Get inspired with this week’s Fantasy Art Friday, where fun fantasy artwork is combined with a writing prompt to get your creative juices flowing.
Beautiful, yet forlorn, this place is slowly succumbing to the ravages of time. The lonely figure walking this crumbling corridor is determined to remain its companion to the very end. It was a glorious place once, built by a wealth and power that has long ebbed away. But when this structure was new, and whole, it gave the lives of those within it meaning and purpose. This robed figure has not forgotten, even though its noble arches are now draped in vine, and the crows brazenly come and go as they please. There is writing etched deep into the stones beneath the pillars. Each word is a plea from the past; a silent but unyielding voice that demands a place in the present. The robed figure knows what they say. Do you?
Crows’ Abbey
Allison D. Reid 
Looking at this image, the central question for me becomes “what is this person’s relationship to this place? Are they a caretaker, an exile, or someone who recently discovered it? Have they always been here, or recently arrived? Are they happy to be here, or do they feel it is their duty?” I think it’s really interesting how many different stories could spin off of this image, depending on the character, and their relationship to “this place.”
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I agree! It’s kind of sad, beautiful, and mysterious all at once. It is obviously a place with a long, rich history.
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