The scene here shows fighters in the thick of battle. Three fighters are seen, while a 4th is barely visible on the left side of the card.
One fighter wearing a soft leather hat and armored bracers faces down another two. He wields a sword over his head with his right hand, ready to strike. His left holds a staff horizontally in front of himself. There is another hand on the staff (the figure that is not really visible), either assisting him in holding the staff in front of himself defensively or attempting to wrest it out of his grasp.
Opposing him are two fighters advancing on him with aggressive facial expressions. The one closest to the front of the card is on horseback and holds a sword in his left hand and a staff at wait level with his right (as if pushing forward with it as he attacks with the sword). This fighter wears a tunic and cape and an odd snail-shaped helmet.
The figure behind him wears a velvet hat and wields his sword overhead with his right hand so that the blades seem to cross behind the first figure.
I don't think it's at all clear in this image who will win the battle - just as it's not clear to me if this is a battle of two against two or one against three... which leads me to think that sometimes in the heat of battle you lose sight of who is enemy and who is friend.
The actual wands being used are defensive or to claim territory...thinking of them as will puts context to what this battle is really about - pushing for your turf, holding out against those attempts to avoid being overrun. The swords show the aggressive method here - they are attacking, and as swords, this is a mental battle. Together this is an intense argument that's about pushing for one's own views and to get one's own way.
At it's least hostile, it's a strongly worded debate... at it's most it's one of those horrible screaming matches where people say terrible things in order to 'win'.
If my attention were to highlight the unseen figure hanging onto the first person's staff, I might wonder who is involved behind the scenes, spurring this battle of wills on, and why.
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