"Our goddess is the change under the earth. She is older than the dreams of men. Her's are the secrets of death and the mysteries of life."
‐Saying of the Physarum
Mor Design returns to our pages with the symbol of the Physarum, intelligent fungal beings.
It's been a long, long time, but the Hatswell Cthulhu idol is once again available. Julien Hatswell first produced this piece way back in 1997. Since then it's become an iconic interpretation, similar in stature to the 1999 Steven Hickman sculpt from Bowen Designs. This morning it popped up in my Instagram feed, one of the rare examples of the algorithm actually working. I was overjoyed to discover he's producing it in limited quantities and immediately placed an order. You can do the same over at his Etsy page.
Normally, when Valara Atran makes an appearance here it's for her mythos or Elder Scrolls props. This time it's for her awesome recreation of the experimental Duraframe Eyebot ED-E from my favorite video game, Fallout: New Vegas. She brought her little friend along to Goodsprings, Nevada this past weekend for the annual Fallout fan weekend. Along with the thousands of other attendees she bumped into Craig Boone, late of the New California Republic's First Recon division. Click through to see her extensive gallery.
I've been doing this for close to twenty years now. In that time I've posted about hundreds of Cthulhu idols, featuring everything from viking themed statuettes to primitive idols carved from wood. Today I'm immensely pleased to bring you something I've never seen before.
This Cthulhu idol from Kissoon is not only a wonderfully stylized sculpt, but the first bifacial statuette I've seen. The rear of the statue is a mirror image of the front. It looks hella cool in rotation, which you can see by clicking through on the link.
If you've ever wondered what kind of gear a classic era expedition or campsite would have, this video is for you. Mr. Dyer of Honorable Outfitters brings us this look at a recreation of a 1920s hunting camp. It features multiple re-enactors using everything from very basic backpacking kits to full blown tent setups with all the bells and whistles. I'm always surprised at just how sophisticated some vintage equipment was.
Maarten Verhoeven has been producing some incredibly Mythos pieces over the last few years. What makes his work unusual is that all of his work is digitally sculpted and then 3D printed. His latest physical offering is this excellent Cthulhu idol in faux gold. As much as I like the sculpt I'd love to see it with inset gems for eyes.
It's been interesting to watch the "Curse of Strahd" campaign for Dungeons and Dragons become the equivalent of Chaosium's "Masks of Nyarlathotep". Both are lengthy, multi-part adventures driven in large part by a plethora of documents and handouts, and gamemasters have embraced expanding the sheer number of props for players to interact with.
This recreation of the "Tome of Strahd" from AdSuccessful1184 is a good example. They used an off-the-shelf leather journal from Amazon as the base, then customized it with both printed and pasted in pages. The results are pretty impressive. Click through on the link above to see an entire gallery of the tome with a lot more of the interior pages.
