Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
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[X] Visit Ling Nuan and the new pastures, it important to see how she was settling in
[X] Go along with Zhengui to speak with his followers she was interested in seeing him work
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And now I'm thinking about the Cornely polytechnic drama society doing a Xianxia style play with over frantic young masters, and special effects that go horriblyThis mental image! Too cute!!
[X] Go along with Zhengui to speak with his followers she was interested in seeing him work
[X] Go along with Zhengui to speak with his followers she was interested in seeing him work
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[X] Visit Ling Nuan and the new pastures, it important to see how she was settling in
This was gorgeous and I'm going to multiquote gush about the fief for a second here:
First glimpse everyone from the empire is going to get is a lake/sky/mountain (remember red art imperial style qi balancing? Lol) panorama, all focused on on the waterfall.
So for those who are going to grow up cultivating here, that's what, expansiveness, tranquility, and stability, I think? As the background ambiance?
...we are building the RPG starting village, aren't we.
This is so incredibly peaceful and pastoral. Like the incarnate dream of an alpine valley.
Home sweet home, wow. Blue and white aesthetic is great and easy to picture, and it's going to make all the reds and yellows and greens of the rainbows stand out so much.
In truth you could probably build a *really* amazing diorama of this palace, with artificial fog or incense smoke flowing down a cliff face, then wrapping over the and around the towers like a fur stole around a noble's shoulders.
It's so soft as an aesthetic, but it works amazing integrating the influence of all three of the principals' domains. Pure light, sunlight, and icy mists? Each here naturally but softened. (I'm assuming Cai's light as the interior formations in the offices at night, which would look like stars shining out from the cliffs to the people in the village, telling them their liege is still working.)
The usual town shields are almost an architectural element here, the voids within the mist allowing one to see the shape of the shielding, as well as clearing sightlines so the buildings can be seen. It's going to be a lot more of a visible presence than in most other towns.
I like this a lot. Not just the palace but the entire village is being integrated into the flow of the river to the lake. It brings the lake right up to the front doors of the people we told it would be honoring it by working and living. It lets the spirit see them without them intruding, I hope, and I like the idea a lot.
Plus the idea of the whole town sounding like a burbling brook all the time. RPG starter village soundtrack get.
Oh it's going to be so incredibly pretty. And with heat veins from zhengui it can even stay as a warmish misty oasis through the winter, never freezing.
I wonder if the geomancer is going to reconfigure the pools and gardens to create some city-sized formation effects.
I choose to believe this is a hundred tiny downspouts consolidating with each floor to fewer and fewer until just one cascade pours into the upper pool, like the way the headwaters above snow blossom collect into the waterfall and the lake.
The flow from the top catchment to the many pools below it would represent the virtue and generosity of the inhabitants of snowblossom flowing out to the rest of the province.
Or it could be a series of ponds, mirroring the downstream part the lake more closely. I like the idea of stylized sympathy quite a bit here, I think.
Soft purring and sunbeams. Love it.
This is a North facing setup in the low south hemisphere, so the sun at noon has to be penetrating pretty far in even at high summer. You could probably do inlay patterns on the floor inside the windows that would tell you date and time from where the corners of the window light fall.
More splashes of color!
Pun intended.
I wonder what sorts of gardens and vegetation? Early on like now I'd imagine flowers and potted saplings, or even kitchen herbs and medicinals.
This is so incredibly liminal. The deeper you get into the seat of power the less of it you can see, with fog starting to fill up the open areas and hide the roofs.
It makes for a heck of a dramatic statement even with no adornment at all.
This was gorgeous and I'm going to multiquote gush about the fief for a second here:
First glimpse everyone from the empire is going to get is a lake/sky/mountain (remember red art imperial style qi balancing? Lol) panorama, all focused on on the waterfall.
So for those who are going to grow up cultivating here, that's what, expansiveness, tranquility, and stability, I think? As the background ambiance?
...we are building the RPG starting village, aren't we.
This is so incredibly peaceful and pastoral. Like the incarnate dream of an alpine valley.
Home sweet home, wow. Blue and white aesthetic is great and easy to picture, and it's going to make all the reds and yellows and greens of the rainbows stand out so much.
In truth you could probably build a *really* amazing diorama of this palace, with artificial fog or incense smoke flowing down a cliff face, then wrapping over the and around the towers like a fur stole around a noble's shoulders.
It's so soft as an aesthetic, but it works amazing integrating the influence of all three of the principals' domains. Pure light, sunlight, and icy mists? Each here naturally but softened. (I'm assuming Cai's light as the interior formations in the offices at night, which would look like stars shining out from the cliffs to the people in the village, telling them their liege is still working.)
The usual town shields are almost an architectural element here, the voids within the mist allowing one to see the shape of the shielding, as well as clearing sightlines so the buildings can be seen. It's going to be a lot more of a visible presence than in most other towns.
I like this a lot. Not just the palace but the entire village is being integrated into the flow of the river to the lake. It brings the lake right up to the front doors of the people we told it would be honoring it by working and living. It lets the spirit see them without them intruding, I hope, and I like the idea a lot.
Plus the idea of the whole town sounding like a burbling brook all the time. RPG starter village soundtrack get.
Oh it's going to be so incredibly pretty. And with heat veins from zhengui it can even stay as a warmish misty oasis through the winter, never freezing.
I wonder if the geomancer is going to reconfigure the pools and gardens to create some city-sized formation effects.
I choose to believe this is a hundred tiny downspouts consolidating with each floor to fewer and fewer until just one cascade pours into the upper pool, like the way the headwaters above snow blossom collect into the waterfall and the lake.
The flow from the top catchment to the many pools below it would represent the virtue and generosity of the inhabitants of snowblossom flowing out to the rest of the province.
Or it could be a series of ponds, mirroring the downstream part the lake more closely. I like the idea of stylized sympathy quite a bit here, I think.
Soft purring and sunbeams. Love it.
This is a North facing setup in the low south hemisphere, so the sun at noon has to be penetrating pretty far in even at high summer. You could probably do inlay patterns on the floor inside the windows that would tell you date and time from where the corners of the window light fall.
More splashes of color!
Pun intended.
I wonder what sorts of gardens and vegetation? Early on like now I'd imagine flowers and potted saplings, or even kitchen herbs and medicinals.
This is so incredibly liminal. The deeper you get into the seat of power the less of it you can see, with fog starting to fill up the open areas and hide the roofs.
It makes for a heck of a dramatic statement even with no adornment at all.
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- Location
- Colorado
[X] Visit Ling Nuan and the new pastures, it important to see how she was settling in
- Location
- South Africa
[X] Go along with Zhengui to speak with his followers she was interested in seeing him work
[X] Go along with Zhengui to speak with his followers she was interested in seeing him work
fucked up we gotta pick between baby bro and little sis. Fucked up.
fucked up we gotta pick between baby bro and little sis. Fucked up.
Oh, sulfure mine, neat.
[X] Visit Ling Nuan and the new pastures, it important to see how she was settling in
[X] Go along with Zhengui to speak with his followers she was interested in seeing him work
im not chosing between them this is too cruel
[X] Go along with Zhengui to speak with his followers she was interested in seeing him work
im not chosing between them this is too cruel
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- Location
- The Maple Syrup Mountains
[X] Visit Ling Nuan and the new pastures, it important to see how she was settling in
- Location
- At the end of the world
[X] Go along with Zhengu to speak with his followers she was interested in seeing him work
- Location
- Staring into the void
