Unknown2008-08-17 03:06:00
Linaeve proudly shows off a painting of Streets on a Bloodfaire Night:
Set in a dark iron frame, this painting of a cobble-stoned street seems to have a looming presence. The painting had been artfully done from near the cobbles of the street, which starts from the bottom of the canvas to the middle, before a fog takes it. The stones of the road are of different sizes, but are roughly the same shape. On either side of the street, starting a bit along the side of the painting and following the straight street's path, are sidewalks lined with ornamental lamps that have been painted with a dim yellow halo. The buildings on the street have been painted only enough to discern where one building starts and another ends. Within the gutters of the road and flowing in between the cobbles is dark red blood. Dripping from some of the street lamps and spattering the sidewalks is more blood from some great slaughter. In the center of the painting, a great fog has been painted with heavy strokes. The fog is tinted a middling shade of red, as if the blood on the ground was in the air itself, and it consumes the road, sidewalks, and the buildings. The bloody fog ends a few inches before the top of the canvas, which is populated by a few white stars speckled through the dark blue sky herded by a brilliant off-white moon tinted a faint yellow-green.
Artist: Jigan
Sold for 38,000 to Nariah
Linaeve proudly shows off a painting of The Eye of the Clockwork Ouroboros:
Gears turn, clicking and interweaving in rust-stained ribbons of iron and steel, mixing bizarrely with cogs of jade and tarnished gold within the twisting skein of the ouroboros that is depicted within this oil painting. Here and there, a writhing clockwork serpent gazes out of the maelstrom with dull, garnet eyes - beneath, a bird wrought in bronze spreads wings of feathered gold. An alien landscape spreads out behind the symbol, red sand stretching to improbably angled basalt monoliths beneath a green sky with five blue moons.
Artist: Sthai
Sold for 27,000 to Gavriel
Linaeve proudly shows off a painting of The Throne of Souls:
Set in a heavy and ornate gold frame studded with rubies and onyx, this painting bespeaks of richness. Set in the center of the painting, upon a blood soaked stone floor, is a throne made from sculpted gold. The high-backed seat of kings has been molded so that the seat appears to be made from bone, and the arm rests of skulls with ruby eyes, and that the back of the chair is of open-mouthed souls rising from the ground. The souls stream upwards and towards a single blood red ruby set into the top of the throne, swirling around it in an engraved circle. The background of this painting is a black backdrop with a heavy red mist looming around the throne. The background is barely seen and appears only in portions here and there, and at the top of the painting, all else is seen through the bloody mist, save for one thing. Looming at about where a human's head would be while sitting on the throne is an oval mask, a dark red colour. The mask stares out at the viewer with black eyeslits in which nothing can be seen.
Artist: Jigan
Sold for 40,000 to Karnagran
Linaeve proudly shows off a painting of The Muse of Wormwood:
An ethereal, unreal garden blooms within the depths of this oil painting, verdant hues giving way to midnight shadows in the light of a circle of candles held within amethyst votives. Illuminated dimly by the dancing, contradictory light of the tiny flames, a green-skinned viscanti woman, nude but for a translucent toga of white silk that clings to her shapely form - shards of glittering diamond stud her spiralling black horns. A bottle of bluish liqueur in a glowing bottle rests on the stones beside the dark pool, a reservoir glass and silver spoon carelessly cast aside - a pool of spilt libation spreads beneath. Surrounding the pool, silvery vines droop under the weight of midnight-hued blossoms.
Artist: Sthai
Sold for 25,000 to Gavriel
Linaeve proudly shows off a painting of The Final Victory:
Surrounded by a golden ornamental frame is an apocalyptic vision of the Basin. In the centre stands Celest, a ruin, its white walls blackened with smoke, and raging fires issuing from the broken tops of its turrets. On toppling crenellations, tiny mail-coated Merians fight desperate skirmishes against their foes, darkly armoured Taurian marshals who hack them down like a reaper at the harvest. In the distance, the woods of the Serenwilde burn darkly, and at intervals, trees and bodies are piled high: burning pyres of women and children screaming for mercy. At the forefront of the picture, a group of mighty Geomancers blast a party of fleeing Elfen with poisoned boulders, and a Viscanti in the robes of the Archmage commits a Paladin to the chasm. High above a blackened sky, Lord Fain sits enthroned in a crimson nimbus while the trembling Gods do him obeisance. At the base of the painting, emblazoned on a scroll, is this legend: "And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."
Artist: Unknown
Sold for 57,000 to Nariah
Linaeve proudly shows off a painting of The Waltz at the End of Time:
Ruddy watercolors streak this canvas in an impressionistic style, sweeping into a grandiose scene in a vast, shadowed ballroom lit by chandeliers of gold and garnet. Dancers move in a stately waltz across floors of black marble, vague, ghost-like forms whose garments hang from them almost like flayed flesh or fine silk. Viewed from different angles, their necks are hung with heavy necklaces of ruby; from another their hearts burn, exposed within their chests, and their bored faces are rendered ecstatic, looking up towards an immense shadowy figure whose masked eyes burn with malignant fire above the ballroom.
Artist: Sthai
Sold for 25,000 to Karnagan
Linaeve proudly shows off a painting of Midnight Obelisk of the Dark Savior:
Rising up into the sky like a dagger of pure inky midnight, a massive black stone obelisk has been carved with wicked, cruel runes whose sinister purpose is unidentifiable. At the base of the obelisk, the inscription declares the monument as an effigy to the Dark Savior of the viscanti people, Saverian I. Below the inscription, the base has been carved with the images of archdemons and fiends dancing in malicious delight. A stone walkway of purest onyx, inlaid with the images of demonic beings, leads up to the obelisk, while the surrounding courtyard is filled only with cracked and split stone boulders. A columned peristyle surrounds the courtyard, with several recessed entrances visible through the shadows.
Artist: Unknown
Sold for 50,000 to Revan
Linaeve proudly shows off a painting of the Hall of the Sacrificed God, alight with rainbow colour:
The Goddess Isune, Wings of Compassion stands humbled here in a statue so perfect and detailed as to appear lifelike, the only telling sign that it is completely devoid of colour. She stands shackled, bound in heavy chains of cold iron, while thorned vines pull Her left arm towards the ground and pierce the tender stone flesh. Numerous angels form a vicious throng around her, some frozen while slashing at the Goddess with longswords, and others binding Her shackles to the sphere of Tipheret on the ground or carrying more chains for their masters. All of their faces sneer cruelly at the Goddess, while Her right arm is outstretched above her, fingers grasping at the open air. Above, a pure obsidian statue of a winged and beautiful demon floats upside down from the darkness, his arm mercifully stretched towards Isune in response, yet several feet out of reach. Strangely, the air here is thick with motes of every colour of the rainbow, filtering gently through the aether to invoke a sudden and unrestrained vibrance, showing the scene in a vastly different light. The creatures, once demonic and evil, now appear to be merely playing with the suddenly stalwart and noble Goddess, pulling at Her as if seeking attention. The weapons of torture have become nothing but rope and ribbon, lightly entwined around Her form and, in the flickering shadows, flowing smoothly about Her as if caught in a wind.
Artist: Gavriel
Sold for 47,000 to Sthai (who will be burning it)
Linaeve proudly shows off a painting of cavern surrounded by discordant whispers:
This cavern is permeated on all sides by a thousand discordant whispers, emanating from no discernible source. Shadows leap and twirl across the stone walls with a life of their own, and the air is bathed with pulses of divine energy. The whispers speak of as many different topics as there are voices, each hinting at secrets beyond the known multiverse.
Artist: Unknown
Sold for 10,000 to Ardmore
Linaeve proudly shows off a painting of Nifilhema at the Weeping Well:
The Weeping Well is depicted here in stunning, sanguine glory - the lid ripped free from the top to allow a fountain of blood to spill over the edges and onto the ground, where black-thorned roses gleam wetly beneath a crimson moon. A spiralling flurry of ivory cherry blossoms is depicted, swirling in the air above the well, from which the ghostly form of Nifilhema rises, hands languidly entangled in her loose, fulsome hair - her improbably thin form is clad in a sheer toga overlaid with a tightly cinched corset, and interwoven with a mesh of golden wires and hooks, sunken deeply into her flawless skin. Statues of fiends stand rigidly in the background in tempting poses, all but cast into shadow behind the Queen of Insufferable Cruelty. Dark outlines, the Cathedral and surrounding Presidio, loom on either side of the painting, providing stark contrast to the Lady and her stone-graven companions. This painting is frame in delicate ivory, the surface of which is carved with cavorting imps and writhing amaranth vines.
Artist: Sthai
Sold for 75,000 to Gavriel
Linaeve proudly shows off a painting of The Foul Amulet of Baleful Desire:
Crafted of onyx and twisted shadows, this amulet radiates an aura of malevolence. Streaks of crimson line pulsing darkness that dart between the twisting pieces of gemstone, each piece lined with fiery runes burning with unspeakable damnation and defamation against the Light, and great praise to the Demon Lords of Nil. A thin wire has been used to allow it to be worn about the neck.
Artist: Nariah
Sold for 32,000 to Kalnid
Set in a dark iron frame, this painting of a cobble-stoned street seems to have a looming presence. The painting had been artfully done from near the cobbles of the street, which starts from the bottom of the canvas to the middle, before a fog takes it. The stones of the road are of different sizes, but are roughly the same shape. On either side of the street, starting a bit along the side of the painting and following the straight street's path, are sidewalks lined with ornamental lamps that have been painted with a dim yellow halo. The buildings on the street have been painted only enough to discern where one building starts and another ends. Within the gutters of the road and flowing in between the cobbles is dark red blood. Dripping from some of the street lamps and spattering the sidewalks is more blood from some great slaughter. In the center of the painting, a great fog has been painted with heavy strokes. The fog is tinted a middling shade of red, as if the blood on the ground was in the air itself, and it consumes the road, sidewalks, and the buildings. The bloody fog ends a few inches before the top of the canvas, which is populated by a few white stars speckled through the dark blue sky herded by a brilliant off-white moon tinted a faint yellow-green.
Artist: Jigan
Sold for 38,000 to Nariah
Linaeve proudly shows off a painting of The Eye of the Clockwork Ouroboros:
Gears turn, clicking and interweaving in rust-stained ribbons of iron and steel, mixing bizarrely with cogs of jade and tarnished gold within the twisting skein of the ouroboros that is depicted within this oil painting. Here and there, a writhing clockwork serpent gazes out of the maelstrom with dull, garnet eyes - beneath, a bird wrought in bronze spreads wings of feathered gold. An alien landscape spreads out behind the symbol, red sand stretching to improbably angled basalt monoliths beneath a green sky with five blue moons.
Artist: Sthai
Sold for 27,000 to Gavriel
Linaeve proudly shows off a painting of The Throne of Souls:
Set in a heavy and ornate gold frame studded with rubies and onyx, this painting bespeaks of richness. Set in the center of the painting, upon a blood soaked stone floor, is a throne made from sculpted gold. The high-backed seat of kings has been molded so that the seat appears to be made from bone, and the arm rests of skulls with ruby eyes, and that the back of the chair is of open-mouthed souls rising from the ground. The souls stream upwards and towards a single blood red ruby set into the top of the throne, swirling around it in an engraved circle. The background of this painting is a black backdrop with a heavy red mist looming around the throne. The background is barely seen and appears only in portions here and there, and at the top of the painting, all else is seen through the bloody mist, save for one thing. Looming at about where a human's head would be while sitting on the throne is an oval mask, a dark red colour. The mask stares out at the viewer with black eyeslits in which nothing can be seen.
Artist: Jigan
Sold for 40,000 to Karnagran
Linaeve proudly shows off a painting of The Muse of Wormwood:
An ethereal, unreal garden blooms within the depths of this oil painting, verdant hues giving way to midnight shadows in the light of a circle of candles held within amethyst votives. Illuminated dimly by the dancing, contradictory light of the tiny flames, a green-skinned viscanti woman, nude but for a translucent toga of white silk that clings to her shapely form - shards of glittering diamond stud her spiralling black horns. A bottle of bluish liqueur in a glowing bottle rests on the stones beside the dark pool, a reservoir glass and silver spoon carelessly cast aside - a pool of spilt libation spreads beneath. Surrounding the pool, silvery vines droop under the weight of midnight-hued blossoms.
Artist: Sthai
Sold for 25,000 to Gavriel
Linaeve proudly shows off a painting of The Final Victory:
Surrounded by a golden ornamental frame is an apocalyptic vision of the Basin. In the centre stands Celest, a ruin, its white walls blackened with smoke, and raging fires issuing from the broken tops of its turrets. On toppling crenellations, tiny mail-coated Merians fight desperate skirmishes against their foes, darkly armoured Taurian marshals who hack them down like a reaper at the harvest. In the distance, the woods of the Serenwilde burn darkly, and at intervals, trees and bodies are piled high: burning pyres of women and children screaming for mercy. At the forefront of the picture, a group of mighty Geomancers blast a party of fleeing Elfen with poisoned boulders, and a Viscanti in the robes of the Archmage commits a Paladin to the chasm. High above a blackened sky, Lord Fain sits enthroned in a crimson nimbus while the trembling Gods do him obeisance. At the base of the painting, emblazoned on a scroll, is this legend: "And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."
Artist: Unknown
Sold for 57,000 to Nariah
Linaeve proudly shows off a painting of The Waltz at the End of Time:
Ruddy watercolors streak this canvas in an impressionistic style, sweeping into a grandiose scene in a vast, shadowed ballroom lit by chandeliers of gold and garnet. Dancers move in a stately waltz across floors of black marble, vague, ghost-like forms whose garments hang from them almost like flayed flesh or fine silk. Viewed from different angles, their necks are hung with heavy necklaces of ruby; from another their hearts burn, exposed within their chests, and their bored faces are rendered ecstatic, looking up towards an immense shadowy figure whose masked eyes burn with malignant fire above the ballroom.
Artist: Sthai
Sold for 25,000 to Karnagan
Linaeve proudly shows off a painting of Midnight Obelisk of the Dark Savior:
Rising up into the sky like a dagger of pure inky midnight, a massive black stone obelisk has been carved with wicked, cruel runes whose sinister purpose is unidentifiable. At the base of the obelisk, the inscription declares the monument as an effigy to the Dark Savior of the viscanti people, Saverian I. Below the inscription, the base has been carved with the images of archdemons and fiends dancing in malicious delight. A stone walkway of purest onyx, inlaid with the images of demonic beings, leads up to the obelisk, while the surrounding courtyard is filled only with cracked and split stone boulders. A columned peristyle surrounds the courtyard, with several recessed entrances visible through the shadows.
Artist: Unknown
Sold for 50,000 to Revan
Linaeve proudly shows off a painting of the Hall of the Sacrificed God, alight with rainbow colour:
The Goddess Isune, Wings of Compassion stands humbled here in a statue so perfect and detailed as to appear lifelike, the only telling sign that it is completely devoid of colour. She stands shackled, bound in heavy chains of cold iron, while thorned vines pull Her left arm towards the ground and pierce the tender stone flesh. Numerous angels form a vicious throng around her, some frozen while slashing at the Goddess with longswords, and others binding Her shackles to the sphere of Tipheret on the ground or carrying more chains for their masters. All of their faces sneer cruelly at the Goddess, while Her right arm is outstretched above her, fingers grasping at the open air. Above, a pure obsidian statue of a winged and beautiful demon floats upside down from the darkness, his arm mercifully stretched towards Isune in response, yet several feet out of reach. Strangely, the air here is thick with motes of every colour of the rainbow, filtering gently through the aether to invoke a sudden and unrestrained vibrance, showing the scene in a vastly different light. The creatures, once demonic and evil, now appear to be merely playing with the suddenly stalwart and noble Goddess, pulling at Her as if seeking attention. The weapons of torture have become nothing but rope and ribbon, lightly entwined around Her form and, in the flickering shadows, flowing smoothly about Her as if caught in a wind.
Artist: Gavriel
Sold for 47,000 to Sthai (who will be burning it)
Linaeve proudly shows off a painting of cavern surrounded by discordant whispers:
This cavern is permeated on all sides by a thousand discordant whispers, emanating from no discernible source. Shadows leap and twirl across the stone walls with a life of their own, and the air is bathed with pulses of divine energy. The whispers speak of as many different topics as there are voices, each hinting at secrets beyond the known multiverse.
Artist: Unknown
Sold for 10,000 to Ardmore
Linaeve proudly shows off a painting of Nifilhema at the Weeping Well:
The Weeping Well is depicted here in stunning, sanguine glory - the lid ripped free from the top to allow a fountain of blood to spill over the edges and onto the ground, where black-thorned roses gleam wetly beneath a crimson moon. A spiralling flurry of ivory cherry blossoms is depicted, swirling in the air above the well, from which the ghostly form of Nifilhema rises, hands languidly entangled in her loose, fulsome hair - her improbably thin form is clad in a sheer toga overlaid with a tightly cinched corset, and interwoven with a mesh of golden wires and hooks, sunken deeply into her flawless skin. Statues of fiends stand rigidly in the background in tempting poses, all but cast into shadow behind the Queen of Insufferable Cruelty. Dark outlines, the Cathedral and surrounding Presidio, loom on either side of the painting, providing stark contrast to the Lady and her stone-graven companions. This painting is frame in delicate ivory, the surface of which is carved with cavorting imps and writhing amaranth vines.
Artist: Sthai
Sold for 75,000 to Gavriel
Linaeve proudly shows off a painting of The Foul Amulet of Baleful Desire:
Crafted of onyx and twisted shadows, this amulet radiates an aura of malevolence. Streaks of crimson line pulsing darkness that dart between the twisting pieces of gemstone, each piece lined with fiery runes burning with unspeakable damnation and defamation against the Light, and great praise to the Demon Lords of Nil. A thin wire has been used to allow it to be worn about the neck.
Artist: Nariah
Sold for 32,000 to Kalnid
Unknown2008-08-17 03:08:14
My painting wasn't included 
