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Published: 2018-11-20 13:58:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 5127; Favourites: 597; Downloads: 0
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I use machine translation. If you see a typo please correct me.
We end the trip to Northern Meridian in a very unpleasant place. So, you understand the scale of this pit on one of the ledges, you can see the sorting center. See Smoke away? This pit is located at a depth of several kilometers and leads to the Inner Surface. It is of artificial origin, and throughout its entire depth its walls are covered with a large number of megalithic structures that keep this place from collapse. Despite the seemingly unstable landscape of Meridian, it is penetrated by hundreds of kilometers of alien thorn vine, which securely holds tectonic plates.
Extensive sorting centers located on the edge of the rocks are used to deliver goods to the surface and send fresh cannon fodder down. Sending all incurable patients with entropy down is not just a whim; it is necessary for the existence of a civilization on the surface. Emergency trains are sent to the sorting centers from the cities in order to send the patient down as quickly as possible.
It is difficult to explain in a small description under the drawing. I can only say one thing: to keep on the surface of these patients how to sit on an activated nuclear bomb. It is enough to miss one patient, so that the whole city is under the threat of destruction.
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Also my god, I just noticed it but I said a lot of stuff this time. Still, it sure is nice to see that I'm getting close to the most recent drawing so far!
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Learning how to employ alien vegetation to prevent any manner of erosion is a genius move from the species living in this place, and also an interesting piece of lore for you to make - many times, people forget about these little nuances of their world, but they are what gives the world more flavor and depth when put all together, kind of like the many pieces of a jigsaw forming the bigger picture!
The idea of sending "discarded" lives down reminded me of some factories in RPGs.
So the people sent down there are treated properly (like with medical attention until they die) or are they simply quarantined and left to die in isolation?
I liked the idea behind this drawing, myself. Because it reminds me of this one place of my story - the living conditions aren't as crazy, but society there is so focused on natural selection and evolution that if you end up reaching a state where they deem you "unable to cooperate anymore to civilization" (even if you were born like that), they send you down to "The Furnace" - which gets that name because people sent there are... Sort of treated like coal, with their energy being drained to power the lives of the community as a whole - "their one final and noble service" until they die.
I hope the patients here get to meet a better end, but at the same time, was there an artwork before this one were you adressed this clinical condition of entropy? It sounds like a severe disease, for a single infected to be a risk for a whole city!
Finally, it's very slowly, but I'm finally starting to catch up here! ...Namely because looking at the drawings certainly takes me less time than it would take to make them with this ammount of detail, of course. Looking at this one from this perspective, you can almost imagine what the patients would feel like while being dispatched to this obscure place... Like descending to a grave they will never get a chance to come back from anymore. It's a chilling idea to have in mind. That you won't ever be allowed to go back to the surface, that you cannot be cured and that this view ever more distant as you descend is the last you will be seeing of the world as you once knew it.
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Entropy is the price for power. In the very first comment, I roughly described what it is, although I am sure that this will raise new questions. Most often, this disease is recognized in the child's age, since the symptoms are most often immediately visible. Therefore, most of the people who live below are young people. On my page there is a character with entropy, I think you can easily find it if you want.
They can hardly be called the dregs of society, although they live in terrible conditions, but it is through their efforts that the technology of protohumans comes to the surface. The whole society of exalted depends on them. It's a vicious circle.
Each of their factions has so many problems that they have no time to fight each other.
And thanks for the great comment, this is amazing.
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I checked on your reply, yes! And no worries - your descriptions always provide good lore for me to talk about! Since I'll be reaching the last of the more recent drawings you made today (right about now, I see there are two left), I think I'll start going backwards from now on and reading about the other places you drew in those days I was out.
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You do not even imagine how flattering it is to me.
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Where do you find the inspiration to draw this constantly?
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To depict my world, I don't need inspiration.
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* ¡Fantástico trabajo! Lo hemos destacado dentro de la carpeta "Featured nº2 ó Destacados nº 2" en Special-Groups. (Es la carpeta donde se exhiben los mejores trabajos del grupo).
¡Por favor, queremos ver más trabajos tuyos en el grupo!
* Fantastic work! Featured in Special-Groups in folder Featured nº 2. (Best works of the group).
Please, We want to see more works in the group of you!
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I love the light and the lighting details
I also like the sky a lot, it looks so beautiful and the perspective is amazing!
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A frontal perspective is the worst that can happen to an artist.
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Hmm... The moon in the backgound looks so big 
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These are just statues. If they tried to move, they would fall down into the gap.
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I would love to live in your brain a bit. This is gorgeous! And the descriptions add so much flavor
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Using drawings, I try to draw attention to the description. It is a big world but very surly. Living here is a bad idea.
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Yeah, I can see that. And that's a good way to go about it
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The title says Meredian but the description says Meridian? Reminds me of when people try to spell my name...
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This is the second typo, which I correct in the title.
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Everyone has typos, so it's all good!
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Unfortunately, I don't always get to do gloomy drawings.
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What kind of sickness is this entropy? Why is it so dangerous? And if they are dangerous as a nuke, what are they doing down there?
This is really puzzling...
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My explanation will confuse you even more.
Look, a normal exalted person should receive some amount of T-energy with food or injection or in any other way. It is like a vitamin.
Entropy is considered the exact opposite. They themselves produce T-energy in uncontrolled quantities. Sooner or later, their bodies gain a critical mass and create a giant explosion, disintegrating everything around. It looks like an unstable version of the soul reactor.
This rare device, for example, is designed to dissipate excess energy and prolong life of the owner. Concept art: soul locker
Please ask questions one by one. So I can give a meaningful answer to each of them.
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