'Changefulness' brings to mind the ability of Rogues and such figures - the ability of to shift away or through trouble, to adapt and survive. As for 'Love of Change' - have you ever known a Rogue to neglect the possibility of securing even a small quantity of loose change? The 'adapt and survive' mentality probably suits the notion of a Ranger also. 'Naturalism' brings to mind almost inevitably the figure of the Druid it is an easy leap from there to the Cleric. But is this a good fit for Wisdom? Well, Wisdom is always a bit tough to get a handle on witness this discussion. But there's an element of self-knowledge about Wisdom knowledge of one's own nature nosce te ipsum. 'Grostequeness' by contrast seems bound to be linked to the Wizard or other Magic-User. Ruskin offers an elaboration on some of these traits. Of the Grotesque, he describes "the tendency to delight in fantastic and ludicrous, as well as in sublime images, is a universal instinct of the Gothic imagination." The fantastic, ludicrous and sublime the Grotesque and the Disturbed Imagination. This may not sound like Gandalf or Merlin, but it certainly sounds like Rhialto the Marvellous and his Dying Earth colleagues, or like Zagyg himself. Ninguable of the Seven Eyes and Sheelba of the Eyeless Face are, by contrast, grotesque wizards. 'Rigidity' or 'Obstinacy', if we are to cleave to the Old School race-as-class notion offers us one option.Īs obstinate and rigid, indeed, as the mountains in which they dwell. 'Redundance' and 'Generosity' do not instantly point towards Charisma, or indeed towards Elves.