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Originating in ancient English folklore and later all over Europe & North America, a 'Will-o'-the-Wisp' is a ghost-like light seen by travelers at night, especially over bogs, swamps or marshes.

Art from:
Hermann Hendrich, 1823.
Arnold Böcklin, 1882.

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2021-10-24

Day 22 - Swamp Hag

 • Witches that live in Swamps, bogs, and marshes, Swamp Hags are usually solitary and tend to live deep into the dankest and nastiest parts of the swamp.


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2021-10-22

Day 16 - Will-O'-Wisp

 • The ghostly fire-like beings that appear to travelers at night, Will-O'-Wisps can be found in swamps, marshes, and bogs.


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2021-10-16

"Follow Sméagol! He can take you through the marshes, through the mists, nice thick mists. Follow Sméagol very carefully, and you may go a long way, quite a long way, before He catches you, yes perhaps."
Gollum in the Dead Marshes, 2002, Inks, 39x54.5cm

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2021-10-16


“Once in a great while he remembered that he had felt pain, a terrible ache in his heart, & he swore he would never let himself feel love for a human again.”— The Boggart, Susan Cooper

A boggart is an ogre like creature who haunts houses, fields & marshes.

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2021-10-05

Marshes and swamps have a lot of tall grass that sway this way and that~

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2021-09-12

A scrapped stage from the beta of 5 included a desert where enemies would pop out of the sand. Players would come across a beached tanker that had been left there when the water receded to the marshes. Source: https://t.co/3NNysWqAf2

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2021-09-10

This week I've just released my Murky Marshes pack of encounters for all your dank swamp related needs.

Grab the free 7th level encounter TROLL LAIR here:
https://t.co/aHaCaiBouy

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2021-09-04

I wanna capture that "Hold onto anything" defiance in the face of the dying rust belt. The queer kids in the coal town, in the backwater bayou, in the salt marshes. And the dreamscape color palette plus the punk rough hand made aesthetic.

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2021-09-01

I went out recording the landscape in before it’s changes irrevocably under solar panels Due to lock down this was a lonely but peaceful experience and immensely rewarding, it made me realise what a tranquil and special place I was working in.

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2021-07-29

A couple of sketches from a little while ago - North Kent Marshes.

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2021-07-24

"Dead grasses and rotting reeds loomed up in the mists like ragged shadows of long forgotten summers" 💀

New LOTR-themed artwork: here's the Dead Marshes, the scary and haunted swampland, along with Frodo, Sam and Gollum.

Prints available soon at my Redbubble shop ✨

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2021-07-17

Grendel and his mother lived in a marsh near the mead hall of king Hrothgar.

'Till the monster stirred, that demon, that fiend
Grendel who haunted the moors, the wild
Marshes, and made his home in a hell.'

🎨J. R. Skelton

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2021-07-04

That's 100 follower in one day!
Here is a draft of one of our families' species' subspecies:
Initial concept was a sloth-human-lobster with vine-like ears living on cliffs or on stilts in marshes of hanging & bridged gardens towns and collect molluscs's secretion to make a silk.

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2021-06-25

Baskets, spears and poison: three different methods of fishing. These were taken by Charles Hobley in western (1902); by Wilfred Thesiger in the marshes of (1958); and by Ursula Bower in Assam, (1940s) https://t.co/3xCSbM1u8i

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2021-06-25

The least bittern is one of the smallest herons in the world. These birds nest in large marshes with dense vegetation from southern Canada to northern Argentina.

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2021-06-25

The least bittern is one of the smallest herons in the world. These birds nest in large marshes with dense vegetation from southern Canada to northern Argentina.

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2021-06-22