#fantasy rocks

[yaraef]

More preproduction work from my thesis film titled "A Snake Called Perseus." (I love stippling!)

[corvarrow]

Now for a minerally-type worldbuilding post! There is this type of material with two different names depending on what era we're talking about. In Ancient times it's called "Godsblood", its related to granite and is very strong material used for buildings, statues, etc. It has a pattern similar to marble, and the overall color ranges from smoky gray, to green-gray, to a deep, saturated green. There are also two variations - a "normal" type and one with unusual swirling veins intruding through the normal pattern. This vein shines a rust or reddish color when the light hits it, and singular swirls are also very large ~ averaging several feet across.

What is notable about this is where it comes from - Due to the nature of The Beacon being primarily underground, Aki has to constantly mine himself out to make more room to build stuff. One of the materials getting mined out is Godsblood - for the most part it is the normal variant but a certain percentage of it has the swirls. The material is desirable - for the most part it goes right back into The Beacon’s buildings but Aki does allow some of it to be sold off with the funds going into the city's treasury for public works, etc. Outside of the Beacon, the swirl variant is most commonly used in temples, shrines, and art/sculpture.

I have attempted to edit some stock photos from pexels so you have an idea of what's going on (The scale of the veined pieces should actually be even bigger but. you get the idea)

In modern day this same material is called "Ironeyes" and the name is exclusively referring to the variant with the swirls. It's pretty rare, some specimens are in museums and such but the majority are in private collections or in the black market. Nobody can figure out where it actually came from and they probably won't ever, because what they have is what was shifted over from the plane split. The Beacon doesn't exist in current Reality, they'd only find the normal variant in the same location.

Now, back to Ancient times, a similar phenomenon does occur at the other cities, but with different materials and not at this scale. For example, Haven has a ton of trees growing on and around it. If you were to split them you would see some unusual patterns in the wood and some trees would also have similar looking veins running through them. However, Kanta prefers sourcing wood elsewhere instead of logging their own trees, so you don't see as much of that.

[behemotharts]

Drawtober: 21st October 2025 - Climb the Steps

[behemotharts]

Drawtober: 21st October 2025 - Climb the Steps

[songofsoulssoulbound]

Fantasy is the best!