Museum of the Mad Mariner
Built into the side of a Yatian hillside on the western outskirts of town and overlooking Theridon Bay, the Museum is a square looking building made out of sandstone that stands three stories and is dotted with rectangular windows. On the dirt path that leads up to the Museum from the lightly travelled road below one can find and series of statues of Jendredi, ranging in size from a few inches to a mammoth, 12 foot carved block of granite. Arranged almost haphazardly, they depict the goddess in various moods and through various levels of abstraction, ranging from a lifelike marble statue of her dancing to something that looks more like geometric shapes assembled from various bits of colored, glass-like rocks brought back from Brenkin's Waste. The entrance, a simple rosewood door, has never been found locked, though the Museum receives few enough visitors that its unlikely anyone other than Capita Sofia, its curator, will be inside.
The inside of the museum contains a half-dozen exhibit halls of of different sizes and shapes, spread across the first two floors. The works displayed here - a collection of sculptures, pottery, murals, canvases, and even some Nerrid inventions, might seem like a fortune of art. A Karradonian art dealer, however, would scoff at the idea. Unlike the precise portraits and breathtaking landscapes commonly found in wealthy Eldorian, the art found at the museum is of both topics and styles most unusual. Vistas of storms or canvases painted a single colors are mixed among grotesque statues and huge silk screens printed with a single Soulmeliti character. With titles that include words like the "abstraction" and "deconstruction" the works are not what most consider fine art. A few nobles and scholars, some of whom have been later declared mad, however, have sworn that it contains the most thought provoking works in the history Tarien.
The third floor serves as Sofia's meager residence and massive studio. The studio, which takes up most of the floor, is a scattered mess of paints, half-completed canvases, under construction sculptures, and piles of scrolls in her expressive and surprisingly neat handwriting. In fact, the only thing in the space that is tidy, besides her script, is a wide bookshelf containing over a hundred books and scrolls in a dozen different languages.