The Stygian City 16, 17 & 18: The Myconid Village

The next batch of floors in the Stygian City includes a myconid village on the 16th level, an ancient oracle on the 17th and a center for magical research on the 18th. The next three floors will be the last and will include the thing that lies at the bottom of the pit: Ghanya. I’m also going to draw three or four alternate bottom levels for patrons, but that’s it for the canonical Stygian City.

To a large extent, I’ve been writing the lore of this place around building players up for a horrifying revelation when they reach the bottom and discover that people dug this giant hole and built a city around it so they could feed themselves to a monster. So I’ve really been looking forward to drawing the freakish monstrosity at the bottom of the pit and I’ll be doing that before long.

First, though, I’ll be drawing a map of a village carved into the sides of a river canyon with windows and balconies dotting the rock faces and rope bridges strung between the sides. It looks cool in my head, which usually means it’ll make a good map.

Anyway, if you’ve got any questions or thoughts about the map, let me know.

Here’s this.

I got home from Spain a few days ago and I’m back to work on coloring the next three levels of the Stygian City. In the meantime, here’s a collection of the first 12 levels I made a while back. It doesn’t include the 13-15th levels, but I’ll make another one with all the floors once it’s finished.

Anyway, Barcelona was great. Beautiful city, perfect weather, nothing to complain about. Except maybe the tap water. That’s, uh… it’s got a texture to it. Possibly an acquired taste.

Anyway, I’ll be back once I’ve got some more work done on the next few levels. Until then!

The Stygian City 16, 17 & 18 (Work-in-Progress)

Here’s the art for the next three levels of the Stygian City. We’ve got the myconid colony on 16, an ancient oracle on 17 and the ruins of the warlocks’ guild on 18. As you can see, some things happened there that were not super amazing. Magic do be like that sometimes.

Tomorrow, I’ll be heading to Spain to see some friends for a couple days, so I might be a little slow to respond to messages, but I’ll check my email once a day if I’m able. This is where my D&D group moved, by the way. Half of my players had kids and didn’t have time to play anymore and the other half moved to Spain. Then the ones that had kids moved to Spain too.

Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions for things to do in Barcelona, let me know. In the meantime, I’m gonna get to it and see how much of this I can get colored before I leave.