Drewly 2026: Alethiometer Reading: Celestial

 Alethiometer Reading: Celestial

Alethiometer Reading - Celestial: After asking the golden compass a question, this response could mean celestial, righteous, obedient, stellar, ascend, redeem, accolade, kindness, or even more obscure meanings. One must spend time attuning to the alethiometer to understand which of these meanings is part of your answer.

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I made a system agnostic mini supplement that adds the Golden Compass to your game. You can find it here.

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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.

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The Minish Cap: A nest of golden eggs

 A nest of golden eggs

Gold Kinstone: Like their more mundane counterparts, golden kinstones are broken into two halves and give some reward when the matching pieces are fused back together. Unlike the less luxurious kinstones, Link fuses the golden kinstones exclusively with pedestals and doing so u locks forward progress in his journey to the sky peoples’ cloud top homes.

The gilded goose lays golden eggs when listening to the songs of the enchanted harp. The giant that keeps the harp and the goose has no use for the solid gold eggs, but they do love hearing the harp play and they love their evening chats with the goose. The eggs are unceremoniously tossed in the giant’s midden which is the most valuable room in the realm, if you value gold more than friendships.

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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." -J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

I finished the line work for all the items in Twilight Princess! It took more than two years to get that  hunk of inking done and I finished it last week! Now I get to color every piece and then I’m done! Finding moments to celebrate throughout long projects is the only way to finish long projects.

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The Minish Cap: Every key to the house

 Every key to the house

Big Key: Each dungeon has a powerful creature Link must overcome to earn the dungeon’s rewards. Each of these boss monsters are waiting behind impressive doors bound with magical gold chains that can only be opened using the big key found in that dungeon. Link must earn each big key through solving puzzles and vanquishing foes as to prove his worth and readiness to face the dungeon’s beast.

It was so nice of that eccentric noble to take you in and adopt you as their own. When they gave you the keys to the manor with free reign of the place, besides that one door, you felt like you had finally proved you were worthy of someone’s trust. It does bother you that you aren’t allowed to open only that one door, what could possibly be back there?

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March 4th was my 8 year anniversary of this blog. I’ve got plenty more drawings in me, especially once I hit the Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom inventories. Thanks for joining me on this ride.

Read the story of Bluebeard to find out the exciting truth behind the forbidden door.

ICE is still stomping around MN, and with the Trump administration's illegal war in Iran, things are not looking up. Find a community you enjoy and support it. Find an artist you enjoy and support them. Find a cause you believe in and support it. Participate however you can.

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The Minish Cap: A leprechaun’s pot of gold

 A leprechaun’s pot of gold

Big Green Rupee: Green is the simplest of the rupees, so big green rupees are the least valuable of the big rupees. Worth 50 of their smaller kin, Link often finds big green rupees in chests and soft soil as a reward for solving a minor puzzle.

Spending all summer searching for a leprechaun’s hidden gold is a waste of time. Spending all summer carefully tracking local leprechauns so that you can catch one after a particularly wild midsummer revel just takes commitment. Now that you’ve got this hungover fairy caught, you’ve got to get them to take you to their real gold, and not some false cache hidden to fool amateurs.

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The Minish Cap: An enchanting enchanted harp

 An enchanting enchanted harp

Graveyard Key: Link needs to visit the royal tomb inside the locked graveyard. Getting the graveyard key is as simple as asking the grave keeper for the key, but the key is promptly stolen from Link by a thriving bird and hidden in one of the trees in the area. Once Link sprints face-first into the right tree, he can reclaim the key and enter the royal tomb.

In the morning, this enchanted harp plays a hopeful song that energizes all who hear. At dusk, it plays a calming melody that relaxes the body, mind, and soul. Late at night, all alone, the harp plays a song full of longing and despair, grieving some great loss forgotten by all, save the forlorn harp.

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How the heck is a harp the key to a graveyard? Classical Greek myth references, that’s how. Orpheus wanted to bring his love back from the dead, so he went into the underworld to lead her out. To pacify Cerberus, the three-headed guard dog of the underworld, he played his harp so finely that the dog was lulled into a deep sleep.

I also wanted to finish the set of items from the golden goose section of Jack and the Beanstalk, so I needed a magic harp.

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The Alethiometer, a zine by The Speaking Squid

 The Alethiometer, a zine by The Speaking Squid

I made a system-agnostic RPG add-on to include the Golden Compass in your next session or campaign. The whole supplement fits in this pocket-sized zine.

The Alethiometer is a device that reads the fundamental particles of the multiverse to accurately answer any question posed to it. It was created by Philip Pullman in the amazing His Dark Materials trilogy. 

Save this post to never lose such a powerful tool and download the printable zine here:

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This is a fan work inspired by Philip Pullman’s Golden Compass.

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The Alethiometer: The complete Golden Compass system

The Alethiometer: The complete Golden Compass system

The Alethiometer is a tool for finding accurate and truthful answers to important questions. Philip Pullman created the Alethiometer for his novel The Golden Compass, primarily released as Northern Lights, the first book of the His Dark Materials trilogy. 

This system-agnostic TTRPG supplement allows you to add The Golden Compass, a device that is used to answer questions accurately, to your next TTRPG session or campaign. In the kit, you will find a set of print-ready cards that can be used to randomly determine the Golden Compass’ response, a print-ready zine to use the Golden Compass without the cards, a user manual in print-ready and mobile-friendly formats, and zine folding instructions if you’ve never made a zine before. 

You can find the zine and the complete kit here: 

Ko-Fi Pay what you want

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The version in my Ko-Fi store is pay what you want, so feel free to try before you buy, and then come back and give what you can.

This is a fan work inspired by Philip Pullman’s Golden Compass.

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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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-Ceph

The Minish Cap: Gilded Geese

 Gilded Geese

Pegasus Boots: Link receives the pegasus boots from a cobbler whose work is mostly done by diminutive helpers while he sleeps. These boots allow Link to run at incredible speeds, knock into things with incredible force, and eventually make charging sword attacks after learning the incredible technique.

A rare genetic mutation similar to albinism or melanism is aurism. Affected birds have lustrous gold colored feathers and lay similarly golden colored eggs. These rare specimens are eagerly sought after by collectors for their novelty and by con artists for their ability to fool the masses.

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A cobbler being helped by sprites while they sleep is a classic fairy tale reference.

I know these don't depict winged boots, but I wanted to find a way to draw the golden goose for this set. If you need some guidance on how these help in a similar way to the Pegasus Boots, the geese depicted here are giant racing geese that the party can ride like Chocobos.

If you need this goose to really by gold and lay gold eggs, we have you covered with some golden eggs coming up later in the set.

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph