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Saturday, October 02, 2004

Prydaens and their knotwork

Knotwork, okay, granted something as complicated as such might be hard to explain, but just knotwork? *sigh* *shake*

The blood-knot pendants should be more descripty then just knotwork! Same goes with all Bard things! Kudos to Melodia for even giving us such things, but they should be expanded, enhanced and built on, instead of left on the shelf to gather dust. I just spent all summer studying varying kinds of knotwork, from pictish, to ancient and contemporary celtic.

It has seemed to me, that prydaen's with their fascination with ritual knotworks and such might be the equivalent to ancient celts. Certainly if it was possible to make knotworked items, prydaen's should get a heritage bonus to the crafting of them.

Ideal descriptions:

Eternity or Blood-Knot
A fancy interweaving of interlaced red and gold strings form a delicate continuous pattern with no apparent beginning or end.

recall Eternity or Blood-Knot
You remmember a prydaen guildsib telling of the true meaning behind these knots, that is that the looping knots continuously each going on and on forever is a visual representation of life, with all of it's loops and turns, re-uniting old friends, firing up new romances, and exploring new horizons to in the end return to the beginning in it's eternal cycle.

knotwork on a tunic:
A fancy filligree of embroidered lace intricately repeating an interlocking circular repitition. (I didn't want to use the word pattern, that word is just over-used in DR since the invention of Embroidery!)

An older knotworked item:
You recognize the embroidered interlocking square pattern to have been popular during the last days of the seven star empire.
(historically square interlocks were created by the Egyptians, Sumarians, and early Greeks, but I figure GM's can use old history to enrich DR history.)


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