Discussion Spektazuma, City of Lenses

Very interesting, though being Maz, I could understand that.

I LOVE this idea and I may borrow it.

Do Lizardmen ever fight each other? Like could your faction and Maz ever go to War?

Fantastic idea

I thought about that, in the story howevee, the Slann who knows of the weapon is on hibernation with no signs of waking and he hadnt told anyone else before falling asleep. In the story the deal has not yet been made, so depending on how I feel they may not get permission to settle it directly...havnt decided fully

 

This has crossed my mind, Im soon going to reference a "a great beast that lurks in the jungles around Spektazuma" which in my luff is essentially "The Shredder of Lustria" or one of the oldest Dread Saurians that my Slann "calls" upon in dire circumstances, which may be used, again, not sure though.

I have also mentioned a Mosasauradox that lurks in the surrounding sea of the Temple of Kara, the Dread Saurian of the seas, a sea dragon.

Thats a lot of short stories!

Sounds intense!
Texcoco and its armies would join the Klodrex side of the Great Debate and Acattopa'Cocotona-Cocoxqui would ride on Metzlitlaco into the thickest of any battle

 

This is just a very rough outline of how I sort of kind of imagine Spektazuma to be setup. I Imagine it right up against the mountain being protected by the mountains natural defense from the North, East and West. I also imagine there being swamp infront of the Temple City where there would be Spawning Pools, but also Spawning pools inside the Mountain. I named what I thought would be some of the main Temples, but obviously not all of them. The Black lines represent Roads, the Gold Lines represent the Sun light rays being transported to underground storage pits far under the mountain, which would also be right under the Temple of Quetzl and the Slanns chambers. The Arrows Represet Watch towers and the Brown lines are walls.

As I said, just very basic, but I wanted to have a visual of some type when I start to explore the city some.

Please let me know your thoughts!

 

Thats Very cool! awesome design

 

Thanks! I hope to do a more detailed map one day with possibly the city districts outlined by different constellations or something, Im not sure yet, just something more detailed at some point

 

Very interesting design but I think the roads need to be more organized, like this one. To emphasis the order aspect of the First.

 

I did read the Temples thread (or I believe the same one, i'll take a look now just incase) and actually copy and pasted it into my notepad for easier referencing. I was going to read the other threads now that I have a basic idea of how I think it would look.

As for the spawning pools, yeah, the ones outside are a bit defenseless I agree and should be moved. They were put there based on somewhere I read where they were built into the swamps around Temple Cities to serve as defenses as they are filled with pirhana and other dangerous fauna. the ones in the mountains are DEEP in the mountains, although seeing now I didn't make that clear at all, so that is understandable. I could see Spawning pools being closer or next to the Temple of Sotek as he is a God of War and agreed closer to the saurus areas. Thank you for the feedback! Going to read the other threads in a bit

Also, I decided that the River that runs from top the mountain into the Temple City then towards the arm of the mountain that it goes both underground and out towards the Beast Stables area (that is just a wide open area with some jungle cover nuzzled between the mountains providing natural fencing, whether or not it was natural that way or the slann crafted it with magic is unknown). When it goes underground it acts as two things: A natural cooling system for the chambers that hold the pure sun energy, I imagine without some natural form of cooling that energy (I guess assuming magic wasn't involved) would just burn everything up including the mountain. It also serves as an unknown passage way to an ancient vault that is holding an ancient weapon left by the old ones that was long forgotten to time and even most of the Slanns (or all of them, havn't decided if in my story if some of them know about it but are asleep or if my main slann for Texcoco while in meditation is given a vivid vision of said weapon)


Thanks for the feed back

Although I understand the reasoning, I disagree to some degree and agree with Scalenex. Temple Cities like Itza...I can totally see being 100% true to its original design, its THE original Temple City...however as it was pointed out, other ones of less significance atleast during the ages would I feel have to adjust to many improvements and population growths and declines as more threats came and went. Or if like in my vision, you traded with warmbloods and had to build trading areas, markets, etc beyond what would already be there to accomodate the added prescence of bodies. Cities naturally become disorganized over time due to different design visions of the various architechs, and Im sure Temple Cities have seen a lot of different visions of different skinks when the slanns are asleep and then when the Slann awakens and hes like "what the hell did you do to my city? *knocks it all down* rebuild it like this" Lol

That is a beautiful picture though, holy cow, not sure i'll ever be able to get THAT detailed lol

 

Thats fair! Been working on a new base for my Troglodon and newly built Oracle, will get back to map building soon

 

I saw this by James Gurney and immediately thought about this thread...a few days later Im remembering to post it lol not sure if its been shared here, but yeah

Just the lenses and the sun rays...city if lenses indeed

 

Wow! Thats exactly how I imagined it, Great find