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Viking Mountain City

Added 2018-05-22 14:48:05 +0000 UTC

I started working on this Viking Fortress located in the mountains and things got a bit out of hand. (insert joke about the fact that the fortress is built inside massive stone hands) Next thing I knew I was working on this entire city.

To get the layout somewhat right, I am no expert at this, I drew a 3d model of the city by hand. (insert more hand jokes) What started as an idea to just draw a 2d fortress map, then became a 2d city map and is now slowly turning into this super complex drawing of a 3d map (the final version will both contain a 3d version drawing and 2 layout map of the city).

Now why?

I just really got exited about the idea of a city built inside these massive stone hands protruding from a mountain. I have always favored fantasy cities with a visual story to them, like cities inside mountains, at the edge of a waterfall or in a tree. For this city I immediately had some possible backstories coming to mind. One example could be that a powerful wizard wanted to destroy the city and summoned a stone giant to crush it, getting stopped at the last moment by a group of adventurers.