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"The Billy O'Tea" Flying Alchemic Workshop
🕑 Added 2024-10-15 12:48:34 +0000 UTCHello everyone :)
Here's a little dream I've had for a long time that I wanted to bring into the world.
The Billy O'tea Alchemy workshop of Alfred the Kind Overseer
This map is perfect for a encounter or a research quest for your adventurers, many setup, spelljammer or classic dnd work fine. i think it's one of the most special maps i've made i hope you'll like it and its background as much as i enjoyed crafting it.
I've tried a new layout and a lot of thought has gone into creating the different pieces. If you have any suggestions or questions, please let me know.
Dont forget to grab your files at the end of the post
---lore---
"Even as a child, his love of travel and plants led him to map almost every square centimetre of the mountains where he spent his childhood. Along the way, he had also collected, archived and replanted a large collection of plants, each one stranger than the last, much to the dismay of his parents, who soon saw the family farm transformed into a thick and disquieting jungle.
It didn't take long for his talents to be recognized, and his maps and herbarium caused a sensation when they ended up on the desks of a number of scholars at Aufsort College.
He studied fervently, as much to satisfy his insatiable curiosity as to leave this splendid city of light which, next to the memories of his expeditions, was beginning to resemble a canvas bag in which a few wildcats had been trapped. The walls grew higher by the day, and even his beloved libraries, among the most beautiful in the world, began to shrink. In short, his books themselves were beginning to confine him.
The day after his investiture, he emptied his student room in a flash, packed up his meagre possessions and left town through the front door, almost dancing with excitement.
As a reminder of the Eastmen's capital that so many people dreamed of seeing one day, he took with him only his Bewitched diploma (alchemy option) and a puffer fish he'd grown fond of during his almost daily trips to the royal aquarium.
Alfred's new skills had enabled him to free his little companion from his natural environment, and so the globular billy floated alongside his master, hopping along, on his way to a new life.
And so they embarked on a series of wonderful adventures that cannot be recounted here. Time took its toll, and soon Alfred had traveled almost every road he could find. He was known throughout the continent, and his knowledge of herbal medicine was matched only by rare sylvan creatures living deep in the northern forests. It was during a rare visit to the elves of this region that Billy's game of growing up took shape.
As Billy grew older, his need for solitude remained undiminished, and he avoided as much as possible the main roads where he might have come across too many living creatures for his taste. Perhaps it was by shunning the verbiage of the salons and the meanderings of pompous politeness that Alfred had managed to retain his remarkable frankness and savoir vivre. Thus, by a strange counter-effect, the magician naturally appeared sympathetic to everyone, and was able to make his way where no diplomat would have dared to venture. Without ever getting involved in politics, he had pursued his geographical and botanical passions, from the complex Goblin mountain ranges to the study of coral in the frozen seas of Jormerun. His address book was almost as extensive as his herbarium and, if truth be told, he would have made a sublime spy.
Just a few years ago, you might have hoped to bump into him on the road, the kind of encounter you would have remembered and helped to fuel many a legend about him.
This was the day when the politics he hated so much might have caught up with him, he might have had a bad encounter or lost his patience. Perhaps it was simply the day when Alfred realized just how big his little Billy had become.
Since then, the makeshift saddle has been replaced by a tasteful little cottage from the finest craftsmen. If you ever have the honor of coming aboard to buy a map or a remedy, you'll be able to admire the reflection of your host's passions.
A botanical garden perfumes the second floor and the attic bedroom. In the center of the main workshop, a magnificent alchemical furnace feeds bases and reagents into potions whose effects defy the imagination. And if you haven't had enough yet, take the trouble to climb down the few steps to the cupola. This is the birthplace of the colourful maps you'll find in every self-respecting university, in every ship hoping to return to port."
This is Alfred's slightly sad eye on our quarrels and internecine wars, a benevolent gaze on the plains, mountains and forests and the men who populate them. A wish for peace and quietude.
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Thanks again everyone
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Comments
HunterOfShadow (Hugo Schieres)
Bonjour ça fait longtemps, je me demandais où en était le projet des éditions du Blanc-seing? ça fait un long moment maintenant. Je suis dispo sur facebook pour en parler aussi
Léo Marbacher
Im glad you like it :)
Maximilien Bianchi
What great idea
