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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sanglorian" data-source="post: 6102953" data-attributes="member: 83822">Sounds good! I've been jotting down some stuff for a Witch Clan generator. So far I've written down some names, some spells, some quirks and some types of relationship with other clans if you folks want to chip in.If you're after more public domain art, you could do worse than the 20,000 entries in LACMA's archives: <a href="http://collections.lacma.org/" target="_blank">http://collections.lacma.org/</a>Flicking through an old notebook I found a suggestion written down for the Shrouded Lands: setting bibles like Magic: the Gathering does. These are heavy on illustrations and light on text; the text that they do have sketches out key themes and emotions rather than detailed geography, sociology and history. Anyway, I think the gazetteers are great and we should stay the course - just thought I'd share an older idea.One thing I've been thinking about recently is how great it would be to have a book of short stories set in the Shrouded Lands. You could frame them all as being stories told by knights to make Princess Elandra cry.Anyway, expanding on Princess Elandra:Two Suitors of Princess Elandra Sir Mimslet  One suitor to the fair princess is Sir Mimslet, the brutish Thringish knight of harlequin chequer. More suited to ribald jokes than sorrowful tales, the knight has little inspiration and is waiting at court until he can bribe or cajole someone into suggesting a story. The daughter of Ser Gareth Lemarr is cutting her hair in the Glade of Womanhood (07.18) at this very moment because she knows a story that will bring tears to Elandra and hopes that if she shares it with Sir Mimslet while disguised as a boy he will accept her as his squire.  The woman Lemarr will tell not a fable to Sir Mimslet, but the truth. Six years ago, the daughter of the Duke of Thring played with a daughter of the knight Ser Lemarr. The girlchild Lemarr had been left as a hostage to ensure peace between Gore and Thring. The two children grew close, and the Gorean girl soothed Elandra whenever the hardness of the world wet the princess' eyes.  The Duke could not have this, and one night seized Lemarr's child and delivered her up to her father. Ser Lemarr was ill-pleased and the custom of hostage-keeping between the nations ended. More importantly to the Duke, sapphires of the finest water tumbled from Elandra's eyes for weeks on end.  The Gorean girl becomes a woman today, and in the Glade of Womanhood will become a man. Disguising her voice and figure, she will come to the court, tell the story to Sir Mimslet, and hope to make Elandra cry tears of recognition. Hooks:   Is the woman Lemarr's only motive love, or is she cognisant of the Duke's plan to invade Gore?  What is the woman Lemarr's first name?The Sparrow Knight The Sparrow Knight is a rogue who fights in moon elephant leather and keeps a feather token around his neck. His notoriety comes from losing the Battle of the Hand, and yet surviving – indeed, floating gently to earth just as Sir Waine once did.      The connection runs deeper than this: he claims to know Sir Waine's secrets and the source of the feather token. More traditional knights consider the Sparrow Knight's irreverent style an insult to Sir Waine, but the knight contends that Sir Waine was a radical in his day, creating the customs that are now considered timeless.    The Sparrow Knight claims to have answered the mystery of the Haunted Statue (10.09) – a tale of woe so acute that the princess will have no choice but to fall to weeping.    Hooks:  Where do the feather tokens come from? Is the Sparrow Knight truly associated with Sir Waine?  Does the Sparrow Knight truly have an explanation for the Haunted Statue?</blockquote>

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