Re: The walls of Sartar (and gates of Boldhome)

From: Light Castle <light_castle_at_...>
Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 20:51:40 -0400

I've got no outside knowledge to work from, but I'm a firm believer that a wall raised truly by earth magic should not in any way look like worked stone. I'd go for smooth stone, but I'd think about the fact there's no reason for it to be featureless. After all, it was raised by magic. So while it should have no bricks, stones, mortar, and cuts, it could well have faces, mythological stories in bas-relief (or jutting out) all along the surface.

>From an artist point of view, you could always make it have all the defensive features
one would expect on a wall, but seamless and fluid in style.

Just a thought.
LC

On 10 May 2004 at 3:05, Mikko Rintasaari wrote:

>
> The desctiption in the Dragon Pass gazetteer talks of magically raised
> stone walls 20 foot high.
>
> I had originally envisioned magically erected earth works, but now I
> started thinking of the spesifics according to Dragon Pass (parhaps I
> can get my artist to do a proper picture).
>
> Magically raised stone wall propably wouldn't look like any regular sort
> of wall made of blocks of stone. Propably more like stone that has
> grown or been drawn straight from the earth. (Startar was a great
> magician, of change and movement, afterall and had learned much about
> stone from the Mostali.)
>
> So now I'm wondering are the city walls like earthworks, only made from
> smooth stone, or are they supposed to look more like regular city walls?
>
> The description of gate-towers is remeniscent of the towers at the New
> Pavis gates (apologies to those here who haven't seen the old Pavis
> supplements), with a tall and a short one at each gate. Is this what is
> to be seen at the gates of Boldhome as well?
>
> -Adept