Marie Duvall

== Overview ==
Marie Duvall was an Alenthylian artist hailing from the Capital Lands. At the peak of her career she produced many paintings and depictions of the Sacred Light through art, designed many stained glass windows for Churches of the Sacred Light across the world and was even commissioned by the Pontiff of Alenthyl to design a mural for him.
Her pieces focused on the themes of good and evil and their correspondence with light and dark. In most of her pieces, the Sacred Light was depicted as a large orb of light, much like the sun and to counter this and represent evil and sin was a similar orb of darkness. Many of her pieces were split in two, with one side being dark and one side being light, most notably the piece Lux's Companion which presents both the dark and light side although the dark seeps into the light side. In most of these split pieces, the light side would show figures in prayer or worship, together with their families and unburdened. However, on the dark side, figures would be shown to be followed by small, strange creatures, people were alone, poor and unhappy. 
Pieces like this were generally loved by members of the Church and used as a warning for sinners in the religious communities of what would become of them if they were to continue living sinful and hedonistic lifestyles.
However, Duvall's arguably most famous piece, titled "The Merchant" does not follow this same structure of a defined seperation but rather blends the two into one image of two men in shadow with their backs to the viewer, facing and attempting to pay a lone woman who stands in light. Its meaning has been a topic of debate for many years in the community but the most agreed on is how unaware the community is of the corruption hidden behind the supposed purity of their religion.
While Duvall still presumably lives, she has not been seen in years. While she has not officially produced any new artwork since she has been in hiding, graffiti has been seen around several major settlements within Alenthyl of images of light and dark orbs, much like Duvall's style, which some presume to have been made by Duvall herself.
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