'Work of a wandering artist. Reminiscence of a painting titled Champion's Song. This painter is said to have captured the landscapes seen during the last moments of those welcomed into death's embrace. The soul of the painter, and vestiges of the dead's last moments can be discovered by visiting the location depicted even now.' The Wandering Painters are the canon's quiet poets-of-image: a small order of itinerant artists whose vocation is to walk the deathbeds of the Lands Between and paint the scene the dying person sees in their last conscious moment. Each painting captures a real landscape, Champion's Song, Flightless Bird, Homing Instinct, Redmane, Prophecy, but each is also a portal: a painter who knows the technique can take the painting back to the spot it depicts and find a small treasure there, left by a hero who died at that view.

'Reminiscence of a painting titled Flightless Bird.' Who the painters were, how old their tradition is, how many of them walked the Lands Between: the text never says. The canon gives them a single line of biography, repeated across every canvas, and one promise: the soul of the painter, and vestiges of the dead's last moments, can still be discovered at the location depicted. The Tarnished can find each painting, walk to its viewpoint, and collect what remains there; the text names no treasure, only the vestiges of a last moment, a trace waiting at the spot where someone last looked at the world.