Euli

Euli is a Wasgar painter born in the year 1273MA in the Wasgar city Balum Badanoi.

From a young age Euli demonstrated his creative side when he would etch little drawings in the sidepaths of the city using sharp stones, or when he would create temporary pictures on the stone slabs with water before the sun dried them out. Being the son of a wealthy merchant, Euli's talent was quickly picked up on and his father sent him to learn how to paint properly at the city's art academy where he became the top and prized student.

When the Antagan Empire began expanding into Wasgar territory war began which saw the two powerful forces try anything to undermine the other. Euli played his part in this by travelling to Antagan city under the guise of a Sadari artist (the Sadari played no part in the war and were neutral, creating a suitable disguise). He approached several nobles and lords of Antagan offering to be their artist and for a very reasonable price. From this he was commissioned to do a few paintings and the quality of them attracted much attention, much so that it eventually became fashionable for an Antagan lord to have a Euli portait on his wall. What they didn't know was that while they blabbed away amongst themselves or to the the painter they were giving away Euli the secrets he was after, for no one suspected a Sadari painter to know much about Antagan's war so what harm was there? Quite a bit as it turned out. For once Euli had a piece of infotmation he would paint a picture, write the secrets on the back and send it back home for the Wasgar to read. This started to get risky as this text could be discovere, so instead Euli developed a code within the painting itself. For example each Wasgar city had its own emblem which may be an animal, plant, weapon etc. the emblem of Balum Badanoi is the god Badan, so if the Emoire was planning an attack on Balum Badanoi he would paint of picture of Badan painted in blue (blue being the colour of Antagan). Through codes such as these he became very adept at sharing information with his Wasgar homeland.