A screenshot of a blocked off staircase in Stone Vigil leading to an archway under a large spire. Rime and soot color the drab stone walls of the abandoned fortifications while snow falls from a dull blue sky.

A screenshot of a similar staircase elsewhere in the ruined Vigil with Ishgards banners fluttering have charred and frozen stubbornly after the occupants had all fled or been ravaged by dragons. This archway is unobstructed leading further into the structure.

From rampart high above, the image an atrium like space in Stone Vigil, two draw bridges are lowered down into a central area. Snow blankets much of the space.

An aerial view of the Dravanian ravaged structure, Tall dark spires and defiant walls layered in snow and stand even after years of neglect at the mercy of the never-ending winter.

#Knightsorceress // #TOTSSlore // #Gpose // #Gposers #Jarrahlore #Uhurolore Was pocking around out of bounds in Stone Vigil. Might repurpose this location as a stand in for the prison where Jarrah and Huru where held in.

#TOTsslore So. I did a quick and nasty redo of the ocean currents because it kept nagging at me why my currents produced weird results unlike earth (aside from the coastlines clearly deviating enough from earth to make weird anomalies) It turns out, I had the ocean currents too perfect

#TOTsslore Y'all I am not going to lie I got vibe checked thrice by my mouse, so I'll post this now and just explain in *riveting detail* all the cool little revelations I found later when the joy and manic whimsy returns ☠️

#TOTSSlore minor touch ups and tweaks to Tural and Hingashi.

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I forgot to share these screenshots, the first two are from a photo set I made last year for a experimental scene of Ryne and Gaia passing through an interdimensional tear to the Source from Lakeland. Will I show their updated designs? Soon...

#TOTSSlore Okay Mor Dhona, so I'll start this with some visuals to help articulate the layout since that plays a big role in it's vibes. But also clarify other aspects of it I didn't realize would also need to be covered. Also this is going to be a big ramble fest so I hope that's cool.

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It's highly based on skill,access to knowledge and techniques which are tied to socioeconomic privilege. Artificial scarcity and the restriction of certain magics that would otherwise benefit the common man is a narrative plot point and reoccurring issue in my au.

#TOTSSlore I have a bone to pick with northern Ilsabard, how hardly any of it crosses 60th parallel north. I had an idea for central and eastern Ilsabard since I'm taking time to examine hyper-continentality (that is a mouthful omg) and how steppe/semi-arid climates above the 30th parallels where

An early attempt of a basic migration map of populations traveling through and across Tural, and the three great continents over the span of several thousand years.

A migration chart depicting populations from Meracydia dispersing across the equatorial ocean from Meracydia to Tural, Aldenard, Ilsabard and Othard across 3 calamities. each element and its corresponding color are represented in a white key box in the upper right corner.

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Okay so here is the old version of the diaspora map and the version I just made like a few minutes ago. Lots of things are still undefined like where certain peoples where during Allag's conquest but I do have an idea of where peoples aside from those that worshipped the Triad where.

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Do I have any oceanographers or meteorologist/climatologist amongst my oomfies, I've run into three junctures so to speak where ocean currents snake their way between the widening rifts between continents and I'm unsure if they'd create micro gyres or 1/3

#TOTSSlore Guess whos back on her cartographic bs.

I scrapped Meracydia's old design along with Yok Turals, I wasn't vibing with their shapes or mountain chains at all. While making this new version, I made an observation. The new layout is giving Gondwana and Laurasia lowkey and that makes me :3

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Generally my default is a 5 and depending on the continuity restrictions I work within and my level of investment it can easily creep up towards a 8-10 with the right amount of inspiration.

I prefer to expand/twist canon worldbuilding then completely throw out pre-existing canon ideas

A screenshot of a tweaked alternate version of the northern Emtpy with the Sharlayan Archepelgio moved closer north east towards Aerslaent and it's islands, which are also moved further north east above western Ilsabard. Alsatia's shore hugging islands are have been repositioned.

Northern Xak Tural with smaller mountain chains and elevation depicted as thin arcing areas of brown in the otherwise green northern planes of the continent

Small mountains flank either side of the largest river in Xak Tural

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I've played with the idea of Sharlayan and Aerslaent having a curious sorted history with each other And Alsatia so I brought them closer and pushed them north east.

And small tweaks to Xak Tural, added some smaller mountains in it's interior to the northern and southern regions.

a photoshoped work in progress reinterpretation of the Source and it's reflections/shards arranged in a ring of 14 circles, each reflection represented by a circle with the corresponding color of the elemental catastrophe that completely or nearly lead to it's rejoining. The newer additions are overlayed the original semi-symbolic arrangement of the shards meant to capture their number and relatively placement from the source but not the truer and more complex nature each world abiding within the same location spatially. Each shard is additionally encircled by larger blank circles, all of which are encircled by a much larger ring housing all the shards. Each reflections outer circle also brushes up against a much larger circle at the center of the ring, this deep blue circle houses yet another large circle of an even deeper shade of blue.

An image of the surviving shards and the source represented as circles along a white circle, like beads on a bracelet. Five of the circles are blue indicating their relative aetheric balance the two closest to the central circle representing the source, is a dark almost inky dark indigo color corresponding to the thirteenth reflection while the First reflection is a pale yellow.

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Earlier's discussion about the shards motivated me to share this early wip of some changes to the cosmology of the Source and it's reflections for the sundered stars au, drawing from FF11 and FF12/Tactics lore there are additional realms aside form the shards

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I had a really nice lore thread but you can guess what happened before I could click post. SO your getting this cool gif of the Etheirys/Hydaelyn and I am going to copy past this text I thankfully had in my clipboard so I can go to bed not feeling like a complete fool.

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South of midnight might be my personal game of the year, flaws and all. I needed a game like that.

It's not perfect, and I'm curious how folks who practice hoodoo feel about it. For me it served as inspiration on some concepts I had already worked into my ocs stories-

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There are two moons in the Sundered Stars au, the largest one is a rogue moon that drifted through the starry dark of the great expanse for millennia before falling into orbit around Etheirys early in its history.

The smaller moon is the same one we visit in EW but greatly changed.

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As an act of radical reclamation and an attempt to appreciate, analyze, critique and play with the themes and concepts depicted in the story I have made virtually all the main cast and some side characters my oc's to some extent or another.

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I forgot some tags :c

A speculative arrangements of bright red abstract shapes taken from Exodus the Judge-Sal's sigil that vaguely resemble a tree or flower like plant meant to depict what may be Halmarut the Sower's symbol.

A speculative arrangements of bright red abstract shapes taken from Ultima the High Seraphs sigil that vaguely resemble the High Seraph herself, this red symbol is meant to depict what may be Altima the Composers symbol.

A speculative arrangements of bright red abstract shapes taken from Zeromus the Condemner's sigil that vaguely resemble a knights helm to depict what may be Pashtarot the Arbiters symbol.

A speculative arrangements of bright red abstract shapes taken from Famfrit the Darkening Clouds sigil that vaguely resembles a mask suspended by chains, meant ti depict what may be Emmeroloth the Menders symbol.

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I am on a serious Ivalice Scions of Light and Darkness/Convocation of fourteen/Ascian kick right now.

Made ascian/convocation symbols for the unseen ascians for this au . Deudalaphon's is proving hardest to make so I'll post that later.