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modified map of the Empire of the Isles: elevation (land and sea), lakes, major cities, trade routes (red: heavy traffic, yellow: light traffic)

modifications explained below the cut

the main change, which prompted most of the other changes, is that i placed tyvia and morley on one tectonic plate, and gristol and serkonos on another.

i'm not a geologist and possibly there are other explanations to how the isles were formed, but my reasoning went thus: the temperature difference between the north of tyvia and the south of serkonos is too huge for a single archipelago -> the distance between them must correspond to something like that between finland and spain -> the isles are the size of a continent -> a continent, as far as i know, does not split apart unless through the movement of tectonic plates -> there is divergence happening

it could also have been convergence but wow that would mean so many more volcanoes. instead you get block rift mountains

the main tectonic rift is between tyvia+morley and gristol, as evidenced by the very deep chasm -- it's probably smaller in width than it should be, but i'm not going for full realistic accuracy either -- but there is also tectonic drift between tyvia and morley (according to the north american tectonic plate this is a thing that can happen, because that thing branches off in all kinds of directions. could it cause a continent to split on this small a scale? who knows. i'm pretending the answer is yes. can you tell already i just wanted to go hog wild on the tectonic plates) and there are convergent plates above tyvia and below serkonos

CONSEQUENCES: volcanoes volcanoes volcanoes (and fault block mountains)

now serkonos is half dormant volcanoes, half huge old magma flow from a massive volcanic event at some point in the distant past; tyvia has a volcanic arc as its northmost feature but it's partly calderas; the south of tyvia and the north of gristol is very mountainous (but the area between gristol and morley isn't because the tectonic forces along that axis are transformed [dunno if that's the proper term, basically lateral] rather than divergent

does this also mean there are probably earthquakes everywhere? yes. oh god

OTHER FEATURES: a couple of meteor craters (the shapes were already there, i just decided they would be craters) east of baleton and west of caltan; a void rift deep in the ocean right near whitecliff, pulling in the landmass around it; minor modifications to certain outline areas because i added in mountains. i like mountains. they make things less flat. OH and this was already present in the canon map but the line of islands east of gristol is now a bunch of extinct volcanoes formed as the result of a hotspot at the morley-gristol tectonic limit, now closed; and i just fully deleted an island west of gristol for the hell of it. also the lakes were either already there, or hadn't been colored in right on the canon map, or were Very Weird Interconnecting Rivers i decided to fill in because why not

TRADE ROUTES. obviously all capitals would be trade centers, or at least trade-rich considering their population level, but i've decided several other cities are either merchant towns for reasons such as being nearest to another isle, being conveniently placed to connect to many other cities and thus either the center of trade (like yaro or driscol) or a waypoint (like caltan), or being an exporter of stuff and conveniently placed right on a trade route thus favoring its development (like potterstead, but that's entirely my personal fanon)

some trade routes are heavily used because they lead to many ports of interest, or because they lead to a major port, or because it's the only way to get to a certain major port efficiently (for example, the trade routes to the east of serkonos are little used because if you leave from karnaca you have to get all the way around the trail of volcanic islands, can't dock at whitecliff directly because, see name, it's on a huge cliff, then avoid the dishonored bermuda's triangle [void rift, huge myths around that place, few people risk going through there], then get all the way up to driscol); the heavily trafficked trade route that stops right at the top of serkonos actually leads to the serkonan canal, which isn't even present on the canon map (probs because they hadn't invented it yet when they drew the thing), and is a much faster way of getting to karnaca, but deep-keel boats can't take the canal and series of waterlocks and have to go around the old way; wei-ghon does a lot of trade because it needs to to support its population way in the north, and a lot of tyvian trade goes by boat due to the poor travel conditions inland and the huge fuckoff mountains

not pictured: trade routes to pandyssia

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wanted to compare the different official uniforms we see in DH1 to figure out what i want to make corvo and daud's outfits full dress uniforms be like in this fic; sharing my research screenshots in case they help anyone idk enjoy

elite guard, city guard, lower city guard:

elite guard detail:

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Expect more Dishonored pictures soon, because I'm on spring break!

For now, I'm cleaning through my WIP folder and found this oldie from either 2022 or 2023

#art for haunting #dishonored #art #digital art #dishonored 1 #corvo #corvo attano #the outsider

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replaying dishonored

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a short comic for @revivisection for the @dishonoredgiftexchange event!

the prompt was "billie and humansider weirdest roomates in karnaca doing normal people things". loved working on it! special thanks to the wonderful @presiding for helping me out with the dialogue! can't stress enough how good your writing is, it really did piece everything together :) the text version is in the image description. hope you enjoy the read! and happy holidays <3

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Hey all! I’m gonna start drawing again starting tomorrow night—please comment or send me suggestions of stuff to draw! I’m a bit rusty but excited to get back into it :)

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While browsing Vogue magazine, Sébastien Mitton found a photograph of Ruby Aldridge from the Céline Fall 2011 fashion show. He said, “Boom! We have the direction!” Her beauty and her unsettling gaze drove the first concept art for Emily.

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I’ll be on winter break very soon and will start up posting art again! This semester has been SO busy. I’m reposting this for any of my followers who are artists or want to be, as a nice little reminder :)

this quote from hbomberguy’s plagiarism video really resonated with me:

“creative people have trouble recognising their skills as skills, because eventually they feel like second nature. […] this stuff really is valuable. if it wasn’t, people wouldn’t be stealing it. creativity doesn’t feel special or unique until you realise people have to plagiarise it”

your craft is and always will be valuable, please never let anyone make you doubt that

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quick kiss image to keep me sane

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dishonored: *gives the player really cool weapons and abilities that can easily eliminate enemies in a unique fashion with endless possibilities

me, a low chaos bastard: hmm, thanks for the sleep darts :-)

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here's my piece for the @10yearsofdishonoredzine! today's the last day for the leftover sales if you wanna check it out!

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Finally get to post the art I did for @10yearsofdishonoredzine !!

Leftover sales are still going on through the end of the month!

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art i did for the dunwall days half of @10yearsofdishonoredzine 🐀 leftover sales are still happening until the end of the month!

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the lone boi

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◇ The Black-Eyed God ◇

Fanart of the Outsider from the game Dishonored. Inspired by the art of Anne Magill.

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Draw a Hagfish (perhaps being tempted by a fishhook with a bonecharm weight)

Thanks so much for the awesome suggestion! I’m not sure how I feel about the lens flare, but it was definitely fun to draw!

#art for haunting #dishonored #art #digital art #hagfish #bone charm #bonecharm #fanart