This potion is based on the Howling.
Not only are the howling’s scales beautiful to look at but highly valuable to connoisseurs of alchemistical creations and fermented beverages alike. The sensation of drinking a pinkish rush shrub is described as being incredible, its taste as more than impressive – so much that many are more than willing to accept the risk that comes with it.
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Another year (almost) over? Time for another dragon à la Sparkling, Glimmerling, Larkling and Candle-Careling 2024-12-28 21:03:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Far are the lands of the filiodons; scattered across endlessly spanning plains and snow-covered hills are their tribes. Still, they are all connected by a strong bond of unity and a heartfelt sense of solidarity. Everything is shared – food, knowledge, joy, sorrow as well as seemingly insignificant bits and bobs of information. To satisfy their urge of staying in contact, the most hardheaded filiodons rise to the ranks of the messengers – a most honorable and highly regarded position ...
2024-12-27 23:15:27 +0000 UTC View Post
This potion is based on the Raindeer.
A potion bravely harvested during fiercest storms and subtly enchanted by a raindeer passing by.
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A creature born from the sky and shaped by the weather. The raindeer is a most mysterious elemental; a cautious visitor that hails from the realm where water and air becomes one. It roams glades filled with fog, grazes lost valleys soaked by drizzle and strides through the misty forests it calls home. Only a few lost wanderers have witnessed its grace up close and those who have will tell tales of praise and dread alike – for the raindeer is just as fickle as a droplet of water tossed a...
2024-12-21 22:55:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Beyond the sea of dessert and mousse,
over the slopes of icing and cream;
Through the forest with rivers of juice,
in a glade shaped like the sweetest dream.
The Bakery – an ancient structure sprinkled with treats and standing the test of time. No one knows what happens behind its caramel-coated gates but countless peculiar creatures emerged from its venerable halls and still do. Most will stay and guard their sugary place of birth. Some, however, march off and e...
2024-12-19 15:19:35 +0000 UTC View Post
This potion is based on the Lump of Coal.
A tricked lump of coal – bottled up by reckless alchemists seeking to awake the slumbering magic within. Capturing this tiny fey, however, is said to be the easiest part. However, storing it the right way in order to activate its beneficial effects is a quite delicate process only a few still know of.
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2024-12-15 22:33:41 +0000 UTC View Post
When things turn from bad to worse, it was the krampling – a cunning fiend emerging from the cold fogs covering the endless plains and mountain slopes. It is quite charming one and will try anything to hide its true motives. Happily, it offers help to the wounded or guidance for the lost; it has food, it knows the way or finds a solution – whatever it takes to convince its victims of its ″noble″ indentions. They say that only a heart of gold is safe from the krampling’s ill will...
2024-12-14 22:01:30 +0000 UTC View Post
A tiny trail of crumbling gray, the subtle smell of smoke – a lump of coal has come to play, to jinx, to trip and joke. A creature born from shadows and ash to be bound to charcoaled matter: the lump of coal is a peculiar visitor from the realm of faeries and tales. At a moment’s notice its two blinking eyes vanish into nothingness and leave the impression as if they‘ve never been there. Within its charred body slumbers a spirit driven by curiosity and drawn to warmth. And...
2024-12-13 14:37:35 +0000 UTC View Post
This potion is based on the Living Tome.
When the stars align and the living tome is in the right mood, there is this slim chance that it manifests an ancient receipt for a most peculiar brew – a potion that turns the tide, a potion making the impossible possible, a potion by the book. And that’s exactly when Habuini the Hiccuping’s commercial success in brewing potions really took...
2024-12-07 21:24:54 +0000 UTC View Post
“…but this tiny ooze couldn’t possibly the reason for all our misfortune, right?” – but it was the very reason indeed. The nightmare fuel is a cosmic creation hailing from realms beyond reality. On the edge between night and day it literally oozes into the material plane just to find itself lost and confused. In fact, it means no harm at all and usually tries to stay as close to whatever or whomever it feels comfortable with. Above all, it is a shy creature and although it seeks...
2024-12-05 17:57:52 +0000 UTC View PostAaaand it is December already – sometimes I feel the year has just started! Anyway, time for a new Huge Monster Poll to decide on the next huge creature's creature type.
The last time, Celestial made it and I had the great pleasure to work on the 2024-12-02 10:38:05 +0000 UTC
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Celestial made it on the last Huge Monster Poll! What better opportunity to work on an eldritch deity, right?:)
An uninvited guest, an ancient deity‘s lost peer? Or the last of kind? No one knows for sure why it is here and whether it can’t or simply refuses to leave this realm behind.
Whatever its purpose or motivation to act, wherever it sits and resides,...
2024-11-30 19:57:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Wandering across the endless and desolate snowy plains, the woolycorn spends extended periods of its time alone – exposed not only to rough weather and tiring conditions but to its very own spiraling thoughts. And as much as it enjoys its sweet solitude, it is a quite sociable creature after all – at least from time to time. Thus, the woolycorn seizes any opportunity to find itself in company. Be it by guiding a blind drifter safely through otherwise impassable terrain, by sharing a s...
2024-11-29 20:28:12 +0000 UTC View Post
This potion is based on the Living Bookmark.
Found in ancient archives, forgotten monasteries and sacred towers of arcane studies – the potion of profundity is a remarkable brew offering knowledge others train years for in nothing more than the wink of an eye…
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At some point, Tisdor Dwindleteeth III inevitably ran out of space. Not for his countless creations or most remarkable apparatuses but rather for his literally thousands upon thousands of peculiar books and spectacular scrolls. And thus, the Paper Maze was created – a vast underground library holding his whole literary collection – just to be immediately sealed away – even from himself. Luckily for him, the eccentric necromancer cared for a quite valuable pet: the living tome.<...
2024-11-24 21:22:31 +0000 UTC View Post
The living bookmark is a quite literate being that loves to dwell in ancient tomes shelved in likewise aged cabinet of curiosities or burrow through reams of magical papers and mystical scrolls. It is a most welcome guest among lightsome librarians and cheerful scholars. Others, however, regard this peculiar construct as nothing more than a nuisance. Grumpy booksellers, nefarious spellcasters or excessively pedantic collectors consider it to be a pest only seeking to destroy their preciou...
2024-11-22 21:21:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Good news! I finally worked on something I feel was overdue for quite a while now: a compendium PDF including all 150+ potions so far!
To celebrate the compendium’s release, I’ve prepared 3 variants.
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2024-11-20 21:33:10 +0000 UTC
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This potion is based on the Crystalline Spider.
A peculiar brew made from the shimmering silk of the crystalline spider. Within its glistening liquid it holds a powerful enchantment – a boon and curse alike; for some a severe malediction indeed, for others just a small inconvenience…
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After the Crystalline Spider, I happily present you the second creature I've made for Dungeon Scribe's wonderful Kickstarter "Dungeon Scribe's Magical Oddities".
Countless soaked paws marching over wet planks, an undeniable stench of sludge and decay – these are ...
2024-11-16 21:28:26 +0000 UTC View Post
This one was made for the one and only Dungeon Scribe! They've launched an amazing Kickstarter – Dungeon Scribe's Magical Oddities – some time ago for which I had the great pleasure to work on a few creatures for. Be sure to head over to Backerkit to check out all the wonderful stuff that comes with Dungeon Scrib...
2024-11-15 22:08:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Great news: my dear friend Sol'Kesh launched their Kickstarter for his Speculative Evolution Bestiary! Not only do I adore his more than amazing art but also his exceptionally impressing world-building capabilities. All the monsters come with rich lore and are embedded in a wonderfully elaborated world.
And the best part: Sol'Kesh gave me his permission to share the Aphistus with you – o...
2024-11-11 15:56:27 +0000 UTC View Post
The time-ridden remnant of an ancient set of cards – brittle, yet still bursting with the magic it used to hold.
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2024-11-10 20:55:07 +0000 UTC View Post
This potion is based on the Candy Fae.
A sweet gift from the fae of candy and bitterness.
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2024-11-08 08:54:07 +0000 UTC View Post
″Pure coincidence…″, the authorities of Falbheim proclaimed; ″…in no way are the hordes of salamancers related to the most recent wizard incidents…″, they stuttered. Of course, evidence strongly suggested that the massive quantities of salamancers were indeed related to the most recent wizard incidents. Regardless, the citizens weren’t bothered too much anyway as they were used to far more obscure occurrences in the streets and outskirts of their beloved city. In fact, the...
2024-11-06 14:58:35 +0000 UTC View PostI hope you all had a wonderfully spooky October and are ready for a new Huge Monster Poll! Let's decide on the next huge creature's creature type!
Fey made it on the last poll which, together with the spooky season, gave me the great opportunity to work on the 2024-11-02 20:09:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Fey made it on October's Huge Monster Poll. And since it is the spooky season I figured the Candy Fae might be quite fitting! Happy Halloween!
Sometimes when a sleepyweepy puppa wakes from its dreams, a vile transformation happens. Instead of the quirky sunchaser moth, something else emerges from its cocoon: a being defined by lovingly mellow sweetness yet controlled by a mind befogged with...
2024-10-31 16:07:49 +0000 UTC View Post
This potion is based on the: Gravefruit Golem.
Shortly after the horrorange juice had spread its peculiar magic over Falbheim – for better or for worse – plenty of new fancy drinks entered the game. The most noteworthy one: the pink gravefruit juice.
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From rubble and dust it rises, on bones and flesh it feasts. Careful preparation is key when engaging in a fight with this peculiar plant. Far too many careless adventurers tried their luck and met their ends already. Either by countless blighted bites or by being buried under a moving crowd of stones and skulls. One gravefruit golem might be considered a nuisance, two are an ominous omen, a group poses a serious threat and a horde is a walking disaster. Unfortunately, this botanical abom...
2024-10-28 19:27:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Kissed by the sun, cursed by the moon; blessed by the day, driven by the night. The arugularou is the bane of any farmer’s, greengrocer’s or chef’s existence. It is keen enough to know when to lay low and strong enough wreak havoc if it must. And indeed it must spread bloodshed, as each night it hungers. It is a ruthless creature longing for the thrill of the hunt, the despair of its prey and the fear that it causes. Legend has it that some daring adventurers were able to tame this ...
2024-10-26 19:45:28 +0000 UTC View Post