#subterranean

[arc-hus]

Gallery House, Leiria, Portugal - Aires Mateus

#Aires Mateus #architecture #design #building #modern architecture #interiors #house #minimal #house design #contemporary #timber flooring #light #render #subterranean #courtyard #stairs #cool homes #beautiful design #portugal #white walls

[ascene]

2.4.13

#pete wentz #2013 #subterranean

[thesilicontribesman]

Chesters Roman Fort Strong Room, Chesters Roman Fort, Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland

#roman #roman army #roman fort #roman living #roman soldiers #roman empire #roman building #roman strong room #archaeology #ancient living #hadrian's wall #Northumberland #subterranean #strong room #stonework #landscape

[bewilderbark]

day 28 - Anniversary 

happy anniversary to my favorite video game ever . play rain world (vanilla)

#rain world #rain world fanart #rain world art month #rwartmonth #slugcat #lineless #mural #looks to the moon #five pebbles #guardian #vulture #void sea #farm arrays #subterranean #shoreline #sky islands #miros bird #wild draws #wild draws rain world

[nemfrog]

Volcano, above and below. Science Today and Tomorrow: Discovering with Science. 1954.

Internet Archive

#textbook illustration #magma #volcanism #volcano #geology #volcanic eruption #nemfrog #1954 #1950s #subterranean

[ongomato]

Sun says hello.

#rain world #rainworld #subterranean #rain world art month 2021 #slugcat #trains #digital art

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Falmer Mount

Concept art for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Art by Adam Adamowicz

#adam adamowicz #art #the elder scrolls #concept art #tes #skyrim #falmer #snow elf #snow elves #chaurus #mount #creature design #monster design #subterranean

[ancientorigins]

What secrets and underground legacies lie beneath the ground? From the architectural wonders of the Basilica Cistern to Chavín de Huántar's ancient chambers, these subterranean structures are a tapestry of ancient mysteries.

#underground #subterranean #cistern #hypogeum #Derinkuyu #Cappadocia #grotto #tunnels #cave #ancient #history #ancient origins

[nobeerreviews]

The further you descend into a pit, the darker things appear. You can't keep digging to find the light.

-- Richelle E. Goodrich

(the catacombs of Paris)

#darkness #catacombs #descent #underground #subterranean #richelle e. goodrich #travel photography #paris #france #quote #searching for the light

[tempelbeast]

More Dark Hunter revamps. This time we have: Amphibax, Hordika Dragons, Subterranean, Prototype, Poison, Silence and Airwatcher.

Note I only have Hordika Vakamas head in Studio and I tried to remake Prototypes gear function.

#bionicle #dark hunters #moc #Hordika Dragons #Subterranean #Prototype #Poison #Silence #Airwatcher #revamp

[doshmanziari]

My most recently finished drawing. This one employs a perspectival view that's unusual for me. I hadn't thought of it, but I suppose the scale here is somewhat ambiguous: there could be brickwork in the pit or gigantic stonework. Up to how you want to see it.

#ink art #ink drawing #hole #subterranean #moss #architecture #organic architecture #new york artist #linework #detailed art #imaginary landscape #monochrome #monochromatic #grotesque

[arc-hus]

Madinat Al-Zahra Museum - Córdoba - Nieto Sobejano Architects

http://www.nietosobejano.com

#Nieto Sobejano Architects #architecture #building #design #modern architecture #modern #simple #minimal #minimal architecture #contemporary #facade #underground #subterranean #buried #interiors #museum #museum design #museum architecture #concrete #concrete architecture #courtyards #skylight #light #corten steel #spain #spanish architecture #cool architecture #architect #beautiful architecture #landscape

[ascene]

2.4.13

#subterranean concert you will always be famous #patrick stump #2013 #subterranean #fave

[thesilicontribesman]

Castlelaw Iron Age Earth House, Castlelaw Hillfort, Castlelaw, nr. Edinburgh, Scotland

#ice age #stone age #bronze age #copper age #iron age #neolithic #mesolithic #calcholithic #paleolithic #prehistoric #prehistory #megalithic #earth house #soutterrain #fogou #underground #subterranean #cellar #archaeology #ancient culture #ancient craft #ancient living #relic

[bewilderbark]

day 22 - Jump

a leap of faith

alt under the cut

echo palette version (:

#rain world #rain world fanart #rain world art month #rwartmonth #subterranean #slugcat #ravine #vines #stone #gorge #flowers #wild draws #wild draws rain world

[honourablejester]

I’m reading back over my subterranean fantasy/D&D setting of Osh Derrinalina, the Land of the Lightless Sea, and you know what? It still makes me really happy. It’s a whole bunch of city states, island nations and fungal hinterlands focused around an 80 mile long, 40 mile wide abyssal sea 6 miles down under the surface of the world, and it makes me happy.

Some highlights:

The oldest people to call the sea home are a race of midnight black translucent bioluminescent abyssal merfolk that were inspired rather strongly by black dragonfish (Idiacanthus atlanticus), because I just really wanted some terrifying abyssal mermaids who are actually quite friendly. Also the image of a subterranean pitch black sea where bioluminescent mermaids live and trade.

The second oldest people are a race of pale bioluminescent spider people who powerfully believe in community, because if I’m making a subterranean setting, by god I’m getting all the mileage I can out of bioluminescence.

There’s also a tribe of pale goblins from the island of death that tattoo themselves with phosphorescent fungal ink from a vast, possibly sentient pit into the realm of the dead. They’re also pretty chill guys.

Half the sea is fed from a vast fungal forest on a shelf around the cavern, at the center of which stands a vast and sacred mound of bat poop that provides 90% of the fertiliser and protein for the nations of the Lightless Sea, and the price for killing one of the sacred bats is death in half the cavern. This is because I watched a David Attenborough documentary one time about cave ecology that featured something similar, and it’s the sort of image that sticks with you.

The main cities of the sea are Ysea, the city of black stone and bioluminescent spider silk that is the primary home of the spider people and the main trade hub of the region, Durgenrath, a clifftop dwarven trade port further down the sea, Muarra, the unfathomably ancient merfolk capital that covers 50 square miles of the sea floor near Ysea, and Tchorit, the glowing crystal stalactite city on the ceiling.

Ysea and Muarra started trading thousands of years ago when the abyssal mermaids came to the black stone shore to trade, and the spider people went underwater in return in diving bells made of their luminescent silk, because I was inspired by the diving bell spider, and it’s such a fantastic fucking image. Pale spider people being towed into the black depths in webs of luminescent silk by translucent abyssal mermaids. I wanted it. I wanted it so bad.

Tchorit is an industrial hub city and was made by ceiling gnomes who call themselves Starbuilders and who are currently in what is essentially a religious cold war with the merfolk over bringing light, in the form of crystal luminescence, to the sacred darkness of the Lightless Sea.

They are also in a cold war with the ancient shadow dragon of the northern wilderness of the sea over the same issue.

The gnomes have made a lot of enemies and are basically the most contentious inhabitants here, in other words.

They are allied with the dwarves. And with the crystal elementals who taught them how to grow luminous crystal cities in the first place. So there’s that.

There’s a secret path somewhere above the cavern roof that leads back to the crystal home caverns of said elementals, and it is ferociously defended. If you haven’t seen pictures of real life crystal caves, you’re in for such a treat. No subterranean fantasy setting would be complete without whole caverns full of vast white crystals, so I made them glowing crystals, because yes, we’re still getting all possible mileage out of subterranean luminescence.

The dwarves have a much less secret, though no less defended, passage from Durgenrath through the stone to Durgendelf, a dwarven city in its own cave that is famous for its artificial suns, because I really, really, really liked that element of Blackreach in Skyrim. Durgendelf has six massive artificial suns, and Durgendelf dwarves are famous farmers and gardeners as much as miners and tunnellers. So they also have a happy friendship with the mushroom people of Derrinalina’s fungal shelf.

The above-mentioned shadow dragon has a very friendly relationship with the above-mentioned cheerful death island goblins, and regularly goes on religious pilgrimages to the island’s temple town to pay his respects to the impossibly deep dry well into death at the centre of the island.

This pit into death is one of two in the Lightless Sea, though the other is underwater. The merfolk commend their dead to the Fathomless Delve, a gaping underwater chasm with an upcurrent that only allows the merfolk dead to actually sink. The merfolk believe that this upcurrent is where all the waters of the sea originate.

The gnomes, on the other hand, believe that the waters of the sea come from the massive fucking waterfall that pours from the ceiling above the northern half of the Lightless Sea, all the way down from the seas on the surface miles above. This titanic waterfall is slowly but surely tearing through the ceiling on that half of the cavern, and has eaten a massive pit in the sea floor below it as well.

It is also possibly the origin of Zarathea, the Lightless Sea’s legendary albino (or possibly undead) dragon turtle that drifts around the wild, black, uninhabited northern half of the Lightless Sea, occasionally pretending to be a rocky island to fatally surprise sailors. One of the theories is that Zarathea fell through the waterfall from the surface seas as a baby dragon turtle. Or, given how weird it is, possibly it’s a native of the Lightless Sea. Nobody knows, and the shadow dragon at the very least would very much like to.

The massive waterfall, if it does finally collapse the ceiling on the northern half of the sea and dump the entire contents of its higher reservoir into the sea at once, could well cause a massive tidal wave that would destroy everything closer to the sea’s surface than Durgenrath. The gnomes, despite living on the ceiling, are extremely worried about this. The spider people and death goblins, despite living directly on the shore, are not. Whether that’s blind optimism or they know something the gnomes don’t is anyone’s guess.

I said the Lightless Sea is 80 miles long, but the northernmost reaches of it haven’t actually been discovered yet by anyone from the southern end of the cavern, so the exact extent of the northern shore isn’t actually known. And the sea floor on that end of the cavern goes deep, and stays going deep, a vast sloping descent to the north. There could be just about anything down there.

I had so much fun with this setting. Also, worldbuilders note: watch nature documentaries. And history documentaries. Just history and nature and geology and science and archaeology in general. There’s some really cool and inspiring shit in them. Our world is really weird and really cool, and I promise you that a lot of fantasy worlds are nearly boring by comparison. Pick one really weird little thing, bat dung, or spider diving bells, or bioluminescence, and build some funky societies around them, it’s so much fun.

I am still so proud of this setting. I love it.

#fantasy #worldbuilding #osh derrinalina #homebrew setting #subterranean #i love this place #underground settings are so much fun #i do blame nature documentaries for a lot of it #also i really really like bioluminescence as a concept