QoH 23 Crafting Special: Armourer Tourney

2016 Category: Bracer/ Greave Combo 

 Team Umbra Armourer entry

• Steve and Meg Matulewicz
• Original design created by combining Umbra's personal heraldry with Ashenmark heraldry. Hand tooled and dyed veg tan -circle and flames have a gold frost shimmer. Steve sized the pieces and added the hardware. This was my first attempt at tooling. -Meg 

Bracers with Umbra's heraldry

Close-up of tooling detail

Matched Set

Queen of Hearts 23 What You Missed, Photos!

Hat Dad endorses this photo.  Photo by View Staff

QoH 23 Crafting Special: Banner and Heraldry

  Team Eris entry

• Diana LaPierre

Eris's heraldry inside the laurel wreath

Bottom trim

True Supporter sash

Embroidered heraldry

More embroidered details

Queen's tabard with embroidered logo

Mage True Supporter garb item

Reversible to be re-usable

Team Umbra entry 

• Tucker Noyes, Ryan Welch, Kelly Bonci

Team Umbra's banner

Stained glass effect

Close-up view

True Supporter tabard

Trim detail

Each supporter had his or her own symbol

Tabard detail

Team Snake Cult entry

• Alexa Lecko

Banner

Heraldry close-up, vinyl on rip-stop

True Supporter tabard, forked tongue to go with snake theme

Tabard details

Bardic Circle: Kiira's Winning Bardic from Queen of Hearts 23

by Diana "Kiira" LaPierre

Come and sit with me child and I'll sing you a tale
Of a man who had thought he was too great to fail
Take heed in these words and learn his mistakes
For a fool of a king his men he forsakes

Just a sad little king on his crumbling throne
For all of his sins he makes others atone
Does he not see that the laws that he writes are his doom
The Kingdom he builds are the walls of his tomb

Now this monstrous king was once a great man
But the power that he grasped was too great for his hand
And that power, well you see, it went straight to his head
Now that once great man is shriveled and dead

Started off as a soldier, turned into a King
Of his battlefield skills the bards would all sing
When he heard their tunes, his ego would grow
There's nothing a prideful man doesn't know

Just a sad little king on his crumbling throne
For all of his sins he makes others atone
Does he not see that the laws that he writes are his doom
The Kingdom he builds are the walls of his tomb

Though others advised him to take things in stride
"They're jealous of me and traitors" he cried
Soon all the good men around him were few
In fear of his wrath their silence just grew

Empty and shallow their words had become
To the hubris within the king had succumb
The kingdom he'd built was not built to last
All the things that the king could cling to had passed

Just a sad little king on his crumbling throne
For all of his sins he makes others atone
Does he not see that the laws that he writes are his doom
The Kingdom he builds are the walls of his tomb

An Atypical View: Season Two: #30

What You Missed W.I.G.O.H. 2 By Swoop

“What you Missed” – W.I.G.O.H. 2

By: Michael “Swoop” Zajac

Welcome all, I hope everyone had a nice sleep or whatever you odd bunch do in the evenings.
Last night I had such a weird dream that involved so many of you I thought I would share my trials
and tribulations in this strange dream realm I visited. It definitely gets hazy at some points, but strap
yourselves in, for as the Neden boys too often say, “It’s about to get weird.”

What You Missed - W.I.G.O.H 2 (photos)

 [Editor's Note: all photos and captions by Michael "Swoop" Zajac]

Young adventurers prepare to enter The Dreaming

Site rules being announced

Crispin identifies our new-found friend SeFlicia

Flydian and company buy last minute scrolls at the scroll shop

SeFlicia, with time snarl

Sir Saegan waits to be guided through a treacherous maze

Throwing stuffed animals at people knocks them out, who knew?

The final few remain in the stuffed animal fight

The brave few who guided the blind through the maze on the right, with only *minimal* death!

And your prize for being the last standing in the stuffed animal fight? A new car! *ahem* I mean large cat!

Also a sweaty guy in leather who could use a water balloon induced bath