[Glorantha] Painting the dead place

[Jane Williams]

> :> As the party is traveling they will to a dead
> place,
> :> well except for the painter in the group
> :
> :And there's the problem. How many parties have a
> :painter in the group? NPC required, and the centre
> of
> :the story from then on.
> 
> Painting nature scenes is a much more modern thing
> than most people
> realize. It's not something I would see a heortling
> doing, in any way.

I have problems seeing anyone painting on canvas in an
early society. Murals, frescos, yes, but not anything
portable.  

> But still, the point is artistic inspiration
> invoking magic, and that is
> not limited to a single medium.
> 
> Parhaps the artistic character starts
> chanting/singing a poem, with the
> aforementioned results?

As I understood the story, the idea was that the
"place" could only be seen by one person, and he was
using his creative ability to show the others what it
was like, with a permanent physical object as the
result. He's grabbing a notebook and doing a quick
sketch, effectively, and anyone *could* do that. Pale
cloak or tunic, bit of charcoal? But that seems too
mundane, the "artistic inspiration" isn't there.





		
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