Ethran: Merelan Observatory

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Merelan is the capital of Blucene, and the largest city that has ever been built on Ethran. The city is built on an island that rises a thousand feet out of the sea, and which is joined to the mainland by a stretch of marsh known simply as "the Flats" The observatory itself stands between the cliff and the Temple of Rusaar, and is the only observatory in Ethran. Its significance in the story is as the home of one of the main protagonists, Eonat, who's grandfather Domar is the "Astronomer to the Court of Sayers".

This is how I got started on the ground floor of the observatory - a series of screen shots and renders done during the development of the plan, some of which have only ever been seen by Mark Oliva before, since most of these symbols and fills are from the soon to be released CSUAC and Bogie collections.

My thanks to all my Profantasy friends, particularly Mark Oliva, Ladiestorm, and Lorelei in the continuing development of this plan, which started as a humble kitchen without walls, and ended up becoming an entire building with all the fixtures and fittings, down to the drapes.

Progression:

This is the first tentative steps of a mapper who has never done a floor plan in her life!

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Mark helped me discover that I could do walls, even though I didn't have Dungeon Designer

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Then everything started to get a bit more serious, and the intention to finish the project that started as a test became real.

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It was about then that I discovered I had a scale problem - the building being relatively tiny in comparison to the size of the map as a whole. Here it is shown with a few sketch lines suggesting the final composition.

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Unfortunately there is something of a break in the proceedings here, since I don't seem to have very much in the way of pictures to show you between then and now, but the current version is shown in the following post (it being too big to upload here).