Enchanted Ink

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## Enchanted Ink

### Location Found

-M's Whimsical Island

This is one of -M's books. This one lay alongside the Enchanted Quill, detailing their process behind creating the magical tattoos that everyone has so grown to love.

## Transcription

[This book is written in varying colors with intricate diagrams and sketches on each page]

A canvas can be paper, moldable clay or the walls of a building. There are few limitations on what aspect of this world we can warp creatively. But skin is different.

A walking blank canvas.

However all mediums are not permanent on the flesh, few are really.

Based on what I've read, tattoo ink can be made in several ways, depending on resources available.

Charcoal, ash, and other natural materials. Corroded bronze, vinegar, pink bark and vitriol.

More modernly, pigments and dyes, in a water based solution, with the use of needles to inject the ink. Painful but permanent.

But I could make it so much better

I could make them painless for human flesh. Able to be put on any surface, for a variety of species. It would need a little more ... of a magic touch.

Initially working to create a substance based on materials here, but did not go as intended. Chorus fruit is too watery, despite its rich purple it does not produce much pigment. Purpur is much too stubborn a stone to be grinded down or melted smoothly.

But perhaps some items from the Overworld will work better.

The primaries are first; Red, Yellow, Blue.

Rose petals and Beetroot work perfect for a rich red. Dandelions for yellow, and a grinded down version of Lapis Lazuli for blue. From here most all combinations are possible!

Black of course needs to be the most prominent color yet its harder to replicate.

Ink from "squids" as they are called makes a perfect color. Combining it with concrete powder and and coal makes the smoothest combination for painting.

Only issue is actually making them last.

In order for them to be usable across any skin type, dark or fair, fur or fin, they will need something more than rich pigmentation.

Perhaps a part of me could suffice?

[The rest of the page is torn out]

It did not work. The amount of effort it would take to imbue each ink with enough power is far beyond what I can give. I put a tiny portion in each ink however my influence is too spread thin for the effect I need.

Maybe If I found a way to concentrate it into one piece of the process...

Oh I've been so silly [a fool!]

Of course the tool for the craft!! Paint is nothing without a tool to guide it! A hand, a roller, a brush, or a pen.

I have crafted the perfect tool, a quill of my own design. Every piece from the nib, to the barrel, even the barb of the feather is enchanted.

A small portion of myself that flows through the pen in an elaborate display of colors, constantly moving. [how fitting]

Only one exists, but the power in the pen keeps the inks eternal. It should never run out of any color so long as used together.

I want something to paint the skin for eons. Long after I am gone.

This has been one of my longer projects, I must tell Epros of my feats! And Kesh as well, once they return to visit once more. Maybe I could convince them to try it...

I consider this art project a success!! Not to name the colors something more interesting..

-M