Drewly: Third Eye Lens

 Third Eye Lens

Third Eye Lens: When a person looks through all three of these lens they can peer into different planes, dimensions, and realities. The arrangement of lenses, down to the most minute distance, determines where you are able to perceive.

Drewly today is an item I gave my players so that they could see Chulhu and other eldritch horrors were out there and could be a problem in the future. Hopefully, the cults trying to attract their attention fail.

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: A Seeing Stone

 A Seeing Stone

Earth Element: To reforge the Picori blade and revive its power to seal away evil, Link must gather the four elemental essences. The Earth Element is guarded by the Big Green Chuchu in Minish Cap’s first dungeon, Deepwood Shrine. Link must wait until he has earned two of the four elements before he can begin the reforging process.

In a crazed display of foolishness, a spiderlike fae tossed this seeing stone in her fire, thinking it destroyed. A fire far greater than a witch’s hearth is needed to shatter such a potent artifact of natural power. The brave young girl escaped The Beldam’s web, but should another young victim find themself in the sinister fae’s domain, a potent artifact awaits them in the hearth’s cold ashes.

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It was deeply disheartening to hear of the sexual assault allegations against Neil Gaiman. It sucks that there is always this sword of Damocles hanging above important and influential male figures.

Today in drewly we are going to focus in on how great Laika’s films are. Go watch some great stop-motion films and support my favorite movie medium.

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. 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

Since you’re here, please consider supporting:

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Thank you for your support.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Collected: Deck of Runes

 Deck of Runes

Elder Futhark Runes: In this set are item cards for all 24 runes of the Elder Futhark as well as a blank stone, a broken stone, and a Bluetooth stone.

Use them to add some runic Norse vibes to your games or to cast the runes to see your past, present, and future.

Download the complete set at the links below:

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Patreon $3 link here. Free to $1 tier supporters.

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

The Minish Cap: Mirror, mirror on the wall…

 Mirror, mirror on the wall…

Mirror Shield: If Link can find his way to the Biggoron atop Veil Falls, he can offer up a small shield to the giant and receive the Mirror Shield in return once he has completed a truly valiant deed. The mirror shield blocks all projectiles and reflects back a searing beam of light. Its mirrored surface is also strong enough to deflect melee attacks easily.

A powerful seer displeased their sovereign so greatly that their spirit was cast into a mirror so their gifts might serve whoever sat the throne. After generations serving the bloodline that cursed them, the mirror can now answer questions honestly, while contriving situations that eventually cause the family to suffer dearly. If the seer was so great, could they not have seen this future and avoided it or did they perhaps choose this fate for themselves?

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This was supposed to include a sad face and a split happy/sad face, but drawing faces is still far outside of my comfort zone. Even if those faces are simplified masks. I got done enough with this item and moved on.

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Swordtember: Sword of Omens Awakened

 Sword of Omens

Sword of Omens: The awakened sword offers the true lord of the Thunderians great strength and sight beyond sight.

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I never really watched ThunderCats. He-Man was my 80's rerun battle cartoon of choice.

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Swordtember: Sword of Omens

Sword of Omens

Sword of Omens: The legendary blade of the lords of Tundera sleeps in its retracted dagger-sized shape. Soon it will wake and reveal its true power.

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This is the first of a pair of item cards to represent the Sword of Omens from ThunderCats. See you tomorrow for the full-length blade.

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Be excellent to everyone.

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Drewly: Viper School Medallion

 Viper School Medallion

Viper Medallion: This silver effigy of a snake writhing about itself has been enchanted to vibrate in the presence of magic.

Drewly day 6 is the end of our first of three weeks of Witcher items. Tomorrow is an item card from the Four Swords Adventures set.

What is Drewly?

Drewly is a month-long art challenge for July where you post art you have already made. No new art just for Drewly.

There are three rules:

Only post art you have already made.

Post as much or as little as you are comfortable with.

Tag your posts with #drewly and #drewly2024

If you enjoy my work, please consider donating:

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Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Wind Waker: A pair of spectacles.

 A pair of spectacles

Triforce Shard 5: In the calamity that flooded the old world and created the Great Sea, the Triforce of Courage was broken into eight shards. This is one of the eight shards that must be reunited to craft the Triforce of Courage. Link can find these shards spread all over the Great Sea. The talking fish can often help him find the shards, though the rumors they repeat are so old that they send you looking for triumph forks instead of the Triforce.

A pair of reading glasses worn on a fishing line and hung from a hook. The glasses belonged to the former pirate and deceased husband of the current pirate lord of the great ocean. It is in her hall the nereid keys were crafted and the wild goddess of the seas was sealed away.

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Number six in our nine pieces of eight are Mistress Ching’s glasses.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Wind Waker: A rough-looking wooden eye.

 A rough-looking wooden eye

Triforce Shard 3: In the calamity that flooded the old world and created the Great Sea, the Triforce of Courage was broken into eight shards. This is one of the eight shards that must be reunited to craft the Triforce of Courage. Link can find these shards spread all over the Great Sea. The talking fish can often help him find the shards, though the rumors they repeat are so old that they send you looking for triumph forks instead of the Triforce.

This wooden eye was carved by a traitor captain and then given to his close friend before being executed. The traitor did not tell his friend that the eye was one of the nereid keys, only that it served as a token of office as captain. The eye is now held by a loyal buffoon who serves his thrice-dead captain devoutly.

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The fourth piece of eight belonged to Captain Barbossa, but was looked after by the unfortunate Ragetti.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Wind Waker: Eye patches to help you truly see.

Eye patches to help you truly see.

Hero's Charm: Wearing the Hero’s Charm allows Link to see how much health a targeted enemy has. This information shows up as an HP bar and when I played through the Wind Waker I didn’t like how gamey it felt so I didn’t use it often. How you get the charm depends on which version of the game you are playing. In its original release, Link must give a total of 40 joy pendants to Mrs. Marie at the school of Joy to earn the charm. In the HD re-release, Link must conquer the challenges of the Savage Labyrinth, an optional dungeon hidden on Outset Island to discover the charm.

Most eye patches aren’t worn because someone is missing an eye, rather they are worn to keep a good eye safe or prepared for different light levels. Some enchanted patches allow the wearer to augment what their mundane eyes perceive. Even rarer patches teach the wearer to ignore their mundane sight and instead open their third eye to glimpse absolute truth.

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No long post-amble. Enjoy the eye patches.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Wind Waker: The first two items from the Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker.

The first two items from The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker.

Telescope: Link is lent this telescope by his younger sister Aryll to use on his birthday. She is sure to remind him that he needs to return it after his birthday. Unfortunately, Aryll is kidnapped before Link can return her prized telescope. For the rest of the game, Link uses the telescope to spot far-off points of interest in his adventures through the Great Sea.

This looking glass allows users to see far-off things in perfect clarity, but so do all telescopes. What makes this one special is its ability to show things as they truly are when viewed through the lens. As this telescope was designed to be used at extreme distances, its true sight is far less useful for spotting anything already close enough to strike.

Sail: Unsurprisingly, the sail is used when sailing to catch the wind and propel Link’s ship and companion, the King of Red Lions. Without the sail, the ship cannot hope to sail the open seas. Without wind, the sail hangs slack and useless. Link must buy the sail from Zunari the merchant of WIndfall island, but players should consider the 80 rupees required to buy the sail an investment in their burgeoning naval careers.

The art of weaving moon cloth was lost when the last of the lunar weavers was consumed by demonic corruption. Those in search of the luminescent cloth must first barter with the demonic weavers for their corrupted cloth and then purify the cloth at one of the few holy places to the moon goddesses that remain untainted. Some of the most hopeful, or naïve, point to the fact that moon cloth can be purged of its corruption as proof that the demonic corruption could be purged from the land and its people. 

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Welcome to the first items from The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. This is my favorite console Zelda game. I won’t say that it is objectively better than other console titles in the Zelda franchise, but it has a very special place in my heart mostly due to its wonderful art direction.

The theme for this set of items is vaguely nautical, so be prepared for items you could find on a ship, in the open seas, or just sort of related to something that is related to something nautical. I play pretty fast and loose with these themes, so know that everything won’t be entirely under the obviously nautical umbrella.

Daylight savings' "spring forward" happened today. I hate daylight savings and I hope I live to see its abandonment by all of the world.

War around the world is a human tragedy. Make the world a better place, however you can.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

I'm not an artist: Fives masks from Majora’s Mask you could find in an explorer’s collection.

Fives masks from Majora’s Mask you could find in an explorer’s collection.

Kafei’s Mask: This mask is given to Link upon accepting the quest to find her missing son Kafei. This mask was hand carved in the image of the missing boy. If Link talks to citizens of Clock Town with the mask on they comment on Kafei’s disappearance and provide leads for Link to track down.

Duels may be terribly out of fashion these days but they are still technically legal as long as the correct protocols are followed. It was at one of those such duels where the master of the house acquired the wig of a barrister who was made to choose between their dignity and their life. As these specific wigs are only given to lawyers upon obtaining their license this is a novel keepsake.

I'm not an artist: Five masks from Majora’s Mask used in a play for children.

Five masks from Majora’s Mask used in stories for children.

Don Gero’s Mask: Link earns this mask by lighting all the torches in the Goron Shrine. A Goron will thank Link for the help illuminating the shrine by giving him a mask that allows Link to speak with frogs. While not a universally useful mask, Link needs this mask to tell frogs that the long winter is over, and the choir is reconvening. If Link can get the whole band back together, he is rewarded with a Piece of Heart.

The many adventures of Hoppy the friendly toad are moral tales written to teach children lessons like always look both ways before crossing the road and never pick up the unholy idol you found in a secret chamber in the basement. Hoppy always know the right thing to do, but they are very easily influenced and are pushed to take the ill-advised action by their peers. In “Hoppy Finds the Pirate Treasure”, Hoppy and friends bumble their way through a heavily trapped pirate cave in search of the recently lost treasure of Diamond Beard.

I'm not an artist: Five items from Majora’s Mask owned by the world’s second tourist.

Five items from Majora’s Mask owned by the world’s second tourist.

Pictobox: Link is given the pictobox so that he can participate in the Swamp Tourist Center’s photography contest. The pictobox can only hold one monochromatic, or full color in the 3D remake, photograph at a time. This means Link must choose what he submits to the contest specifically. Based on the content of Link’s submission, he can earn anything from five rupees all the way to a piece of heart.

Having been a page on the ship that the first tourist took home, the world’s second tourist was inspired by the vivid images captured by the first tourist’s camera. Ever generous, the first tourist gave the page their pictobox, seeing in them the same spark for adventure that took them to the very ends of the world. The young page had a gift for photography, and their first collection of photographs, entitled Frozen Waters: Life at sea, catapulted them to stardom and earned enough money to pay for a tour around the world.

I'm not an artist: The last five items from Ocarina of Time

The last five items from Ocarina of Time an ambitious conjurer would use.

Shard of Agony: The Shard of Agony notifies Link when he is near a hidden chest or an entrance to a secret grotto. Link is rewarded with the Shard by one of the cursed children of House Skulltula after releasing twenty souls from their cursed Golden Skulltula bodies. The Shard replaced the Stone of Agony in the rerelease of Ocarina of Time.

The Wand of Conjuration’s tip is crafted from a crystalline growth harvested from a titanic void leviathan that was old when the gods were young. Having fed on debris from a multitude of worlds, the coral-like diamonds growing out of the leviathan's hide are saturated with planar energies. By channeling their magic through the crystal shard, conjurers are able to summon entities vastly more powerful than their abilities and experience would normally allow. The last three owners of the wand have all died violent deaths after attempting particularly ambitious conjurations. 

I'm not an artist: Five items from Ocarina of Time a diabolical teen cultist might own.

Five items from Ocarina of Time a diabolical teen cult leader would own.

Goron Mask: Once Link has completed selling the Happy Mask Seller’s masks, he is able to borrow masks that change how people react when approached. The Goron Mask convinces some that Link looks just like a Goron and has others editorialize on Gorons.

The Hierophant was not always the leader of a diabolical cult dedicated to breaking the seventy-seven seals and releasing the nine hundred and sixty-three forsaken legions to ravage the world before the coming of the infernal powers. They had once been a regular teen they enjoyed hanging out with friends, daydreaming about their crush, and collecting odd items from online auctions. No one could have known that having the highest bid on an odd bust carved from red ivory would set events in motion that would see them at the head of a black mass chanting the true name of the shepherd of the apocalypse.

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 items from Link's Awakening found in a detective story.

Five items from Link’s Awakening a pulp investigator would have. 

Flippers: Link uses these to dive below the surface of water. 

Every private investigator knows they will eventually be called to sneak into some abandoned building through the inevitably flooded basement. With a pair of trusty flippers and a lung full of air, there is no limit to the trouble an investigator can get themselves into.

I'm not an artist: Five archaeological items from Link's Awakening.

Five items from Link’s Awakening that could lead to the location of a missing archaeologist. 

Letter: A love letter written by a goat pretending to be a beautiful woman. That sentence is why I enjoy soft fantasy as a genre. A millennia of established world building isn’t needed to have a Goat live in Animal Village.

A letter from the archaeologist Dr. Colleen Tannis has arrived requesting funds for her next expedition. Dr.Tannis has a reputation for pursuing forbidden histories and secrets better left forgotten. For the last few years, Dr. Tannis has been searching for the lost city of Inan. Legends speak of the fateful night when the many sages of Inan sought to elevate one of their own to godhood using a long lost ritual. The stories do not agree whether the ritual was a success, but they do all agree that every inhabitant of Inan and those in the surrounding area were killed in an instant. Few in academic circles truly believe the infamous city ever existed, but Dr. Tannis is undeterred. Since this letter was postmarked almost four months ago and no one in the academic world has heard from Colleen in almost six months, Dr. Tannis is probably obsessing over artifacts uncovered in some far-flung dig site after securing funding from some private source.

Zelda Items: First five from The Legend of Zelda II: Link's Adventure

Here are the first five items from The Legend of Zelda II: Link's Adventure.

Power Glove: This heavy metal glove could be a powerful gauntlet, part of a set of armor that needs to be reassembled, or an animated hand monster. This could even be a fantasy power fist for those pillaging ideas from the Fallout series.