this is great! I was actually just thinking I need more shots of lightning barriers in my life..
Interesting to see (proper sail) masts – I had kind of assumed full/only steam powered ships
Is there a ghost in the stairs? 🙂
BLADESMAS
Too good. I love the lamps that don’t reach far beyond their own glass. Also, yes, love the mess of masts and spars.
Bloody Bladey.
Donogh McCarthy Steam technology isn’t 100% reliable, so less fancy ships still have sail for backup.
John Harper That’s an awesome thought, old wooden warhorses jostling with heavy, rusting iron hulks.
Can we infer that clothing and buildings would be a similar mishmash? Happy to make it my own, but wondering if you have a year or nationality that you work out from in your mind’s eye.
Yeah, it’s a mishmash, for sure! I’d say local style would look similar to Europe from 1600s to 1800s, with some really old buildings here and there, on the order of 1000 years.
So, I’m going to bet that that’s that (thathathathat) western tip of Barrowcleft with the two biggie lightning towers and those boats are for fishing river eels? And if we’re taking the picture, we’re standing on the northern half where ladies and couples can walk around with umbrellas?
Adam Sexton Which I desperately want to be true because it would mean I could truthfully point at this picture and say to someone, “See those lightning towers? My players destroyed those.”
Nice!
John Harper​, neat! I had thought some of the sources for your art looked an awful lot like Prague, but in my head it was becoming more London on account of being a maritime town. Either way, there would be a millennia of architecture to build on.
I use Prague and Venice and London a lot.
I pictured the bridge that crosses to Whitecrown to be a more epic version of Prague’s Charles Bridge. Except in my head the statues are trapped ghosts that watch everyone who is crossing and call out at those who should not be there.
John – you should make a folder for desktops and add it to your Community list! Also hilariously one of my monitors at work now has the awesome Gothic look of Doskvol, the other adorable kittens. >_>
this is great! I was actually just thinking I need more shots of lightning barriers in my life..
Interesting to see (proper sail) masts – I had kind of assumed full/only steam powered ships
Is there a ghost in the stairs? 🙂
BLADESMAS
Too good. I love the lamps that don’t reach far beyond their own glass. Also, yes, love the mess of masts and spars.
Bloody Bladey.
Donogh McCarthy Steam technology isn’t 100% reliable, so less fancy ships still have sail for backup.
John Harper That’s an awesome thought, old wooden warhorses jostling with heavy, rusting iron hulks.
Can we infer that clothing and buildings would be a similar mishmash? Happy to make it my own, but wondering if you have a year or nationality that you work out from in your mind’s eye.
Yeah, it’s a mishmash, for sure! I’d say local style would look similar to Europe from 1600s to 1800s, with some really old buildings here and there, on the order of 1000 years.
So, I’m going to bet that that’s that (thathathathat) western tip of Barrowcleft with the two biggie lightning towers and those boats are for fishing river eels? And if we’re taking the picture, we’re standing on the northern half where ladies and couples can walk around with umbrellas?
Adam Sexton Which I desperately want to be true because it would mean I could truthfully point at this picture and say to someone, “See those lightning towers? My players destroyed those.”
Nice!
John Harper​, neat! I had thought some of the sources for your art looked an awful lot like Prague, but in my head it was becoming more London on account of being a maritime town. Either way, there would be a millennia of architecture to build on.
I use Prague and Venice and London a lot.
I pictured the bridge that crosses to Whitecrown to be a more epic version of Prague’s Charles Bridge. Except in my head the statues are trapped ghosts that watch everyone who is crossing and call out at those who should not be there.
I got the statue idea from a short story by Scott Lynch – it’s got a hefty word count but it’s ever so fun – a group of thieves are tasked with stealing a busy street. Literally. http://uncannymagazine.com/article/a-year-and-a-day-in-old-theradane/
John – you should make a folder for desktops and add it to your Community list! Also hilariously one of my monitors at work now has the awesome Gothic look of Doskvol, the other adorable kittens. >_>
Done!