A feathered sorcerer and his mismatched love; a cliffside tower and its dozen prisoners; a sumptuous spread and its discontents.
20/2 - 26/2 #dungeon23
A wizard’s tower—that’s pretty much a dungeon, right? But this one is also an event: a birthday party! There are thieves and drunken guests and politically-inconvenient dignitaries.
Was trying to model Leucops the bird wizard after a Bali mynah. But I couldn’t get its profile right? (I’m more used to common mynahs—but that’s no excuse, either, because Leucops looks like a chicken … Oh well.)
Leucops was banished from the sky after he got pissy he didn’t get invited to the cool-songbirds club, and he trapped them in magic birdcages.
This one is full of pangolin-folk and termite-folk and stuff like “twelfth bell” instead of "noon", because it is set underground, in the cavern of the God-In-Pieces. (Incidentally, this also means the whole party is lit by a constant magic-hour-like light coming from the south.)
But there’s so little space in the notebook, and I couldn’t rely on short-hands like the day-night cycle, or even human NPCs.
So writing this was finicky. And the text ended up real clumsy.
For example: there’s a timeline in there—but it is scattered all over, instead of put in a single list, which would be the more useful way to do it.
Sigh.
At least I like making the illustration for this. Lost myself in the tiny details: the cushions in the bedroom, the writing desk in the lounge; the frescoes in the ground-floor gallery; the tables and chairs and flags of the party …
Detail I am most proud of: the little latrine area, with chamber-pots. Because you need a place to piss, at a party!
