the picture room

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Ink without paper. Castles above the mist, beasts at the edge of the firelight, and country enough to get lost in.

56 drawings, gathered by subject. Open a title to see the full piece. Each drawing uses plain ASCII and fits within 72 columns.

citadels and forgotten places

• The black tower
• The castle gate
• Beneath the portcullis
• The empty throne
• The sealed barrow
• A circle of standing stones
• The last inscription

creatures of the dusk

• The wyrm at the water’s edge
• Wolf beneath the moon
• Raven on a broken bough
• The sleeper in the rafters
• The web and its keeper

relics and ritual

• The old iron bell
• The stone and its runes
• A sealed scroll
• The chalice
• What remains
• The last grains
• A key without a door
• The knight’s helm
• A blade in the stone
• The apothecary’s bottle
• The treasure chest

firelight and the road

• The wanderer
• A path between mountains
• The longship
• Pines by moonlight
• The dead tree
• Camp before nightfall
• The hanging lantern
• One candle left

mountains and highlands

• Alpine dawn
• The glacier valley
• The smoking caldera
• Water over the highland ledge
• A castle above the mist

forests and groves

• Under the ancient woodland
• The birch grove
• An autumn valley
• The forest stream
• Footprints in a snowbound forest

water and wetlands

• The lakeside keep
• A river taking its time
• The reed marsh
• Roots of the mangrove delta

coasts and islands

• Sea cliffs
• A sheltered cove
• The tidal fortress
• A storm coming ashore
• The frozen fjord

open country

• The castle on the downs
• Terraced hills
• Moonlit steppe
• Wind over the dunes
• Red rock canyon
• The salt flats

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