EFNIR: KWZ Foggy Green

[LizEF]

Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: KWZ Foggy Green

This is review #327 in my series. Here's the YouTube video:

Post-recording notes: This ink was gifted to me by a generous FPGeek.  The shading is technically there, but you really have to look for it because the ink is so dark.  Sheen also requires you to go look for it, though once you get the angle right, there's a lot of it - not sure how to explain that.  The microscope slide was boring.

The images are are so dark that really only the line width image shows any color. While my eyes can see a tiny bit of color if I put my nose on the paper and shine a bright light, really, this ink isn't for a nib this fine - it needs to be spread out thinner...

I accidentally marked the 1:20 line at 1:30, so I used the 1:30 mark at 1:20 (hence the double arrow on the review page - they're reversed).

Cleaning was easy with plain water, but the ink is quite concentrated and may take a few extra flushes.

Even after a couple of hours, I can still smell the ink's scent on the review page.  It's faded a lot, but still there.

Zoomed in photo

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Scan of Completed Review

Absorbent Paper Close-up (top is puzzle paper like thick newsprint, bottom is old 20lb copy paper)

Line width (The "I" in "Ink:". Magnification is 100x. The grid is 100x100µm. The scale is 330µm, with eleven divisions of 30µm each. The line width for this ink is roughly 315µm. With 327 inks measured, the average line width is 297µm.) (I think this gives the best (only) idea of the ink color.)

Previous Review: Diamine Night Sky.

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Hope you enjoy. Comments appreciated!

[Sailor Kenshin]

O my…that is a tall order for our heroes!  But…

 

K, lemme see….

 

Ink Stink.  Eternal Dry Time.  A color near-identical to one I have mixed for myself, combining Pelikan Black and Green, which behaves itself in all pens.

 

Any questions?  😂 😝 😹

 

Ah, Liz!  You make Tuesdays magical and fun... I always look forward to the review and story. Thanks!

 

Have I mentioned that fragrance (along with glitter hunks) is my enemy?

 

Ambition?  Rid my world of stank and glitter chonks.  Yeah!  

[yazeh]

Thank you for another excellent review @LizEF 

I can't recomcile blue leaning green when I see the colour. All I see Is a grey leaning green. It reminds me Noodler's Zhivago. I recently tested another KWZ ink with eternal dry times. That's a thumbs down for me. 

 

Thanks for bringing your magic this grey and gloomy Tuesday and inspiring me to conjur a little scene inspired by your quote and scene. 🙏🙏🙏

Sorcerers, wizards and assassinations?  

" Aren't withards and thortherers the same" Essri asked

He asked the question everybody else wanted to but didn't dare to ask. 

"Well, the withards, I'm mean weezards,' in a huff he got up and left. 

"Wizards and Sorcerers" Essri said  winking at Makhabesh & Quin.

It is then they realized that the little Snek was craftier than all of them.

"He aspires to be ambitious", Essri said, gobbling up the last remaining cheeseburger.

[LizEF]

41 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

O my…that is a tall order for our heroes!  But…

 

41 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

K, lemme see….

 

Ink Stink.  Eternal Dry Time.  A color near-identical to one I have mixed for myself, combining Pelikan Black and Green, which behaves itself in all pens.

 

Any questions?  😂 😝 😹

 

41 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Ah, Liz!  You make Tuesdays magical and fun... I always look forward to the review and story.

Thanks!

 

41 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Thanks!

You're most welcome!

 

42 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Have I mentioned that fragrance (along with glitter hunks) is my enemy?

I don't find the KWZ scent annoying, but my scent-processing chip is damaged, so it may be much stronger or more annoying that I realize - each will have to decide for themselves.

 

43 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Ambition?  Rid my world of stank and glitter chonks.  Yeah!  

[LizEF]

41 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Thank you for another excellent review @LizEF 

You're most welcome!

 

41 minutes ago, yazeh said:

I can't recomcile blue leaning green when I see the colour. All I see Is a grey leaning green. It reminds me Noodler's Zhivago. I recently tested another KWZ ink with eternal dry times. That's a thumbs down for me. 

Well, it's not blue-leaning to the point of teal, but if green is yellow + blue, then this color leans more toward blue than it does toward yellow.  But then, it's so dark that it leans more toward black from this nib....

 

43 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Thanks for bringing your magic this grey and gloomy Tuesday and inspiring me to conjur a little scene inspired by your quote and scene. 🙏🙏🙏

Gladly!

 

43 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Sorcerers, wizards and assassinations?  

" Aren't withards and thortherers the same" Essri asked

He asked the question everybody else wanted to but didn't dare to ask. 

"Well, the withards, I'm mean weezards,' in a huff he got up and left. 

"Wizards and Sorcerers" Essri said  winking at Makhabesh & Quin.

It is then they realized that the little Snek was craftier than all of them.

"He aspires to be ambitious", Essri said, gobbling up the last remaining cheeseburger.

  Thank you for adding to the fun!

[inkstainedruth]

@LizEF On my screen the photos make the ink look black.   

Plus, is the dry time REALLY that long? Yikes!  That would be a hard pass for me....  But thanks as usual for the review (the ones of inks I don't want are often more useful than the ones I DO want...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Penguincollector]

   Wow, that’s dark! I’m guessing it really needs a larger nib to show any color. I’m a master smearer of writing (the sleeve cuffs on my favorite sweater are stretched out) so I’m guessing it’s probably best for me to stay away, but I’m awfully curious about how it would look in an italic broad.  Our friends are out of the frying pan, but into a large, complicated, and long burning fire. Thanks, Liz! Oh, I kinda wanna see a swatch next to the Void Kitteh.

[LizEF]

28 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

@LizEF On my screen the photos make the ink look black.   

Yep, that's about right.  Crank the brightness to the limit and you might see color, maybe.

 

29 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

Plus, is the dry time REALLY that long? Yikes!  That would be a hard pass for me....

This is one of those inks that mostly dries in a reasonable time, but the dots where you lifted your pen take forever.

 

29 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

But thanks as usual for the review (the ones of inks I don't want are often more useful than the ones I DO want...).

You're most welcome!

[LizEF]

10 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

Wow, that’s dark! I’m guessing it really needs a larger nib to show any color.

Yep.  This one is a good candidate for a dry stub.

 

11 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

I’m a master smearer of writing (the sleeve cuffs on my favorite sweater are stretched out) so I’m guessing it’s probably best for me to stay away, but I’m awfully curious about how it would look in an italic broad.

Oh dear.  Yes, you probably want to keep your cuff away from this one.  I have too many pens inked already to put it in a pen right now, but Mountain of Ink has all but the stub covered.

 

14 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

Our friends are out of the frying pan, but into a large, complicated, and long burning fire.

 

14 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

Thanks, Liz!

You're most welcome!

 

14 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

Oh, I kinda wanna see a swatch next to the Void Kitteh.

Hmm.  The Void will be darker.  I'll see what I can arrange.  (Right now he's lying in my lap purring contentedly.)

[LizEF]

Klaw says green is beneath him.  (Here he's been sleeping under my discarded sweatshirt.)

[Penguincollector]

Now it looks green! 🐈‍⬛ 

[yazeh]

Yep that looks green. Now, I can see the colour. He should become a regular contributor, with his Moma  

 

[LizEF]

[InesF]

I failed!

- unknown author of the present about keeping her aspiration from becoming ambition.   

 

Thank you, @LizEF, for the ink review, for exposing yourself to the (not so bad, I think) KWZ vapours, and for the accelerating tension in the magical story! 

 

Oh!, first time ever, I may have a small correction to a reviews of yours 🥁: To my weird color sensing eyes I would call this ink a "green leaning black" instead.

And, to my weird ink preferences, it is exactly what makes it interesting! 🤷‍♀️   "... except when you really won't see color." may have sealed the deal to stretch my ink drawer, making place for one more ... 🙄   ... later ... Oh, no, the void test! Now I'm relaxed again. No, this ink is way too green!  

 

Now I have, at least, 6 sleepless nights to wait until getting closer to understanding what it is between wizards and sorcerers. That's something I always liked to know but wasn't brave enough to ask ...

[Mercian]

Th prospect of a War between Wizards and Sorcerers?
Hic sunt Dracones!

 

I share Ines' trepidation at the prospect of sleepless nights until we know that such a thing can be averted!

[LizEF]

5 hours ago, InesF said:

I failed!

- unknown author of the present about keeping her aspiration from becoming ambition.   

 

5 hours ago, InesF said:

Thank you, @LizEF, for the ink review, for exposing yourself to the (not so bad, I think) KWZ vapours, and for the accelerating tension in the magical story! 

You're most welcome!

 

5 hours ago, InesF said:

Oh!, first time ever, I may have a small correction to a reviews of yours 🥁: To my weird color sensing eyes I would call this ink a "green leaning black" instead.

  OK.

 

5 hours ago, InesF said:

And, to my weird ink preferences, it is exactly what makes it interesting! 🤷‍♀️   "... except when you really won't see color." may have sealed the deal to stretch my ink drawer, making place for one more ... 🙄   ... later ... Oh, no, the void test! Now I'm relaxed again. No, this ink is way too green!  

Well, from a fine enough pen, or maybe just a wet-enough pen, you won't see color.  Spread it out on a swatch card (or maybe with a dry stub) and you'll see color...

 

5 hours ago, InesF said:

Now I have, at least, 6 sleepless nights to wait until getting closer to understanding what it is between wizards and sorcerers. That's something I always liked to know but wasn't brave enough to ask ...

  Here's some background info from some other forum, as prompted by @yazeh:

 

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In our world, sorcerers and wizards are male. Their female counterparts are sorceresses and wizardesses (what can I say, I like having fun with words).

Wizards and wizardesses are highly educated in their craft. Sorcerers and sorceresses tend to be less educated (e.g. no university training), use more basic magic, and operate more by instinct than by training. They may not understand why a particular magic works, but they've learned to use it, whereas wizards would study the why and how. Because of this, sorcerers actually know about some types / techniques of magic that the wizards have mostly lost track of - considering such magic "beneath" them. Marsell's "oily" magic would fall into this category. As of right now, I'm not aware of anything that sorcerers can do that wizards can't, but it may well be that many things are actually easier or faster for sorcerers than for wizards, because the wizards rely on more formal techniques and knowledge, and less on instinct and natural ability. On the other hand, it's almost certain that what sorcerers do can be more risky, especially if pushing their own limits, specifically because the sorcerers are operating more by instinct than knowledge.

If there are other workers of magic, no one has told me about them. I don't plan to have witches, enchanters, or other synonymous or specialized classes of magic-workers. Such people as enchanters would simply be either sorcerers or wizards who specialize (such as our Healers from earlier episodes). I may eventually have druids, but not so much as a separate type of magic skills, but rather as a culture or religious-type group.

But there are definitely other magical beings - such as Essri and his ability to find, Makhabesh and the spinxy magic of Riddlese, the Viscount E and his sons, the Earl of Grey, and the Oracle Sivad - but these don't "work" magic so much as have some innate magical ability, or are creatures animated / created by magic.

Also, there may be things no one knows (either not discovered, or long since forgotten) - e.g. I'm not sure how much exploring has been done beyond the Muirdoor(s) (or whether there are multiple Muirdoors and all the places they might lead to). Whether we discover these things, heaven knows. But there are at least a few things that I know that I haven't hinted at, saved for some future adventure, if ever they fit (the things are certainly part of Quin's world, I just don't know if we'll ever have an adventure that reveals them).

ETA: Forgot to mention: wizards have a guild, sorcerers don't.

FWIW.

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, Mercian said:

Th prospect of a War between Wizards and Sorcerers?
Hic sunt Dracones!

 

I share Ines' trepidation at the prospect of sleepless nights until we know that such a thing can be averted!

  🤐

[InesF]

20 hours ago, LizEF said:

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ETA: Forgot to mention: wizards have a guild, sorcerers don't.

FWIW.

Ahhh, there we are!   

Thanks to you both ( @yazeh too) for carefully researching magic history! Well done! 👍

[yazeh]

I believe this was found in one of the librarians sacred scrolls @LizEF, @InesF @Mercian

 

In the beginning  dragons of all size and shapes that roamed the world. The greatest among them  all was Muirdoor, the Gatekeeper, who stood watch over the passage of darkness and light. But when evil sneaked in tainted the turquoise waters of Dragondoor, Muirdoor and her family made the greatest sacrifice of all, breathing fire upon themselves so fiercely that turned sky turned black in grief and the ocean grey in sadness.  As they fell in the ocean, their bodies turning into land  Hence, Muirdoor and her kin became the continent and gave their name to it. From their sacrifice, life sprung but so did magic. 

The volcanoes to this day, are the reminder of the Muirdoor's light and sacrifice. 

 

It is said that the Eye of Muirdoor watches over the land, searching for the one with magic and a pure heart—one who can turn light into darkness and darkness into light.

 

 

[LizEF]

22 minutes ago, yazeh said:

I believe this was found in one of the librarians sacred scrolls @LizEF, @InesF @Mercian

 

In the beginning  dragons of all size and shapes that roamed the world. The greatest among them  all was Muirdoor, the Gatekeeper, who stood watch over the passage of darkness and light. But when evil sneaked in tainted the turquoise waters of Dragondoor, Muirdoor and her family made the greatest sacrifice of all, breathing fire upon themselves so fiercely that turned sky turned black in grief and the ocean grey in sadness.  As they fell in the ocean, their bodies turning into land  Hence, Muirdoor and her kin became the continent and gave their name to it. From their sacrifice, life sprung but so did magic. 

The volcanoes to this day, are the reminder of the Muirdoor's light and sacrifice. 

 

It is said that the Eye of Muirdoor watches over the land, searching for the one with magic and a pure heart—one who can turn light into darkness and darkness into light.

  Dude!  That's epic!  You may well have just written the origin story of the Wizardlands - or at least the land on the other side of the Muirdoor! 

 

Your imagination never ceases to impress and amaze me, @yazeh!