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Blackpine Library - Colours
🕑 Added 2018-06-21 03:31:50 +0000 UTC Managed to just do a quick-wash colour on this one before the afternoon turned to broiling temps again. It was nice working on something with snow and cold.Though I guess I wouldn't want the house to look like this place, even if there is no AC here.
The town of Blackpine is deep within the 'Sorrow'. An area of the world that is just now able to be traversed safely after a massive disaster in the capital city to the north.
The ruin took place over 67 years since the disaster, but was already going through an outright internal war between citizens who were fed up and students and mages who were deeply infested by the cult of Mephistopheles, betrayers and slayers all.
The citizens were thrown to the mercy of the encroaching darkness from Whiterook as the cultists and archmages sealed themselves in the Arcantower, believing they'd be safe.
These days, those citizens still shuffle around as vessels. Undead who live out shards of their memory. Some driven mad in life and now death by the darkness, others still mending fences that no longer exist, or cleaning libraries such as this one despite it being collapsing into absolute ruin.
I'm going to try and get some sketches out of some of the areas of this place someday too. I have all of these ideas of what it might look like from a non-top-down perspective.
(forgive the lack of preview here. Patreon is being fiddly tonight. The full picture is there as an attachment to this post though, as always. Please let me know if it doesn't show up! - T.J.)
Comments
Tygepc
Sounds like that place was a cheery little hell on earth while it was falling. Must have been *fun.* Individualists seem to be out to backstab everyone else, huh? Great color job, but your color work is always amazing. Looking forward to a non top down view and maybe seeing some explorers/adventurers who happen to find it?
Garry Stahl
Your Sorrow sounds a lot like the Weirdling Lands. An area affected in the three Undying Wars. Undead creatures still go about shadows of their lives, and abominations roam the lands, some more dangerous that others. If you are interested in reading it: The Undying Wars: <a href="https://vistacity.wikia.com/wiki/Undying_Wars" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://vistacity.wikia.com/wiki/Undying_Wars</a> The Weirdling Lands: <a href="https://vistacity.wikia.com/wiki/Weirdling_Lands" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://vistacity.wikia.com/wiki/Weirdling_Lands</a>
