Pan Nymira - A high fantasy world WiP
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Update 3 (July 25 2019) - Roads, City Layout and Lore
Goodday! I hope you are enjoying summer!
It's been such a long time since I last posted - I'm sorry about that - due to a mix of IRL stuff and lacking motivation. I still can't EIG because of the Origin issue and it really kills my motivation, since I would just love to start building - it would add so much to the world, too. Because of that I'm mostly just sculpting and painting.
For this post I will share some basic lore and before and after pictures. These really help me keep going when I feel I'm not progressing! I finally figured out how to post images directly in this forum (yay!), but I will keep the link to the old album up, so we can revisit it just in case.
If you have any comments, critiques or feedback - on anything and everything - I'd love to hear it as always, and if you want to see more pictures, you can request it.
Progress in CaW
First up, here's the before and after pictures of the city map - for clarity, I have turned off the "fog" in CaW, which also makes the water invisible, so it looks a little odd.
Before:
https://i.imgur.com/JjcgdLz.png?1
After:
https://i.imgur.com/rggxoSp.png
And from the overview from mountain range:
Before:
https://i.imgur.com/dup8Eoe.png?1
After:
https://i.imgur.com/pkabK81.png
I'm actually getting somewhere! Here's some pictures to get a feel of the city (without any buildings... -_-")
https://i.imgur.com/Ym7mCzG.png
https://i.imgur.com/hmoEqIM.png
Here's an image of what Pan Nymira looks like from the sea with the harbour in front:
https://i.imgur.com/t9AJtnD.png
I'm also using the stone walls to make Pan Nymira seem less flat and make the different hight levels more distinct, for an example here, where the town hall lot is supposed to be on the left lot, the public bath (pool) in front and the colosseum (stadium) on the elevated lot (the yellow one) in the background.
https://i.imgur.com/yZjpINi.png
So far I've only really worked on the city area, which is incircled by the mountain range - therefore there isn't anything interesting to "photograph" outside of it - apart from Aerie Island.
I have removed all of the roads to stay true to the late medieval or renaissance time period - so no cars in this world! You will have to walk, horse ride or sail (broom flying not adviseable*).
I've done a lot of mountain sculpting and terrain painting. This is - in my opinion - the most tedious and annoying thing to do in CaW, but the results are very satisfying to me. I really like the way Aerie Island is turning out, as you can see in the pictures below.
Aerie Island
Before:
https://i.imgur.com/zrrtJGq.png?1
After:
https://i.imgur.com/brmm83M.png
At first, I didn't like the lightblue of the water - it seemed off to be or too extreme - but the more I work with it, the more I like it.
Most of my mountains are rather smooth - which almost makes them look like hills - but I really like the wrinkledness and roughness of some of the sculpting of the mountain and rockformations (as highlighted with green circles) - I think it makes them look more like actual stone, rock and mountain and therefore more realistic.
Introduction to lore
The people of Pan Nymira originally came from another nation and moved away due to instability. They are very ideological. They believe that everything is supposed to be in balance and stability, peace and order, and left their homeland to start a nation that strived to their own beliefs. The island they found were perfect to them - isolated from the chaos of the outside world, protected by a natural defense in the great mountain range. But inside this nation, there would be no walls seperating its people - every human should be equal in every way. Someone has to govern, though, to make sure the ideals are upheld, so a family was selected to be the main leader, but always advised by a counsil, which consists of four families.
And so, Pan Nymira was made everything it set out to be. A lush and open place where nobody is poor, where order rules and stability resides. It seems a paradise.
But maybe Pan Nymira isn't as perfect as it seems...
Feedback
As always, I love any feedback you have.
I hope to update soon!
Goodday! I hope you are enjoying summer!
It's been such a long time since I last posted - I'm sorry about that - due to a mix of IRL stuff and lacking motivation. I still can't EIG because of the Origin issue and it really kills my motivation, since I would just love to start building - it would add so much to the world, too. Because of that I'm mostly just sculpting and painting.
For this post I will share some basic lore and before and after pictures. These really help me keep going when I feel I'm not progressing! I finally figured out how to post images directly in this forum (yay!), but I will keep the link to the old album up, so we can revisit it just in case.
If you have any comments, critiques or feedback - on anything and everything - I'd love to hear it as always, and if you want to see more pictures, you can request it.
Progress in CaW
First up, here's the before and after pictures of the city map - for clarity, I have turned off the "fog" in CaW, which also makes the water invisible, so it looks a little odd.
Before:
https://i.imgur.com/JjcgdLz.png?1
After:
https://i.imgur.com/rggxoSp.png
And from the overview from mountain range:
Before:
https://i.imgur.com/dup8Eoe.png?1
After:
https://i.imgur.com/pkabK81.png
I'm actually getting somewhere! Here's some pictures to get a feel of the city (without any buildings... -_-")
https://i.imgur.com/Ym7mCzG.png
https://i.imgur.com/hmoEqIM.png
Here's an image of what Pan Nymira looks like from the sea with the harbour in front:
https://i.imgur.com/t9AJtnD.png
I'm also using the stone walls to make Pan Nymira seem less flat and make the different hight levels more distinct, for an example here, where the town hall lot is supposed to be on the left lot, the public bath (pool) in front and the colosseum (stadium) on the elevated lot (the yellow one) in the background.
https://i.imgur.com/yZjpINi.png
So far I've only really worked on the city area, which is incircled by the mountain range - therefore there isn't anything interesting to "photograph" outside of it - apart from Aerie Island.
I have removed all of the roads to stay true to the late medieval or renaissance time period - so no cars in this world! You will have to walk, horse ride or sail (broom flying not adviseable*).
I've done a lot of mountain sculpting and terrain painting. This is - in my opinion - the most tedious and annoying thing to do in CaW, but the results are very satisfying to me. I really like the way Aerie Island is turning out, as you can see in the pictures below.
Aerie Island
Before:
https://i.imgur.com/zrrtJGq.png?1
After:
https://i.imgur.com/brmm83M.png
At first, I didn't like the lightblue of the water - it seemed off to be or too extreme - but the more I work with it, the more I like it.
Most of my mountains are rather smooth - which almost makes them look like hills - but I really like the wrinkledness and roughness of some of the sculpting of the mountain and rockformations (as highlighted with green circles) - I think it makes them look more like actual stone, rock and mountain and therefore more realistic.
Introduction to lore
The people of Pan Nymira originally came from another nation and moved away due to instability. They are very ideological. They believe that everything is supposed to be in balance and stability, peace and order, and left their homeland to start a nation that strived to their own beliefs. The island they found were perfect to them - isolated from the chaos of the outside world, protected by a natural defense in the great mountain range. But inside this nation, there would be no walls seperating its people - every human should be equal in every way. Someone has to govern, though, to make sure the ideals are upheld, so a family was selected to be the main leader, but always advised by a counsil, which consists of four families.
And so, Pan Nymira was made everything it set out to be. A lush and open place where nobody is poor, where order rules and stability resides. It seems a paradise.
But maybe Pan Nymira isn't as perfect as it seems...
Feedback
As always, I love any feedback you have.
I hope to update soon!
