[OC] [Art] Painted my party's guitar with runes — it tells the story of our entire D&D campaign
Look closer — it's not just an ornament. The runes spell out a compressed retelling of our D&D campaign: a journey to a remote island (we sailed there to sabotage a tiefling prince's plans, though things turned out very differently once we arrived), the Storm Veil and the awakening of Laroktu — a dragon of the mirror abyss, our clash with Duke Hawkmoth, and the final battle against the Veil mages where we sealed the portal in the dragon's lair.
The text spirals out from the center — the same way the story itself unspooled from a single point and gradually wrapped around the whole island. One continuous spiral, woven together with the names of those who lived it.
The guitar has its own little odyssey too. It first belonged to Ashes of Dawn, our bard. Then our fighter Ace bought it. I — Bayazur, the party warlock and your humble narrator — covered it in runes. And now it hangs on the wall of our druid Horo. A small circle that went through all of us. None of it would have happened if our DM Ingvar hadn't gathered us around the same table and turned us into a party. Thanks for the adventure.
Painted with Molotow acrylic markers. The body of the text is written in Wendish (Slavic) runes — we're a Russian-speaking party — while the character names are in the Elder Futhark.