“We were received by that great merchant and studmaster Cuno in his Villa at Mar, which is only one of his estates but perhaps the grandest. Like other great men of our modern age he did not inherit his power, but instead elected to seize it himself through perseverance and great force of body and mind.”
The King’s mounted dragonslayer proxy did tower over the drones there, abandoned and incapacitated so very long ago by water and mud.
I was just watching River Monsters, and remembered this. This is a two-part picture I made for the very talented
last Christmas! There's a diving-sphere-thing and fish and harpoons and a diving bell. Only a small percentage of pictures have even one of those things! I like to imagine the wall going on and on outside the images.
From Wikipedia!