Editing Beneath Castle Everglory: LEVEL 7: The Tomb (section)

=2.  First Fresco=

The walls of this 4 yard by 8 yard room have been plastered and the plaster has been painted with brightly colored frescos.  There seem to be three distinct scenes on each wall, but in almost all of the scenes, the fresco has been marred in one or more places by the melting of paint, leaving nothing but a blurred stain on the wall.  Read left to right while facing into the tomb, the scenes depicted are as follows.


Left Wall

The first scene, which is undamaged, would appear to depict a tribe of Orcs, or other similar humanoids, destroying farms.  The tribe, distinguished by their black teeth and the snarling wolfs crudely drawn on their shields, slaughter livestock, set fire to crops, and kill families of humans.

The middle foreground of the next scene is nothing but a melted blur of paint.  The rest of the space is devoted to images of the invading Orcs in flames, screaming and writhing as they burn.  The background depicts the ruins of a farm.

The whole left half of the third scene is blurred.  The right half shows a tall, elderly woman, wearing simple white robes and with long white hair falling loose down her back.  She stares stoically in the direction of the blur, her right arm raised at forty-five degrees, her fingers spread open.  In the background, a wide paved courtyard stretches off toward a line of trees.


Right Wall

The first scene is unmarred and shows an army of two-handed sword wielding humans clashing with an army of two-handed axe wielding Dwarves, set against the backdrop of a great cavern.  Though both sides are heavily armored, heads and limbs go flying as the two forces hack at one another.

The second scene is blurred in the lower left hand corner, but otherwise depicts Dwarves apparently in the process of being struck by lightning.  The Dwarves scream and twist, some of their faces blackened to smoking skulls, as jagged white “bolts” arc between them.

The entire left half of the third scene is blurred.  In the right half, facing left, sits what looks to be a bearded king, crowned and enthroned and wearing regal purple robes.  He sits with his hands resting on his knees, palms upwards.  Behind him, land stretches away to the horizon, divided into fenced fields.