Question!

[Kait]

This has been driving me crazy all day.

I'm trying to think of the technical term used for the embellished artistic capital letter that's placed at the beginning of a paragraph ... very common in fairy tales etc...

one letter... sometimes has vines or snakes all over it. A little artsy picture instead of just a plain old letter.

Can anybody tell me what the name for this is?!?!?!

I'm going nuts!

[Sebaylias]

It's called a "decorative initial"

Not very interesting is it? But that's it