#Drewly: Bloodlust

Bloodlust

Bloodlust: Shamans of the Horde learn how to instill the armies of the horde with supernatural ferocity in the heat of battle.

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I'm not an artist: Five items from Ocarina of Time you could find in a curious shop.

Five items from Ocarina of Time you could find in a curious shop.

Lens of truth: In Ocarina of Time, Link can recover the lens of truth from Dead Hand’s cold dead hands. The glass allows Link to discern illusions, perceive the invisible, and gaze inside sealed chests. 

Having gotten turned around walking the city at night, you find yourself on an unfamiliar street. It is lined with small shops offering all sorts of wares. Without realizing it, you find yourself drawn to Lil’s Trinkets, an outdated store with a cat sleeping in the window. The shop is illuminated by an army of candles that can only manage to make the interior dim at best. A disembodied hand covered in wax stands on a shelf with a small flickering flame hovering above each finger. The tag reads, “Glorious Hand, a guiding light against the darkness of ignorance.” You can’t seem to find the price on the tag.

I’m not an artist: Five summer camp items from A Link to the Past.

Five items from A Link to the Past with some summer camp themed adventure seeds.

Bombos Medallion: The bombos medallion is a weapon of massive destruction. Activating the medallion engulfs the entire screen in a torrent flames and explosions. The medallion is locked in an ancient glyph-etched tablet that sits atop a cliff that is unreachable by normal means. As the only optional medallion in the game, it is a reward for players who thoroughly explore the world. 

Not all summer camps are held in log cabins along the banks of placid lakes. A camp for gifted students is held at Babylon University in Arizona. The camp offers gifted students the chance to study subjects like dead languages, ancient mythology, and lucid dreaming. One thing that makes Babylon Camp for the Gifted stand out is the extensive on campus arcade. Campers are able to enjoy the arcade during their open evenings after a long day of educational activities. Pazu's Arcade and Games has been a staple of Babylon University campus life as long as anyone can remember. Rumors persist of a private invitation only room full of banned and custom games. Campers learn they have been invited when they receive a black tempest token from any of the arcade's machines. 

On the far edge of the unforgiving desert is a village of sun worshipping folk. They have learned to live in harmony with the scorching desert sun. They channel the sun's heat to boil water, forge metals, and even burn their enemies. The greatest master of the channeling arts was exiled from the village from a fear that they would inadvertently destroy the village or harm the villagers. The sundancer has made their home atop a cliff face that they have blasted into smooth glass. Content in their isolation, the sundancer has made no conventional means to climb the unassailable cliffs. Any who seek to study with the sundancer must first find a way to the top of the cliffs. Then they must find a way to endure the sundancer's fiery techniques. Those that have studied under the sundancer's tutelage and survived are gifted a small copper chime from the sundancer's body wrap. 

I'm not an artist: Travel essentials from A Link to the Past

Here are five items any wanderer would need from A Link to the Past.

Ether Medallion: A golden medal that gives its owner the ability to call down lightning strikes and control the weather by raising their blade to the heavens. Those that survive being struck by the lightning are paralyzed by the overwhelming power of the medallion. 

Gold is as good as gold. The traveler's saying means all types of money and currency have value somewhere. When a traveler comes upon a cache of coins minted in Stormhold, they should take as many as they can carry because there will always be another money changer that can exchange those Stormhold bolts into Termina rupees or Imperial credits. 

Shamans, druids, and animages the world over visit the storm-callers of Mt. Abarat with the hopes of training under the masters of storm magics. Deep inside the Imojen mountain range, many would be pupils abandon their quest when the difficulty of traversing the mountains is too great. To receive their titular powers, Imojen Storm-Callers must climb to the peak of Mt. Abarat during the height of the rainy season. Those that reach the summit find an ancient stone tablet inscribed with ancient hieroglyphics. If the prospective storm-caller is able to decipher the message, they will discover they have always known the storms' true names. With this knowledge unlocked, the climber can truly assume the mantle of a storm-caller. 

I'm not an artist: Powerful forces and an irredeemable object

Five items from A Link to the Past.

Magic Hammer: The last hammer I drew was for blacksmithing. This hammer is a wooden mallet suitable for wood working or head bonking. I know that a knot in the center of a mallet head would probably lead to a broken mallet, but I love the way knots look. 

This could be the mallet used by the hermit monk who built the Temple of the Five Bells. The monk, with their trusted donkey, hiked into the trackless peaks of the Mountains of Heavenly Silence with a vision of founding an isolated temple. The monk and donkey were not seen for nearly a decade. The next time the monk was seen, they were erecting a sign post that directed travelers to the new temple. It is said, that when the first traveling monks arrived at the Temple of the Five Bells, the hermit carpenter welcomed them and then sat down with an elderly donkey and the pair died at the same moment, having seen their life’s' work completed. 

The heartwood of an ancient tree is a powerful material component. That is especially true when the tree is a treant elder that has been bonded with the hamadryad matron of the western wilderness millennia. During a brief moment of privacy, the elder treant pulled this mallet from their own heart and gave it to a group of outsiders while saying, "Swing this at the right moment so that the forests will be there for our children's children." This act of creation claimed the elder's life. The first forest spirits to discover the outsiders with the elder's lifeless body assumed the outsiders slew the treant. In their grief they were unwilling to hear the outsiders’ story. The outsiders managed to escape with the mallet and are now hunted by avenging forest spirits and colonial agents eager to see the untamed forest fall to axe and saw.