The Minish Cap: Possibly arcane beans

 Possibly arcane beans

Spare Key: The owner of Lon Lon ranch lost his key to the front door, but he of course has a spare key for just this situation. Unfortunately, they keep the spare key in the locked house and therefore cannot get their key to get into the house. Link must shrink down to Minish size and then enter the ranch house and rescue the ill-placed spare key. Returning the key to the ranch owner secures Link a passage to lake Hylia and opens up milk sales in the city.

We got beans for sale! Big barrel of beans bursting with benefits! Some of these beans are magic, some of these beans are drought-resistant, some of these beans are heirloom quality. Come, trade for a scoop of beans, and find out what fate has in store for you.

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Free idea for a ridiculous vendor: A magic bean peddler that is unenthusiastically part of a magic beans multi-level marketing scheme. They try to sell you magic beans, but forgot what each of the magic beans do. After a few purchases, if they ever make a sale, they are visibly dominated by the spirit of the bean-selling scheme and make a hollow and lifeless plea for you to join their up-and-coming opportunity in selling beans.

This is actually the sort of stuff that makes it into my games. Which is why I need an item card to represent non-magical beans, just in case my party has bad luck.

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The Minish Cap: Flying Carpet

 Flying Carpet

Wind Element: The fourth and final elemental essence Link recovers in the Minish Cap. The wind element is found in the Palace of the Winds, which is literally in the clouds. Returning to the elemental sanctuary, Link can infuse the fourth element into the white sword and create the Four Sword of Legend. This unlocks the blade’s full potential, allowing Link to split into four copies and containing the power to seal great evil.

This carpet was woven as a gift for a proud sorcerer, but was spurnned as too mundane. The carpet languished in the sorcerer’s dungeons until a peasant, intended to be a sacrifice to a greater genie, wished for freedom to a lesser genie also imprisoned by the sorcerer. The lesser genie used the wish to grant the carpet intelligence and flight so it could spirit the peasant and genie far away from the dungeons of the vile sorcerer.

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In the original tellings of the story of Aladdin, Aladdin lives in ancient China and meets two different genies. There is the weaker genie of the ring and the greater genie of the lamp.

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Drewly: Fate cutting shears

 Fate cutting shears

Fate cutting shears: These small scissors were forged by an anonymous benefactor as a gift to a child destined to be sacrificed. They are sharp enough to cut through even the strands of fate. Clipping their tether to the sacrifice, the child became a fateless hero, able to steer their own way across the fabric of destiny.

Today is the last day of drewly. A month-long celebration of everything we’ve been able to make. Thank you so much for sharing the month with me and my work.

Now that we are done looking back at what we have made, go out and make something new! Everyone has the potential to create inside of them, nurture that spark by making what you want to see more of in the world.

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.

Check out everything I’ve shared for past Drewly’s here:  #Drewly #Drewly2022 #Drewly2023 #Drewly2024 #Drewly2025

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Drewly: Spoon Wand

 Spoon Wand

Spoon: In the hands of most, this is a simple spoon. In the hands of the vengeful, this spoon is a discrete implement of punishment that can cast fear and ill fortune on the wicked.

Today’s drewly post is one of nine domestic wands I imagined a simple mage might use in their everyday life.

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.

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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

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The Minish Cap: Haunted Candelabra

 Haunted Candelabra

Fire Element: Atop Mount Crenel, deep in the Cave of Flames, the Fire Element is guarded by a turtle dragon that Link must defeat. After defeating the beast, Link can take the Earth and Fire elements to the Elemental Sanctuary and begin the reforging of the Picori blade. With two elements, the newly dubbed white sword has the power to split Link into two copies.

This candelabra was recovered from a supposedly haunted manor. According to local gossip, the lord of the manor was cursed, and so were all of his unfortunate servants. The candelabra is certainly a curio, as its candles never burn lower, and it has a habit of tipping towards beautiful women.

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Lumier is a surprisingly lecherous character for a kids' movie. I guess that is probably a problematic stereotype of the French manifesting in children's media.

If you are worried about Lumier being lonely, Cogsworth is going to eventually show up in this set, so he will just have to be patient.

Drewly today is my normal weekly item card post, where I post drawings inspired by all the items in all the Zelda games. I am currently posting the items from The Minish Cap. I’ve got complete sets for the first 11 Zelda games and a bunch of other item sets already posted here.

#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.

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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Drewly: Oroborous Industries Badge

Oroborous Industries Badge

Badge: An official Oroborous Industries operative badge. Just flashing this badge can open many doors in very dangerous circles.

Oroborous Industries is one of two rival gunsmithing companies in my homebrew campaign. Today and tomorrow’s drewly post will be relating to those shady gun runners.

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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The Minish Cap: Frog Legs

 Frog Legs

Flippers: The flippers allow Link to swim in the many waterways of Hyrule. He can find them beneath the Royal Hyrule Library, but only after he finds and returns all the library’s missing books.

A hedge witch charm for safe traveling through swamps, bogs, and marshes starts with catching the third frog heard on the third day of the third week after a new moon. In the light of the waxing moon, anoint the frog with blood taken from your ankle, your knee, and your hip, and then eat all of the frog but its legs. Hang the legs from a braid of your hair, and you should have no trouble when passing through even the most fearsome swamps.

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I feel like the secret to a good witch’s charm is making it both prohibitively complex while also being gross.

Drewly today is my take on the flippers from The Minish Cap. I have drawn flippers before, so I went a bit more abstract with the concept of swimming tools. I am currently posting the drawings based on items from The Minish Cap. I’ve got complete sets for the first 11 Zelda games and a bunch of other item sets already posted here. https://thespeakingsquid.blogspot.com/search/label/Collected

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.

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Drewly: A long distance from a cigarette

 A long distance from a cigarette

Cigarette Extender: Are you a class lady in the Gilded Age who is trying to discreetly cast a spell at this soire? Use this cigarette extender as your wand. No one will bat an eye if they see you shaking your cigarette at someone across the room; they will just think you are gossiping while you are really cursing them with ill fortune.

Distance can be physical space, but it can also be time. I haven’t smoked in 12 years as of tomorrow, and that is pretty cool.

I debuted my wands project in Drewly 2022, and it continues to grow whenever I think, “Oh, that would be a fun wand for some strange mage.”

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

The Minish Cap: The White Rabbit’s Pocket Watch

 The White Rabbit’s Pocket Watch

Carlov Medal: This medal signifies Link’s commitment to collecting the many figurines of The Minish Cap. If Link can gather enough mysterious shells to buy all 136 figurines, he is given this medal by the creator of the figurines. Other than showing an unwavering commitment to collecting, the medal gives Link access to a house with a piece of heart and a phonograph. 

Pocket watches are supposed to keep you from being late, but the white rabbit that owns this watch only ever seems to check it once he is already running behind. The rabbit might be a bit spacey or perhaps they are too ambitious in their scheduling, but what if the watch itself is made to trick the rabbit into thinking they are always late. Wonderland is a confusing and often menacing place, so it would surprise only the most naive to find that the White Rabbit’s pocket watch was given as a prank. 

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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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The Minish Cap: Greedy Catfish

Greedy Catfish

Kinstone Bag: This sack stores all the kinstones Link collects during his adventures, swelling to near bursting by the end. Link is given the bag near the start of his adventure after conquering the dangers of the Deepwood Shrine.

This massive catfish is responsible for the disappearance of at least three gold rings. The first, it ate off the finger of an unlucky fisher, and the second and third were lost when the same foolish fisher baited their hook with rings only to lose the lures to the wily fish.  There is now an informal bounty on this big fish, with the reward being all the gold the greedy fish has eaten. 

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Losing a ring in the water only to eat the fish with your missing ring still inside is fairy tale destiny at its finest. 

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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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The Minish Cap: The girl’s matchstick

 The girl’s matchstick

Flame Lantern: Link finds the flame lantern in the Temple of the Droplets after beating the big blue chu chu. The lantern casts a warm light in a short radius that illuminates the darkness, melts ice, and ignites flammable materials. 

The matchstick became a symbol for change in the city when a young matchstick seller was found dead on the street after a frigid night. The masses were always angry that the elites hoarded their wealth, but their anger became a fury after the story of the fallen matchstick girl spread. The fires of revolution have taken hold in the city, and no one what will become of the city when the smoke finally clears.

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The Matchstick Girl is one of the more depressing folk tales you can ever hear. It is made worse when you realize the story could be set today without much adjustment.

Do some good into this world.

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The Minish Cap: A borrower’s shield.

 A borrower’s shield.

Small Shield: Link’s first shield is a simple affair given to him by Princess Zelda. He can use it to block simple attacks and deflect rocks and arrows.

Dogs, cats, and rats can bother the tall folk, but the same creatures are deadly threats to the borrow-folk. Fights between borrow-folk are almost unheard of, but many still carry shields and buckers to protect themselves from the many dangers of their diminutive world. That button missing from your shirt or cuff might be the difference between life and death to the borrow-folk you unwittingly share your home with.

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I have so much nostalgia for the stories of the Borrowers. Little people living secretly in the unused cracks of your house is the exact sort of semi-plausible fantasy every kid should enjoy. I definitely built houses and left supply caches out just in case my room had borrowers.

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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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