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Christmas Aisle Inspiration

by Scrasamax

Inspiration comes from strange places

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Codex introduction

Where do you get your ideas?
This is a question I am frequently asked. I imagine that some of you reading this have also been asked this same question. Most of the time, the only answer I care to give is a shrug of the shoulders and the common 'I dunno, just happens.'

Now it just so happens, there is a specific location that seldom fails to get my creative motor running. I will take pictures of the things that I find in this location with my cell phone. Sometimes I refer back to it as I am writing, sometimes not. I felt I would like to share this inspiration with you, as well as putting the submissions inspired by it together in this codex.

Thank you, as always, for reading.

Codex

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4 pieces

  1. Brumborion's Sword

    Scrasamax Items Melee Weapons Heroic

    Brumborion's blade, the fang of the north, ice razor, the glacial sword, Givone's Favor

  2. Frosty's Silk Hat of Sentience

    Pieh Items Clothes Magical

    Frosty the Snowman. Is a fairytale they say. He was made of snow. But the children know. How he came to life one day... There must have been some magic. In that old silk hat they found. For when they placed it on his head. He began to dance around...

  3. Cristata

    Scrasamax Lifeforms Third Kingdom Any

    In the bleak midwinter frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago. Christina Rossetti English poet (1830 - 1894)

  4. Pirtuk Man

    Scrasamax Lifeforms Constructed Tundra/ Arctic

    Kah-poong-ah Ner-key-voot peeto-hung-i-tu-goot Kigh-sa-geet Kah-bloon-ah nowk?

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  1. Pieh

    I added a bit of my Christmas inspiration from the WINTER quest. I hope you don't mind the intrusion but I think it fits.

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    1. Scrasamax reply

      The more the merrier Pieh

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  2. valadaar

    An interesting thought.

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