Recently uncovered mural during cathedral restoration: "Northern Plateau plague"  c. 1487 Bc(OC Fun_Peanut55)
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Recently uncovered mural during cathedral restoration: "Northern Plateau plague" c. 1487 Bc(OC Fun_Peanut55)

The Watchers of the Northern Plateau
A church mural found while excavating a cathedral in norway from the time of the Great Plague.

Five figures stand over three dead. On the left, a cold, distant priestess in white — notice she carried no weapon meaning her role was to give only blessings and guidance Besides her, a strong red-haired church guard, his axe resting on the ground, standing open and unafraid as if daring the plague to take him but being strong he knows he can take the plague blow head on. In the middle, a violet-haired figure whose staff is the longest of all, made to strike the sickness from far away. Next, the masked plague doctor, who tended the infected with cold, precise care — a protector who walked among them so others need not. On the right, a golden-haired woman, also unarmed, who used her beauty with calm method to draw the plague away from the weak

u/Fun_Peanut55 — 4 days ago