Of the Grotesque, he describes "the tendency to delight in fantastic and ludicrous, as well as in sublime images, is a universal instinct of the Gothic imagination." The fantastic, ludicrous and sublime the Grotesque and the Disturbed Imagination.
This may not sound like Gandalf or Merlin, but it certainly sounds like Rhialto the Marvellous and his Dying Earth colleagues, or like Zagyg himself.
Ninguable of the Seven Eyes and Sheelba of the Eyeless Face are, by contrast, grotesque wizards. 'Rigidity' or 'Obstinacy', if we are to cleave to the Old School race-as-class notion offers us one option.Īs obstinate and rigid, indeed, as the mountains in which they dwell. 'Redundance' and 'Generosity' do not instantly point towards Charisma, or indeed towards Elves.
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