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Every illustration made for the setting so far: the portraits, the places, the plans of the castle, and the things in the bestiary. Richly painted portraits, places and creatures, with hand-colored maps and castle plans. New art files into this library automatically as it arrives.

Painted portrait of the Gatekeepers: a slim hooded woman carrying a smoking herb staff beside a broad smiling armored man with a mace — Aggodas and Boldogg, the GatekeepersAggodas and Boldogg, the Gatekeepers: an ancient supernatural police that answers to no one and takes tribute at the gates.Portraits · 1126×1397

Painted portrait of Ambassador Harken, an older diplomat seated at a desk with a scroll, globe and castle visible through the window — Ambassador Harken, the DiplomatAmbassador Harken, the face of Albion's peace delegation at the Eternal Court.Portraits · 1451×1084

Portrait of Barron Whitehallow, a gaunt older diplomat in a heavy coat, illness in his face and a sharp intelligence in his eyes — Barron WhitehallowBarron Whitehallow, Albion's foreign minister in Kormor Kirak: dying, charming, and the architect of more than he admits.Portraits · Barron Whitehallow · 1024×1536

Painted portrait of Brother Aldric, an anxious older priest holding a crucifix and rosary beside a Gothic window — Brother AldricBrother Aldric, who documents the disappeared until the Red Guard comes for him too.Portraits · 1451×1084

Painted portrait of Captain Ashford, a weathered man in a military coat carrying binoculars and a sword in the mountains — Captain Ashford, the Soldier AbroadCaptain Ashford, absolutely loyal to the Queen and in command of castle security.Portraits · 1451×1084

Painted portrait of Devorlen Koss in a military coat, his mechanical arm holding playing cards — Devorlen KossDevorlen Koss, Terrassian officer, information broker, and keeper of Koss's Curiosities.Portraits · Devorlen Koss · 1126×1397

Painted portrait of Eppy Flinder, a smiling pointed-eared innkeeper with an apron, bundles of herbs and a wooden staff — Eppy FlinderEppy Flinder, innkeeper of the Hearth and Cauldron, refugee of an older world.Portraits · Eppy Flinder · 1125×1398

Painted portrait of General Markos, a stern scarred warrior in engraved armor holding a bat-winged helmet — General Markos, the Queen's BladeGeneral Markos, Albion's commander in the city, half-turned to the Queen's purposes.Portraits · 1125×1398

Painted portrait of Istvan the Jailer, a burly man with scarred arms, an apron, keys and a whip in a prison corridor — Istvan the JailerIstvan, warden of the dungeons beneath Torony Piros: corrupt, but functional.Portraits · 1451×1084

Portrait of Jack Winbow, a scarred veteran in a worn coat with a soldier's stance and a wary look — Jack WinbowJack Winbow, smuggler and soldier, loyal to Olivia and Eppy and hiding what the moon does to him.Portraits · Jack Winbow · 1024×1536

Painted portrait of Lady Mireva, a vampire noblewoman with an elaborate dark coiffure and high-collared gown leaning on a heraldic stone pedestal — Lady MirevaLady Mireva, the court's gossip and the Queen's quiet spymistress.Portraits · 1451×1084

Painted portrait of Magistrate Voron, an exhausted older judge in robes and a chain of office, resting his head on his hand over papers — Magistrate VoronMagistrate Voron, the city's corrupt legal authority, useful to the Crown until he is not.Portraits · 1451×1084

Portrait of Olivia Faren, a young woman with dark hair tied back, holding a small brass calculating instrument, a locket at her throat — Olivia FarenOlivia Faren, Albion accountant and investigator, sent to reconcile a ledger and finding a conspiracy.Portraits · Olivia Faren · 1024×1536

Painted study of Olivia Faren in a dark coat and ivory shirt, looking down at her cylindrical brass calculator — Olivia Faren (Rough)An early study of Olivia Faren.Portraits · Olivia Faren · 1125×1398

Painted portrait of Princess Szeret, a smiling young adult vampire with loose golden-brown hair, wearing a buckled black leather outfit — Princess Szeret VereszPrincess Szeret Veresz, the Queen's daughter: shapeshifter, caged, and hungry for one night of freedom.Portraits · Princess Szeret Veresz · 1024×1536

Painted study of Princess Szeret laughing, with loose golden-brown hair and a buckled black leather outfit — Princess Szeret, Study IPrincess Szeret, the joyful vampire, first rough.Portraits · Princess Szeret Veresz · 1125×1398

Painted study of Princess Szeret with one hand on her hip, loose golden-brown hair and a buckled black leather outfit — Princess Szeret, Study IIPrincess Szeret, the less joyful study.Portraits · Princess Szeret Veresz · 1125×1398

Portrait of Queen Kiraline, a vampire sovereign in a crowned black gown, pale and absolute — Queen Kiraline Veresz EroszakosQueen Kiraline Veresz Eroszakos, sovereign of Kormor Kirak, building a chamber to catch a comet.Portraits · Queen Kiraline Veresz Eroszakos · 1024×1536

Painted portrait of Rozito Vallikozo, a dark-skinned man with tight black curls and a knowing smile, wearing richly patterned layered fabrics in a stone market alley — Rozito Vallikozo, the FixerRozito Vallikozo, market manager and fixer, who serves many masters and practices what he denies.Portraits · Rozito Vallikozo · 1024×1536

Painted portrait of a grinning fanged butcher holding a cleaver at his crowded meat stall — The Marketplace ButcherThe Butcher of the Kereskedo, subject of the starter scenario.Portraits · 1451×1084

Painted portrait of Tomas the Stablehand holding a pitchfork and bucket, with a shadowed vampire behind him — Tomas the StablehandTomas the Stablehand, who sees who rides out of the castle and when.Portraits · 1024×1536

Painted view from below of Castle Torony Piros, its Gothic spires and warm windows rising above a steep misty cliff — Castle Torony PirosCastle Torony Piros from below: half its mass hanging over the cliff, one tower window lit with a cold light.Plates · Castle Torony Piros · 937×1679

Painted tavern scene with human and vampire patrons toasting beside a fireplace and a sign reading The Neutral Coin — Eppy's Hearth and Cauldron IEppy's Hearth and Cauldron: safe ground, hot food, and no weapons drawn.Plates · Eppy Flinder · 1698×926

Painted tavern interior with groups of patrons at wooden tables, a large cooking hearth, a bar and The Neutral Coin sign — Eppy's Hearth and Cauldron IIThe regulars at Eppy's, where a stranger's questions are answered with other questions.Plates · Eppy Flinder · 1451×1084

Painted view of grassy mountain burial grounds with forked paths, stone platforms, shrouded remains and a perched vulture — Hallaset Fields, the CemeteryHallaset Fields, the sky-burial cemetery where the dead are laid out and do not always stay.Plates · 1531×1027

Painted view of a busy market square, stalls and shoppers between classical and timbered buildings, with guards and the castle above — Kereskedo MarketThe Kereskedo Marketplace, commercial heart of Kormor Kirak, under the eye of the watch platform.Plates · Kormor Kirak · 1679×937

Painted view of robed traders and two pack camels beside a domed bazaar hall, with Gothic castle spires in the distance — Kereskedo Marketplace IIThe Grand Square side of the Kereskedo, where prices climb as the comet does.Plates · Kormor Kirak · 1531×1027

Painted view over the steep roofs and central street of the walled mountain city of Kormor Kirak beneath its misty castle — Kormor KirakKormor Kirak, 1793: a mountain city of gaslight and wet stone held between two exhausted empires.Plates · Kormor Kirak · 1678×937

Painted night view of Kormor Kirak's timbered houses, warm windows and cliffside castle beneath a crescent moon — Kormor Kirak, the City at NightThe city at night: gaslamps, rain, and the castle absorbing what light there is.Plates · Kormor Kirak · 1531×1027

Painted interior of Koss's Curiosities, filled with clocks, flintlock pistols, glassware, instruments, lamps and locked boxes — Koss's CuriositiesDevorlen Koss's curiosity shop above a condemned textile warehouse in the Marrow District, where information is bought as readily as brass.Plates · Devorlen Koss · 1451×1084

Painted view of Queen Kiraline's bedchamber with a thornlike bed frame, skulls, books, occult circles and draped Gothic windows — Queen Kiraline's BedchamberThe Queen's bedchamber: an iron door of shifting geometry, glowing thorned vines, carved runes.Plates · Queen Kiraline Veresz Eroszakos · 1530×1028

Painted view of Szeret's scholarly bedroom with a telescope, charts, globes, books, a writing desk and a four-poster bed — Szeret's BedroomSzeret's tower room: a brass telescope, star charts, and a locked journal.Plates · Princess Szeret Veresz · 1531×1027

Painted view of the classical Albion Trading and Embassy building among narrow medieval streets beneath mountains — The Albion EmbassyThe Albion Embassy: mechanical precision in stone, and a loft of pigeons that carry more than dispatches.Plates · Albion · 1451×1084

Painted view of the closed heraldic Blood Gate with warning runes, twin battlement towers and two armored guards — The Blood GateThe Blood Gate: wrought iron, a rust-brown stain, and a crowned skull on a thorned scepter.Plates · Castle Torony Piros · 1531×1027

Painted view of a narrow mountain road with switchbacks, crimson-cloaked guards and a horse-drawn coach beneath the castle — The Cliff Road ApproachThe Cliff Road: switchbacks up to the castle, a watch station at every turn.Plates · Castle Torony Piros · 1531×1027

Painted view of a vast cavern with a tilted luminous crystal in a central crater, giant glowing fungi and three tiny explorers — The Comet ChamberThe Comet Chamber: a vast cavern, a crater of dark glass, violet light, and lightning that arcs to nothing.Plates · The Comet Chamber · 1531×1027

Painted view of clothed prisoners behind iron bars along a torchlit vaulted dungeon corridor — The Dungeon CellsThe cells, and the old woman who has been in one of them for twenty-seven years.Plates · Castle Torony Piros · 1531×1027

Painted view of chained prisoners seated beside barred cells in a dark stone dungeon corridor — The DungeonsThe dungeons: iron cells, manacles, and water that drips like a heartbeat.Plates · Castle Torony Piros · 1678×937

Painted view of dancers beneath three chandeliers in a vaulted Gothic ballroom, with musicians on the far gallery — The Grand BallroomThe Grand Ballroom: chandeliers, a musicians' gallery, and marble whose patterns move when no one looks.Plates · Castle Torony Piros · 1531×1027

Painted view of an empty skull-and-bone throne between four braziers, surrounded by Gothic columns and bat reliefs — The Throne RoomThe Throne Room: black iron inlaid with human bone, on a dais of red stone.Plates · Queen Kiraline Veresz Eroszakos · 1531×1027

Hand-colored plan of four castle dungeon levels, showing cells, guard rooms, feeding chambers, storage and Comet Chamber access — Castle Dungeon LevelsThe dungeon levels of Torony Piros, floor by floor, down toward the Comet Chamber.Maps and plans · Castle Torony Piros · 1531×1027

Hand-colored castle ground-floor plan labeling the Throne Room, Grand Ballroom, Dining Hall, barracks, kitchens, administrative areas and Blood Gate — Castle Ground Floor PlanGround floor of Castle Torony Piros: the Blood Gate, the Grand Ballroom, the Throne Room.Maps and plans · Castle Torony Piros · 1531×1027

Hand-colored castle cutaway labeling the Grand Ballroom, Queen's Bedchamber, Throne Room, dungeons and Comet Chamber — Castle Torony Piros, Cross SectionTorony Piros in section: towers above, court in the middle, dungeons and the Comet Chamber below.Maps and plans · Castle Torony Piros · 1531×1027

Hand-colored labeled bird's-eye map of walled Kormor Kirak, with Torony Piros northeast, the central marketplace, Southern Gate and western Cliff Road — City of Kormor Kirak, Bird's Eye ViewKormor Kirak from above: the walls, the districts, and the castle straddling the cliff.Maps and plans · Kormor Kirak · 1531×1027

Hand-colored map of Videk with the Albion Empire west, Terrassian Empire east, central mountain passes and the Whispering Sea south — Regional Map, the Known WorldThe Known World: Albion to the west, Terrassia to the east, and Kormor Kirak in the mountains between them.Maps and plans · 1531×1027

Painted illustration of a hooded clockwork assassin with mechanical goggles, exposed brass gears and a crossbow, crouching on a rooftop — Automatic AssassinAn Automatic Assassin: Albion clockwork built to kill in the dark and never tire.Bestiary · 1126×1397

Painted illustration of a skeleton in partial armor standing in a stone doorway with a spiked mace and glowing runes — Bone SentinelA Bone Sentinel, the Lich Cult's tireless doorkeeper.Bestiary · 1451×1084

A painted mounted cavalry soldier with chain mail, shield, lance and sheathed saber on a mountain road outside a stone gate. — Cavalry SoldierA painted mounted cavalry soldier with chain mail, shield, lance and sheathed saber on a mountain road outside a stone gate.Bestiary · 1448×1086

A painted rat-shaped brass clockwork scout with glass lens eyes and articulated paws beside a slate rooftop vent. — Clockwork ScoutA painted rat-shaped brass clockwork scout with glass lens eyes and articulated paws beside a slate rooftop vent.Bestiary · 1448×1086

Painted bestiary composition with a clockwork crossbow assassin, a towering stitched Necrotic Bulk, two armored guards and shadowed vampires — Enemies and HorrorsThe Enemy Bestiary cover: the things that bite back in Kormor Kirak.Bestiary · 1126×1397

A painted human gangster lieutenant in studded leather and a dark coat, carrying a short sword and hand crossbow with three ruffians behind him. — Gangster LieutenantA painted human gangster lieutenant in studded leather and a dark coat, carrying a short sword and hand crossbow with three ruffians behind him.Bestiary · 1448×1086

A painted human market ruffian in worn leather armor carrying a club, with a dagger at his belt in a dim market alley. — Kereskedo Market RuffianA painted human market ruffian in worn leather armor carrying a club, with a dagger at his belt in a dim market alley.Bestiary · 1448×1086

A painted living human cult acolyte in ordinary worn clothes, inscribing preservation runes beside a ritual dagger in a dim back room. — Lich Cult AcolyteA painted living human cult acolyte in ordinary worn clothes, inscribing preservation runes beside a ritual dagger in a dim back room.Bestiary · 1448×1086

Painted illustration of a dark-robed necromancer tracing swirling magic over a corpse among dry grass and scattered bones — Lich Cult NecromancerA Lich Cult necromancer at work in the catacombs beneath the city.Bestiary · 1451×1084

Painted illustration of a gray mountain wolf standing on a rocky slope with four wolves behind it — Mountain Wolf, AlphaThe alpha of the mountain wolves that hunt the passes around Kormor Kirak.Bestiary · 1451×1084

Painted illustration of a stern Red Guard captain in engraved plate armor and a crimson cloak, with three soldiers behind him — Red Guard CaptainA captain of the Red Guard, the Queen's crimson military.Bestiary · 1451×1084

Painted illustration of a Red Guard soldier in bat-emblazoned armor and a crimson cape, holding a drawn sword — Red Guard SoldierA Red Guard soldier: disciplined, unbargaining, stationed on every corner.Bestiary · 1451×1084

Painted illustration of the Ancient, a horned many-eyed creature with clawed hands emerging through a rune-inscribed stone doorway — The Ancient, Sealed Door GuardianThe Ancient, guardian of a sealed door beneath the castle, older than the Queen.Bestiary · 1126×1397

Painted illustration of a skeletal hooded cultist in tattered robes, surrounded by spiraling runes and ruined masonry — The Lich CultistA cultist of the Lich Cult, which operates in the catacombs and Terra Sotto.Bestiary · 1451×1084

Painted illustration of the Necrotic Bulk, a huge stitched creature of fused bodies filling a stone doorway — The Necrotic BulkThe Necrotic Bulk: a corpse-mass that fills a passage and keeps coming.Bestiary · 1125×1398

Painted illustration of a skeletal shambler in torn clothing with other undead among gravestones — Undead ShamblerAn Undead Shambler, risen from Hallaset Fields.Bestiary · 1451×1084

Painted illustration of a fanged vampire spawn clinging to a stone wall in a dark fitted outfit — Vampire SpawnVampire Spawn: faster than the Red Guard, and they never tire.Bestiary · 1451×1084

Painted portrait of an exhausted vampire thrall with blank eyes, swirling skin markings, torn clothes and a crescent pendant — Vampire ThrallA Vampire Thrall, an undead soldier in the Queen's service.Bestiary · 1451×1084

Four woven tapestry panels in oxblood and gilt showing the comet, the castle, the court, and the city — Four TapestriesFour tapestry panels made for the site's decorative frames: the comet, the castle, the court, and the city.Tapestries · 1408×768