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Greetings adventurers! The shark can be a creature that inspires fear, but really we have little to be afraid of when it comes to these hulking predators of the sea. So long as you’re not presenting yourself as a fish, it’s unlikely for one of these behemoths to ever even want to come near you. Many

Greetings adventurers! Have you heard this new type of “music” they’re cooking up down at the local pub? They’re calling it “metal” which confuses me because that’s already the name of a material. You would think they would have gone with something a little more original. I didn’t really understand

Greetings adventurers! The animal kingdom is home to all manner of beasts that specialize in just about anything you could put your mind to and certainly some that would still surprise you as well. That’s one of the things I find most interesting about it and also something that bothers me deeply wh

Greetings adventurers! The outer planes don’t treat the laws of our physical realm with the same respect as you and I. In fact many of the beings there outright ignore them in whatever way they see fit. One such being was Lunassa. A powerful creature in its own right, it sought to bring chaos and en

Greetings adventurers! Oozes just freak me out. There’s something I don’t trust about things without a head to speak of, though I understand their purpose in cleaning up spaces long since forgotten. I have to say there’s little that I find to be redeeming about them. They are unthinking, oddly movin

Greetings adventurers! The art of moving metal into the forms that people are so reliant on for offense and protection is a complicated piece of performance. Balancing the heat so that you don’t burn the metal while not letting it get cold enough that you beat cracks into it is something that takes

Greetings adventurers! The power of words cannot be overstated. It’s truly amazing how some think that there cannot be the same power behind words as there can be with actions. Certainly one is more actionable (of course) than the other, but it’s true nonetheless that writing can carry a lot of sway

Greetings adventurers! Bees are just the most fascinating insects, and not just for their penchant to produce a delicious sweetener that we all know and love to add to our tea. No, they have complex communities and social signals that they share with one another. They offer up their lives to protect

Greetings adventurers! The shifting prismatics of this sword make it an absolute nightmare to transfer, I’ll tell you. Do you think it’s easy to just pack something up like that and ship it across the realms? No, you need specialized packaging and mounting for it. I ended up just carrying it for mos

Greetings adventurers! The far northern reaches are home to all manner of things that we do not understand. I’ve heard tell of something as silly as short elves and a jolly old fey that distributes gifts to all the world in one night. As ridiculous as it sounds, there are those that truly abide by t

Greetings adventurers! I’ve heard of living houses before, but quickly dismissed them as some misunderstood magical phenomena, a curse or something of that type. Surely there wouldn’t actually be living, breathing, houses that get up and move around. That would just be absurdly silly right? Well tur

Greetings adventurers! There are masters of craftsmanship and magic, but there are also those that seek to master the craft of their blade. For the most discerning swordsman, they need a most auspicious weapon. One that can rival their fury and abilities in combat. They need a weapon they can trust

Greetings adventurers! They say that the greatest thing one can control is your temper, and I find some truth in that. I also understand that there’s a time and place to let that out, albeit in a somewhat controlled manner. I originally crafted this piece for a friend that had some anger management

Greetings adventurers! Cowardice is something that boils deep in the stomachs of those that lack conviction and purpose. It can betray your very weaknesses and strike at the core of what brings fear to you. There are those that reject that fear and embrace that through great acts of courage, that ca

Greetings adventurers! The spectacle of nature seems to know no bounds as it seems that every day I learn more and more about the creatures that make up our wildlife. Sure there are the hulking monstrosities that make us afraid to step into the woods, but there’s also some wonderful things to explor

Greetings adventurers! The general forces of this world are well known to those that profess to study science. Heat and cold, wind and rain, the forces of gravity that keep our feet planted on the floor. What we’re less sure of is the interactions of the magical with those natural forces. Are magics

Greetings adventurers! When a sandswept nomad makes their way into your parlor, it’s often a good idea to take a moment and see what they have to say. Those that would journey into the deepest depths of the most arid climates of the world are made of tougher stuff than those stuck up nobles play fig

Greetings adventurers! The power to control the waters can mean much for those that wish to wield them. Providing nourishment to the thirsty and life to the plants of the world, it’s true that water is one of the core building blocks upon which we all rely. It’s amazing then that something so basic

Greetings adventurers! Even as a young boy, I was as fascinated by storms as I was terrified by them. I grew up not far from the sea, so the tumultuous seas would often tell the tail of a coming gale. The lightning and thunder rattled the windows of our cliffside home and I would lay in bed watching

Greetings adventurers! Beyond the veil of the living lies a world of ghosts and ghouls. Things that go bump in the night and keep children afraid of what may be lurking in their closets. Now we know that the supernatural exist and haunt their places of demise or great anguish, but did you know that

Greetings adventurers! The divine often have their own plans and designs on what they would see come to pass. Much of the time, our understanding of it is clouded by machinations beyond the veil that our eyes cannot perceive, but every so often those machinations come into direct possession of those

Greetings adventurers! Every once in a while you come across an odd item that requires some measure of explanation, but then there are some that explain themselves. While sentience in magicked items is nothing new to me, it is odd to find one so pervasive in its personality while also being relative

Greetings adventurers! Tearing through reality is something that few should take lightly. Behind the thin facade of sense, this world is a complex mesh of something very little of us understand. Perhaps we’re all just living in a complex simulacrum or perhaps the great expanses of this unknown world

Greetings adventurers! There are many things born out of shadow that those of us who dwell in the light might not understand at first glance. It’s our nature to pursue the light and seek it out for safety, but within those dark corners can dwell things of immense power. Should they end up in the wro

Greetings adventurers! Certain dark underbellies of this world are ones I’d rather not delve into if it were not my job. The dirty business of blood money is one of them, but I will say they do come up with some interesting tools. When one of my associates brought this in complaining that a diner ha

Greetings adventurers! Botanists the world over have been looking to grow more interesting forms of their preferred greeneries for eons untold, but I must admit that stopping into a particular florist in town opened my eyes to new possibilities. With druidic influence and a green thumb, she thought

Greetings adventurers! I’ve always underestimated the usefulness of druidic types. Perhaps it was the chanting and tea leaf whispering that drew me away from their practices, but I can’t deny that there’s no better specialist to have by your side when you plan on trudging through dense wilderness. T

Greetings adventurers! Look, I’m not even going to pretend to understand where this one came from. I have heard tall tales of fishermen about man-eating boats and the like but I’ve never been one to buy into the hogwash of fish stories. That said, the organic nature of this piece fused with the wood

Greetings adventurers! The ocean frankly terrifies me. With all of the jelly beings and stingy things, not to mention whatever horrors may lie in the deepest parts of the oceans. This dagger seems to be crafted from the still moving, and pinching, claws of some malformed crab that dwells below the s

Greetings adventurers! There are all manner of individuals who will worship anything from the flaming ball of gas in the sky to the bugs that crawl on the leaves outside. I have seen all manner of those dedicated to their beliefs in whatever deity is their flight of fancy. Those dedicated to the moo

Greetings adventurers! In the shadowed corridors of castles, one force of light stands strong. The Lamplighters of old, those that would bring clarity to the murk and push away the darkness with their nightly rounds. Over time, nobility grew to rely on the Lamplighters for more than just setting can

Greetings adventurers! A dwarf wandered into our shop stinking something fierce and obviously intoxicated. He opined for a few moments about lost comrades and something about a whole party of them. I felt a little bad for the chap as he’d obviously been through the wringer. I invited him in for some

Greetings adventurers! Well I’ll be the first to admit that the subterrain is not my preferred area to hang out. No disrespect meant to those that build entire civilizations down there, I just never saw the appeal. Between the lack of sun, stuffy environs, and now acid spitting monstrosities, I just

Greetings adventurers! I try not to mettle in the affairs of elemental beings. They’re just too temperamental I find. You know the fiery ones are all hotheaded. The stone ones are a bit too down to earth. The windy ones are all full of hot air. The moist ones are, well moist. I do recognize the effo

Greetings adventurers! The skies are a magical and terrifying place filled with all manner of possibilities as well as things that want to eat you. Isn’t that just the most exciting thing? As we expand our reach of knowledge into the unknown corners and frontiers of these lands, so too are airships

Greetings adventurers! Bharzul is truly a city of wonders. You know they have a fully autonomous network of constructs that tends to the day to day mundanities of city life? Truly. I’ve heard that the core of it is a closely guarded secret. Some advanced form of magic no doubt. In either case, it do

Greetings adventurers! The world can be a scary place at times, not due to monsters but due to the people that inhabit it. Some of the worst types you could ever come across are locked away and forgotten in long lost dungeons where they were left to rot. One individual had a different idea though. H

Greetings adventurers! In a faraway temple that reaches up from the ground like the rigid remains of some unnatural creature, there lies a gauntlet. Some have sought it out to extend their lives. Others have gone in search of the power to end the existence of others. They all end up cursed in the en

Greetings adventurers! There are some tenacious navigators in this world. The types that are driven to find everything and map the uncharted. Those that will throw themselves to the edges of the world trying to see what hasn’t been seen. Some of them are apparently also decent with a bow and have a

Greetings adventurers! Many had come to this small hamlet out in the countryside where they say a sword worthy of a king had been embedded in stone for years until. Some would come to try their luck while others merely came to gawk. The folks of the town didn’t mind so much. Travelers meant money to

Greetings adventurers! I was horrified when a portal opened in our shop and a beast stepped through with a fiery hole in its chest bearing a hammer for an arm and an anvil on its knee. I had heard of these hellsmiths before in my reading, but the prospect of one being in the shop was less than an ex

Greetings adventurers! Keeping food fresh is an arduous task even in the largest of towns. You have to deal with digging out cellars and salting or pickling and in the end, you get worse tasting food than when you started. Well, never ones to be stifled by “rules” we set out to create a device that

Greetings adventurers! The galaxy is a massive and ever expanding place filled with creatures unknowable and technologies far beyond what we have available here. Deep within the void of space, dying stars pull inward consuming light and other celestial bodies around it. We had an unusual encounter w

Greetings adventurers! Far away in the mountains, an old and sagging log cabin rests in a lush valley. The wildlife was plentiful and the garden outside grew thick. Within, a gray haired old man went about his duties tending to the land around him. He had neighbors, spread across the valley, drawing

Greetings adventurers! Occasionally you find yourself in odd company when you’re working on obtaining and crafting artifacts like we are and this day was no exception. A shadowy individual told us that he knew of a place not far from the tavern where a creature of ancient brood had fallen and that t

Greetings adventurers! Not long ago, we were approached by a person with a rather imposing sword, demanding we duel for honor. Now, I don’t know if you know much about us, but we’re not fighters. Instead, we choose the academic pursuits that come along with this profession, so we chose to stay back

Greetings adventurers! We were snooping around an old barn where we absolutely had permission to be. You see, we heard from a local that there was something “funny” about that place so of course we had to go take a look. With our goggles firmly on, we searched high and low to find the source of the

Greetings adventurers! Flintlocks are a relatively new invention in our neck of the weird woods, but that hasn’t stopped artificers and tinkerers like us from plying our trade on them. There’s always something to tweak or something to improve. In this case, a rather demanding client with very broad

Greetings adventurers! While the dagger itself may seem beautiful with its swirling butterfly pattern around it, it’s impossible to deny the deadly nature of it. The juxtaposition of looks and the brutality it is capable of were quite a contrast to us as we became more aware of its abilities. The ad