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Mont-Saint-Michel – Work in Progress 3
🕑 Added 2020-01-04 01:55:57 +0000 UTCI feel like things are starting to get kind of real now. This is most of the town finished, including the local church (Saint-Pierre's) at the top with the cemetery below it. There's also a gambling hall, some gardens, a bunch of houses and, at the top left, a building known as the House of the Spinning Pig ("Truie-qui-File").
The story behind this is that, apparently, some guy taught his pig to spin thread and he used to take it out in the streets where people would watch it perform. Eventually some religious authorities caught wind of it and told everyone what a delightful miracle this pig was. The man and his pig became famous and lived happily ever after.
I'm kidding, of course. They accused the guy of having demonic powers and lit him on fire. The pig, too. The middle ages weren't a great time to be different.
Anyway, just thought I'd share that. I'll be back in a few days with the rest of the town and the gardens.
Comments
Milby's Maps
Sure, no problem. I pretty much always do backgrounds on a separate layer anyway.
Matt Prigge
Yeah, a ton. I only noticed it when I checked the Minas Tirith wikipedia page to make sure I was spelling it right (lol) and lo-and-behold a picture of Mont Saint-Michel. Anyway - I don't know how you're planning to do the area surrounding the outer fortifications, but if it works for you to leave it vague, that'd be awesome. For the folks that get the PSDs, maybe just have that part be on a separate layer that's easy to drop out? (not that we cant do it ourselves!)
Milby's Maps
I never thought about that, but yeah, now that you mention it, Minas Tirith really does look a lot like Mont-Saint-Michel. I mean a LOT.
Matt Prigge
Oh man - I just noticed that Mont Saint-Michel was actually the original inspiration for Minas Tirith. Makes a lot of sense!!
Matt Prigge
We'll see how it develops, but I may adapt the city to play the role of the central fortification and cathedral in a Minas Tirith-style ringed holy city which exists in the campaign I'm running. So, it wouldn't be the occasional island that Mont-Saint-Michel is, but would absolutely give me the detail I need.
Milby's Maps
Cool, what's the plan?
Matt Prigge
Excellent work! Can’t wait to see more - can already imagine how I might use this.
Milby's Maps
Thanks, it's a lot of work, but there aren't a lot of places this interesting in the world and I want to make sure Mont-Saint-Michel gets the map it deserves.
Robert D Smith
Wow lots of nice detail! Looks great!
