Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-16047389-20140624184300/@comment-16047389-20140714152443

You follow the portraits from the beginning. Each portrait is the same style. In the foreground, the Lord and Lady of the Fortesia family of the time. The poses occasionally change, but they are always adorned in noble attire and jewelry and in the city of Skingrad. It's actually rather interesting. The portraits go back almost 1000 years in history, and each portrait shows various parts of the city at a time, and allows you to see how the city of Skingrad changed of the course of time. Apparently, before the Great Chapel of Julianos was built, there was an enormous fountain, with statues of the Count and Countess on it. In a way, looking through these portraits is almost like watching Skingrad being built from humble beginnings into the city it is now.

It's cetainly an interesting display of- wait a moment. There is a duplicate portrait here. You almost overlooked it, but there are infact two identical portraits. One set roughly 700 years ago, the other only 400 years ago. By examining both portraits, and comparing the backgrounds with the other portraits, you determine that the former is infact the erroneous one. That's strange, without that portrait, there is about a 100 year gap between the previous portrait and the next. That's also about the time that the Dunmeri blood in the Fortesia family ran out, as while the painting before the gap in time depicts a Colovian lord and a Dunmeri lady, the portrait after the gap is of two Colovians. In fact, none of the portraits after the gap show any Mer at all.

Something happened in the 9th century of the Second Era, but there's no telling what.

A) Check out the various items on display.

B) Return to the second floor hallway.