File:Breathpotion DF.jpg

Description

The Dark Mod concept art for a breath potion (illustration).

Author: Darkness_Falls
Date: May 2005

Supplied by Darkness_Falls from his personal art archive. He also provided the following description, based on notes from May 2005:

Here's what I'm thinking. If you're swimming under water and a running out of air, what does one need? Air. So I feel our magical breath potion should have some sort of 'air' in it to fill up the lungs.

My solution to get air in the vial was to trap some air underneath some liquid. (I thought this would be more interesting than just a vial of boring air.) The "air" in my concept is actually a magical gas or smoke of some sort. (My original idea was to have it look like a semi-transparent gas, but I soon learned I couldn't figure out how do draw it like that without considerably more effort.)

So, a magical gas (or smoke) is completely trapped underneath the liquid. (You can see how the trapped gas/smoke has a convex shape to it; it's being held down by the liquid.) When taken, the magic takes effect and the thief's lungs fill with air. Naturally.

It is hard to see from my static drawing, but I envision the potion to be full of motion. There are champagne-like bubbles going up the liquid (as someone previously desired for a different potion), and there's a tumultuos gas or smoke randomly churning about underneath it.