Says illustrator Ethan Gould:
…and I have the extra beezlenut level-five palindromic ossifier, but I also killed a Gurgle in the Den of Saladin, who dropped the rare Tablature of Estragorn which levels up any ossifier spell, so by combining that with the extra sodium vapor channels in my drop-down holding, I can actuate a Combinatory Incendiary which is really handy, since it’s obvious that all Egrets are susceptible to rare-earth elemental reactions so…
I think this is Gould making fun of my fantastic-marvelous/medieval-tropic inner life. For my part, this anatomare tells a story of the Crusade of 1101. The Vizier pictured accompanied al-Afdal into the Levant, but the ‘askar of the Cairenes and dream-Cairenes could not reclaim Heirosalaam from the Firanj, whom we call the Franks, who of course had the secret of the level-five palindromic ossifier, the rare Tablature of Estragorn, the rare-earth elemental…
