose all non-weapon items, but of course, I had to do an arrow which threw the pacifism item set out the window.

On the third day of Skyrim,

tenth anniversary,

knee seeking arrows,

Golden Dragon Claw,

and a helmet of iron and horn.

See you tomorrow for some holy or heretical jewelry, depending on who you ask.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Skyrim 10th Anniversary: The golden dragon claw from Bleak Falls Barrow.

The golden dragon claw from Bleak Falls Barrow.

Golden Dragon Claw: Hidden in the depths of ancient Nordic ruins are puzzle locks that the dovahkiin can only pass by learning their secret code. Each puzzle-locked door is paired with a different precious dragon claw that bears the passcode as well as acting as the knob for the door. The golden dragon claw opens the way to the treasures held in the deepest sections of Bleak Falls Barrow.

Before anyone types out their comment about the skeleton key and puzzle doors, I will say I was very specific in my language regarding who is limited to using the dragon claws.

That was day two of my week-ish-long celebration of some great items from Skyrim. I chose items that would work well in any fantasy game and not just an elder scrolls game so that anyone can use them to represent their loot.

On the second day of Skyrim,

tenth anniversary,

Golden Dragon Claw,

and a helmet of iron and horn.

See you tomorrow for more Skyrim goodies.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

 

Skyrim 10th Anniversary: The iron helmet from Skyrim.

 

The iron helmet from Skyrim.

Iron Helmet: The iconic helm of the dovahkiin, scarred by the fangs and claws of dragons terrorizing Skyrim.

Happy 10th anniversary Skyrim!

I am a huge fan of the Elder Scrolls series and just had to sit down and draw some of the iconic items from the fifth installment of the main series.

Check-in every day for the next week to see a collection of items from Skyrim, and to enjoy my wonderful and wholly original song.

On the first day of Skyrim,

tenth anniversary,

a helmet of iron and horn.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph