The pilot’s deck. Lukaud in their suyen form along with Vangeren, second in command.
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.
Lukaud meeting Yezukh’ay for the first time after rescuing them.Lukaud greeting Yezukh’ay at their in-vessel house years later.A view inside the Oben (Void Room).Zoomed in, showing Yezukh’ay and Lukaud about to enter one of the pools.Yezukh’ay, Lukaud, Lunark, and Tisi at the pool.
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.
This is an update to an earlier scene, with the current design for the suyen characters and some changes to the design of the vessel “Obmunjalae” that the characters are riding on. Yezukh’ay, the suyen making the jump in the middle, escaped their impoverished island by leaping into the Voidplane with some makeshift wing paddles and swimming over to the Obmunjalae as it was departing. When they grew up, they got into void leaping as a sporting activity. There are a number of onlookers: Bottom: Lukaud of the Lurin shapeshifters. The owner of the Obmunjalae vessel and Yezukh’ay’s caretaker. Right: Tisi of… an unnamed aquatic race of plane natives. An oddity, as very few significant bodies of water exist on the Voidplane. Far right: Kemadrel of the tanteru, and one of the three Council Lords of Sha Repart. Above: Tatyakori of the dragons, and another member of the Council Lords of Sha Repart. Left: The suyen Ontakh’in, the chonkier of the siblings that are employed as attendants of Tatyakori. Standing on Tatyakori’s head: The suyen Ibril, Ontakh’in’s sibling.
…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…
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.
There was an image of the Council Lords in the Sharpheart page from 2011 that desperately needed an update. Now that the 3D models of the trio have matured, I’m finally swapping that old one out.
