These aseku brothers are getting rather aged, but are still reknowned composers and maintain the same flat in Candor that they have lived in for the last hundred years. Their pieces, especially those written for woodwinds and strings, are played throughout the Cognoterre. They have composed nothing for the last sixty years, although there have been rumors for a long time among musicians that the time is being spent on a Magnum Requiem, which will be their crowning achievement.
Lord Wolf Bryony
This human romanticist poet specialized in nightmarish images and gothic romances which were at wild odds with his own idyllic existence in the pleasure island of Saldon. An eccentric in his own day, his poetry is still widely read and shuddered at. (Read Matrices, a short story that includes Bryony as a character.)
Jasher Santare
This human sculptor was killed in the Domination Wars, but was known for his exquisitely sculpted humans and beasts. His favorite medium was the translucent phraetes, and his work is noted for their delicacy of line and perfect delineation of complex emotion. His works were often commissioned by enchanters due to their high quality of workmanship; tales are told of an avertiis hound sculpted for The Beast Within in Anseis, that came alive and tore the throat out of a necromancer in the audience. (Read about phraetes and avertiis.)
Dualta Coel
Alive today, this bade'in architect is noted for her mansions and temples that can be found around the Cognoterre, mostly in Geronfrey. Her works exhibit a firm, bade'in stability meshed with an artful use of space and light that echoes traditional aseku designs, to create a solid space of luminescence.
Allin Descanter
This Cislunarite aseku oil painter specalized in gloomy landscapes and shadowy, dark-souled portraits. It was said that he only painted what he hated or feared. Dead for over fifty years now, his works are quite rare and scattered throughout the collections of private individuals.
Trey Mahael
A bade'in weaponsmith, Mahael created weapons of extraordinary balance and beauty, specializing in steel bastard swords. Though non-magical, Mahael's blades rivaled many magical swords in sharpness, but could be destroyed by the touch of a finger, the skin's oil irreperably damaging the fine edge of the metal. A Mahael blade is noted for the dark, parallel, wave-shaped lines that run through the metal, and his personal rune, a crescent moon, found at the base of the blade by the hilt.
Mahael's daughter, Rhuan, is currently carrying on his work; her rune is a half-moon by the hilt.
Teleri Kai'itala
Recently "discovered" by art collectors, this Bahr al'Raml jeweler of a hundred years past sculpted most of the desert chieftains' jewelry and gem-encrusted swords. Her creations always have one common rock embedded somewhere in the work, to embody her personal philosophy of finding beauty in the mundane.
