Naked Brushbug.

And it is interesting because you've got all types of reasons like ambitious and target-driven like Deanreldy and Ininia, moral-driven like Beldaruit and (passionately so) Easthies, and personal like Agott and Tartah. And then Custas and Qifrey, looking straight at the audience from different sides, on the opposite edges of the fan-like spread, silent.

On a smaller scale I wonder if that was an intentional parallel of the silverwood thing, though that might not hold up much considering Ininia is also a silverwood host.

But I believe it was meant to show that deep down, those two are driven to magic through their main goal of surviving. There are other causes they dedicate themselves to, like Custas helping the poor people that the leech attacked (making a clear point about class inequality too) and Qifrey teaching his apprentices about how magic can help people, but ultimately, Custas wanted/wants to keep Dagda alive and not die from poverty himself, and Qifrey wants to be free of the silverwood.

Alice Brasser (Dutch Artist, born 1965)

"Blue View", 2022.

Oil on Canvas, 30 × 24 cm.

sword and shield