The Minish Cap: A leprechaun’s shillelagh.

A leprechaun’s shillelagh

Cane of Pacci: The cane is found while exploring the Cave of Flames. The bolts of energy flung by the cane flip objects upside down which can be helpful when dealing with carts that need to be emptied or well-armored enemies. The cane also uses its inversion magic to turn holes into trampolines. Instead of falling into a hole, the effect of the hole is flipped and it becomes a bounce platform. 

This walking stick makes its bearer magically lucky by stealing luck away from nearby folk, leaving them to suffer more of life’s little mischiefs. It doesn’t take long for people to realize the fellow with the stick is too lucky by far and deserves some evening out. This chaotic bit of magic was woven by a leprechaun who wanted to make sure that if their shillelagh was ever taken, it would cause enough mischief to find its way back home. 

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There are plenty of magic sticks to choose from in the greater fairy tale and folk story canon, but I think the shillelagh is the perfect balance between mundane and magical that typifies fairy tales instead of general fantasy.

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Wind Waker: A halfling’s walking stick.

 Wind Waker: A halfling’s walking stick.

Boko Stick: The first of Wind Waker’s retrievable oversized enemy weapons, the Boko stick is used by many Bokoblins that Link encounters in the Great Sea. Link can wield these large wooden sticks as clubs or use them as a torch if there is a flame to light them. The entire stick is flammable, so boko sticks that are lit eventually burn away.

Halflings of the Glade are as famous for their short stature as they are for their tall walking sticks. A good long walking stick is helpful in all sorts of situations, especially when you are too short to grab fruit from trees or reach high shelves. A stout walking stick also helps out when fools try to ambush happy little halflings, thinking them defenseless, only to get a swift knock to the skull.

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The boko stick could be anything from a simple walking stick to an ancient staff of primal power. I also tacked a sling on the stick to make sure I had the ever-included, but seldom-used halfling sling staff in my back catalog.

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#Drewly: An inconvenient peg leg

An inconvenient peg leg

Kelp Caller Totem: When immersed in sea water this carved piece of driftwood quickly grows a large bloom of kelp. This makes it useful for adding cover in underwater environments, but it is quite the liability as a peg leg for a pirate that finds themself in the water often. 

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Wind Waker: Great sticks from Wind Waker for people living on the move.

 Great sticks from Wind Waker for people living on the move.

Bait Bag: The bait bag does what you think it does. It is a bag to hold bait. Link can purchase the bag from the merchant Beedle who also sails the Great Sea. The bag holds hyoi pears and all purpose bait that Link can use in his adventures. Stay tuned for what those pears and the bait do when those item cards appear on the blog.

Some people stay in one place their whole lives without ever looking to see what’s over the next hill. Those people fill their lives with so much stuff that, if they ever feel like starting over someplace new, they are too weighed down by all their material goods to really enjoy the change. Not so for the modern nomad, living with their whole life tied up in a sack slung over their shoulder, ready to jump a train to the next opportunity.

Hangool: Nomads in the horn of Africa use this simply looking stick in a variety of helpful ways. Cane, hook, driving switch, club, and so much more all in one everyday stick. One ritual of becoming an adult is going into the wild and finding the perfect stick to be honed into a hangool, so each hangool is unique to its owner.

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Hangools are real things from Somalia. In trying to research this post, I was shocked at how little information about traditional Somalian tools there was online in English. Makes me sad, especially because of how expansive the Wikipedia article on wrenches is.

Vocab fun fact: Sticks with sacks tied around their end are called bindle sticks. Now you know that.

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I'm not an artist: Six items from Majora’s Mask you might find at a picnic.

Six items from Majora’s Mask you might find at a picnic.

 

Bombchu: These autonomous mobile bomb constructs move straight forward away from Link when placed. They can climb up walls and ceilings which allows for Link to get bombs to locations that would be otherwise inaccessible.

Nothing ruins a picnic faster than ants, except that is for flamesting ants. The bite of just one of these small insects is painful enough to leave the recipient doubled over in pain for hours. The few individuals who have survived an attack from a swarm of flamesting ants are permanently wracked with unbearable pain, forcing survivors to stupefy themselves senses with drink or smoke. 

I’m not an artist: Five items from Ocarina of Time you could find in an endless forest village

Five items from Ocarina of Time that could be found in a village in the endless forest. 

Deku Stick: Improvised weapons and temporary torches, Link uses these sticks in the same way many children do. Unlike Link, most children are not on an adventure with the fate of intertwined worlds hanging in the balance. In drawing the deku sticks, one was bare while the other had deku nuts still attached. I imagined the stick with nuts sounding like a rattle when swung. 

Children practice the basics of all sorts of skills by playing with sticks. Fishing, drumming, fencing, and even wand skills are all first learned by playing. This connection between children and their sticks is reinforced by the ritual of dowsing that all children in the village undertake as they come of age. Adolescents entering adulthood are tasked with venturing into the forest near the village alone and return with the stick that calls to them. The adolescent, returning with a stick, returns as an adult in the village. The nature of the stick is interpreted by the elders to determine what vocation is best suited for the newly christened adult. Most people in the village keep their dowsing sticks as mementos of the ritual that determined their place in the world. 

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.