The painting depicts a lone figure in a hollow, a man tightly surrounded by black fiendish
shapes about to deluge him utterly. He wears only a robe as blue and clean as the sky, and
wields a long staff. Nothing about the painting seems dreamlike; the sharp features of
some demons, or the grasping claws of others, appear as real as stone, as real as the grain
of the wood on his staff.     As real as if this actually happened.

The look in the man's eye is one of extremity and defiance, suggesting he still believes in
his capacity to triumph, and his stance is a potent one.

magnet LORD MHORAM'S VICTORY
by Ahanna daughter of Hanna
(by Stephen R. Donaldson)		 magnet