Built for Queen Margherita of Savoy, Castel Savoia in Gressoney-Saint-Jea is fairytale abode iconic for its conical-roofed towers and alpine location.
In #writing or a #ttrpg, the site makes for a grant mage academy.
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🎥: Giuseppe Marolda
This image is credited to zoulou34 on TripAdvisor.
This image is credited to Federico e Irene on TripAdvisor.
This image is credited to Varese Lakes/Varese News.
The Eremo di Santa Caterina del Sasso, or the Hermitage of Santa Caterina del Sasso, is a 14th-century monastery built upon a narrow ledge overlooking Lake Maggiore.
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📷️: zoulou34; Federico e Irene; & Varese Lakes
Excellent!
I think the Bard was the VIP in this battle.
This image is by © Jakub Polomski (Shutterstock).
This image is credited to Hongbin (https://unsplash.com/photos/a-bridge-that-is-on-top-of-a-snowy-mountain-wehBtaV57T8).
This image is credited to Krzysztof Kowalik (https://unsplash.com/photos/a-snow-covered-mountain-with-a-clear-blue-sky-kepcDGM4HFY).
A cablecar travels more than 9,000 vertical feet to Aiguille du Midi, a peak in the Mont Blanc massif, to a series of walkways and overlook buildings.
In #writing or a #ttrpg, the site can be a Dwarven fort.
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📷️: Jakub Polomski; Hongbin; & Krzysztof Kowalik
The Chengdu Pengzhou Longxing Temple Area is a sprawling complex that incorporates structures and walkways below the water level of a lake.
The central element is the thousand-year-old Longxing Temple.
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🎥: BIAD-ASA Studio
I have always liked the idea that each school of magic (Abjuration, Conjuration, Divination, Enchantment, Evocation, Illusion, Necromancy, and Transmutation) is its own chapter or house within an arcane school, and they are rivalries with each other.
This image is by photographer Nick Schroeter (IG: nickschroeterphoto). A large, red-brick cathedral with twin belltowers stands atop a thickly wooded hill. It is twilight and the thin clouds hold a beautiful lavender. Frost is draped about the trees from a previous snowfall.
This image is by photographer Nick Schroeter (IG: nickschroeterphoto).
This image is credited to Daniel (daniel00 on Flickr).
This image is by photographer Nick Schroeter (IG: nickschroeterphoto).
This location has quite the name: The Basilica and National Shrine of Mary, Help of Christians at the Holy Hill
It is a Wisconsin hilltop cathedral.
In #writing or a #ttrpg, such a building can make for a neat wizard's school.
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📷️: Nick Schroeter & Daniel
The Santuario Madonna della Corona (Sanctuary of the Lady of the Crown) hangs on the side of Mount Baldo (Italy) and overlooks the Adige Valley. The original church was built in 1530.
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🎥: Giuseppe Marolda
Oh, I like the idea of an interesting, but small, area to explore!
Tucked within trees of Loreto Island (Italy) is a neo-Gothic castle.
The 19th century castle was built upon the remains of a 15th-century Medieval nunnery.
Loreto is one of three islets on Lake Iseo.
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📷️: OMΛR HΛDI and Video Drone Milano
My photo shows a decorative gold brooch against a black background. The gold front plate is attached to a copper-alloy core by 8 silver rivets (not seen). The surface of the gold plate is ornately decorated with looped gold filigree, At the centre of the brooch is a circular blue glass cabochon set in a raised gold cell encircled by cloisonné garnets. Radiating out from the central blue glass cabochon are curved sections inlaid with cloisonné garnet like rays of the sun, forming a swirling pattern on the surface of the brooch. The 71 inlaid garnets come from Bohemia. Around the outer edge are four smaller round blue glass cabochons each set in a raised circular gold cell, alternating with four small square-shaped pieces of green glass set in raised square gold cells, at regular intervals. Overall, the piece is symmetrical, richly colored (gold, red, blue, and green), and highly ornate. This ornate brooch was found during the 2008-2009 excavations ahead of major renovation works at Grand Place in Quaregnon. The excavations uncovered a small Merovingian cemetery. The brooch comes from the tomb of a 7th-century female known as the ‘Lady of Quaregnon’. In addition to the brooch, her other items of jewellery included a necklace, bracelet, copper-alloy pins, and a pair of copper-alloy bow brooches.
Beautiful Merovingian brooch of the ‘Lady of Quaregnon’, AD 660-670.
Found during excavations ahead of construction works at the Grand Place, Quaregnon, Belgium, in 2008-2009. Gold, silver, copper-alloy, garnet, and glass. Diameter 5.6cm. 📷 by me
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Paladins and Sorcerers are some of my favorite classes, while Artificers are probably my least favorite class, heh.
I like the asetheritcs you designed for the Sorcerer. Incidentally, Spellfire has been an element of the Forgotten Realms I have been enthralled by since I learned about it as a kid.
This image is attributed to Allison Meier. Large, squat stairs in the style of brutalist architecture weave their railless way into an artificial crater with a geometric shape. Once the stairs reach the bottom, they create a lopsided pentagon. The walls of the crate are made of asymmetric stairs or small balconies that serve as waterfalls.
This photo is attributed to Dodd Melcher.
This image is by photographer Lopez Photography (IG: nlopezphotos).
This image is by Josh Bainbridge (IG: josh.bainbridge).
Fort Worth Water Gardens' centerpiece is the Active Pool, a series of cascading steps around spiral stairs.
In #writing or a #ttrpg, such a site can be a water deity's shrine or a Plane of Water gate.
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📷️: Allison Meier; Dodd Melcher; Lopez; & Josh Bainbridge
Interesting! I wonder how the people who live in Bard (the name of the town around the fort) have historical dealt with those hazards?
This image is by drone photographer Marco Spataro (IG: spataromarco). This is a drone image of a deep valley with sheer walls, stony cliffs touched by vegetation, that drop toward an aquamarine river. There is a sharp bend in the river, and from that bend stands a pronounced ridge. Upon the ridge is an expansive, multistory fortification. Part of the fortification works its way down a steep, rocky slope toward the river. The town of Bard presses against the border all around the fort and river. An arched bridge can be seen crossing the water, and a flat section near the river's shore holds many houses.
This image is by drone photographer Giuseppe Marolda (IG: bad.drones).
This photo is attributed to Hagai Agmon-Snir حچاي اچمون-سنير חגי אגמון-שניר on Wikimedia Commons.
Forte di Bard (Aosta Valley) rests upon a towering ridge rising from the Dora Baltea River. Great valley cliffs flank the bastion.
Restored in 2006, the citadel now functions as a museum.
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📷️: Marco Spataro; Giuseppe Marolda; & Hagai Agmon-Snir
Yeah, I enjoy looking through both his website and his Instagram page.
AN explorer visits the Crypta Neapolitana in Napoli, a tunnel more than 2,000 years old.
I imagine this is what it would be like to be an adventurer delving into ruins and caverns, an echoing journey through utter darkness.
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🎥: Tattooed Traveler
This image is by Max Rive (https://maxrivephotography.com/). The photo is taken from a creek winding down a mountainside. In the distance are the iconic bald peaks of the Dolomites. The clouds above are touched by the hues of twilight.
This image is by Max Rive (https://maxrivephotography.com/). In the foreground are purple wildflowers and grass. Between the foreground and the background is a meandering field of evergreens and tall grass touched by fog. And, in the background, are towering mountain peaks, sharp and jagged and barren.
This image is by Max Rive (https://maxrivephotography.com/). A creek weaves through a verdant meadow of bushes and well-spaced evergreens. Lavender flowers are in the foreground, and the background holds fog-shrouded mountains. The time is twilight, and the fog holds that rich lavender, like the flowers in the meadow.
This image is by Max Rive (https://maxrivephotography.com/). The photo is taken from a glade near a fallen tree, which is in the foreground. In the distance are the towering peaks of the Dolomites, cold and sharp against the blue sky. Threads of fog or clouds slowly drift around the high stone.
These multi-exposure and slow-exposure photos of the Dolomites (Italy) in summer seem like places out of a fairytale.
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📷️: Max Rive
This photo is attributed to Deck9 on Wikimedia Commons.
This image is attributed to Roel Sijpkes on Wikimedia Commons.
This image is attributed to Gebruiker on Wikimedia Commons.
Vesting Bourtange (Netherlands) is an iconic star fort completed in 1593. Now it functions as a museum.
Such forts, in a fantasy setting, could be shaped and designed with massive arcane glyphs in mind.
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📷️: Deck9; Roel Sijpkes; & Gebruiker
This image is credited to Patrick on Flickr.
This image is credited to Karyna Shashok on Wikimedia.
This image is credited to Patrick on Flickr.
This image is credited to Fred Romero on Flickr.
After Le Havre was razed in 1944 by Allied bombing, Saint Joseph’s Church was raised to honor the thousands of fallen civilians.
This towering edifice is a marvel of brutalist architecture.
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📷️: Patrick; Karyna Shashok; & Fred Romero
This image is credited to Ellie Green (IG: thegingerwanderlust). Atop a hill touched by snow are a series of dark-stone columns, each column is intricately decorated with writing and images. The columns are set in a square formation in sets of three with a bar across the top. Stairs lead up the hillside to the columns.
This image is credited to Tawatchai Prakobkit.
This image is by the travel photographer Emily Lush (Wander-Lush.org).
Atop Mount Kenisi (Gori Kenis) rise pillars of dark stone and bronze, each column inscribed with words and images telling and celebrating the history of Georgia.
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📷️: Ellie Green; Tawatchai Prakobkit; & Emily Lush
Yeah, a large battlefield memorial may keep the dead from rising.
This image is from travel photographer Emily Lush (https://wander-lush.org/visit-didgori-battle-memorial-georgia/). Monuments shaped as European and Middle-Eastern swords stand with tips dug into a hillside.
This image is from travel photographer Emily Lush (https://wander-lush.org/visit-didgori-battle-memorial-georgia/).
This image is from travel photographer Emily Lush (https://wander-lush.org/visit-didgori-battle-memorial-georgia/). At the top of a tall hill is a monument shaped as a big T. A symbol sits at the top of the T, and stone stairs lead up the hill to it. All along the hill's side are giant words stabbed into the earth.
This image is from travel photographer Emily Lush (https://wander-lush.org/visit-didgori-battle-memorial-georgia/). This is another structure that is part of the monument, which consists of several spread throughout the site of the famous battle. This monument looks like an open-air Roman amphitheatre.
Didgori Battle Memorial (Georgia) monumentalizes a decisive battle on August 12, 1121, in the Georgian-Seljuk war that led to the liberation of Georgia.
There are several monuments, but the hill of swords is the most famous.
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📷️: Emily Lush
From what I read, it was quite busy. There are a number of towns and villages surrounding it, such as Bamburgh village and Beadnell.
For 1500 years, forts have rested on the Bamburgh inselberg. The current one, Bamburgh Castle, was built in the 10th century.
Built on the Celtic fort Din Guarie, the spot was the capital of the Bernician Kingdom.
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🎥: Kaelin (IG: kaelinstravels)
This image is credited to Charlie B (IG: https://www.instagram.com/charliie.b/). An island of stone stands above a forest canopy, the green trees pushing it against it like waves. Atop the crag rests a squat tower of fitted stones with a crenelated top.
This image is credited to Charlie B (IG: https://www.instagram.com/charliie.b/). This is an aerial view of the tower atop the rocky crag.
This image is credited to Sergio Verrando.
On a rocky outcropping above the Argentina Valley (Italy) rests La Rocca di Andagna (the Fortress of Andagna), a lone tower built upon the ruins of an ancient Roman outpost.
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📷️: Charlie B & Sergio Verrando
Upon a ridge of stone more than 449 feet tall (137 meters) stands the Fortress of Mornas, watching over the Rhône Valley.
This 12th-century citadel rests on the foundations of forts more than a thousand years old.
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🎥: Hanna (Storyblocks)
The image is credited to travel photographer Rusty Glessner (https://pabucketlist.com/discovering-the-fountain-of-youth-near-pittsburgh/). Built of fitted stones into a hillside in a woodland reach is a cavernous tunnel leading into the dark (you can really fit a lot of prepositional elements into a single sentence, and it looks ugly. Remember to fix your writing). A frame of fitted stones rests within a woodland hill. Held within the frame is a dark, doorless tunnel leading into earth (this is a little better, as it removes several prepositional elements).
The image is credited to travel photographer Rusty Glessner (https://pabucketlist.com/discovering-the-fountain-of-youth-near-pittsburgh/). This is a slightly closer image of the first.
The image is credited to travel photographer Rusty Glessner (https://pabucketlist.com/discovering-the-fountain-of-youth-near-pittsburgh/). This image is of the tunnel inside the hill. It is mostly dry with much clutter an debris on the ground, such as fallen stones and sticks.
The image is credited to travel photographer Rusty Glessner (https://pabucketlist.com/discovering-the-fountain-of-youth-near-pittsburgh/). This is the large (relative to what the structure is), domed room where the spring rests, supposedly. The spring is now dry.
In the reaches of a Wexford (PA) forest waits a dark gate, a frame of fitted stones with a lightless mouth.
Engraved on a disc atop the door are the words “Fountain of Youth.” This Romanesque structure marks a natural spring.
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📷️: Rusty Glessner
This is a screenshot from NEPA Trains's YouTube channel, a group who explores and records abandoned railways. The images show winter in a mountainous region filled with evergreens. Twin train channels lead into a rockface. One tunnel is nearly closed off by large icicles.
This is a screenshot from NEPA Trains's YouTube channel. This is a closer image of the icicles covering the entrance to a train tunnel.
This is a screenshot from NEPA Trains's YouTube channel. This image is from inside one of the tunnels facing out toward the daylight. Inside are chunks of ice from the tunnel, which floods during certain times of the year.
This is a screenshot from NEPA Trains's YouTube channel.
Thousands of miles of abandoned rail tracks and tunnels weave across the United States. One such location, flooded, frozen, and forgotten, rests behind a veil of winter's ice (Wyoming County, Pennsylvania).
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📷️: NEPA Trains
The mist-woven forest at sunbreak, when the land rests beneath sheets of frost and fog.
Misty mountains and woodlands have, for me, been evocative of stories and adventure, that implication of pristine, unexplored reaches.
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🎥: Mads Peter Iversen
