#Septopolis 29: For Vizrala and all the various people, places, and things of Karnassia, have to acknowledge @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social first and foremost (and yet again). Co-creating a world is a great experience that I’d highly recommend to everyone. Also want to thank @kiraofthewind.com for…

#Septopolis D28: Have a map and a moodboard! The map is definitely more suggestive than precise; I may change my mind about where some things are, and I'm not great with proportions. 😅

A28. A postcard from the Alchemist Guild comes in the mail! With a promise of great art, awesome tea (both drink & gossip), and solid convo w/ the other creatives? Why not stop by if you're in Johari City? Artists are always interesting. Sesina artists? Well, that magic is in the water #Septopolis

#Septopolis 28! I thought I would sit this one out, since I’m not that confident in my drawing skills/don’t collect a lot of photos for my WIPs but after seeing everyone’s I had to try Here’s a chibi sketch of Nana (left)! Minor spoilers for #DiaryOfNana but we’re almost there anyway :v

#Septopolis 28 Welp I had really hoped to have a nice polished piece of art for today, but alas the month got away from me 😅 So anyway this is my very unpolished sketch of Arx Lucis on a drizzly evening. I... may create a finished version of this eventually 😂❤️

#Septopolis 28. Ignore the old name (and my complete lack of artistic skill), but this is the picture I drew of Toree Teerayu when It was used for gaming. I just wanted to show the scale of the city, its districts, and the multiple harbors.

#Septopolis 28 I have very basic cartography powers so this is what you get, I may attempt topography in the future But yeah! This here's the general shape of Kaghar viewed from above, in all its sheer immensity

Started putting together a big world map, and there’s no better place to start then Vuldrull. The map is a little bit, blurry due to the size and zooming in, but I think it gives a decent idea of the countries’s layout and resources. Above the nation sits the wild lands of the north. #wip

#Septopolis 28 I know I've been doing two settings, but you're only getting one creative mini-project from me today. Here, I drew Station 14. (Also, I spent WAY too long on the stars for this…) #Writing #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Art #DigitalArt #Krita #SciFi #SpaceStation

#Septopolis 28: Lovilay This is all you're getting out of my brain today. Please do not take this seriously beyond the effort that I transferred it between PC to tablet in order to add filters. This file is legit called ouiouishitpost.png 😂

Happy #Septopolis 28! Please forgive the quality, I doodled this on a train ❤️

#Septopolis 28 Here you go. By the power of clip art and a non adobe photo editor, I give you Atlas City. bsky.app/profile/khon...

#Septopolis Did I spend part of my morning bashing these together? Id been meaning to map out the rings of the Hermitagon paper for a while. Its not really to scale at all. The aesthetic board represents the three main settings we see in the current WIP. The Hermitage, space stations, and Avalon.

#Septopolis 28 Here's a quick little slice of life, street scene form Fenholt I sketched this morning. Showing a road carving its way through Second Wall. Using pens and colored pencils. #WritingCommunity #Writesky #Wrencer

#Septopolis 28 Here's a new graphic: a flyer for the Sunnyside Cryptid Festival 👣🔍

#Septopolis 28 I created a map recently (I drew this in pencil and then colored it digitally). You can see how actually damn small Ezra is. The past three wars have obliterated huge sections of the environment. One more could end the world... #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmWriting

#Septopolis 28 Sadly I genuinely don't have time to draw anything today (thesis deadline looms over me), so I'll throw this at y'all: an old sketch I was making back in 2019 from when #Defiler was called Starchild and I was trying to turn this story into a TTRPG (it failed to materialize)

#Septopolis 28 I tried drawing Tourmaline, but architecture is so not my thing, so here's a mood board I put together. It's not perfect, but it should give you an idea of what I've been talking about this month. #Ame_NephilimWIP

#Septopolis 28 How about this early draft of a map I'm having made of Gustan Manor, the town, and the surrounding region? The final map will appear in THE RILL LORD. Map by @domino44maps.bsky.social #epicfantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

#Septopolis 28. I can't seem to find many images or concept art that give a good idea of what Orasan looks like. So, here are two Gothic buildings, one flying ship, and one art of Nitara—she's in her ship and not really in the city, but at least we can see the two moons behind her.

Not tidy, but this is a rough map I use as reference :) Circled is the Canal District / CBD. Other districts include: Watertown Land's End Thibault Hampstead Upper/Lower Woodbridge Poison Town Grand Moorings University Estate Seaward Harbour Mainland Port New Bridge The Glen And Various Slums

#Septopolis I made a map in MS Paint showing the second floor of Orathea castle, the seat of power in Elux. This isn't the ENTIRE second floor, mind you, just the part that seemed most relevant.

#Septopolis 28 maps, you say?! good look at some of Zimanges' idiosyncrasies: the dearth of windows, the cast-iron stove in every room, the cave-like alley in the rear

#Septopolis I got this art piece from Aowna specifically for this prompt game. 😁 Here we have a tro-odon in the Summershade Shroomery, which is where Amanita Heights is located. The warm colors (reds, yellows, oranges) reflect what the city also looks like, with the blue river a stark contrast.

Anyone else feel so mentally tired by week’s end that just finding the energy not to nap rather than write or read is a wee bit of a struggle? 😅

#Septopolis 28: Now would be a great time to announce that @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social and I cleaned up the scan of hand drawn map of the city of Vizrala and that it is now of acceptable quality to view. That didn’t happen, but it would have been super cool if it did, lol

#Septopolis 27 Within the city, there is a secret group gaining traction, recruiting people who are disillusioned about Arx Lucis. Some merely wish to reinstate democratic rule; some wish to end slavery or at least create better living conditions for the Reprobates; some want to expose all the 🧵

#Septopolis 27 Some of the nobility is pushing for internal changes (more Slayer oversight) A rebel group called "The Wild Rose" is trying to overthrow the Imperial Family A secret third thing is trying to murder the gods

#Septopolis 27. Krocann, the so-called Count of Immaculate Blood, is believed to be another god who rose to challenge Envasar. We hear about it in Nitara's first chapter, and Askaly's last chapter will reveal who he truly is. House Mukriost is still working on biotechnology, with the (1/2)

#Septopolis 27: For the Rise of Villainy Karnassia series (co-authored with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), the series opens with the newly formed gang coming into Vizrala down on their luck with a goal to stop winding up in jail and down on their luck. Toward that end, they decide to form a new…

#Septopolis 26: Lovilay Quick, while I still have some dopamine from beach! As events will unfold in #tfowWIP, Lovilay is the last bastion of aggressors leading the 17-year-long effort to reestablish an empire (spoilers: they fail). Given its physical size, it is not an easy target to sack. 🧵1/3

#Septopolis 26: Seppara So. There is a lot going on as a blob of plot plans, but the one I can somewhat focus on is an uptick in strange vandalism and burglaries. Various manufacturing and energy production facilities (especially meteor rock "converters") have been hit with similar MOs. 🧵1/3

#Septopolis 26. Nitara is no longer in Vaeternus, having taken her mother's colossal warship and a new crew into the Netherrealm to destroy a sapient sword. Meanwhile, in Orasan, the Council is fretting about Datusha's return and what will happen if Nitara fails to destroy it. No one else (1/2)

#Septopolis Bending the rules of time a bit to redefine "right now" to "any point in the city's history that was interesting." 🍄AMANITA HEIGHTS🍄 During the Greed Wars, there was a revolt in Vela. It was one of the most gruesome, bloody revolts in all Aloutia. It was notorious for how evilly the

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#Septopolis 26: Not to be annoying, but for Karnassia stories (co-authored with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), it depends on when exactly you’re describing “right now.” The first story that takes place /near/ Vizrala (partially at nearby Etai Caelil) happens right at the start of The Great Famine…

#SeptemberWorldbuilders 25. Fire is a common one for most realms, and in Earthrealm, we also have the sources of light we have in our world. Then, it varies from realm to realm. Vaeternus has moon crystals, Edenia has plants that emit light, etc. Gods and Pure Celestials can exude light. Devils...

#SeptemberWorldbuilders 26: In Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), the most famous dark places are probably the tunnels beneath the desert of Avenad that connect all the cities beneath the mountains in the Nation of Avenad (and the Beadaoga towns of Rockdale and Stoneburrough)…

#Septopolis 25 The main big holiday for Arx Lucis is "ELECTION DAY," which despite its name has absolutely nothing to do with democracy. This holiday takes place in late winter & celebrates the time when Supreme God El, great & benevolent, died & was reborn, thus defeating death and creating 🧵1/?

Big freakin draygun

#Septopolis Gonna just talk about one today, but it's for both Amanita Heights and Blackwood Fortress: Today! September 25th corresponds to the Star Carnival in Aloutia. It's a HUGE festival, lots of foods and games and dancing. And tonight, all the stars will rearrange themselves in the sky💫

#Septopolis 25. We have a few important celebrations, many of which are shared across the entire kingdom and beyond. Voanoct [vo-ah-nost], aka Night of the Veil, is among the most important, when the two moons are new and the sky is the darkest it ever gets, nensiis believe that Envasar has (1/13)

#SeptemberWorldbuilders 25: In Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), the ral (and especially the Valestrals and Avendrals) will use so-called “black powder” as a source of light, which when ignited, will provide a significant source of light, heat, and flame. This is especially…

#Septopolis 24 Sadly, no fun hamburger rivalries for Arx Lucis! Pretty much the entire world hates them 😅 Arx Lucis is the only Elect city in the world (as far as we know anyway), so all other settlements are the Reprobate settlements on the ground. They tend to be overcrowded, impoverished, 🧵1/4

#Septopolis 25: Vizrala in the Vizrani Empire in Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social) has a number of festivals relayed to gods and saints (which often conveniently line up with harvests, equinoxes, solstices, and other seasonal events), but the one the characters in Rise of…

#Septopolis 24. Orasan’s relations to the other cities in the kingdom is… layered, to say the least. It has a great relationship with Sambre [sham-breh], a city to the west that serves as House Drakra’s seat of power, and it enjoys a friendly sports rivalry with Olasyar [oh-lah-shoor] and (1/5)

#SeptemberWorldbuilders 24: Within the continent of Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), the Beadaoga are firm believers in the spirits of people and places Within this belief system, these spirits are often thought to live in the shadows of things (though the level of…

#Septopolis 🍄AMANITA HEIGHTS🍄 There's potential for crime aplenty, meaning it has a LOT of lawkeeper presence. Anything related to the casinos: fraud, counterfeiting, cheating, shenanigans with the maximum money laws, etc. THEN there's smuggling, etc. at the portage. OH, and illegal mushroom trade.

A short one (Honest. Pinky promise.) from me as this is a very complex and complicated matter, so I'll only provide a small-ish vertical slice into Gemorrian legislature. Gemorrian laws, quite naturally (heh), focus on respecting and honouring nature, and the First Trees. #Septopolis

#Septopolis 24: When it comes to the rest of the Vizrani Empire in Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), Vizrala tends to view most of their neighbors as overly religious, backwater bumpkins, not to be taken seriously by the more cosmopolitan trade city. This is in contrast…