Twardin Kopn was an Ahldoraean painter who lived in the 5th and 6th centuries somewhere in the Loodon Empire. He was the protege of Anarien Tonrne and had himself created a school that taught many painters throughout the 6th and 7th centuries.

His works were notable for their grandeur and panoramic scale, which appealed to the court. He was frequently commissioned to do important work, which made him famous and respected. He did not, however, become wealthy, as he rejected monetary rewards and considered wealth to be a primary human vice. He, therefore, lived on the streets with the common folk and his clothing was typically ragged and dirty.

He was also notorious for both despising realism and insisting on making paintings of famous people and existing landmarks. His works would take unparalleled creative liberty, up to the point that a painting called “The Tower of Upland” shows a deep hole in the ground. His portrait of the Duke of Villpeh is a nice looking young man. The Duke was also said to have been good looking, but the person on the portrait bore little resemblance. The Duke, however, famously accepted the portrait and displayed it on a wall facing the main entrance of his house, with the inscription “Portrait of a young man”.

Eventually, Twardin ran into trouble with the Last Emperor who had commissioned him to create a mural of the Neutral Palace. Painted on a 4×6 meter canvas, the mural garnered high praise for its artistic qualities, but was noted to be completely different from how the actual Neutral Palace looked like. This angered the emperor, who then imprisoned Twardin in the Palace, with the intent of punishing him after the Congress was over. Twardin was let go by the emperor's courtiers after the emperor was murdered in the Long Corridor of the Palace by Rhadr.