Adaline Brushwood - Painter & Gallery-Keeper of the Artisans' Ward
Meet Adaline Brushwood, the human painter and gallery-keeper whose honest portraits and rotating exhibitions anchor the Artisans' Ward's art scene -- a warm, unflinching NPC for patronage, festivals, and quiet integrity.
"A good portrait doesn't flatter. It just finally lets someone see what everyone else already noticed."
Tucked between a sculptor's stone yard and a repertory theater's lantern-lit marquee, a narrow gallery-studio keeps its front room open to anyone curious enough to wander in — nobles hunting a fashionable portrait, apprentices hoping for a critique, or just Ward regulars killing an afternoon among the canvases. All of it, one way or another, runs through the same unhurried, plainspoken painter.
Profile
- Name: Adaline Brushwood
- Race: Human
- Gender: Female
- Alignment: Neutral Good
- Role/Class: Painter & Gallery-Keeper of the Artisans' Ward
- CR: 1
Appearance: Adaline is middle-aged, solidly built, and unhurried in every movement, with sharp gray eyes that seem to be composing a portrait of whoever she's looking at. Her graying hair is bundled loosely under a paint-flecked kerchief, and her sleeves are perpetually rolled up and stained in a dozen pigments. She wears a long canvas smock over practical clothes, its pockets stuffed with charcoal stubs and folded scraps of sketch paper. She has a habit of studying a person's face in silence for a beat too long before speaking, as if deciding how she'd paint them.
