Pitched combat between lizards and custodians is uncommon, occuring when custodians' instructions are particularly strict or the lizards are particularly stubborn.
The goal isn't to destroy the custodian, only threaten it enough that it retreats.
Not the biggest city in the heartland, but one of the most influential: the Capital is where the Federal Family formed and where it stil resides. The Federal Compound-- an enormous, multi-tiered tower-- sits at its center.
The Federal Tower is supposed to look like a bunch of Family Towers Mashed together, because this is, more or less, what the Federal Family is.
Making the periodic "man, I'm really sorry I've been so inactive lately" post. I've been deep in the coronavirus depression hole, I've been busy with commissions and non-art responsibilities, and I'm preparing for my fall semester to begin (woo residential school during a global pandemic).
I have a big backlog of doodles which I will post over the next few days, hope to get back to my regular output, as well as some bigger finished illustrations, sometime soon.
They are.. a Nameless pirate captain who camps out one of the Stone Forest trade routes i wanna say their Family collapsed RIGHT after they had come of age, and they were never able to get Family membership again leading to disenfrachisment and a general resentment of Family culture... which is very much the heartland pirate stereotype
Patreon question for... someone. I don't remember who and seem to have lost the message. Sorry about that!
The crater wastes/ceramic desert are the barren, irradiated eastern region of The Shell. This area, once a dense knot of factories and industrial infrastructure, was the site of the first management engine tests.
It was a disaster (in the most tropey and predictable way possible), and the first generation management engines rebelled. The progenitor ...
A map of The Shell post-collapse "years of broken eggs"
The North pushes down, absorbing the upper tip of the Heartland, and coalescing into several "temple states."
The middle heartland sees the worst of the fighting, and eventually settles on a status quo of a bunch of little, independant city states. Many cities in the middle heartland have their hatcheries smashed and are destroyed for good.
The south tip of the heartland stays united. More of an actual republic ...
2020-07-17 16:58:30 +0000 UTCView Post
West "unaligned" is Family settlers, pirates, and small, independant communities. Sparsely populated, and, thanks to the pirates, light federal presense.
East "unaligned" is the Republic Valley. It's more rural and agragrian than anywhere else in The Shell, and culturally distinct from the Heartland, the North, or Duhr. However, they're more or less a tributary to the Family heartland, selling them agricultural products, and relying on their ...
2020-07-17 16:58:19 +0000 UTCView Post
Unwilling member of the heartland Federation, they pay nominal taxes in exchange for being left alone. They barely try hide their efforts to support sepratists and sow political discontent, but their ancient walls, massive guns, and battery of shield generators make them too much of a PITA to confront directly.
The crew of the Creeping Moss, a small airship operated by Family Deatat.
Hotha: quiet for a lizard. distant and can seem cold if you don't know them well. Knows more about guns and how to use them than the vast majority of Family lizards. keeps in contact with pirates to learn the latest about federal arms technology
Netel: tiny bastard goblin/engineer with a heart of gold.
Mata: wanted to be a navig...
2020-06-05 23:23:11 +0000 UTCView Post
The map to my older worldbuilding project, Outsider's Sky.
You'll notice lots of stuff that carries over to The Shell. I lifted names from this older map, and both worlds have anthromoprhic lizards, ancient ruins, airships, etc etc. They're definitely different projects though, just an earlier take on similar ideas.
