This post belongs to the #AtoZchallenge 2024, where I attempt to turn a word a day into something that can be used in Role Playing Games.
Xylopyrography describes the art of burning pictures into wood.
How to integrate it into your typical fantasy RPG?
- Burnt wood could be a distinctive gnomish art style, separate both from dwarven stone chiseling and elven wood carbing.
- It could also be a school of druids that worship fire and wood, thus trying to use wood fires to turn the landscape into magical glyphs.