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Shiny Press @shinypress.bsky.social · Dec 26

🔥 A full, well-cared beard can be a symbol of social standing in many dwarven cultures. Steel Beards were invented to mimic beards lost to accidents. They magically turn into fine steel threads to preserve one’s standing and also confer the gifts of dwarves to non-dwarves.

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Shiny Press @shinypress.bsky.social · 3d

🔥 The magic that roils inside as Primeval Source is more than a spring of elemental power or the capacity of transforming the element it rules, but it can also impart its elemental nature. Everember does so almost unprompted, setting those that touch its flames ablaze.

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Shiny Press @shinypress.bsky.social · 5d

🔥 Colossal lightning bolts seared the Primeval Age’s skies, discharging magic over the earth. All that was caught in the destruction was charged with magical potential, as was this relic with the power to manipulate electricity around it—a Primeval Source.

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Shiny Press @shinypress.bsky.social · 7d

🔥 The Material Realm was once much more permeable to magic, home to even more wondrous monsters, beasts, and peoples, and ravaged by unchecked elemental catastrophes. This ancient age of elementalism left scars and artifacts of great power, now known as Primeval Sources.

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Shiny Press @shinypress.bsky.social · 10d

🔥 The wood elf sages know of the subtle powers of nature, weaving clothing out of plants they grow from magically prepared seeds to wield them. Smells, perfumes, and roots are the strengths of plants and they don’t go unnoticed by the guardians of the wild.

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Shiny Press @shinypress.bsky.social · 12d

🔥 All beasts have their place in the web of life, one day a hunter, prey by the next. Often raised to be the wild’s guardians, wood elves have learned to harness its unbridled power, summoning the aspects of beasts through their magical green swords.

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Shiny Press @shinypress.bsky.social · 14d

🔥 All forests are cut by life-giving rivers, its roots and beasts drinking deep of the waters. Wood elves have long cultivated pebble charms to absorb the rivers’ currents, leaving them to rest on the riverbeds, making them capable of keeping evil at bay with an unseen force.

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Shiny Press @shinypress.bsky.social · 15d

It's the last few days of Late Pledge for the Scorched Basin!

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Shiny Press @shinypress.bsky.social · 17d

Fantasy Drop #04 is out... uncover the secrets of Mysterious Mimicology!

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Shiny Press @shinypress.bsky.social · 18d

🔥 Mimic colonies—or mimicries—behave in strange ways, often emulating the behaviors of bigger organisms. The Mimicking Suit copies the trappings of knights to stalk and prey on the unsuspecting. These days the colony is mostly inert, able to be used as mostly regular armor.

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Shiny Press @shinypress.bsky.social · 20d

🔥 As current science shows, mimics have two needs: tricking people and eating (people, most of the time). If an adventurer keeps them fed and gives them opportunities to transform, they’re happy to stick around and even pull their weight, as the Mimic of Holding literally does.

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Shiny Press @shinypress.bsky.social · 25d

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Shiny Press @shinypress.bsky.social · 28d

🔥 Sticky is a defenseless mimic incapable of shapeshifting into nothing but gloves, lacking convincing disguises or a bite to fend-off attackers. A little smarter than usual, it has the habit of befriending those who wear it, aiding them in exchange for protection.

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Shiny Press @shinypress.bsky.social · Oct 4

🔥 By far the most mysterious phenomenon recorded in mimicology is the Misleading Light, an eccentric mimic of uncertain origin that could imitate a source of light, but that also possessed psychic capabilities aimed to confound its prey.

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Shiny Press @shinypress.bsky.social · Oct 3

🔥 Made by experimenting on strains of mimics that preferred transforming into weapons, this one was designed to reign supreme over all other arms. The monster’s shapechanging abilities are employed to mimic all weapon types and to battle in all ranges.

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Shiny Press @shinypress.bsky.social · Oct 1

🔥 Some mimecologists claim to have observed specially weird mimics that have grown a taste for things beyond treats and trickery. This mimic would only transform into a spear and serve only its master, dissolving their enemies with acid, hungry for battle.

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Shiny Press @shinypress.bsky.social · Sep 29

Wield the full might of a Fateweaver with the Fateweaver's Set!

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Shiny Press @shinypress.bsky.social · Sep 26

🔥 The Fateweavers specialize in all manner of woven magic and take interest in the skills of other cultures. This cloak of a now extinct, winged, folk was repaired by the weavers with glimmersilk, bringing their wings back from the beyond.

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Shiny Press @shinypress.bsky.social · Sep 24

🔥 In the Spindle Spire, great mystics weave glimmersilk, an astral thread said to hold the power to bend fate when pulled, cut, and woven. These mystics are called Fateweavers, forever spinning the Spindle and making tapestries that spell fate itself.

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Shiny Press @shinypress.bsky.social · Sep 19

🔥 Only seen from afar, the celestial dance of twin stars has inspired the hands of a stargazing blacksmith. They sought to make inseparable blades that would always stand by their wielder and aid in battle with brilliance.

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Shiny Press @shinypress.bsky.social · Sep 18

🔥 Meteorites lose much of their mass when crossing the atmosphere towards the ground, tracing burning omens upon the skies. This staff was made from meteorite fragments and can tap into their lost mass to alter the fabric of the battlefield.

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Shiny Press @shinypress.bsky.social · Sep 11

Fantasy Drop #03 is out! Harvest monstrous ingredients, cook magical meals and wield the Dragon Roaster's Arsenal!

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Shiny Press @shinypress.bsky.social · Sep 10

Get even more out of the Flame-eating Shield and the Roaster's Hammer by wielding them in tandem! They go together like a pot and its lid!

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Shiny Press @shinypress.bsky.social · Sep 8

🔥 Constantly facing fire-breathing monsters, the Dragon Roasters eventually developed a weird response to flames, being sent into a frenzy whenever burned. The vision of a burning, hammer-wielding Roaster became commonplace in the depth’s frontlines, fighting fire with fire.

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Shiny Press @shinypress.bsky.social · Sep 5

🔥 Braving deep, dragon-infested tunnels, the Roasters had no resource but to cook in and eat whatever they could find around. Their flame-resistant shields proved useful as pan lids, generating heat to cook anywhere provided a bout with fire-spewing drakes happened that day.

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Shiny Press @shinypress.bsky.social · Sep 3

🔥 An offshoot of the Sweet Rock Clan, the Dragon Roasters specialized in hunting and cooking dragons, facing the monsters as a vanguard force before the other dwarves arrived to mine the Red Mountain’s depths.

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