A richly detailed illustration of a gnomish historian in a library, wearing a burgundy doublet and green cape, looking through a magnifying glass at an open book on a lectern. An owl is perched nearby, and an ornate border frames the scene in a tapestry style.

Richly decorative high-fantasy tapestry-style depiction of Liberak, the three-foot-tall gnomish historian with Spanish caballero flair, captured in the Archivist’s Discovery pose. He leans over an open folio atop a rolling lectern, one foot hooked around its wheel, brows furrowed in delight as he inspects an illuminated margin note through a brass-framed magnifying glass. His wide, inquisitive eyes, gently arched brows, and copper-hued pointed mustache and beard are rendered in flat, saturated fields, accented with metallic thread to highlight expressive detail. He wears a deep burgundy satin brocade doublet stitched with visible “stitch” marks and edged in shimmering gold-thread embroidery. An emerald-green velvet cape drapes over one shoulder, its folds stylized with simulated warp-and-weft texture. His wide-brimmed cavalier hat sits jauntily atop his head, topped by a repeating gold-tipped plume motif. Under his right arm, he cradles a leather-bound tome stamped with heraldic owl and rising-moon medallions. At his hip hangs a panflute fashioned as low-relief wood-and-brass insets on a woven baldric. The underground library vault behind him rises in silhouette: marble shelves stretch upward into shadow, wrought lantern motifs repeat above, and a cracked marble floor glows with inlaid insidian shards. The entire tapestry is framed by a decorative border of scrolling ivy vines, silver owls and wolves, floating book pages, pan-flutes, and quills See more