Located within the holy mountain of Elehura, the Serii Shrine contains an effigy of Pagol, a healer from ancient times and representative of divine grace for the gwil people. Tatyakori, the divine dragon and steward of the living world, stands upon the stage shaped as Pagol’s tail, appearing to be confronting the viewer. The four-pointed sun symbol as seen in the roof opening is the sigil of Tatyakori and what lies hidden deeper within the holy mountain.
Well, this site had been using the 2011 WordPress theme all this time. I decided to actually attempt to update it to the 2025 theme. One new feature is that images can be clicked on and they do a zoom effect instead of opening in a new tab.
Sparky looked at the yellow-toned robold and asked, “What’s with the paint job?”
He looked a little closer and growled, “and what’s with the boob job?!”
He spoke up to get the attention of the other robolds in the room, “All right, who’s been making unauthorized modifications here?”
The other robolds showed some concern and maybe a little fear.
In the back, a hand rose.
Sparky’s irritation instantly disappeared. “Oh, Elektra! This is the robold you were planning to make? All right, all right. Wow, you built them fast. I guess the creative spark captured you.”
Elektra nodded and walked up beside the new arrival. While giving their ‘bold a pat on the head, she replied, “I’m calling them Elektrobold, or Ellie for short.”
Ellie giggled, indicating they loved the name.
Elektra continued, “I wanted mine to reflect my feminine form more. For some reason I didn’t find the need to alter the hips…”
Sparky nervously answered, “Uhhhhh, that was to give them a lower center of gravity and room for more power storage. Also a bit of a reference to suyens…”
Elektra scoffed and disingenuously answered, “Sure thing, champ.”
…And now there’s something more substantial at the center of the social district. The hexagon contains a winding pathway downward to the center structure. Underneath that center structure are stairways that go all the way down to the Voidplane level, allowing access to what will probably be a mirrored structure on the reverse side of the island.
The center structure is based on the monument found in the Golden Pyramid.
Here’s the latest full view of the obverse side of Sha Rephart Island. On major change is that there is now a gap between the city wall and the core, with a railway circuit suspended in that opening. The Night District is also detached from the wall. The wall itself also has been altered, no longer having a second tier with a sloped roof. Instead the top of the wall is a large flat area with new hexagonal towers placed at corners.
The outer railway circuit is made up of two parallel trestles that stop at a number of stations as seen in the above picture. This one is placed at the entrance to the Night District.
There is an additional central railway loop that connects at the base of the Industrial Districts, climbs up to the fortress, then has a loop going through the center of the Social Districts as seen in the above picture. That central hexagon needs something added to it…
The night district is one of the newer additions to the island. It is laid out similarly to the Social District hexagons, but it is mirrored on the plane with a gap area between the center and outer buildings. You can see a vertically mirrored bridge on the left side of the picture. The district is so named because of the starfield projection and dark exterior lighting.
The projection is a more advanced design than previous ones, forming a dome instead of the hexagonal pyramids found over the other districts. This was done to reduce the amount of distortion seen in the sea of stars. Like the other projections, it darkens the view when looking in from the outside.
These suyen siblings landed jobs as attendants of the Council Lord Tatyakori (pictured in the background). They quickly became the dragon’s favorites and are the most likely to be seen beside Tatyakori at major events wearing their adorable uniforms. Eh, don’t tell them I said that. Ibril is the one on the right with the slimmer build.
And a bonus; Ontakh’in is hanging out with a new prerart here. Prerarts may become an additional race in Sharpheart and Elehura. Prerarts already exist in Agwilika Rhe, but in that story they are closely related to agwil, agwilikans, and akelikans and bear a close resemblance. In these other stories, they’ll have a more reptilian look to make them distinct from the other races.
This all started because I had placed a suyen and prerart model near each other and realized a suyen could feasibly ride a prerart if they existed in the same universe. In Elehura, a giant type called a pri-prerart may eventually exist, big enough for a human to ride. That relates to a very old concept for a character that accompanies the protagonist of that story and gives them a ride across the desert to the holy mountain Elehura.
In the very first drawing of Sha Rephart Island I made, the Golden Pyramid was off to the northwest and the Fountain Park was to the southeast next to the Night District. There wasn’t much on the northeast edge of the island, and I finally realized it would make more sense for these two locations to be placed together on that lacking side.
The service elevators provide alternate access to the upper floors apart from the two main elevator shafts nearer to the middle of the vessel. In the first picture above, you can see the service elevator shaft near the front of the oben.
So I decided to change the name of the vessel’s large open room, as a ‘hangar’ did not seem to be the right word for it. Its new name is a gwil word that is a contraction of ob-ben, a room of large open space, much like ob-mun is the gwil term for a flat plane of large open space.
Here are the service elevators on the fifth floor. Due to the shape of the vessel’s shell, the shaft from the oben to this floor could not continue directly to the sixth floor. Instead, there is a second short elevator shaft between the floors, with that shaft’s door pictured on the left. The door off to the left in the back of the hallway is for the shaft down. The golden piece attached to the back wall is a “bonk bar”, to prevent people from hitting their head on the curve of the vessel’s shell in that spot.
Here is the elevator on the sixth floor, with the elevator car at this location. The square in the wall on the right is an access panel to some elevator hardware.
