As I continue to re-read David Cornish’s excellent Monster Blood Tattoo series, his AMAZING illustrations are colouring my worldview of Doskvol, the same way as Dishonoured had previous. Its a wonderful amalgamation.
For today’s inspiration, I share with you David’s vision for the ships of his Half-Continent – which I now cannot ‘un see’ as the Leviathan Hunters of Akarosi.
“Taking a clumsily hidden tot of hard waters from his coatflask,
Captain Wantastiquire Lacking looked back over the rocking heads
of his rowing crew to the awkward lines of his vessel. To the landed
eye she would have seemed a large and impressive vessel; undeed,
she was classed on the lists as an iron-dought, a proper line-of-battle
ram. Yet any knowledgable eye could see that the NB Coryphaeus
was a little too short along the gundeck for a true iron-dought, and
too long on her pinch deck – her truncated upper deck. She was in
truth what was rather disparagingly referred to as a mule-ram: a
ram of uncertain class and therefore of uncertain role, and she was
a rather age-ed mule-ram at that.”
