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Rob Haines
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Creative writer, statistical programmer, photographer, pianist and unrepentant catdad.

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Microfiction, essays and visual art at https://robhainescreative.space

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A battlefield of ash and bone, before we stand - blessèd, god-touched, weeping - before Miquella's high throne

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An ashen battlefield atop the pale city. The ground is ash and bones, and a low stone railing obscured by mist gives way to an epic view of the black-and-gold Scadutree and its veils. The sky beyond is yellow cloud around the obscured sun, dipping into bruise-green as the cloud cover recedes. A spiralling tower of grey stone cuts vertically across the view, beside a small domed tower topped in red terracotta. An ashen battlefield atop the city, where a single shard of Grace shines from broken paving beneath a yellow sky. A broken stone railing topped with robed statues curves around to the right, to a vast throne of ash and bone, eroded stairs leading up to a cleft between two towers thronged with stone bodies hanging like ivy. The top of the towers is a crescent, throning the bright sun as it fails to fully pierce the cloud. Gille the Confessor stands before Miquella's throne, her sword and shield at the ready, and with Miquella's rune a crescent above her golden circlet. The two pillars of the throne loom against a dark yellow sky, the stone bodies that clamber up the stonework looking disturbingly like tortured souls so close up. The rising sun shines golden through the cleft at the heart of the throne, blazing down on her and casting bright godrays down over her shoulders. Deep below the cerulean coast, in a purple-drenched chamber we've visited before, Saint Trina lies dead on the floor. Her vivid purple hair flows outwards from her outstretched arm, and her purple robes stand like a poisonous flower in her wake. A glorious wisp of white and gold rises from her corpse.
November 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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This spotted owlet proved a little elusive for this month's #BirdWhisperer, but I finally committed art 😁
A small brown and white owlet with white spots and yellow eyes, sitting on a brown branch against a patch of pale-blue sky. Branches rise up in the foreground and background, and little bursts of green and pinkish-red foliage add colour.
November 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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To the heights of Enir-Ilim, where we prepare to go to war with a demigod

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A view across upper Enir-Ilim, where stalactite-like columns descend from the top-most layer above, and vast pillars with spiral carvings hold up the roof. The sky is filled with yellow clouds, and a stripe of greyish-green sky can be seen below. A ceremonial garden on the way up to the most sacred places in the city. An evenly-spaced row of golden trees grows along the left hand side, interspersed with statues of lions, and to the right, the path curves round to the foot of a long flight of stairs up to an octagonal domed building beneath the hanging pillars above. Beyond, the buildings grow ever-more magnificent, with heavy porticoes of grey stone and multi-tiered domes. A shard of Grace shining at the centre of a concentric circle mosaic, surrounded by arcs of light. The room is dim aside from a shaft of light coming from the left, and a purple wisp sits at the foot of a three-tiered grey stone altar at the far side of the room. The pillars in each corner of the room are carved in a diamond pattern, and low sets of stairs lead up into alcoves in each direction. A view of a large audience chamber from the entranceway. The floor is awash with grey ash, forming dunes beneath a single shaft of bright light from an oculus in the domed ceiling above; the dome is supported by a series of large spiralling pillars, each hung with spiralling curtains of grey cloth with gold trimmings.
November 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Through antechambers and shrines, ever upwards

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A large octagonal chamber in Enir-Ilim, with spiralling columns in each corner of the room, and a pair of golden-leaved trees flanking an archway leading to a wide set of stairs. There are concentric circle patterns inlaid into the floor, and a bright stone shines from atop a rumpled carpet in the centre of the room. The walls are decorated with hanging banners and storage shelves, and an altar-like structure with horned candlesticks and stone tablets carrying a single carved figure, as if a portable shrine. A peaceful octagonal chamber at the top of one of Enir-Ilim's towers. Each wall has three arched windows, and the sky beyond is filled with pink-orange clouds. The evening sunlight shines in gently from the left, drawing attention to the crisp concentric circles of the mosaiced floor. There are a few jars beside a staircase railing leading down, but otherwise the room is empty. A dark chamber shortly after sunset, filled with objects of ritual significance. The floor is decorated with concentric circles of mosaics, and a corpse with a flaming head sits crossed-legged on a ragged carpet, facing an altar covered with a faded cloth and lit by white candles. Behind the altar are two rows of carved effigies of venerated people, each carved to a different size and arrayed so the taller figures are most central in each group. There are ornate candlesticks and small metal arks, stone pillars topped with horned candelabra, and various finely-crafted jars and pots scattered around the altar. A wide spiral staircase of grey stone and thick spiralling columns, leading up past a pair of arched windows. The evening sun is shining through, painting the left-hand wall in glorious light. A golden sconce hangs from a fixing at the top of the current set of stairs, gleaming in the light, and the stairs continue round to the right.
November 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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The spiralling architecture of the highest city

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A golden cross-and-sickle shines from a circular mosaic at the centre of the room. Heavy spiralling pillars rise out of sight, and a wide spiral staircase runs around the edge of the room, ascending to arched windows high above. The city of Enir-Ilim hanging in a green-gold sky. The lower half is a row of buildings running beneath an ornate balustrade, and regularly-spaced pillars hang like stalactites from a dark roof far above. A curving stairway can be seen suspended in the background, held up by pillars which dissolve into stone carvings of human bodies at their lowest point. The red-tiled rooftops of the pale grey city, leading the eye towards the Scadutree in the distance. In the foreground, a cluster of stone carvings like misshapen bodies jut from a spiralling pillar, and fine white ash cakes the tiles just below. In the mid-ground, the sloping rooftops give way to other shapes, including a spire and an octagonal domed building. A rising facade of pale grey stone against a yellowed sky. There are so many different textures of stone: spiralled columns, archways with horn motifs, clusters of carved corpses erupting from the stonework, and larger, more abstract figures and winged creatures carved in smooth flowing motion. There are occasional pops of pale pink where the roof tiles show, though the larger patches are mostly covered in fine grey ash. To the left, the facade dips away to reveal a series of hanging pillars, like ornate stalactites.
November 24, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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At last to the steps of Enir-Ilim, where Kind Miquella reigns

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A cathedral of pale grey stone stands in shadow at the top of a wide stairway. Above, the ornate carvings of the building pale to insignificance beneath the spiralling city which shines overhead. There is a large tree with many thick branches up in the city, its trunk the same sun-drenched grey as the city itself, and its leaves a scattering of plae gold. A circular chamber, where a shard of Grace sits at the heart of concentric circles of mosaic, beneath a stylised statue of a pair of robed figures wrapped in a spiralling horn. Ceramic pots and candles scatter the floor, and a large spiral staircase with a balustrade leads around the edge of the room. Beyond the mosaic circles, a small arched doorway leads out into the city. The black-and-gold bulk of the Scadutree rises into a green-gold sky, above a large domed cathedral of pale stone. Golden foliage creeps in from the edges of the scene. A long flight of processional stairs leads downwards, to where a decorative tower of grey stone stands atop six spiralling pillars. Around the tower, spindly trees spread their golden foliage, and beyond, a domed cathedral sits on the skyline.
November 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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The rot at the heart of paradise

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A grove of red-leaved trees and equally red grasses, in front of a wide archway leading into a temple. A shard of Grace sits beneath the trees, and arcs of golden light sweep in from all around, leading towards the archway lit in glowing shades of sunset. A shard of Grace glows golden at the heart of the Temple of Rot. The floor is scattered with sickly pink growths, and the stone facade beyond is encrusted with coral-like masses. A large ceremonial archway is partially choked with grey-pink vines, and in the distance, a set of stairs leads upwards to a dais. A path between red-leaved trees towards a dais where a tangled mass of dead tree sits contorted before the shadowed city high above. Two ceremonial trees, mirroring each other in their twisted posture. In the foreground, a small dead tree atop a dais leans to the right, its trunk dark-grey and its branches increasingly spindly as they obscure the moon. In the background, far, far away, the vast Scadutree leans to the left, its black trunk suffused with semi-divine light even as it weeps gold.
November 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Divine trees, and cities that spiral to the heavens

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A view from a forest at night, up towards the tangled black-and-gold of the Scadutree and a vast crescent moon hanging in a dark sky. Beneath the moon, the Shadow Keep looms, and a rising cliff-line topped with tree silhouettes rises to the left. A daytime view of the twisted Scadutree, its branches crowned by diaphanous white veils stretching across the blue sky. A rent in the trunk weeps gold, and a slow rain of debris falls from its bark. Below, a clifftop forest shines green and gold in the morning sunshine. A view through a pointed grey-stone archway, past sunlit green trees towards a spiralling city of gleaming white stone in the sky above. A second arch to one side leads only to foliage, and a lit brazier on a stone pedestal stands between them. A view across paradise from within a cliffside alcove, looking down over lush green foliage, waterfalls, grey cliffs and ruined structures emerging from pale pink cloud. Rising above the forest is a majestic city of spirally white stone, bright in the morning light. In the foreground, an eagle looks out across the scene, unperturbed.
November 17, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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A paradise of long-lost ruins, overgrown and full of dangers

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A view from a high cliff towards a far horizon; above the sky is blue with wispy white clouds. below, low fog rises orange in the sunrise. A sweep of forested cliffs topped with ruined temples leads from bottom-left to mid-right where the sunlight casts them in shades of orange, and a city of spiralling shadows rises up the right-hand side. A low shot across a shallow lake on a ruined plateau. To the left and right, forested clifftops curve up to the upper corners, while in the space between, ruined arches frame the distant edifice of the Shadow Keep. The Scadutree leans overhead, weeping golden sap, and diaphanous veils hang heavy across the sky and the large moon beyond. Gille the Confessor urges her horse across an overgrown stone aqueduct - its hooves splashing in the narrow stream at its centre - towards a flaming golem at the far side. The ruins beyond are clothed in pink mist, beneath a city of spiralling shadows. A patch of burned paradise in a shallow grey lake; the ground is recently scorched, the rocks still glowing magma-orange from the heat. Beyong, arched ruins rise out of a pale mist, and in the distance the Shadow Keep towers above.
November 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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More glorious autumn colours for your day

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A dense patch of brilliant red-and-orange leaves with serrated fronds. Occasional thin branches emerge from the explosion of colours, and glimpses of shadowed blue and green lurk behind. Seven-lobed acer leaves shine glorious red in an autumn sunshine, dangling from spindly dark branches which rise up to the top of the image. The sky is pale blue and veined with out-of-focus branches high above. A grassy field in an arboretum, where tall trees cast diffuse shadows. The sky is white, and three small figures are playing football in the distance, caught in a golden sunbeam. A tree with white bark and vivid red leaves, caught in an autumn sunbeam. The ground beneath the tree is bright red, shifting to green grass behind.
November 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Went for an autumnal walk

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A cluster of tall trees with pale bark, reaching into an autumn sky. The leaves are green and gold against the sun, and the bottom of the image is awash with green and orange foliage from smaller trees. A forest floor covered in fallen leaves, lit by a bright sunbeam from the right. The leaves are variegated shades of orange and brown, and the surrounded foliage is green. A bifurcated tree trunk on the right casts a long shadow. A texture photo of fallen leaves, yellows and oranges and browns and the occasional peek of green grass showing through from beneath. A gnarled tree in the midst of a forest, partially lit by bright sun. The branches are awash with bright green moss, and the leaves high above are turning orange.
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Also tried a new approach at editing for contrast, on these photos of autumn leaves

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A dangling branch turned yellow and orange by the passing autumn, against a wispy backdrop of grey-green foliage. A thin branch bending under the weight of autumnal leaves in shades of yellow, orange and green. Thin veins lie dark beneath the surface of the leaves, and the background is a sea of deep green foliage. A thin horizontal branch, carrying a selection of drooping leaves in various autumnal shades, from warm yellows to deep greens. In the bottom-left another branch sits out of focus, and the background is deep greenish-grey speckled with grey sky.
November 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Edited a photo I took of the blood moon back at the beginning of October

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An orange full moon in a black sky. There are faint wisps of cloud in the dark, caught by the reflected moonlight. The moon's terrain is clear to see, and around the edges of the moon you can see mountains.
November 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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A turkey vulture painting for October's #BirdWhisperer
A turkey vulture, sitting on a grey-green tree branch. Its feathers are stylised in shades of pale brown, pink and purple, and its head is mottled magenta with a curved grey beak. In the foreground and background, a flush of bright green leaves are out of focus, framing the bottom-left of the image.
October 29, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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A hidden valley wends through the shadow of an ancient city of spirals

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A golden statue of Marika, headless and with arms outstretched, standing in a cleft between two cliffs above a field of golden grasses. A golden tree in a cave, surrounded by little gold flowers and two perfumiers in white hoods. In the foreground, grey rock walls rise up to either side, adorned with yellow-green foliage and tangled tree roots. A shaded valley of dark-grey grasses, pale-brown trees and spectral white gravestones. The valley curves to the left past fallen stone ruins, and in the top-left the sunlight catches a rising staircase leading up towards a shadowed city of spirals and towers in the sky above. A sunlit valley where a shallow lake wends around fallen stone ruins and unnaturally large red flower buds. Red petals float on the waters, and the trees around the water's edge glow autumnal in the sun.
October 22, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Jagged peaks, grand arches, and icy gaols beneath the earth

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A chamber within the mountain, lit golden by the setting sun. A path leads past a red flower and towards a triangular rent in the cliff wall. To both sides, jagged peaks rise within the chamber, mighty plates of rock somehow holding together as they ascend. A view down a valley of grey stone, where a vast natural arch holds up a causeway studded with grey-green pine trees. On a cliff to the right, a cross-and-sickle shines small and golden, and in the distance to the right, a spiralling city of shadows rises into the pink, yellow and grey clouds. A stream winds into blue mist, through piles of bones and corpses deep underground. Two sets of rounded pillars form a large archway either side of the water, and a large ceramic pot with spindly arms and short trunk-like legs stalks towards the camera through the shallow water. A view from a blue underground chamber, past many ceramic pots strung up with black iron chains, towards where a shaft of pale light enters through a wide hole far above. Where the shaft cuts through the air, ice crystals sparkle white, and curtains of long stalactites gleam pale blue.
October 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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A winding path through the blood-red blossoms of Charo's grave

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A long, winding path up grey cliffs topped with a carpet of red flowers and scattered pine trees. In the distance, a precipitous cliff towers over the landscape, and the air is heavy with burning red embers. A blue-grey lake, surrounded by bright red flowers and clusters of gravestones. Carved bird statues with spread wings perch on a number of grave markers, and a pale pink mist rises from the water, partially obscuring the cliffs which rise high above. A field of crimson flowers atop a grey plateau. A massive iron golem strides across the landscape, its body a flaming brazier. A ragged iron golem roars with flame in a field of red flowers. It is turned towards the camera, its face hidden by the inferno. Dark grey smoke billows up towards the thick clouds above.
October 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Braving the treacherous foothills of the Jagged Peak, beloved of dragon cultists

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Two eagles perch on a cliff-edge, before a rising mountainous landscape amidst greenish-gray mist and cloud. In the midground, a stony ridge with a natural arch passes above tall sunlit conifers, and in the distance, a distinctive jagged mountain peak rears up to the right, its slopes shattered into a thousand spears. A dimly-lit cavern with scattered cult statuary. White light streams in through a circular hole in the ceiling, ringed with stalactites, and an arched portal in the wall beyond is lit orange with firelight. The grey corpse of a vast dragon towers over a cliff-edge. Its jaw is wide, its dead eye unblinking, and a bowl-like crucible lies fallen beneath its chin. A single wing rises tattered against the red sky, and in the foreground a pair of eagles look out over a ruined grey-brick house. A path leading through a field of red flowers, past small grey statues towards a natural arch of jagged grey stone. The cliffs are lined with emaciated grey pine trees, and in the sky beyond the arch stands a colossal black tree threaded through with veins of gold
October 16, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Despite the fires of inquisition and the wrack of time, the embers of the flame of frenzy linger in this woodland manse

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The entrance-hall to a large stone manor house, full of ash and debris. Scattered pieces of wooden furniture are toppled amidst burned piles of books, and the air is heavy with ash. A wide arched tunnel - decorated with stone-carved pillars and archways - leads up a flight of stairs into the main hall of the house. A shard of grace sits on the crumpled carpet in a debris-filled main hall of a manor house. A spectral figure stands waiting amidst arcs of golden light which curve across the room above toppled tables and broken chairs. Archways lead to the left and right, and the back wall is decorated with fever-yellow banners. A ruined hallway in a stone manor house. The walls are lined with empty bookcases, their contents lying in piles of ash on the floor amidst shattered planks, decorative pots and wooden ladders. A few candles still burn amidst the ashes, and above the rafters stand bare exposing the chamber above. An upper chamber in a ruined manor house, where ragged yellow banners drape over tall shelves and stowed barrels. A spectral figure kneels amidst the ash and rubble, and the floorboards have been peeled away from the wooden rafters to reveal the room below. A pale white-skinned corpse dangles from the central rafter.
October 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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In woods veined with feverish yellow, heretics and abominations still hold sway

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A flooded woodland at the bottom of vast cliffs, where a shard of grace stands small against the ominous gloom. The pale fog is lit by distant light from far above, and on the shores of the shallow water stand heavily-weathered gravestones and stone coffins. A stone archway in a shattered wall leads deeper into the woods, where dark trees rise silhouetted and jagged into the mist. Three horned figures in yellow-brown robes and carrying branching torches patrol through a corrupted river in a dark forest. Veins of red-gold light threads through the riverbed, and yellow and orange flowers grow in clumps along the banks. Spindly trees reach upwards, silhouetted against a pale blue fog, and in the distance, a massive tree trunk stands partially obscured in the mist. A handful of grey-wooled sheep stand in a shallow lake, drinking from the dark-red water. The scene is dark, the only light coming from feverish-yellow veins running through the rock of the lakebed, and thin needle-like trees rise from the water towards the thundering waterfalls emerging from the cliff beyond. In the foreground, a flush of bright yellow flowers bring an unsettling light to the shore. A shambling humanoid figure robed in black stumbles through a shadowed stream veined with yellow light. Their head is monstrously swollen, shining fetid yellow light, and encased in a cage of black tendrils. Around them, the wood is dark and still, needle-like trees looming over patches of yellow and orange flowers and tall grasses turned orange-brown through their long deprivation.
October 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Sun-blessed finger-ruins and shaded shrines guarded by sleeping golems

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A sun-lit grove of tall finger-like rocks covered in fingerprint-like whorls. In the foreground, a single finger curves backwards to the right of the scene, and in its crevices gold lichen grows. Bright sunbeams fill the air, sneaking over a high clifftop to the top-right, and golden petals fill the air. The sky above is clouded, and in the distance the vast edifice of the Shadow Keep stands silhouetted. A shattered crater filled with large finger-like rocks, their surface whorled like fingerprints. The air is dense with mist and golden particles, and a jagged ridgeline of grey rocks pierces a pale-pink clouded sky above. A close-up of a cast-iron golem, dead and cold against a building. Its face is an iron mask with closed eyes, surrounded by horns which emanate like stylised sunbeams. The mask is attached to the top of a large mesh brazier made of twisted iron braids; around the rim, iron hands reach up and over the brazier's open mouth. A wildflower meadow within the monastery's decaying walls, where a path leads to a central sanctuary. Ceremonial stairs lead up to a shadowing archway, and a tower rises in three stages above. A large sheet of black cloth is draped over the top of the tower, and falls like a shroud below.
October 13, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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A hidden village offers a moment of sanctuary behind the warmth of ancient wards

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A decapitated statue of the goddess Marika in a darkened chapel. She's wearing a braided belt and a light dress which billows out behind her torso and gathers around her bare feet, and her arms are spread wide. Rows of wooden pews lead up to a podium of scripture and a pair of candelabra, while the rest of the chapel is lit by dangling chandeliers and a shaft of pale light from the right. In the immediate foreground, two heavy pillars of black stone frame the scene. A lush valley of rough grey cliffs and many-coloured wildflowers and pine trees. A shaft of sunlight shines from the right, past the ramparts of a castle at the edge of the scene, and further down the valley the colours wash out into pale mist, leaving only the silhouettes of trees reaching into the golden sky. A picturesque ruined village of low wood-and-stone houses, surrounded by lush trees and a carpet of wildflowers of pink and purple, blue and orange. Golden petals float on the breeze, and at the heart of the village stands a small sapling of gleaming gold, its light suffusing the ruins. In the foreground, the remains of a cobbled path and a pair of broken fences lead into the scene. A statue of Marika - with arms spread wide - kneels in a rough shrine in the V of a large tree. Orange, purple and white wildflowers grow in profusion around her knees, and thin branches grow down from above to wrap around her arms and obscure her face.
October 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Battlefields and altars amidst the Scadutree's roots

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A field of long grasses, pierced by long disc-topped pikes and distant pine trees. To the left, a gatehouse of grey stone guards a curving path towards a monolithic archway facing the Scadutree. To the right, the vast, twisted trunk of the Scadutree itself stands black-and-gold against a piercingly bright golden sky. A large crucible supported by a system of interlocked tree roots, beneath a pale golden sky speckled with dark particles. A field of dead sunflowers - their petals folded in on themselves - face towards the altar, and a cluster of wisp-like offerings are scattered at the base of the roots. A swamp of black and gold at the foot of the Scadutree. Acrid golden mud flows between dying patches of vegetation where long-dead sunflowers bend their necks, and thick trees contort into jagged, unearthly agony, their bark riven with the same golden sap coursing from the Scadutree above. At the heart of the swamp, a giant dead sunflower sits silhouetted in the pale mist. A shining shard of grace stands amidst a black-and-gold swamp, beneath curving silhouettes of corrupted trees, the swamp water below reflecting the black and gold of the Scadutree above. Arcs of golden particles sweep through the pale white mist, tracing patterns through the air.
October 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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The floodwaters recede, revealing the remnants of the Church District's once-fine architecture

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A flooded district within the walls of a castle of dark-grey stone. Dark buttresses emerge from the water beside the upper branches of silhouetted trees, and decorative spires adorned with what look like stone-carved bells rise into the sky. A sweep of pale grey veils soars above the castle walls. A deserted castle courtyard, still glistening with recently-drained floodwaters. Piles of fallen stonework and dead crabs cover the foreground; beyond, a pointed archway leads into a cloister, wreathed in pink fog, while the sky above is heavy with pink-cast veils. A view from within the dark castle walls, up past multiple levels of stonework to the gossamer-white veils sweeping across a grey-green clouded sky. In the immediate foreground, a shattered series of archways curves down to the right, where a tall church steeple stands. The curve is echoed by a heavy wall with ramparts and octagonal towers partially obscured by white fog in the midground, and beyond that the castle rises into layers of buttresses and high towers. An interior castle chamber, recently drained of floodwaters. The stone paving is still covered in a thin sheen of water, and debris and waterlogged furniture is scattered throughout. The chamber is dense with fog, and a succession of pointed archways - two wide, two narrow - lead the eye deeper into the structure.
October 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Through the cursed Bonny Village, to Manus Metyr Cathedral and the horrors that sleep beneath

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A pale blue-grey night time sky, with a large crescent moon over dark silhouettes of ceramic pots hung from rope strung between wooden poles. On the ground, larger pots sit on the grass, and in the background, a jagged peak pierces into the cloudless sky. An atmospheric cathedral, misty with blue light. A shard of Grace sits beside wooden pews and small metal cages in the bottom-right corner, and at the far end of the cathedral a series of open archways lead up to an ornate circular window. Chains dangle from the vaulting high above, carrying black iron cages. The altar-end of a cathedral, wreathed in blue-green mist. Instead of an altar, a serious-looking priest sits on a wooden throne; he has a golden hat and a golden ruff of feather-like fingers. The pews in the foreground are askew and surrounded by planks and other debris, and white candles mark the central aisle. An underground cavern, drenched in blue mist. An uneven winding path leads through a series of finger-like pillars to a shrine in the distance, lit with shafts of light from above. The shrine itself is three steepled fingers, and a finger-like bell dangles from where they meet.
October 7, 2025 at 8:08 AM