Performed some work on Sha Rephart’s Beach Island. On the obverse side, I added two diving pools with rock sculptures that act as the jump off point.
The reverse side of the island was basically empty and I finally got around to filling it out. Instead of the sandy beach, this side has a meandering river, a central pool, and a large rock with three waterfalls coming out of it. There are still a number of amenities to figure out, such at what goes in the gray circular sections.
Sha Rephart’s central island is surrounded by the Reef, an area of smaller islands serviced by a passenger rail line. The rail line creates a loop around the island as well as having two spurs that connect to the central island at the Guidestone Stations. This necessitated gates to be constructed so Voidplane vessels could cross the rail line and enter the space between the Reef and the central island. At the west and east ends are the Reef Gates, capable of opening up wide enough for the Obmunjalae and other larger vehicles to pass through.
On the north and south spurs to the main island are smaller, less impressive rail gates to allow smaller craft to cross to the opposite ends.
Here is a map of the current layout of Sha Rephart including the rail lines and the boundary of the Reef. Although there aren’t actual Reef islands built out yet…
At the north and south corners of Sha Rephart Island are the Guidestone Stations. Each has a guidestone installed, which is used for navigation on the Voidplane which has no celestial or magnetic systems available to use. Guidestones are crystals where shards removed from the main body are constantly pulled towards the base, meaning they can be used to point to their origin guidestone.
Around the guidestone is a passenger railway station that feeds out to The Reef, the surrounding smaller islands of Sha Rephart.
On the south end close to the station is Grepir’s View Balloon Park, shown in the lower left corner of the image. This place features balloons that take passengers straight up to get a great view of the island, usually accompanied by a meal. I’ll probably expand the park to include other amenities later.
I finished assigning every room of the 5th floor faster than I thought. There are a lot of similar rooms on floors 5 and 6. The rooms starting from the lower left are:
Fore deck with covered section
Laundry room
Service elevators on the sides
Passenger storage room
Medical room
Gathering/recreation room
Central stairs
Showers
Restrooms
Main elevators
Dining Room
Kitchens on the sides
The rooms on the sides are 22 passenger rooms, each including a balcony. Due to the shape of the vessel, the rooms on this floor are larger than those on the 6th floor.
I finished assigning every room of the 6th floor to a function and made this isometric view of the floor. The rooms starting from the lower left are:
Pilot’s deck
Suyen house
Service elevators on the sides
Lukaud’s private room
Gathering/recreation room
Central stairs
Showers
Restrooms
Main elevators
Drink lounge
The rooms on the sides are 22 passenger rooms, each including a balcony.
There are a few more rooms to plan out on the 5th floor, and then it will probably be getting the same treatment.
The Obmunjalae has four kitchens, two for each dining area. Each kitchen has three cooking ranges with a nearby preparation table and waste bin for each station. There are two more prep tables in the other part of the room for non-cooked items. There is also a dumbwaiter against the wall that connects to a cold storage room on the floor below.
The kitchen staff utilizes magically summoned cooking utensils in lieu of having permanent ones. The stands in front of each prep table hold token books with “recipe tokens” which are used to summon the instructions and needed tools to create a dish. The staff can prepare, cook, and serve the food, then afterwards simply dispel the magically generated items. No cleaning necessary!
The image above includes Yoseka, the kitchen master of the Obmunjalae. Yezukh’ay is delivering an egg to prepare a dessert.
Another view of the kitchen to show the back area with the additional prep tables.
The latest addition to the Obmunjalae: stairs that run from the base deck of the oben all the way up to the center of the pri-ben. These provide vertical traversal in case of an emergency, or an alternate path through the seven floors for those who seek a bit of exercise.
In the oben, the stairs have a utilitarian design that snakes up from the sides to the fourth floor catwalks. Just above the large ceiling logo, the base of the fancier stairwell for the upper floors begins.
That stairwell then reaches up to the middle of the pri-ben.
This leaves the 2nd and 3rd floors as areas that can only be accessed via elevators. Space is a bit tighter in that section, so any stairway spot will have to be carefully planned out.
The above scene is during the Obmunjalae’s periodic visit to an island of suyens. Lukaud just dropped off supplies and they’re taking off, but the the two noticed a suyen making an escape off the island towards the vessel. Lukaud is subtly pushing the throttle back.
For now, Vangeren is using the model for Miryin from Shehsai the Purifier.
I’ve recently revisited the written story of Yezukh’ay, and that inspired me to stage some scenes from the story and make some other various updates to the vessel.
The Obmunjalae (“Voidplane Master” in the gwil language) is the largest and most luxurious vessel on the Voidplane. The vessel is owned by the shapeshifting lurin named Lukaud. They are one of the few people that can safely navigate over long distances and visit different nations across the plane.
The miniature universe of the Voidplane has a gravitational effect that moves things towards a flat plane from both directions. Essentially, if you fall through the plane, gravity will suddenly reverse on you. It also means that symmetrical designs can be made where one side is the “upside-down” mirror of the other. The Obmunjalae is one such design.
Lukaud also manages smaller craft that can be parked in the oben (large open space in the center of the Obmunjalae) which can be seen in the lower right. One is a customized Voidskimmer from the nation of Sha Rephart, and the other is Lukaud’s personal mini craft.
A path into the holy mountain Elehura leads to this strange monochromatic place. It is home to the divine dragon Tatyakori, and according to them, this place is also the source of the water that covers the living world. In the deep past, Tatyakori found their way from a dry planet of rock and dust into the Unliving Place. They awoken something within the triangular tower at the center, causing water to begin pouring from various fountains. Over millions of years, this river’s output transformed the world outside into a vibrant living one.
The material that the Unliving Place is composed of is naturally indestructible, requiring powerful magic to quarry and reshape. The difficulty did not deter the dragon’s creative spirit, and over time they made alterations in the Unliving Place to record various events and ideas.
Two major additions are memorials to the events of Sheshai the Purifier (seen in the previous post) and of the ancient individuals Pagol of the gwil and Muchi of the pritar. The picture above is of that latter memorial. The bridge represents the crucial alliance that formed between the gwil and pritar people, which started with these two individuals. The two were also early masters of healing and elemental magic.