#wispy winds Wolpertinger

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Careweres are now available to preorder! I'm gonna get one, just trying to decide between the three Wolpertingers... but Wispy Wind is definitely the most appropriate for Autumn Week!

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[gluevah]

They're here!!!

Received some very exciting mail yesterday! I backed the Snughouls Series 2 campaign back in late 2023, and my pledge rewards arrived Sunday!

These guys are all really lovely and big and huggable 🩷 I love the designs, they all have such cute faces!

Wispy Winds Wolpertinger is the softest of the three; her body fur is slightly longer and silkier, and the long fur on her arms and neck is also soft. I plan to get her some ear bows and maybe a little sweater?

Grimshroud Mothman has such lovely details; I should have taken a photo of his wings, they're so cool! Grimmy looks so cute in his bug bandana, and he has his little caterpillar friend (you can't really see him in the photo though, whoops!) 🧡 I added elastic to the loop on the underside of the caterpillar, and then attached it to Grimmy's neck fluff so his best buddy is always there for him.

Foggy Were is probably the easiest to cuddle; his design is simpler than the others, with no wings or horns or antennae, so nothing gets in the way! Not that the others aren't also cuddly, of course, but Foggy is easiest to sleep with! I want to get him a cute hoodie and a collar and tag. I think people have said that 0-3 months baby clothes fit them, I'll have to give it a try!

Having these guys has made me even more excited for the other plush I'm waiting for from McMadMissile/Tiny Teeth!

[peacevine]

potential unique apparel rewards from bounties, including basically every trinket drop you’ve ever wanted to equip to your dragons but couldn’t:

sprangyroo gauntlets

harpy masks

those scythes from the ghostlight ruins corven guys

Wolpertinger Hoodie

wind-up pocketmouse keys

probably a ton of stuff involving various hides and pelts

and feathers, for that matter

those little wispy clouds baku & dreameaters have

those uhhh. shields the new golem workshop miths drop

more weaponry in general. especially the staffs dropped by the sandswept delta gryphons and by the thunderhead savanna raptorik

that weird armor fallout/fallen/snow streaks wear

kitsune sickles

longneck interloper/skirmisher scarves & backpacks

Literally anything worn by longneck gladiators

...anything worn by any beastclan enemy for that matter

malevolent/disoriented spirit mantles

primrose/brown-spotted mith satchels....

[calleo-bricriu]

So if you're not pestering the war criminal tonight what ARE you doing?

Alternating between keeping Siegfried busy and going over some modifications and additions to that Nihilus/Fiendfyre combination so I can find out, in theory mind you, how wide it would be capable of spreading.

Fiendfyre will spread infinitely if not controlled or put out.

Nihilus is--different. It’s meant to block one specific spell, however, when you start skirting the edges of where you can go with your modification of it before it stops working, it’s more like a cloud-thing.

That’s not the right word.

When cast at a single thing, it looks like wispy, almost black smoke with a deep violet tinge. At the same time it looks like nothing at all; you can see it, yet at the same time you can’t see it and that may only make sense if you’ve encountered it.

What I found, when throwing it at multiple targets (the only actual living things that died were plants, relax) it spread like a mist would spread and had the same there-but-not-there way. It is capable of eating through a Fiendfyre, which I also didn’t know until a couple of days ago; Nihilus consumes itself in the process if it does that.

I don’t know how far it would have spread, but I suspect only to whatever I’d targeted as it went out once its targets were destroyed. If one were to view an entire area as their ‘target’, my guess is that it would expand to encompass that order.

The curious way ’die Zerstörung’ is described in any European Magical History type text written from about 1946 on. Most of them have variants on the same theme and I recall reading about it again after I figured out how to use Nihilus and have it not kill me. The descriptions of what came before the fire--fire that I’d be surprised if it wasn’t Fiendfyre with how destructive it was--I’ll just quote from “European Magical History, Volume IV”, Bathilda Bagshot:

“[...] a sickly silence sweeping over entire valleys- something like a rainstorm, something like a wind, and something, indeed, like an Avada Kedavra on a massive scale. After the light faded, total conflagration inevitably followed.“

That describes a spread out Nihilus fairly accurately; the thinner its spread the less likely you are to perceive seeing the nothing that it is.

Superficial visual effects could be added just to obscure what was actually being used. It could be made to look like a standard killing curse (though you could get that effect by attaching Expandi Manus to the killing curse), like white mist, anything, really.

At that point, it reads like it set off a timer to trigger a widespread fire, most likely a Fiendfyre.While it’s possible Expandi Manus was used to fan it out, it wouldn’t be necessary with the proper level of power behind it.

And no, I’m not going to test it.

If that is what it was, I don’t think I’ll be able to surpass that in levels of straight up malicious destruction; nothing grows where Nihilus touches. The land there--it’s nothing. It looks like it has a fine, silvery coat to the soil but that’s just what nothing leaves behind. I have a few vials of it from experimenting with it a few years back. It’s oddly fascinating to watch it move in the vial.

Also, I discovered that my mother is strange enough to make antler mittens for a wolpertinger. He doesn’t seem to mind wearing them and getting poked by those antlers is less painful with little mitten-hat things on them.