The Teeth of Dahlver-Nar

A page for the carving section



A set of 20 different styles of carved teeth from the Dungeons and Dragons item the teeth of dahlver nar, along with a printout of what the official item from the game looks like leaning up behind the carvings.
Just a quick little page for the carving section about The Teeth of Dahlver Nar (click that link for the main page on them, also in the random image generator, these photos will open up to there).

But yes, the Teeth of Dahlver-Nar! An extremely curious Dungeons & Dragons object, where you can either summon a random creature, or gain some crazy magical powers if you literally *embed them in your mouth* (in game, not in-person, even though wooden teeth have existed through human history, do not under any circumstances shove these into your maw, they will taste like the nailpolish topcoat and do literally nothing). Like... that's a bizarre random effect D&D item, I like it. Also, I've been on a string of like making every deck of many things and anything similar, and this needed to be added to the collection.

So, carving! I decided to carve these out of a random stick that I found on the ground at the park. I had originally planned to form them out of oven-baked clay, but that costs money, and our microwave/convection oven doesn't seem to have a simple 'set to 200 for an hour' type of thing... we did try, but it charcoaled our meal in ten minutes, so... I debated whether to trust it with expensive clay. Also, what would the clay make our main cooking oven smell like. And then it struck me, let's carve the beasts! Yeah, pull out the ol' whittling tools, have a go at it, print out a page with the relative sizes of the store-purchasable version (also expensive, another reason to make them myself, also it's my style), and have at it!

And thus, the teeth were carved and painted, and an incredibly bizarre Dungeons & Dragons item was made :D

See main page for more pics and details.
A handful of pieces of a branch on a beige canvas tarp, along with a printout of the comparison sizes of the teeth of dahlver nar, with one tooth fully carved, the green steel pit fiend, and one partially finished, the jagged tarrasque sliver, sitting beside their counterparts of the printout.
The printout of the relative sizes of the teeth, with all 20 teeth carved from wood, arranged as they are in the printout, and sitting on a paperboard work surface.


Back to the carvings