Hearteon & Poiseon

The Heart Pokemon & The Poison Fur Pokemon

Evolves via Heart of the Sun & Heart of the Moon respectively

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Another sun and moon pair! These guys are based off beta/old versions of Espeon and Umbreon.

Beta Espeon used to evolve via the Heart Stone and had a yellow appearance and fully split tails. Beta Umbreon used to be a poison type with purple markings and thinner rings.

I did add some of my own flair though, particularly with Hearteon’s markings, Hearteon’s heart-shaped gem, and Poiseon’s poison drop shaped markings. I also added the dark type to Poiseon to help it fit better with the moon and added the fairy type to Hearteon to make it also a dual type.

I also referenced the gender differences they had in the Gen IV beta, where female Espeon and Umbreon had short ears. I’m glad this change didn’t get through beta, but it helped me add another detail to differentiate them further. Their shinies are also based off the Stadium 2 shinies of Espeon and Umbreon.

I will admit, I struggled slightly with their item. I almost considered using the beta Heart Stone and Poison Stone, but decided against it. I feel gameplay wise, the Shards fit best, since I could see these guys being Gales of Darkness exclusive. But, I already used the Shards and also I do think the Hearts fit nicely. Both because of Hearteon’s heart theme and because these guys are very much a tribute to Espeon and Umbreon through the years.

A magic item for the Blood Magic Tinkerer to use.

Artwork by cfhdesign at Pond5.

The Blood Magic Tinkerer (which has both CR6 and CR8 versions) is a vampire craftsman creature.  It’s a creature that, conceptually, really needs at least one actual wondrous item that utilizes blood magic.  Since it has a really hard time using its Blood Drain ability with its terrible CMB, a magical way to grapple an opponent seemed perfect.

Bloody Chain - Wondrous Item

Aura moderate transmutation and necromancy; CL 7th; Slot none (held item); Price 2890 gp; Weight 6 lbs.

DESCRIPTION

As a standard action, a creature holding this 30-foot length of perpetually blood-soaked iron chain can throw it at a creature within 25 feet to attempt to grapple the target.  The creature throwing the chain must succeed at a ranged touch attack against the target; the bloody chain has a 5 ft. range increment when thrown in this way.

If the bloody chain strikes a creature when thrown in this way, it magically animates and attempts to wrap itself around that target, grappling it.  It continues to maintain the grapple the target each round until a command word is spoken to release it.  The bloody chain has a CMB of +12, 12 hardness, and 15 hit points.  If it fails its grapple check to maintain the grapple, or gains the broken condition, it ends its grapple and falls to the ground, inanimate once again.

After being used once, the chain cannot be used again unless its blood magic is refueled.  A creature can refuel its blood magic by soaking it in the blood of a creature that died within the last minute, or by cutting itself and sacrificing 3d6 hit points to soak the chain in its own blood, and then performing a ritual which takes 1 hour.  The ritual need not be performed immediately, but must be performed within 24 hours of soaking the chain in blood.

CONSTRUCTION REQUIREMENTS

Lopeon

The Rock Horn Pokemon

Evolves via Black Augurite

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So I kinda forgot to queue/upload the past few weeks so I may post a few today. I still need to make the dex entries for the others though.

Another mythical creature based one, this one based off the jackalope! Cause I like jackalopes. I admittedly made the sketch of the design first and ended up deciding the Black Augurite was probably most fitting.

Griffeon

The Winged Pokemon

Evolves via Trade holding King’s Rock

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The inevitable griffon pokemon! Always like making pokemon based off mythical creatures, especially ones that haven’t already been included in pokemon yet. Griffon and pegasus are always the main ones I’ve thought were missing, though I doubt I’ll do an eeveelution based on the latter.

There’s honestly not many evolution methods out there where I can try to justify a primarily Flying type based design, so I take the opportunity when I can. I think currently there’s only one other that I can say with certainty will be a Flying type evolution…

Perfumeon

The Aromatic Pokemon

Evolves via Trade while holding Sachet

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Apologies for delay, just haven’t really been working on this for a while despite the fact I have a bit of a backlog! Will post something at the normal time this weekend too.

Pretty simple one, just a fancy skunk! I love the Stunky line so wanted to give them a friend. Plus skunk is a pretty obvious answer for what to make a scent based pokemon.

Porceleon & Kintseon

The Fragile Doll Pokemon & The Broken Doll Pokemon

Evolve via the Chipped Teapot and Cracked Teapot respectively

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Hey it’s been a while! I actually had this done AGES ago, but I accidentally deleted the post and lost the written description and just lost motivation to rewrite it. But finally got around to it! Will try to get the next one out at a normal time.

Anyway, I decided to actually go the route of a porcelain doll that you’d have a tea party with over an actual teapot based one, cause that was more interesting to me.

I also initially had them switched conceptually, because I wanted Kintseon to be rarer, but when I remembered that Chipped Pots are less damaged and more rare, I realized I could switch it so Kintseon are just becoming more and more common over time instead. Kintseon is based on Kintsugi, which is a method of repairing something using gold.