Oil on canvas.

THE FORTRESS WHERE THEY GATHERED did not exist, and could not be understood. If a mortal mind had perceived them - the gathered creatures, the chamber, and the being at its heart before which they bowed - That mind would have collapsed into insanity before it could begin to describe what it had seen and heard. Had such a mortal lived long enough and been strong enough to speak, they might have spoken of a library, and of creatures with feathers and wings, and a vast pillar of mouths and light. If such a mortal had spoken, all its words and screamed description would have been a lie. For no mortal could perceive the Court of Change, or the Changer of Ways. But in the Realm of Chaos, a lie served as well as a truth.