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Commission WIP - Bjergtaget, A Jewish LARP

Published: June 15th 2023, 11:38:45 pm

The story of the indie Danish LARP (live acton role-playing game) called Bjergtaget, or "mountain-taken", concerns a group of humans who are spirited away by the fae folk for a night and tempted to leave the human world behind for good. With the original author's blessing, a good friend of mine has rewritten it so that instead of having a human cast of medieval Danish Christians, the game has a human cast of Danish Sephardic Jews living in the 17th century. My friend needed fresh artwork to depict the new characters, and I'm proud to be providing it, especially since the project comes with a large amount of fascinating research to do.

The characters here are three out of ten total: a mystic or kabbalist, a traveler from abroad, eager to share his own spiritual revelations and pursue further study; a rabbi, a religious and social authority figure whose community looks to him for guidance in many ways, and a groom, the son of a successful merchant, anxious about his imminent wedding to a fiancee he's only met a handful of chaperoned times.

I'm looking forward to sharing more character art as I complete it!