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Cute little pixie I made for pride month, a little late but its here

"A dragons hoard is more than a collection of treasure; it's a wellspring of power, that can birth weapons of legend."

second sword of my challenge.

I've been asking people to give me prompts and challenges to keep things interesting, this user challenged me to make something Legend of Zelda inspired. I based it more off the old box art style from the original games, color scheme was inspired by the Golden Sword from Link to the Past, the first Zelda game I ever played.

final Kitbashing Percentage is 168% with the hoard, 122% without it

The heat of the uncharted Congolese interior was oppressive, but inside the cavernous cathedral of living roots, the air turned suddenly crisp.

Thomas held his breath, his fingers twitching near his notebook. For weeks, rumors of the Manticori—a myth whispered by border guides—had dragged him through impenetrable canopy. He had expected an uncontacted tribe, perhaps a new subspecies of great ape.

He was entirely unprepared for the King.

The silence in the chamber fractured with a sound that vibrated less in Thomas’s ears and more in his sternum: a deep, rhythmic purr that sounded like a low-idle diesel engine. From the shadows of the massive mangrove roots, the monarch stepped forward.

He was magnificent. Standing easily eight feet tall, his physique was a terrifyingly perfect marriage of hominid posture and apex predator mass. Heavy, digitigrade legs ended in massive, padded paws with sheathed talons, yet his torso leaned forward with a regal, upright grace. His fur was a rich, polished bronze, but it was the mane that commanded the room—a sweeping cascade of midnight black and deep amber that framed a face of unsettling intelligence.

Golden, slitted eyes locked onto Thomas. There was no wild vacancy in them; this was the gaze of a tactician, a ruler, a being who understood exactly what Thomas was.

"You have crossed the Black River, human," the King spoke.

The voice didn't sound like a cartoon villain; it was a layered, resonant baritone, rich with guttural vowels and a rolling r that felt intrinsically feline. He spoke English with a slow, deliberate precision, as if shaping the foreign words around a jaw built for snapping bone.

Thomas swallowed hard, his knees threatening to buckle. "I... I didn't mean to trespass. I am a scholar. An explorer."

The Lion King took two steps forward, the sheer fluidity of his movement defying his immense weight. He stopped mere inches from Thomas. The scent of ozone, hot copper, and wild earth washed over the researcher. The King tilted his massive head, observing the trembling human with what looked almost like amused pity.

Slowly, the King raised a massive, four-fingered hand. The leathery palm was easily the size of Thomas’s chest. With agonizing slowness, a single, curved claw—thick as a hunting knife—extended from the index finger.

Thomas closed his eyes, bracing for the strike.

Instead, he felt the cool, blunt edge of the claw gently hook beneath his chin, tilting his head upward. Thomas opened his eyes to find the King studying his face, looking at the soft skin, the lack of fur, the fragile architecture of a human skull.

"A scholar," the King rumbled, retracting the claw and resting his heavy hands on his hips. "Then you know what happens when your kind discovers something beautiful, Thomas of the outside world."

Thomas blinked, stunned. "You know my name?"

"You dropped your logbook at the river ridge. My scouts can read," the King said, a subtle, proud tilt to his jaw. "Your world grows loud, human. We hear your machines. We see your burning skies. For ten thousand years, my people have evolved in the deep cradle of this continent, hidden by the mists and the mountains. We are content to remain a myth."

"I won't tell them," Thomas breathed, the sincerity raw in his voice. "If I reveal this, they will come with cages. With armies. I'll burn my notes."

The King stared at him for a long, agonizing moment. The low purr resumed, vibrating through the dirt floor.

"You will not need to burn them. You will leave them here," the King commanded gently, extending an open palm.

Thomas didn't hesitate. He reached into his satchel, pulled out the leather-bound journal filled with sketches and coordinates, and placed it into the giant hand. The King closed his fist around it, vanishing the book entirely in his grip.

"You have seen the apex of the hidden world, human," the King said, turning his massive shoulders back toward the shadows of the roots. "Turn back. Forget the path. If you return, we will not be hiding."

With a silent, predatory stride, the King vanished back into the gloom of the jungle, leaving Thomas alone in the humid air, his heart pounding a frantic rhythm against his ribs. He had found what he was looking for, and he knew he would spend the rest of his life pretending it was nothing but a dream.

(First time using scripts).

Second model using Scripting, 537% KB

Really happy with how this one turned out. Hope you guys like it as much as I do!

"The best among them holds a rose, and with it, has slain a thousand men."

doing a mostly self imposed challenge to make a bunch of swords, this is the first. I'm very proud of it, although I do think I have room to be more adventurous with parts usage going forward. i played it pretty safe on this one. final percentage, 168%

# 🔔[NEW]🔔 UPDATE: July 3rd, 2026

Updates are live and no action is needed from you. These are already in Heroforge if you have Witch Dock installed.

**Heroforge native UI QoL patches**

*Witch Dock now serves some background utility updates that populate in the Heroforge UI panel.*
* These utility functions can be toggled off/on in Witch Dock's new **Utilities** tab

**1. Expanded slots are now expanded even more - now 96 slots**

* This auto-detects [HF Core Tweaks](https://gitgud.io/GasStationTweaker/hf-scripts-public/-/raw/master/HF%20Core%20Tweaks.user.js?ref\_type=heads&inline=false) script and expands the slots to 96 (from 48)

* If you don't have HF Core Tweaks installed, it does nothing [see here](https://www.reddit.com/r/HeroForgeJSON/comments/1mz70uc/getting\_started\_script\_links\_here\_faq/)

**2. Scroll function for the Decals section**

* Both the objects and slots sections in the Decal panel are scrollable

* This means if you have 9,000+ kitbash parts, you are no longer plagued with a wall of icons you can't scroll down (so if you're me and added GRASS or 15 million hair strands, yay! Life is good!)

* Same for the decal slots - with 96, this means the UI panel isn't eaten up by a shitload of slots. Which is great since there are now 96.
* Yes, I CAN add more slots. If more slots are desired, please let me know. This can be expanded to the Utilities tab in Witch Dock to give you toggles for different decal numbers if we start expanding further.

**3. Resize the Decals tab's objects & slots containers**

* There is a grabber in the bottom right corner of each container.

* You can grab this to resize both so you can adjust the UI panel to allow easier access to the stuff below it

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**Witch Dock itself has a new tab called Utilities**

* This tab enables you to toggle on/off any patches/utilities I've created that impact Heroforge's native UI panel

* That way you can turn anything off that you want, including the expanded-expanded slots, and scroll/resize container features (and any future ones I add in)

* You can do it right from Witch Dock. Some you won't need to reload. Others you might need to refresh the page (it will tell you)

* And this makes it easy so if you ever run into any buggy behaviour, or something breaks, you can quickly toggle it off and keep forging

"The joke isn't that you're going to die. The joke is that you thought you were safe."

attracted to carrion and decay, be wary of the barbs on her wrists , they inflict festering wounds that never heal...