Yellow-Masked Ululare
Ululatus flavifacies
Ululare or masked shrieker is a family of creatures that hunt by using a high-frequency sound blast. Yellow-Masked Ululare entire head is covered with hard shells that resemble a human face. These shells are actually an organ that helps it control and amplify its scream while protecting its own ear. They have a unique ability to aim their deadly scream toward a specific direct...
2020-10-09 01:55:59 +0000 UTC
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Flame-Tail Ground Harpy
Harpyiacursa Flammeus
A species of flightless harpy native to Baramus Prairie. They are the fastest creature on land. Like most harpy, they live in a flock led by an alpha female. The female flame-tail has rather dull red plumage, but their male has a bright iridescent red and orange plumage with a long extravagant tail. But just like other species of harpies, their male is less in number, smaller, and mu...
2020-10-08 04:56:36 +0000 UTC
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Hermit Slug
Limaciinersis solitarius
The large mollusk lives by using a hollow cavity as its ‘shell’. Once it found a spot which usually is a dead tree trunk or a small cavity on the ground or cave wall, It will anchor itself inside then expand and rearrange its organ inside that space to use it as its exoskeleton body for the rest of its life. It will then spread a network of tendrils filled with stinging cells around its p...
2020-10-07 05:52:15 +0000 UTC
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Draconic Troll
Gigatrocis draconinus
A rare species of a true troll (Gigatrociae) that roam the Basran mountain range. It looks like a hybrid of a dragon and a troll with the thick scales covering its body, a long and heavy crocodilian tail, extra pair of arm, and a lizard-like head. What sets it apart the most from the regular troll is its innate ability to use draconic magic and its resistance against fire and acid whic...
2020-10-06 04:09:20 +0000 UTC
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Argosian Longcat
Felislongus argonensis
A longcat breed that is native to Argos. All longcat breeds have a unique body structure that allows them to withdraw their body into a ball shape. When in the ball position, their thick condensed fur, skin, and muscle protect them from both cold and predator attacks. Their strong and flexible muscles allow them to lunge their body out from the ball position to make an extremely swift and ...
2020-10-05 02:39:31 +0000 UTC
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Storm Render
Cornibracchiorum tempestas
Storm Render has a similar appearance to a stag, except for its blue skin and ‘horns’. It is a carnivore that has the ability to store huge amounts of electrical energy by practically ‘catching lightning’. The creature’s horn at a normal state looks like squishy tentacles, but when a storm is coming it can rise up and hardened into multiple horns. They emit a series of ...
2020-10-04 02:47:04 +0000 UTC
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Naked Horned Rat
Muriscornigerum periculosa
It is a rare species of horned rat that was considered extremely dangerous. They live inside a cave system that caused so many mysterious death and illness to explorers. They consume a certain material inside the cave and store it on their horn and skin. The material somehow emits some kind of energy that caused people to become very ill and even died of organ failures after bein...
2020-10-03 02:35:47 +0000 UTC
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Wailing Behemoth
Since it was first discovered 150 years ago as it just hatched from an unknown egg inside a derelict temple, the wailing behemoth is still growing even now. It has an insatiable appetite and will devour anything within its reach.
Its body is almost impervious to damage from both physical and magical attacks, and it has an extremely fast regeneration ability. But it tends to act like a baby and will run after being ...
2020-10-02 05:59:05 +0000 UTC
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Giant Mistfly
Muscafluites Nebula
A giant insect that floats using the bloated abdomen which was filled with bioluminescence gas. The insect also releases the gas which was mixed with its stinging cells in order to propel itself and to incapacitate its prey which usually consists of small mammals and insects.
The first creature for this trial. 'Otherworldly' is quite a tough one alread...
2020-10-01 08:32:08 +0000 UTC
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To celebrate the start of this year’s Trial of Ink, I’m going to give the digital artbook of “2019th - Trial of Ink” to all current and new Researchers, Curators, and Archivists. The 70+ page artbook consists of 31 unique creatures that I created during last year's Trial of Ink.
All new Patron that join The Archive from October 1st until November 15th will receive this special reward which will be included...
2020-09-30 13:57:51 +0000 UTC
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Forsaken Fables
The first giant ‘sword’ later known as ‘The Forsaken Fables’ was found in a derelict temple in the middle of Cernunnos Forest, while the second one has been passed down from generation to generation and used as a sacred weapon by the Ulrhea tribe. All known swords have a similar shape in general, except for some minor differences in their hilt design and unique contour on the blade. But, each sword has an engraving that...
2020-09-30 09:17:58 +0000 UTC
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Integral Ichor
A sacred artifact that belongs to the temple of The Blood Mother. It is used during the trial to become a Blood-Seeker. The candidate would be given the blade-less sword and then locked inside the Red Ruins. They have to fight and survive the onslaught of fiendish creatures called The Hemogoblin that spawn inside the ruin with only the blade-less sword as their only weapon. The sword will absorb and collect every drop of blood from b...
2020-09-29 09:24:17 +0000 UTC
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Cerulean Crest
The beautifully crafted sword is one of seven regalia of The kingdom of Sheilumn. It was forged by a master blacksmith using the purest mithril for the hilt and ornaments, while the blade was made from rare kind of adamantine which can only be found within the kingdom territory. Rather than as a weapon, the sword has only be used as a symbol of the kingdom. It was passed down from generation to generation, from the previous king to the ...
2020-09-28 13:38:09 +0000 UTC
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Grieving Garden
Hated by the fae, elven society, and druidic community, this sword is condemned as an act of desecration and cruelty on fae creatures as well as mother nature herself. Under the beautiful petal hilt is a hellish contraption that was designed to lure, capture, and trap sprite, fairy, or pixie. The contraption will torture the captured fae, forcing it to curse its own nature, and endlessly siphoning life energy from any living creature i...
2020-09-27 04:50:20 +0000 UTC
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Vicious Vortex
This sword was found at the center of Cerulean Sea Ship-Eater, a gigantic whirlpool located at the center of Aldega Archipelago. It is still unknown how and when it arrived there, but it is certain that the giant everlasting whirlpool was caused by this sword which has been there long before the first settled arrived at the archipelago. The sword affects any liquid that comes in contact with it, making it moves in a spiraling motion with incr...
2020-09-26 07:02:46 +0000 UTC
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Avaricious Avant-Garde
This sword belongs to the Andramolach family, a very successful and wealthy merchant family from Azalis Empire. The skillful craftsmanship of several famous blacksmiths, jewelers, and enchanters created the extravagantly ornate sword. It was commissioned several decades ago by the former head of the family and remains within their family mansion as their heirloom. It was used once during a civil war where the head of the family fought to ...
2020-09-25 12:31:39 +0000 UTC
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Carnivora Carnival
This pair of weapons was created by Schere, The Patchwork Witch, and once belonged to her when she’s still actively hunting for a subject to play with. This weapon is imbued by her very own original magic which grants it the ability to mutilate living beings without harming nor killing them. This pair of swords that can be combined into large scissors are considered cursed because those with weak mental constitution who hear the sound o...
2020-09-24 14:54:34 +0000 UTC
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Aberrant Aegis
Exist in between the category of shield and sword, this weapon belongs to the well-known veteran adventurer who now becomes one of Tierra’s Royal Knight, Sir Olivant Slagtand, or better known as his title; The Iron Gates. He’s well known as a knight who wields two giant shields in battle. This set of weapons is one of the armaments that was bestowed upon him by His Majesty himself. It was made from adamantine and mithril. The mechanism al...
2020-09-24 02:41:49 +0000 UTC
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Draconic Dread
This sword was found inside the lair of an ancient white dragon, Adharainth The Mist Eater. It lies there beside the ancient dragon dead body and an unknown female warrior corpse who wears various kinds of makeshift armaments that seemingly specifically designed to kill the white dragon. The most stand out equipment is this sword. It was made by haphazardly and forcefully combining various kinds of enchantment and material from several ...
2020-09-23 00:44:29 +0000 UTC
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Gleaming Gehenna
The appearance of this sword might not even make it suitable to be classified as ‘sword’. But It is indeed a sword. Forged by using a combination of Mythril and a mysterious alloy from the Astral Sea, this sword gains a unique nature; It exists in between the boundary of the material plane and the astral plane. What people can see is just its hilt which exists fully in this material plane, but it’s true blade exist on the border...
2020-09-21 18:22:24 +0000 UTC
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Paradoxical Paradigm
Forged by using a small shard from The Timeless Dragon, Arsqualia, as its core, the sword inherited Arsqualia natural ability to cause a temporal anomaly around it. When the power is triggered, the sword will create a time loop for every swing it made, causing it to produce a phantom copy of itself that repeats the previous moves. It’ll keep creating even more looping phantom copies for each attack until eventually, one swing would ma...
2020-09-20 15:31:08 +0000 UTC
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Absolute Arbiter
A forbidden artifact left by the celestials. The double-bladed sword might not have a destructive magical attack and the two floating shield doesn’t have any defensive magic or anything to protect their wielder. The reason this sword is considered a taboo object is because of its ability to influence other people’s minds within its extremely wide area of effect. Its ability force its wielder’s belief and sense of justice into other pe...
2020-09-19 17:14:36 +0000 UTC
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Thank you so much for your participation in creating this list! Just like last year which gives birth to '2019th Trial of Ink' book, this year I'll attempt to go for another journey to records 31 unique creatures and entities from across the world and plane of existence again.
Of course, I invite you to join me in this Quest as well.
Feel free to join me to with the same 'creature' theme, or pick up different themes or topics. Although I might attempt to finish al...
2020-09-19 08:20:25 +0000 UTC
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Crawling Claymore
Dracoparvulus gladius or the Claymore Dragon is a unique species of pseudo-dragon that lived in the western rainforest. They can grow up to 2 meters long and have a unique razor-sharp tail. Besides their ability to produce neuro-toxin that they use to laces their tail with, this creature has an incredibly hard scales and a sturdy body. When they’re threatened they can either try to attack with their tail or harden th...
2020-09-18 17:20:59 +0000 UTC
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Shattered Swarm
Created by the Lampede druids, It is a sword made of unique crystal only found in their domain. In its idle form, the sword looks like a clump of iridescent crystals which rather blunt and brittle. But it’s true deadliness will become apparent when the brittle sword is smashed into pieces. Each individual shard will float around the sword and move at an incredible speed according to the wielder’s movement and will. The more shattered it ...
2020-09-18 00:37:31 +0000 UTC
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Spell Scriber
Developed by the Director of The Archive, Spell Scriber is an attempt to improve upon the typical spell imbued swords that rellies on a limited pool of spell and energy to cast magic. Using a reloadable miniaturize spell scroll imbued with simplified spell formula, a replaceable canister of condensed arcane crystal, and an enchanted mechanism that allow the sword to scan and transcribe the spell from to the scroll to the sword with a pull of a tri...
2020-09-17 00:39:04 +0000 UTC
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Faithful Feathers
The beautifully ornate twin swords are designed to resemble a pair of a winged serpent, Couatl, It is imbued with magic that gives the wielder the ability to reduce their body weight to almost nothing and move like a feather in the wind. But the main magical feature of this pair of swords only shown when one of them is separated from the other. Focusing on the separated one will trigger its ability to turn into a glowing blade ...
2020-09-16 03:21:39 +0000 UTC
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Righteous Regalia
Hung at the main chamber of The Hall of Valor at Azalis Empire’s capital, the set of sword and shield appeared out of place among the other glamorous weapons, armor, and ornaments. But the broken sword and shield once belonged to the first king of Azalis Empire who fought countless invader that tried to conquer their sacred land. It is said that both pieces of equipment are still imbued with the soul of the first king. Only those whose b...
2020-09-15 10:32:08 +0000 UTC
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Spiral Spark
Another experimental weapon developed by The director of The Archive. Utilizing dwarven technology to channel, store, and amplify lightning magic, the ‘sword’ generate a deadly lightning blade. Although it still require more research to ensure the safety of the user, the tests so far has shown good results, it is very effective against metallic armor even against adamantite, and with enough energy, it could e...
2020-09-12 23:57:18 +0000 UTC
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So the time will soon come once again for the annual 'Trial of Ink'~!
Just like last year, I'll embark on a journey to record 31 creatures based on a predetermined prompt list. If nothing goes wrong, then by the end of October we'll have 31 ink drawings of various creatures.
But since this year I have you with me, rather than following other facilities' official prompt list, why don't we make one ourselves!
You can write down your prompt suggestion on the form down below....
2020-09-12 11:16:17 +0000 UTC
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