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Katolis Castle Keep

I just wanted to get this image really quick for later map reference.

Katolis Castle is actually a really, really well-defended location. On an island, surrounded by a moat, only one bridge in or out. Not just one but two sets of walls. We can see they've got the main courtyard where Soren and Callum are shown training, but we've also got a really big garden between the inner and outer walls. There's also plenty of outcroppings where you can see what must be different craftspeople and laborers, where they elive and work. There's also the square out by the bridge with the Fancy Courtyard, which is smaller, but also much more heavily walled in. The vantage point there is much higher and more defensible than the stairs in the main courtyard further inside the Keep. It's just really neat construction and I appreciate that the artist kept in mind that a medieval Keep like this would likely have almost, if not all, of the basic crafts and production needed for a fully functioning town within the walls. Part of its purpose would be to have a place where the surrounding settlement could retreat for safety in case of a siege, after all, and while Katolis Keep is probably a little small for that, it likely wasn't at the time it was built.

#the dragon prince #tdp meta #tdp thoughts #katolis #katolis castle #maps of xadia

WIP of Katolis Castle

T-posing Callum for scale

#I was just blocking it out and then started detailing rip #the dragon prince #tdp #tdp callum #katolis #katolis castle #Dayah makes #wip

Maybe with all the craziness that was this season nobody else is thinking about this but like the castle Burned Down. All of Callum’s sketchbooks full of drawings and memories of his mother and family are gone. All of Ezran’s childhood toys are gone. The wall with portraits of the royal family going back generations is gone. The home where Soren, Callum, and Ezran grew up has been burned down. The place where Harrow and Sarai fell in love. The place Ezran was born. The bedroom Callum and Ezran shared throughout their childhoods. The rooms they’ve probably had a million meals in. The gardens they’ve probably spent hours playing in. The last few belongings they had of their dead parents. The hallway where they met Rayla.

Houses may just be buildings. But homes are keepers and founders of thousands of memories and feelings and nostalgia and sentimentality and so much attachment. I was praying that a side character wouldn’t die this season, like Aanya or Corvus, but this is just as bad. Because the Castle is BURNED DOWN. GONE. DESTROYED.

It’s devastating. Loosing your home like that must be utterly devastating. Everything has been lost.

And I cannot stop thinking about all of those sketchbooks that have been filled with millions and millions of Callum’s memories and drawings over years and years of hard work, creativity, and love. Drawings of Ezran growing up. Drawing of his mom and both his dads. Drawings of Bait. Drawings of Rayla. All lost to violence and destruction.

#tdp s6 spoilers #im going to cry so hard once it actually fully hits me #katolis castle

Brittle - a Narrative of Strength theory

We've all seen the explosion in the S6 trailer by now. Something very big is going BOOM.

And I think I know what it is.

See the ledge in the foreground of the above image? See the ridges on the green hills in the distance? We've seen this before.

I think this is the same ledge that Rayla sat on when she tried to cut off her binding ribbon back in S1.

Remember what she could see from that vantage point, in the distance?

In this recent theory post, I compared the Cosmic Order to King Harrow's Narrative of Strength - two versions of the same concept. And ages ago I had fun creating the theory that Harrow's Narrative of Strength is represented by his castle (Banther Lodge = Narrative of Love).

Lads, I've been thinking about Katolis Castle getting destroyed for five years.