[Glorantha] Painting the dead place

[Thompson, Todd L.]

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

Hmm, I hadn't really thought about lack of portable paintings in early
societies.
 
> 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.

I did rather favor the painting variation of it and it loses some luster
with other forms.  As magic is involved one could also say that the
charcoal takes on color and such, though that might be getting over the
top.

It might lead to some interesting story about a song that was also a
thing.  I'm not very much an expert on myths or Glorantha, but it seems
often strange things are stolen from others.  Yinkin's heat was stolen
by the Bad Dogs with Eurmal's help, though that only helped Yinkin's get
closer to more goddesses.  In some way I guess once the song is done and
the bad thing defeated the singer might burp up the song into some
physical form.