After watching How To Train Your Dragon (2025) more than once I actually wanted to have a Challenge about Dragons only. But then I didn't find enough icons. So I thought we could have this one first and then a Challenge about Dragons later. (Spoiler. :D)

A Magical Creature is a creature that exists in folklore or mythology and is attributed with supernatural or magical abilities. These creatures often possess unique characteristics, powers, or origins that set them apart from ordinary animals or beings. They can be found in various cultural narratives and legends, sometimes playing significant roles in myths and stories.

You may use everything that is classified as Magical Creature. Normal animals or any human with any magical powers don't count as such. Everything else is fair game.

Let me use How To Train Your Dragon as example of what is allowed for this Challenge: Toothless is a Night Fury. Night Furys are species of dragons. If you want to go with this example too you may either focus on dragons only, Night Furys only and/or Toothless only. You may go with Dragons only and then focus on more than one species - such as Night Fury, Light Fury, Gronckle and/or Deadly Nadder. :o)



The Genie (Aladdin) by peculiargroove | Jabberwocky (Alice in Wonderland) by mark_pierre | Thestral (Harry Potter) by hermionesparkle | Ursula (The Little Mermaid) by shy_mizuno

* You may icon 2 different Magical Creatures in this challenge (in case you cannot decide which one is your absolute favorite).
* You may enter up to 4 icons (ICON+URL).
* Please submit your icons as new posts to this community. Every member has posting access.
* Please no animations or x-rated icons. Everything else is allowed.
* Icons must fit DW standards (< 60kb, 100x100 px).
* Tag your entries with challenge number and your username, or I can do it for you.
* Please put a description in your entry which Magical Creature you picked.
* Please ask questions if you have any.

* DEADLINE: Sunday, July 13th 2025 (11am Central European Time). [countdown]

(Please make sure to be on time so I can add your icons in the voting.)

* Vote for the best THREE (3) ICONS in order of preference (f.e. 80, 66, 57). Voting is weighted, meaning first place gets 3 points, second place gets 2 points, third place gets 1 point.
* Don't vote for yourself or ask anyone to vote for you.
* Voting ends in two weeks, at the end of the next challenge.

( Voting: Challenge #218 - Alien )

Please vote in comments, comments are screened.

I think it's probably no surprise that I went with Shadow the Hedgehog again. :D

But here's one Fun Fact about it too: I got my first tattoo this month and it's in fact Shadow too. :D Well, Shadow Chao to be more specific but it's still him. :D (Sadly not colored because my health was so bad that day. But it will be finished later this year too.)

So, yeah: There it goes with me loving Shadow. :D





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https://i.imgur.com/K2IB8jz.png
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