The Great Exhibition Caper

April 22, 2023 Rhinla goes out waterbirds
And with that, life suddenly got REALLY BUSY! We ordered fancy clothes, asked and got an audience with King Athal and Queen Raisse… And at the audience (well, it was more like a family style dinner in their personal apartments, because, well, Raisse and Athal know pretty much every student…

A HUGE commission!

April 3, 2023 Rhinla goes out waterbirds
After two weeks of really hard work in Gulynay — it was wonderful to be able to do so much work — we took a boat down the Valda to Valdis. Visiting Rizenay was no longer possible, there were already people coming down to Gulynay reporting that the snows had…

She forgot to write….

February 6, 2023 Rhinla goes out waterbirds
I’ve been painting so much that I have totally neglected my diary! That’s bad! (Though the painting was good!) I only noticed now we’re in Valdis that I stopped writing when we had just arrived in Nalenay. When I woke up we were travelling through a place that was deforested,…

Painting is easy, writing is hard

November 14, 2022 Rhinla goes out waterbirds
Then we arrived in Ruby Village. This was a small hamlet — a couple of shacks, a factory or two, and a few larger buildings. We were expecting the worst — a village without humanity, where the women bound their toddlers to neighbouring farms in return for a bit more…

Letters, towers and scary roads

July 18, 2022 Rhinla goes out waterbirds
Into the wilds! Of course we still had to stay a day or two in Stonybridge. We had work to complete, customers to satisfy, taxes to pay… And, of course, to check out that ruined house on the hilltop. It turned out it was the place teenagers — older than…

Learning lots of things

July 4, 2022 Rhinla goes out waterbirds
I’d never thought I’d get apprenticed to a painter! I knew I’d get apprenticed, of course, maid-of-all-work in a brothel isn’t an apprenticeship, it’s just work. I was getting up courage to ask Mistress Varyn’s cook if he’d start teaching me the ropes so he could recommend me for apprentice…

Midsummer

June 26, 2022 Rhinla goes out waterbirds
After that delicious fish dinner followed about a week of frantic work. We visited the brothel a couple of evenings, I helped the doctors in the hospital out when they needed a bit of extra power — but most of the time I spent on the big window-of-Mizran design. It…

A friend! And an Apprentice!

May 28, 2022 Rhinla goes out waterbirds
Tylenay is awesome. And then we were in Tylenay. The town smelled like adventure! (Well, it stank, too, because of all the mining and foundries and things.) But there was this raw feel of doing things that was amazing! And we had a lot to do! Tylenay also feels, and…

Along the Rycha

February 28, 2022 Rhinla goes out waterbirds
We went to Tal Serth together with the priestess. We could see the smoke from the fires from the glass factory! This promised to become another interesting place for us to work! During dinner, we met the boss of the glass factory, Aine. She was a big lady with hands…

A Painting is not a Fish

December 28, 2021 Rhinla goes out waterbirds
I’m worried. Really worried, I mean. It looks like we’re going to run out of paper, panels, paint and stuff already! If there isn’t a good supplier in Tylenay, we’re going to have big problems! Of course, I could cut down on my painting and sketching, but the world is…