Drewly: Oroborous Industries Shotgun

 Oroborous Industries Shotgun

Shotgun: Oroborous Industries is your premier source for firearms you can rely on. Sure, you could buy from Marrow Arms or even an unaffiliated gunsmith, but why risk your safety?

If you are saying to yourself, that symbol looks like something from Fullmetal Alchemist, you are right. I was drawing these two items while watching anime.

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

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

Four Swords Adventures: Dual dueling pistols for pistol duels

 Dual dueling pistols for pistol duels

Slingshot: The slingshot fires deku nuts that stun enemies. Charging up a shot before firing increases the shot's distance. These are the last of the pedestal items from Four Swords Adventures. If you don’t know by now, pedestal items can be found on pedestals throughout each level, but a Link can only carry one pedestal item at a time.

With the criminalization of pistol dueling came the advent of discreet pistol duels. Using small pistols that fire such an insignificant round as to rarely kill a person quickly, these duels gained popularity among the aristocratic youth. They are perfect for those ill-advised honor duels seen by young elites as exhilarating instead of foolish.

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That idea about dueling above is based on the real pre-World War I fad of sword dueling at university fencing clubs and proudly wearing facial scars earned in the duels.

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-Ceph

Wind Waker: A self-reloading cannon.

A self-reloading cannon.

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Biggest Bomb Bag: The second and final upgrade to Link’s bomb storage is given to Link by the Great Fairy of the Southern Fairy Island. The entrance to the fairy’s home is blocked and can only be opened using a fire arrow or a bomb. With the upgraded storage, Link can now hold up to 99 bombs at once.

One of the limiting factors for the effective use of cannons is needing to have well-trained teams of gunners to operate them efficiently. After years of being pestered by the Grand Marshall of Artillery, the Chief Artificer of Inish finally used their considerable skills to create a cannon that can reload itself. Bound spirits of smoke, flame, and metal allow the cannon to magically load in charge and shot after every firing.

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Welcome back to our normally scheduled programming.

I hope you enjoyed Halloweekend. Let me know if there is any special Halloween item you want to see and it just might be your treat next year.

If you are a citizen of the U.S.A., make sure you vote by election day Tuesday, November 8th, 2022. Your vote is important.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Wind Waker: A “light and mobile” cannon for the siege gunner on the go.

A “light and mobile” cannon for the siege gunner on the go.

Big Bomb Bag: The first upgrade to Link’s bomb storage in Wind Waker is earned by visiting the Great Fairy living on East Fairy Island. The entrance to their home is blocked by a boulder that can only be moved with the power bracelet’s magical strength or destroyed by setting a bomb. After earning this upgrade, Link can hold up to 60 bombs at once.

The smallest ship’s cannon also happens to be the largest cannon a mortal person could hope to use alone. This cannon can be moved and fired by a single gunner of incredible strength, or a small team of regular well-trained people. Reloading the beastly weapon takes so much time and focus that one could only hope to fire it once before being swarmed by the enemy.

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One of my players is a siege gunner in a naval campaign I am running, and getting them the chance to use their cannon skills off the ship was the inspiration for this ridiculous weapon. I imagined it to be held like the Heavy’s guns from Team Fortress 2.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Wind Waker: A masterfully crafted musket axe

A masterfully crafted musket axe

 

Master Sword - Empowered: Last week we restored the edge to the once mighty Sword of Evil’s Bane, but it still lacked the power to truly seal evil away. To restore this power to the blade, Link must help a new Wind Sage rise and restore the Master Sword to its former glory. 

No expense was spared in the crafting of this musket axe. The finest bladesmiths and gunwrights were forced to work hand in hand to ensure the weapon functions as an impeccable pistol and a vicious axe. The weapon was then anointed with sacred symbols and blessed to fire true and cut deep, all so it may be auctioned off to the highest bidder.

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There will be plenty more Zelda games for me to draw a true to lore master sword. I really appreciated when Breath of the Wild did with its decayed master sword ravaged by fighting evil for ages. Maybe when I eventually get to the Breath of the Wild items, I will take another stab at drawing the legendary sword.

I will also have to increase the number of games I need to draw items for soon as The Legend of Zelda: Tears of Kingdom was announced for May of 2023. Fingers crossed it is enjoyable.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Wind Waker: A far ranging rifle.

A far-ranging rifle.

Bonus Sniper: This sniper rifle has a longer range than any firearm forged by mortal means and it is whisper quiet when fired. Those two factors should make this the ideal tool for an assassin specializing in long-distance hits. The problem is the rifle shines with an incredible light when fired, revealing any hidden position. One clever assassin has figured out that the rising sun effectively masks this idiosyncrasy, earning them the nickname, Last Sunrise.

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This item is just a scope on the rifle representing the light arrow last week. I think it is a useful enough difference to make an additional rifle mini-set.

That is the last post of lots of technically different firearms for a while. Next week we’ll get back in the swing of Zelda items with the best boomerang ever.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Wind Waker: A tool for fighting night creatures from Wind Waker.

Wind Waker: A tool for fighting night creatures from Wind Waker.

Light Arrows: The light arrows are the final item Link obtains in his adventures, earning them in Gannon’s Tower by defeating an illusion of Phantom Gannon. The light arrows are a goddess-granted superweapon that can slay any normal enemy in a single shot and are the only thing that can weaken Gannon enough to be slain. Light arrows are vital in defeating Gannon. First Link uses them to defeat Gannon in various forms, and then Zelda takes up the bow and light arrows to work together with Link so that his evil can be sealed away.

Radiant arms were crafted in secret for the soldiers who knew the true enemy was not the English, but the vampiric shadow sovereign pulling the strings. The vampiric government sought to piggyback on the brutal colonialist expansions to spread their influence around the world. Armed with weapons imbued with the light of day, a small group of fighters seek to hold back the tide of darkness.

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Vampire colonists were done well in Magic the Gathering’s Ixalan expansions. While I do not play MtG at all these days, I do try to keep up with the lore.

Apropos of colonialist expansions, I wonder what a version of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel would be like if magic existed or if the gods were active interventionists? Guns, Germs, Steel, and Sorcery. Gods, Guns, Germs, and Steel.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Wind Waker: A cold blooded murderer from Wind Waker.

 Wind Waker: A cold-blooded murderer from Wind Waker.

Ice Arrows: In Wind Waker, the ice arrows are given to Link at the same time as the fire arrows. The Fairy Queen gives these both to Link after he has rescued his sister Aryll from the Forsaken Fortress. Link must use the ice arrows to freeze a volcano and can use them to freeze enemies. This can be especially useful if he then shatters frozen enemies with the Skull Hammer. More on that later.

This supernaturally cold pistol was not intentionally enchanted. Instead, it gained icy powers siphoning the life force from the many innocent lives it snuffed out. It is ever hungry for more souls and slowly convinces any who own it to become cold calculating murders.

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This was actually the first item card I drew in the Wind Waker item set. It has some rough edges but I’m proud of it all things considered.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Wind Waker: A destructive blunderbuss from Wind Waker.

A destructive blunderbuss from Wind Waker.

Fire Arrows: Fire arrows are one of the three magical arrows Link can use as he sails the Great Sea. Fire arrows can be used to melt ice barriers, ignite flammable barriers, or burn enemies. He is given these arrows by the Fairy Queen after Link rescues his sister Aryll from the Forsaken Fortress. The Fairy Queen makes her home in the Mother and Child Islands. 

Most famous gunslingers are known for their pinpoint accuracy and nerves of steel. Not Scorched Earth Earle who earned fame for having the widest and most destructive shot in the west. They effectively signed their death warrant when their careless shooting took the hand and eye of one of those other gunslingers with pinpoint accuracy and nerves of steel.

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This begins a series of posts that are one gun with a bunch of different elemental enchantments. I’ve got a blunderbuss, pistol, rifle, and sniper coming out in the next few weeks.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph