This journey had taken way too long for Shrek throughout the night as he and Donkey had to stop to ask for directions from an bearded man wearing an pointed hat, next thing they know they're walking through the Sunflower field as they soon arrived at the Duloc Lancelot Parking Lot where the people's carriages were parked; although at least two of them had tickets posted by some of the Knights here for some minor offensives they may have caused. The castle was 40 stories high to say the least as the main color scheme for Duloc happened to be sapphire blue and white, seems they're keeping it simple for this place
"But that's it, that's it right there; that's Duloc, I told ya I'd find it" Donkey exclaimed to him as Shrek happened to look up at the very tall castle
"So this is Lord Farquaad's castle..." Shrek raised an eyebrow
"Uh-huh that's the place" Donkey confirmed
"Do you think maybe he's compensating for something?" Shrek chuckled but groaned as Donkey clearly doesn't understand. In the words of the Joker to his girlfriend Harley Quinn: You always taking shots from folks who just don't the get the joke, he walked off through the parking lot as Donkey went after him
"Hey wait, wait up Shrek!" He trotted after him
Outside as they approached the main gates where a man in a red tunic and black pants who also wore red shoes as well, with a large blue eyed Farquaad head as an mascot for Duloc was happily waving at the tan tunic wearing father and pink dress wearing daughter who were running through to get inside to see the tournament. His father told her: "Hurry darling. We're late. Hurry" as they went inside. The mascot underneath the mascot head had long brown hair with a shaved beard with black sleeves. In front of him were sapphire blue velvet rope lines with black square shaped poles that had brass braces around them, with larger ones on the bottom and the biggest black one on the bottom. There was also a sign written in the Bouwsma Uncial font that was written with a white square, it wrote: "45 minute wait from here" on the round edged stone brick layered ground. Finally, the velvet rope lines were all lined up in five rows of a grid in front of the castle tower booths in the front
Shrek did not seem too comfortable with having to talk to this man but if he's going to send his exiled Fairytale Creatures to live in his swamp, then no he's not alright with that at all as he likes his privacy. He began to approach him: "Hey, you!" He reached out to him as the Farquaad Mascot screamed in horror upon seeing him and entered the maze like line of velvet ropes
"Wait a second, look I'm not going to eat you. I just-" Shrek ran over to him as the Farquaad Mascot was on the second row, narrowly tripping over due to the size of the head he wore; but thankfully regained his balance and continued running. "I just-" He reached out his arm once again and attempted to talk to him, wanting to speak to him without having to resort to getting violent; but it seems that his attempts to talk to him have fallen onto the screams that were blind by fear of the ogre before him. He continued running as his shoes skid upon the stone brick laid floor from where he stood, going through each of the lines. Shrek had enough since it was like talking to a brick wall but now that he was left with no choice, he decided to literally cut through the line as he brought down the velvet rope posts with him as he walked through; of course this made him a impatient dick to waiting line cues as the Farquaad Mascot was able to run through due to staying on his feet, but his luck had ran out as he made it out of the fallen maze of velvet ropes and posts before he banged his head on the front of the entrance that he could not fit through due to the size of his head (A/N: By the way the Farquaad Mascot was voiced by a uncredited Andrew Adamson)
Shrek and Donkey looked over him as the former shook his head, it's not Farquaad but he could've used his information to find him at least; nevertheless he went through the rotating object that made one person get through once, with him being stout and such he had to go through sideways and if Farquaad did have a head the size of his mascot then he's really got some problems right there
This is where it should be mentioned that on the left booth of the entrance where the window was, there appeared to be a poster depicting Z from Antz along with the image of Cameron Diaz on the right booth; the former however now that's the kind of movie that Shrek might go ahead and see once he gets his swamp back, from what he's heard about the film it has some swear words like: Hell used more than once, tightass, bitching and even anus involved; no wonder it's a PG rated movie but does that rating mean anything anymore nowadays? Temple of Doom's heart ripping scene caused the PG-13 rating to be established and now G rated movies are for kids, when they're supposed to be for GENERAL audiences. God damn you, Motion Picture Association of America...
Shrek walked forward but heard a sound from behind that made him raise a eyebrow, turning back to find Donkey struggling to get through; which led to him being flipped onto the ground with him no longer stuck, he shook his head and continued forwards where they approached the grassy and flowery square that was designed after Farquaad's blue and happy face. With tall conical and columnar spire trees planted about, seated tour carriages with brown and white horses were stationed and it's houses all featured the previously mentioned snow white and sapphire blue colored houses; but there seemed to be something wrong around here as Shrek turned to face the stationed carts with a dual brass intercom on the top near the far bottom right corner, they seemed to be carrying pink flowers like the rest of the houses that had them resting at the windows but in actuality were seats for the tourists who would come to explore this place
"It's quiet..." Shrek looked around as he saw another section with a house that had yet to be fully painted, with a creeking dairy sign above and Duloc castle shaped bushes on the corners along with lamp posts that also had pink flowers. A cart also had yellow flowers as well just to mix it up a bit
"Too quiet..." Shrek faced the front of the shop known as "Le Old Souvenir Shoppe" that were filled with Farquaad dolls of various sizes, and I wasn't aware that they sell Farquaad dolls that came in a blue and blonde variety; as the shop's sign creeked lightly and swayed about in the wind. Having pink flowers resting in front of the window as all of the doors were colored blue, just about everything looked the same; a rather strange kingdom to say for someone who's visiting this place for the first time, but then of course there was the main question that plagued everyone's thoughts should they find themselves in this type of situation:
"Where is everybody?" Shrek asked seeing no sign of any human around as it looked like that the father and the daughter had suddenly vanished in this ghost town, at least it's not one yet if he and Donkey ever revisit this place for Halloween (A/N: Scared Shrekless which premiered on NBC if you're wondering by the way, it was also originally named Shrek or Treat! which you should be glad the name was changed; not a fan of Thriller Night though...)
"Hey look at this!" Donkey spotted a blue booth that was titled information, with a gold lever that he pulled back; with it making a winding up sound before ticking, Donkey immediately retreated behind Shrek as they watched on. The ticking continued onwards but seemed to be getting faster as they both were prepared to deal of whatever came out those two doors, if it is a fight that's behind them then it will be one that will come to them; the ticking continued it's quickening speed before the doors slightly opened with some music playing. There were puppets of both boys and girls to the left with a jail, having little boys in the jury and a judge; hell there was even a person in jail. The environment had a spinning sun on the top with fenses on the right and the castle on the front, snow tipped mountains and pyramidal trees were on both sides; the houses of course on the left and on top of the castle had six of them playing trumpets, with some cyan edged clouds. Finally as a surprised Shrek and Donkey watched on, they all began to sang
(A/N: I am not a fan of this musical number, but I am tolerant about it enough to accept it; the same could not be said for Shrek Forever After: The Final Chapter, I know some of you may like the film and claim it better than Shrek the Third which deserves no scorn but I think that the third film shits on the fourth film altogether thanks to the drama that was involved because Arthur Pendragon's had the shittiest time at Worchestshire Academy since his father left him there and his only friend Merlin was forced to retire. If you cannot handle my opinion like none of the other students can in the iCarly episode: iMeet Fred, then do not request me to write a story based on the fourth him; because having Shrek wanting to feel like a real ogre for at least one day scaring villagers is reasonable, but stating that he would rather not have rescued Fiona from the tower and stop being a family man with the three children he's raising is not the Shrek that I know and grew up with in 2001. That's just not like him at all, I just can't watch Shrek Forever After and love the film; I hate it... T_T)
Welcome to Duloc such a perfect town (Yeah right...)
Here we have some rules. Let us lay them down: (Alright then, lay 'em down then)
Don't make waves (What, I can't wave to my friends? Dicks...)
Stay in line (No thank you I prefer to cut in line so that I can get to places much faster)
And we'll get along fine (Hmmm... no we won't)
Duloc is perfect place (SAYS WHO?)
Please keep off of the grass (Says every restricted area ever...)
Shine your shoes, wipe your... face (Shrek knew that was not what they were suggesting)
Duloc is, Duloc is
Duloc is perfect place (Bullshit...)
The doors slammed quickly as the puppets went down and the lever returned to it's original position, followed by a blinding flash that sounded like a high pitched whip crack; below the unhelpful information booth is when a picture of a disturbed and puzzled Shrek and Donkey slid out, with a sepia color and words written below reading: "Welcome to Duloc"
A pausing silence had followed afterwards as Donkey was amazed: "Wowww... let's do that again!" He began to gallop over to the lever to pull it again, but Shrek's tiny trumpet ears were irritated to the point of not being able to survive another round of terrible singing from the puppets who had no information about what where to find Lord Farquaad; and so he grabbed Donkey by the tail before yanking him back. "No. No. No, no, no! NO" Shrek bent down on knee and whispered to him about his final answer, he was not willing to listen to the information booth again; it's not worth it since they couldn't even tell him at all. Suddenly, there was a fanfare trumpets in the arena that had birds flying away; setting his sights on the long tunnel ahead, Shrek and Donkey made their way through the shaded entry where Lord Farquaad was announcing the Duloc Tournament
"Brave Knights. You are the best and brightest in all the land, today one of you shall prove himself..." Donkey in the meantime was humming Welcome to Duloc from the information booth, but Shrek was through with having him hum that obnoxious song from those puppets who can't sing and thus he sharply gave him this warning if he didn't shut up:
"All right, you're going the right way for a smacked bottom" Shrek warned him (A/N: Mike Myers was really very irritated at the directions he was being given and that's one thing that Andrew Adamson can't help but add that in, at least it's more reasonable than in Blade: Trinity when Wesley Snipes literally strangled the director and was being very uncooperative during production. Believe it or not he left sticky notes as his response that all wrote: "Leave it in post" whenever he was asked about something)
"Sorry 'bout that" Donkey hung his head, he really didn't want to have his bottom smacked; god forbid it if his cantankerous old woman of a owner returned to seek vengeance on him, thanks to Shrek he'll never have to see her again. As they entered inside of the arena, there was everything on the kaleidoscope II textured taupe stone ground they were standing on
There were manchester and hazelwood tan striped cabana tents with sapphire blue square dots all about along with a merlon and embrassure pattern that hung on the bottom end of the top. There were studded corner edged tables that had decagon shaped mugs filled with root beer, with giant barrels of them; there were some haystacks nearby the horse pens with three of each sapphire blue ropes on the top to bottom and the turnbuckles were studded twice with stubby pyramid shaped spikes along with metal square rings on the top and a wooden ribbed pyramid on top. The horses were brown and white stallions who were adorned with shining armor that had a darker blue color, with some darker red saddles mounted on them; with a three row wooden board gate for their pen that had one diagonally crossed down towards the other side. A cart along with some larger stacks of hay that had three archer targets in a row lined up horizontally, one had three arrows while the second had none and the third had one. On the south of the horse pen/wrestling ring happened to be a guillotine like structure with a chained hook used for raising, while there was a saddle on top of the seat; a octagonal shaped studded rim box with ringed handles was also nearby, what exactly was it's purpose for? There were also two larger tents with three thick triangle stripe pattern on the top rim on each side, an stack that held some halberds; one of the larger tents of course had a red color in place of blue just to mix it up a bit which was found behind the dual root beer barrels. The rest of the arena featured blue shields with flagpoles that had pendant shaped flags, the entire kingdom had been gathered here where Lord Farquaad had begun to speak to the Duloc Knights below him
These Duloc Knights who were the Captain of the Guard's finest men are all lined up together in a group as there were many different variable versions of the respective armor they wore; some were tall and few were short no matter the differences as they each had their own kind and choice of animal found on their chestplates with some of their helmets also being many different types. None of them had holes on them as they were all smoothed out and it can be listed indivtually right here. Some of them had full colored kneeguards while others have an wide v-neck stripe on the top of their graves, or in some cases both of them; one of them has three parallel red stripes on the greaves and black knee guards as well. Some of these mercs wore small t-visor barbutes, crusader great helms, landsknechts with a short studded bill, deep visor sallets, bascinets with a pigface on the front, smooth sugarloaf helmets and crusader barrel helms; three of them who both wore the latter helmets were adorned with black, grey and white horns on the upper sides near the thick studded rims on the flat surface of the top. They consisted of a...
Left facing black rooster against light tan chest with red edges (Sallet)
Right side white golden bronze horned unicorn headed griffon chimera with hooves readied facing the left side on upper right cyan colored chest (Landsknecht)
Red and white checkered blue edged left facing red eyed raven/crow on front with right talon raised to the left side (Bascinet)
Blue on left and red on right with blue rook on upper left chest (Barbute)
Red downward blue narrow v-stripe on front (Sugarloaf)
Black edged with blue left facing bipedal walking bull on front with hooves positioned like it is sneaking past spotlight (Horned Great Helm)
Purple with orange downward narrow v-stripe on front (Barrel Helm)
Red edged black on left and white on right with yellow outlined red left facing rearing horse (Landsknecht)
(A/N: He wears a different helmet in the Shrek MacFarlane action figure series in one playset called "Shrek Wrestlin' Showdown" specifically the one worn by the knights who stand by Farquaad, it looks like a hybrid of the downwards curved sallet on the back and the open faced landsknecht with a rectangular shaped hole grilled visor that flips up; same goes for the knights at Far Far Away in Shrek 2)
Green edged sides with stripe in middle that doesn't seem to be a crest on the front or back (Bascinet)
Gold on left and green on right with left facing rearing red lion on upper right chest (Horned Barrel Helm)
Silver with no color on front or back but with blue wrists and knee guards (Great Helm)
Green on front with orange upward stripes going from waistline over the shoulders and back down (Bascinet)
Gold on left and green on right with opposite colored on sides downward narrow v-stripe on upper chest that alternates with green on left against gold and gold on right against green (Sallet)
Purpled edged black eagle crest flying upwards with white eyes and downward folded wings in position like the Aquila eagle of the SPQR crest, head facing the right side and wing joints on both sides looking like a rook shape of sorts that curve around and downwards; tail on the bottom with an extended griffon tail that spans out on the sides while the tip still goes down (Great Helm)
(A/N: In the GBA game Shrek: Hassle at the Castle this knight carries a four rectangular brick close edged from a middle rectangular cross studded strip on both front and back faces of the war hammer who is the boss at the end of the Duloc Tournament stage, think you'll see the last of him? Think again because he's back for revenge in the second to final stage when you race against time to stop the wedding between Fiona and Farquaad after defeating the Captain of the Guards, whom like the knight from Shrek Wrestlin' Showdown also has a different appearance than in the movie. Specifically, the addition of a pigface like bascinet helmet with a visor like Farquaad's knights standing beside him; a blue cape with gold clasps and a spear that has a gold edged blue banner on the bottom of the tip. The Great Helm knight also does not have a gold colored cap on top for his sprite in the game)
All of them carried various types of weapons as well: swords with long and fullerless silver blades that had medium length ingot shaped crossguards that were lightly hammered to the sides, slightly towards the top as well; featuring two small medallions on the top and bottom with a small ridge in the middle, the handle was ribbed horizontally with another two medallions on the bottom on top of the bulb for the pommel. Others included double bladed to edged axes, halberds of course and one crusader barrel helm knight had a morning star mace with cylinder shaped spikes. Finally although they looked unsure about having to go up against the Dragon especially when the barbute helmet wearing knight standing next to the raven bascinet red eyed raven/crow knight looked at the sugarloaf helm knight friend of his, they're ready to become the champion of Duloc's tournament that their might ruler Lord Farquaad hosted to his people as everything became clear to our heroes:
Duloc does not look like a kingdom at all, it felt more like a theme park that would've been nice to visit and have fun had it not been for Lord Farquaad exiling the Fairytale Creatures to his swamp by dumping them all on his property; speaking of which this is what was being spoken by him as Shrek and Donkey slowly walked forwards:
"That champion shall have the honor- no, no- the privilege to go forth and rescue the lovely Princess Fiona from the fiery keep of the Dragon! If for any reason the winner is unsuccessful, the first runner-up will take his place; and so on and so forth. Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make" Farquaad proclaimed his bullshit bluffs as he had no intentions on making it himself, instead letting them take it for him while he takes the credit in the end
Shrek and Donkey looked around and found a mullet beard man in a cyan blue tunic with darker blue sleeves holding up the Duloc color themed rectangular sign that wrote: "Applause" as the audience did just that. It was then that Lord Farquaad announced:
"Let the tournament begin!" He announced to the Duloc Knights below, but Shrek just frowned and decided to interrupt the beginning of the games; they all turned back to face him and broke away from each other as they were startled by the sudden appearance of a ogre which caught them all off guard. Lord Farquaad looked down to face Shrek as the audience yelled out and screamed in horror. "What is THAT?!" Who would dare interrupt his tournament to rescue the beloved princess? It was at this time that audience was silenced as Farquaad retched in disgust
"OGH! It's hideous" Shrek's trumpet ears were raised
"Ah that's not very nice" He turned to face Donkey who nodded. "It's just a donkey" The former made a sound of confusion as Lord Farquaad was struck with a flash of inspiration which was rare in times like these. "Indeed... Knights, new plan! The one who kills the ogre, will be named Champion! Have it him!" He pointed towards Shrek as the Duloc Knights were now slowly approaching him
"Get him!" Men called out as Shrek was forced to back up
"Oh, hey! Now come on! Hang on now" Shrek was not intending to do anything rash beforehand as he ran out of retreating room; bumping into the tables as he grabbed a mug and turned to face the Knights
"Can't we just settle this over a pint?" He happily offered as the Knights raised their swords, axes, halberds and mace with Donkey retreating under the tables and moving out and an villager calling out: "Kill the beast!"
"No? All right then" He gulped down the root beer from the mug and turned to face the spigot tap on the barrel in front of him. "Come on!" He yelled as he smashed the spigot off from the barrel behind him as it shot out against the Knights who were struck, while the one on the left with the black horns was not struck but merely passed out due to the alcohol fumes. Shrek then ran off as the barrel fully exploded and spilled out to the ground that was now like mud, many of the Knights slipping and falling to the ground; he grabbed a fallen one's halberd and smacked one against his knees, from this point forward chaos ruled on
Donkey climbed onto the top of the second barrel whose spigot was mysteriously missing as if someone took it, two Knights who happened to have a green and gold color scheme with one having horns and the second who did not found themselves doomed as they could only shake their heads back and forth to the sides. Due to the weight of the barrel it fell forwards and squished them, with Lord Farquaad questioning what was happening; Shrek then found the group of six Knights running towards them as Donkey ran over four of them, leaving the horned and sallet helmet wearing Knights with green and gold armor running to attack him
Shrek climbed over the wrestling ring as the horses leaped out of the way followed by the two Knights, who got up against the ropes and double clotheslined them both to the ground; with at least a few in the audience clapping (A/N: Look closely and pause when they're booing at first, you'll see it) A Knight came in with his mace before Shrek caught him with a headscissors takedown as Donkey was hanging by and watched him fight as the barrel he's riding earlier stopped in front of the wall. After preforming a flying crossbody onto his next opponent, a Knight with a rearing horse raised his halberd to stab the ogre as the audience gasped; but Shrek disarmed and caught him in a full nelson hold. "Hey, Shrek tag me! Tag me!" He called out as he brought him over by the head and Donkey delivered a headbutt that sent him to the ground, although it made him shake off his dizziness; with the audience now cheering for him. He climbed onto the turnbuckle and reveled in his glory but turned when the green and gold sallet Knight was back to sneak up behind him, jumping off to preform a seated senton that slammed him to the ground
"The chair, give him the chair!" A old woman called out to him as the Knight attempted to get back up, only for Shrek to slam him back to the ground with a wooden chair to the head which if one were to look closely; it had the words written in the stencil cargo army font: "Property of Duloc" on the top board which was bent afterwards, Lord Farquaad could not believe this was happening but the audience was having too much fun watching this match; with a woman and her friend laughing in enjoyment. Shrek dealt with the next Knight by preforming the irish whip before dropkicking him, the raven/crow chestplate wearing Knight was slammed to the ground by a vertical suplex while the cyan clover Knight tried to escape Shrek's ankle lock but could not reach the ropes as he was doomed. The second to last was beaten to the ground with a kneeling piledriver and the final Knight was spinning in his arms, preforming the UFO as Shrek purposely lost his grip to throw him against the turnbuckle; as Donkey landed a burrow kick to the helmet, with the ding ending the match. Shrek climbed out of the wrestling ring with each and every Knight who were the Captain of the Guard's finest men assembled laid beaten to the very floor and the flooded puddle of root beer rippling through as the ogre made it to the center of the arena
"Oh yeah! Arghh! Arrggghh! Thank you, thank you very much! I'm here 'til Thursday. Try the veal! Ha, ha ha hahaha!" Shrek laughed heartily as never did so many people like him and he actually enjoyed himself doing what he loved the most. Lord Farquaad thought to himself as this is the one who will go out to the fiery keep of the Dragon's Castle and rescue the lovely Princess Fiona, he then gave the order to silence everyone by directing their crossbows at their victorious ogre and his animal
Crossbows had the handles slant downwards with the back pommels being a black single bolt studded on the sides to the top edged square which was also true for the front of the slanted handle, single studded disc on either side of the left to right and smooth on both the top and the bottom sides. The front single studded disc on the left to right sides not only had a lever as it started out vertically straight before going backwards horizontally straight, the end nearing at the back single studded disc square plate sloping downwards like that as the top of the frontal one had a trapezoid bowstring rest in the middle; but the bow itself was a straight and evenly sized narrow D-letter shape with the tips sloping up into a small to short rounded shape which went overhead, a rectangular shape that had a curved top to be exact. The vertical rectangular body that went forward towards whatever is aimed at, the arrow slot was a small sized lower-half spherical shape which was even to the black fletched iron tipped arrow that was loaded to be sent firing; the rounded edge stirrup at the front which had stout horizontal trapezoids that were on both sides as the narrow top was facing ahead, and the stirrup itself being a trapezoid which was as mentioned before rounded edge and it's neither too small nor too big for it since the arrow's small teardrop shaped iron tip was fitted just above the middle of it. The bow was split in half with a flawless square shape and the stirrup was slightly tilted downwards. Finally, since reloading crossbows were a pain in the ass to perform while standing; these variations are easier to load 'em back up again
"Shall I give the order, sir?" He asked silently
"No, I have a better idea" Farquaad responded as he then addressed the villagers: "People of Duloc, I give you our champion!" Everyone cheered as they all praised their victorious winner as Shrek's face turned to that of astonishment, note the blue shield on the southwest corner of the arena entrance
"What?" Shrek could not understand what was happening here, not only did someone remove the blue shield behind him on the southwest corner of the arena entrance but now Lord Farquaad has declared him their new champion. Now he's going to get more than a lot to hear from him!
"Congratulations ogre, you've won the honor of embarking on a great and noble quest" Lord Farquaad declared happily, but Shrek only frowned
"Quest? I'm already on a quest, a quest to get my swamp back" Shrek explained
"Your swamp?" Lord Farquaad asked, with a face that looked like Shrek has made a awful stink and if he did make one; then everyone will die
"Yeah, my swamp! Where YOU dumped those Fairytale Creatures!" Shrek accused and pointed to him, now he's really gotten himself in between a rock and a hard place; but Lord Farquaad had no fear since in truth Shrek did not really own the swamp because it's apart of his lordship, it was used as his dumping ground for the Fairytale Creatures after he's exiled them from their home here in Duloc. Unfortunately though, he still could not find out the reason if Gingy was telling him the truth that the woman whom the Muffin Man was married to was the leader of the resistance who opposes his rule; by disturbing his solitary life he's allowed him to come here to win against his finest men of Knights, if he's going to do such thing then he's always got a backup plan like this if things like these happen. This is his backup plan:
"Indeed. All right, ogre I'll make you a deal: Go on this quest for me and I'll give you your swamp back" He offered as flashes of inspiration came to him more than once
"Exactly the way it was?" Shrek wanted to make sure of it
"Down to the last slime covered toadstool" Lord Farquaad added onto his offer
"And the squatters?" Shrek wanted them to leave as well
"As good as gone!" Farquaad exclaimed
A silence followed as Shrek glanced at the crossbow wielding Knights above the wall, a few of which looked at each other with a question in their heads holding their crossbows steady before returning back to Lord Farquaad as he asked this question
"What kind of quest?" Shrek asked as there was a sound of what appeared to be laughing in the background, however it was merely just a bird in the sky
I never really update this novelization too much so in order to make up for the absence of chapters, I've decided to give you the appearance on what the book in the beginning of the two first films looks like; enjoy:
This Book was an dark mountain oak and espresso brown color. On the front cover had four squares with double round rectangular borders that were close to each other but not together. The top right and bottom left side had four lines with two short strokes across on all four sides of the squares while the diagonal edges were had an X-cross. The top left and bottom right had chimeras with the top left having a rectangular and the bottom right having an square shaped head whose ends of the tails looked like an three leaf clover, both had horns and the same body although the top left was slightly bigger than the other as both were in the same pose: situated on the left side with their right paw up with their right leg forward while their left leg remained straight, their tails went upwards before curving to the left and curving back to the right. The spine of the Book had double parallel ridges on the top and bottom, all parts of the Book were raised and made of slightly fuzzy linen. Finally when opened up, the pages were an creamy oat tan color while the illustrations were quite really simplistic but fascinating to look at; the gold that was used was really reflective and colorful with a unique artstyle layered atop the pages
The following fonts below were used for the Book in the beginning of both Shrek and Shrek 2, this is what the fonts are:
The text is Bouwsma Uncial
The square shaped capital letter is: PetitFleur
The outer shaped capital letter is: Lime Glory Caps
Finally, I have one last thing for you as it's something I found in the artbook's spreadsheet; I actually found the other side of the page that Shrek ripped out, it depicts a knight stabbing the terrible fire-breathing Dragon in the throat with his shining blade while on his horse and the words write: "And so it came to pass that a brave knight came to her rescue, and with a kiss broke the fearful enchantment. The whole kingdom celebrated on their wedding day" the second part you know because it was seen right before the book was closed by him, it's the first part I was curious about. If you don't believe me then take type in this link since you can't highlight it from this sight, this is the address: just type in Thisisopus and look for Shrek-Spread-1
TO BE CONTINUED...