• The Ayra Katrin

    The Ayra Katrin organization is the prestigious home of the best scholars, engineers, sorcerers, and enchanters of the Seven-Star Nation.

    Katrin lived during “Mosereka”, the Time of the Five Races, which took place before the First War. He became deeply interested in the hidden powers possessed by the Naryyd and Agwil known as Kaera. After much study and practice, he developed his own Kaera abilities. Others flocked to him and became his pupils. Those that he taught were called “che ayra se katrin”, the Followers of Katrin.
    Not only did Katrin pioneer the Agwilikan and Akelikan use of Kaera, he also was the primary discoverer of enchantment, a method of imbuing objects with latent Kaera power. He was also an avid scholar and was a major contributor to the development of the Kaera-assisted printing press and libraries.
    The Naryyd and the Kylal decided to create an official entity based around Katrin and his followers. It was named the “Ayra Katrin”. This organization was involved in, among other things, training and managing Kaera users, overseeing enchantment trades, printing and archiving important historical documents and other literary works, maintaining central libraries, and assisting in major public works projects.
    When war broke out, Katrin was expected to go into battle. He was the most powerful user of Kaera by a large margin, and many thought he would rain devastation on the invading forces. However, he refused participate in battle, insisting that he stay at his home at the Ayra Katrin Library of Cressacapera. He continued to teach and train others and enchant weapons for the war until his death.

    The image above is the sigil of the Ayra Katrin. This particular picture has marks showing how the symbol is constructed.

  • Agwilcress Residential Block

    Originally made for housing military families, the Residential Block now offers the largest amount of living space in Agwilcress. The Block is located just East of the “head” and “neck” of the city’s design. You can see the Grand Pool beach, which takes up the “head”,  in the upper left corner of the picture. Due to their army origin, most buildings in the Block share the same floor plan and arranged in neat rows.

  • Lucan Hill Theater

    This open-air venue is built into a hill located on the inner east “wing” of Agwilcress.

    The theater and surrounding hill is named after Lucan Metril, the Ayra Katrin engineer that was in charge of converting Agwilcress from a military base to the nation’s capital.

    Two Prerart statues adorn the building, representing the siblings Buridamer and Kemidamer. They are famous for writing music and singing, respectively, during the Second War.

  • The Demon King of Paradise

    The primary antagonist of “Elehura”. He’s been around for a while, so it’s about time to put him back up on the website. Recently I added the more decorative wings and fancier dragon symbol on his mask. The four-pointed sun symbol on his chest is the insignia for Paradise and the ancient Mudrahal Empire. The black, white, and gray eye symbols on the wings are the Demon King’s personal symbol.

    For reference, here’s an older version of the Demon King:

  • Kylal Palace Bath

    (Previous picture posted here)

    The most apparent improvement to the bath is the new faucet console, with a far more detailed brass dragon’s head. The lower jaw is designed to open and let water out. There were also four faucets on the last version, but I decided that was excessive so simplified to one. The brass opening below the faucet is the drain and also houses an automatic shut-off mechanism.

    The two rooms in the back are showers, with two identical rooms to their right. The door on the left is the toilet. The arched opening behind the bench leads to an exit going out to a courtyard. The hexagonal objects attached to the walls are lights (hmm… I think they need some material work to make them appear more light-like).

  • Agwilikan Alphabet

    The alphabet used by the Agwilikans in Agwilika Rhe. The gray letters are from the first version I made, and the recently updated version printed in black below. The changes were mainly made to reduce the amount of similarity between some letters.

  • Kylal Palace

    Recent updates to the front and Ceremony Hall of the Kylal Palace. Both pictures show how it’s changed, with an older version on the left side of the picture and the newest on the right.

  • Ayra Katrin Library

    Note the significant change to the side window design, a more complex curved surface instead of a half-circle. Below those are alcoves with designs – there might be varied designs in the future instead of the same one four times. The buttresses on the sides are new as well, with a fancier curved design. The three-star at the top of the tower is now made of glass with backlighting. The circular window in the middle now has support beams running through it.

  • Fanciful Bridge

    The Fanciful Bridge, named as such because it’s a scale model for a bigger bridge that spans a much larger river.

  • Tail Hill Complex

    Tail Hill Complex

    I’ve been working on the Ayra Katrin Library an awful lot, so I decided to switch work to a nearby location. Dominating the terraced hill leading up to the library is the Tail Hill Complex. It is primarily made up of the two office-type buildings up front and numerous large underground rooms that could be storehouses or workshops. There’s also an ‘underground’ courtyard. The square opening located between the sets of stairs is the top of that courtyard.

    The tower between the complex and the library (it’s poorly lit in this picture) contains an elevator for transporting materials to the library (or people who want to skip all of that stair climbing). It’s accessible from ground-level through a hallway going through the underground courtyard.

    The construction of the complex and the library was a bit unusual. They didn’t dig into the hill to create the underground areas, they built up the hill around them and buried them. The material for the landscape you see was shipped in from the excavations of other projects.

    Eventually I need to get some different textures for the ground. The climate is supposed to be somewhat arid and there shouldn’t be lush green lawn grass growing everywhere unless they really like wasting water…