lundi, 21 mai 2007

Secrets

Bonjour à tous,

L'une des mes pièces les plus originales de ma collection et une de mes préférées : un dragon génie.

Petit extrait traduit de son histoire :

Gobi, un aventurier malicieux de la ville d'Azbal, a osé le test du sorcier et choisi ce qu'il pensait être un beau flacon. Avec l'espoir de richesses dépassant ses rêves, il relâcha le bouchon d'or, et vit se libérer de son confinement Idolon; un génie souriant, portant un grand cimeterre menaçant sur le dos d'un dragon violet chatoyant de bronze.

Secrets - Occultus - AB20003

Not all surprises are pleasant ones. Do not expect all freed spirits to be grateful. Not every sealed vessel contains the answer to your dreams. Some conceal your worst nightmare.
The legend of the genie in the bottle is as old as time, and usually tells of a beneficent spirit, released from its ancient bonds, bestowing magical wishes upon its beloved liberator. However, this is not always the case. Inside the great dust encrusted tome entitled Eastern Adventures we discover that it was the wizard Inspertatus who created the dazzling collection of bottles, flasks, jars and amphorae housed within the infamous Chamber of the Unexpected. Each vessel contains an imprisoned magical spirit, some benign, some decidedly malignant.
Whereas dragons are usually predisposed towards guarding or stealing treasure, so, many wizards tend to share a proclivity for setting tests. Magical talismans secreted within vast danger-ridden labyrinths. Fabulous jewels guarded by monstrous beasts. Fountains of eternal youth situated at the end of a gauntlet of homicidal obstacles. Whichever way you look at it wizards have a somewhat twisted frame of mind. Insperatus was no exception. He had created a place that depending on your luck or skill in deciphering deeply cryptic cabalistic inscriptions could be a chamber of delight or chamber of horrors.
Gobi, a roguish adventurer from the city of Azbal was said to have dared the wizard's test and chosen what he thought was a handsome looking flask. With hopes of riches beyond his dreams, he eased out the golden stopper, and behold, liberated from its cramped confinement issued forth Idolon; a genie carrying a large, menacing scimitar, grinning down from the back of a shimmering dragon of violet and bronze.
Was this a good choice? Did Gobi get his heart's desire? Or was the glint in the genie's eye the cool glare of evil? The verbuMMagus knows of course. He knows what happens in all of the stories in the great library, but as usual his teasing smile is our only clue.


H : 30 cm ; l : 19 cm
Collection : Dragonsite, VerbumMagus (Andrew Bill)
Numéro : 530 / 2000
Matériau : résine




Onslaught

Bonjour à tous,

Voici Onslaught (Assaut en français), une pièce intéressante de Dragonsite.

La scène représente dans une posture très dynamique, un dragon coloré attaquant un chevalier pour un trésor au pied d'une souche. Ce trésor que cherche à s'accaparer le chevalier est probablement celui d'un Leprechaun : un chaudron rempli d'or que l'on trouvé au pied d'un arc-en-ciel. Mais le trésor s'avère très bien gardé.





Ci-contre, le concept art réalisé par Andrew Bill, le sculpteur de cette pièce.

Onslaught - Incursus - AB20004

They say that there is a crock of gold at every rainbow’s end, but fairy gold universally prized far about mere mortal wealth is a treasure dearly bought.
The verbuMMagus plucks a story from the shelves of Fairy Tales which tells of a particularly mischievous band of sylvan nymphs - spell-weavers, beguilers - who in common with many other magic-wielders loved to play tricks on dissatisfied mortals; using their greed or boredom to lure them to disaster. For despite being constantly told by the wise that there is no such thing as something for nothing, there are always those who refuse to believe it.
The fairy forest dwellers were generous in the amount of gold they placed at the end of their rainbows but they exacted a heavy toll: a dragon! Craftily concealed by enchantment, the ferocious beast would lie in wait for unsuspecting pilferers and then spring a terrifying ambush. Needless to say very few fairy coins ever found their way into general circulation!


H : 14 cm ; L : 30 cm
Collection : Dragonsite, VerbumMagus (Andrew Bill)
Numéro : 576 / 2000
Matériau : résine



Dragon des forêts

Un dragon venant de la collection Mysticalls, édition ouverte et en résine.

collection : Mysticalls
taille : 17cm de long et 16 de haut


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Anemoss

Bonjour à tous,

Un nouvel arrivant un peu particulier aujourd'hui car il est arrivé pile pour mon anniversaire :D.

Voici Anemoss, le roi de Paladris. C'est un "dragon de paradis" haut en couleurs et qui m'a fait la surprise et la joie de porter le numéro 19, mon jour de naissance <3. Je ne pouvais pas rêver mieux.






Ci-contre, les concept art de réalisé par Rob Simpson, le sculpteur de cette pièce.


Anemoss - EN3011

The Southern Western plains of Dragongorge have always held a particular interest to the scribes, especially Pethrill, and adventurers of Enchantica.
For it is here that the Great Observer himself, Danskamere, had spent many years recording and studying the great and wondrous Dragons of Paradise, his works described the Great Dragon Pia-Sharn, a mighty creature of such wondrous colour and yet within his journals another, yet, more fascinating description was to be revealed.
It was the mighty Anemoss.
“As the light of the sun reached its highest the valley was filled with the call of another, Pia’Sharn had began to move, as if in reverence to another, higher beast.
From behind the forest line a wondrous spectacle started to take place.
For rising upon its thick tail was Anemoss, its wings began to unfold, the suns rays danced upon its magnificent scales, hues of purple and blues filled the air, its huge bulk, now fully lifted from the floor, shone with a brilliance of colour I had never seen, words could not describe the magnitude of this beast and all who watched, bowed their heads in great respect.
Anemoss reared back his horned head and called far beyond the mountainous peaks of the North.
The king of the Paladris had arrived and none could ever equal…


H : 24 cm ; L : 38 cm (envergure)
Collection : Enchantica (Rob Simpson)
Numéro : 19 / 1000
Matériau : résine



dimanche, 20 mai 2007

Bookwyrms

Très proche d'Enchantica, avec quelques sculpteurs communs aux 2 groupes, Dragonsite propose des figurines en résines de dragons (beaucoup de fées également). Voilà 4 petits Bookwyrms, petits dragons en résine perchés sur des livres.

De gauche à droite :

  • Tender is a Knight
  • Drakes of Wrath
  • White Fang
  • Lord of the Wings

taille : environ une dizaine de cm chacun

Have you ever left a book for one minute, and returned to find it back on the shelf? Page markers on the wrong pages, or missing altogether? How about a book you borrowed only yesterday being mysteriously overdue?
Conjured inadvertently by the careless thoughts of daydreaming librarians, this growing brood of mischievous dragons spend their time wreaking havoc in magical libraries.
Never causing any real damage, these creatures are rarely glimpsed by human eye, and never by the library's keeper, for when he wakes, the Bookwyrms sleep.


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