As you confer with the silent Brother Rousseau on your own ad-hoc map of the progress thus far, it is Mikail’s absent-minded staring at a wall that first gets your attention.
<span class="mu-i">“What is it lad?”</span> You ask, your squire could be a little slow at times but staring at blank rock walls was never a pastime of his.
<span class="mu-i">“Pictures, milord.”</span> Mikail points, his hand hovering over what looks like faded scratches in the torchlight. <span class="mu-i">“On the wall. A whole lot of ‘em.”</span>
Your curiosity piqued, Brother Rousseau holds up his torch for a closer inspection. Unlike the wet rockface on the opposite side of the passage, this side of the room is covered. It reminds you of the depictions of the Passages of Faith in the churches of your homeland. Perhaps this place too was shrine in ages past, a temple to an altogether more material and physical God.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3uWHtUkUoI&ab_channel=HansZimmer-Topic - The Age of the DragonThe first depiction found on the right-most side of the room shows a giant beast that can only be the Dragon, both wings flared out and head reared upwards to the sun. Below him are many, many thin figures bowed in worship. There is one very large group of figures bowing, but also smaller groups of figures to the left, right and bottom of this larger group all prostrate and humbled before their God-Emperor.
The second depiction is more chaotic, similar figures armed with sticks and round shields are pressing down on several other groups of figures armed with a variety of basic depictions of weapons depending on where there group is located. At the center again the Dragon sits, one claw extending to the right and a single talon pointed forward. Beneath his other claw is a crushed group of figures of indiscernible origin. There is a murky mass of something at the very edge of the bottom of the depiction.
The third depiction is less violent, but still alive with activity. A handful of slim figures are knelt before the dragon, most in worship like the first depiction but a line of them bring bundles of… various things, detail is lost here. The Dragon has a claw extended out , you can crudely make out the implements as… a hammer, a spear and… a hoe or scythe of some sort. At the fringes there are depictions of the fingers using these in various acts of industry and agriculture. At the very bottom of the depiction a very few figures are knelt around masses of… something. It is as if the edge of the depictions have been purposely chiselled to show as if there were edges of the map covered by a fog.
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