5/18/2023 0 Comments The wicked kingdom![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ORIGINAL SOLD | 11x17" oil, ink, and watercolor on paper.įind more original playing card art in the shop here. Only two plots of land escape the ritual that has become known as the Prince's Harvest: the king's own gardens, lusher by the year, and the ravaged fields beneath the prince's eternal gaze there, whatever weeds may grow from the hallowed ground are permitted to flourish. ![]() With his death, the royal lineage of the House of Spades was extinguished, and the King issued a final decree: that his son's body would keep its lonely vigil over the battlefield where he died until it saw the four kingdoms starve for their transgressions.Įach year, on the eve of his death, every field in the kingdom is burned to ensure a late planting and a scanty harvest - lest some unscrupulous peasant risk feeding the enemy in exchange for a few coins. The legend outlives the man: a flaxen-haired prince who left his palace to work the fields with the common folk, and took up arms to fight alongside them. Once the hope of his kingdom, heir to the prosperity of endless river valleys now a gibbet of sunbleached bones overlooking scorched earth and blackened fields. ORIGINAL AVAILABLE | 11x17" oil, ink, and watercolor on paper. ![]()
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