#ocean wizard

[wizardlocation]

💀 Oceanic brain infection 💀

It was all to easy for him to get lost to the song of the currents. / A man searching for answers and comfort in wake of tragedy. / A husk bound to mourn what he cannot remember forever, / and to seek revenge against those who he would doom to share his fate.

Haiiii what if i started putting lil character drabbles under read moressss... smile :)

Uh working on ocean wizard again. feeling dramatic over it always. it's basically solidified in my brain to be the end product of what happened to a common wizard who dabbled in magic for fun and a bit of work. It was on a transport ship bound for home with its family and they were attacked and the ship was sunk. He picked up different varying methods to try and recover their bodies and search for the wreckage since he was one of the few survivors who was carried off by the currents in the area and refused to go back to the land without 'his whole family present'. over time he would make pit stops into different towns as he wandered to get his hands on different magical texts to better help his search and to hope he could bring them back to life upon finding their bodies. (which of course would be impossible to find at this point). he practices on himself and continuously alters himself to keep going and to keep moving and keep searching. eventually he's so altered and his magic is forever drenched in the magic the oceans currents always carry he becomes closer and closer to the powerful litch he is today. as he approaches an unnaturally slow death he forgets who he is and who he's looking for. All he can remember is how he's mourning and the anger he feels upon seeing those armed with weapons at sea.

[protoformx]

making a sea dragon form for my ocean wizard and m jus obsessed w the horrible silhouette i drew of him normally for size comparison

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[blacktipreefsharkwizarding]

OOC

seeing this become a common wizardposting thing I guess so if this gets 5k notes I’ll do one (1) iota of self care

[hellsitegenetics]

curse of TRANSMUTATION upon ye!!

ye may transform into whatever the great and mighty wizard known as BLAST chooses to strike upon ye, with it’s mysterious and fearsome powers of biology.

it may choose a creature, a plant, bug or fungi. perhaps t’will bring upon ye a mystery, unknown to you or even a wizard such as i.

ahem. allow me a moment to catch my breath, as a wizard i hardly ever see a moments rest.

and with a spell this scary and ferocious, you really truly do not want me to lose my focus. alas, you could find the results turn out to be atrocious!

now, onto what ye results will be, as only BLAST will tell, and tell it surely will dear wizard please BLAST this powerful spell!!!

String identified:

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a. a a t t catc at, a a a a a t t.

a t a t ca a c, a t t at t c. aa, c t t t t t atc!

, t at t , a AT t, a t t a a a AT t !!!

Closest match: Xestospongia muta genome assembly, chromosome: 3 Common name: Giant barrel spongeaaAAAAAAAGJGJJJHG

[catnoli]

carrd | faq | ko-fi | shop

blue shark wizard! 🦈🧙‍♂️

[opens-up-4-nobody]

:-P

[dailyadventureprompts]

Adventure: Grasping for Answers

Throughout their early adventures the party come into conflict with the agents of the mysterious mage known only as "The Ravelling Hand", a villain of uncertain identity who seems to have lots of schemes and no qualms using violence, trickery, and unexpected magic to get what they want.

Adventure Hooks:

The party first become entangled with the hand's minions when they're asked by an innocuous travelling merchant to deliver a small wrapped parcel to the wizard living one town over. The wizard isn't open to receiving guests, and after sneaking or charming their way in, the party will find out why: her apprentice has been kidnapped, the parcel contains both of the boy's index fingers as well as a note explaining that she can have the rest of him back in exchange for several dangerous texts in her collection, delivered by the party to the same intermediary who hired them. A brawl is likely to ensue as the wizard suspects the party is in on the blackmail, but if they can talk her down maybe they can figure out a way to work together to get the boy back before any more harm comes to him.

Most thieves know better than to try and rob a magic item shop, but most thieves aren't armed with dispel magic infused salt grenades to neutralize the shop's ubiquitous defences. A rash of these attacks across the duchy has shopkeepers worried, and one hires the party to stake out their store for the night when they suspect someone is casing it. Do the party trail the robbers back to their hideout, or interrupt them mid heist only for combat to delay them long enough for those indiscriminate defences to start turning back on?

Spoiler Alert: The mage is in fact an arcanely gifted lesser kraken by the name of Dlexx who seeks to avail itself of all the magical knowledge amassed on land. Sure the deep has its own mysteries but there's a thriving trade in spellscrolls and arcane tomes that don't make it below the waves. Using an old lighthouse as a disguise for its massive form while on land, it uses telepathy and sendings to direct its minions without ever revealing its true nature. Imagine the party's surprise when they roll up to the villain's lair expecting to bully some crusty nerd with a ratty beard and instead the lair sprouts tentacles that drag them into the crashing surf.

Challenges & Consequences

Finding Dlexx is an adventure in and of itself. When questioned, most of the mage's minions admit to never having met their employer, and those high ranking enough to have been summoned to a place called "saltbite tower" in dreams only to later have their memories muddled. Careful interrogation and study of local maps will have the party realize that the tower is infact an abandoned lighthouse, which will narrow their search as they comb the costline for their enemy's lair.

Actually defeating the Ravelling Hand might prove too much for early level adventurers, as in addition to being a powerful mage the kraken is literally in its element, able to breathe and move while the heroes flounder. Dlexx will toy with them, throwing unconscious foes out of the water the way a fisherman throws back a catch that is too small. When the battle is over and it's proved it's point the kraken will collapse the tower and leave into the wide ocean, telepathically taunting them with their inability to follow.

Though the Ravelling Hand will not resurface for some time, the destruction of the tower and Dlexx's retreat into the deep is partially a bluff. The kraken chose that particular lighthouse because it was a short distance away from the coral reef into which it scribed its arcane learning the way a wizard records spells in a book, coiling arms etching formulae into hundreds of yards of living stone. Dlexx must periodically return to the reef to add spells to it, and sightings by locals (or the occasional fish manifesting with magical talent) might clue the party into the reef's existence.

A pair of merfolk siblings named Crashing-Tide and Arcing-Mirror serve the Ravelling Hand as apprentices and scribes, having promised seven years of utmost loyalty in exchange for the chance to bring the arcane knowledge of the surface back to their community. They tend to the reef, and allow the Kraken to borrow their eyes from afar so that it might study the spells scribed there. Several years into their pledge, Crash (the sister) has come to idolize Dlexx and the power it wields above and below the waves, wishing that the whole of their shoal to come into its service. Mirror (the brother) is skeptical, well aware of the kraken's manipulations and distantly suspicious of the conflict that it invokes. Perhaps if the party can intercede with these two they can learn more about their enemy's plans, though doing so will take some careful diplomacy.

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[bowelfly]

went down to the craft fair today and got a nice pondering orb for Quercus the Magnificent

[naggingatlas]

enki s ending u have to stop you smoke too tough your swag too different ur bitch is too bad theyll kill you

[wizardlocation]

[image ID// A lightly shaded drawing of my ocean wizard oc done in colored pencil. He is standing and facing the viewer, one piece of his cloak held tightly in one of his hands, which is raised to his chest in order to reach it. His other hand is idle at his left side. The tail end of the wizard's long and finned hat is currently curled around and draped over his left shoulder. The fins on top of his hat are drooping and a little haggard. in the middle of the image is a white watermark that says 'wizardlocation' // end ID]]

I forgot to draw the rest of his manta cloak but we can pretend it's tied up behind him to not snag on things djksngjksngkng. Long time no wizard but it's been plaguing my brain a little for the past few days. Specifically I want to finish drawing the seagull wizard I have that's one of his sole visitors every few years. This'll tie into the work I'm doing involving the world around the ocean wizard and why he's done so much to bar himself into the spire he lives in and its surrounding area.

[potatobugz]

greatest book ever btw. getting the audiobook was so worth it omg omg

[cheerioskid]

more empires s1 doodles

[del-stars]

there are two evan rosiers to me. and i love fucking freak evan, dearly. i love batshit insane, obsessed-with-each-other rosekiller. i love evan who is unhealthily infatuated with barty and dissects dead animals and is joined at the hip to pandora.

but i also adore shy evan, isolated evan, evan who has never learned how to communicate his emotions and so has just convinced himself that he doesn't have any. evan who feels like he's pulling out his own teeth every time he tries to have a conversation with someone. evan and barty who seem to just keep missing each other, who communicate through bitten lips and icy stares across a room. evan whose best friend is regulus black, because they can spend hours in silence together, and they'll never ask one another what's wrong. evan who only gets barty when he's drunk or too horny. evan who thinks he's just not made to be anybody's first choice. evan who can't see anything about himself that anyone would like.

[mattaytchtaylor]

Wizard Hut

[elizabugz]