The Great Engine
“I have seen the World Engine. Deep down underground in the Sunless Sea. Its miles across and Its core glows red in the darkness. Which is lucky, because it's very easy to get disoriented in that forest of Oil and pistons.” - Ida Holly
There are machinations we just weren't meant to understand. The surface above the world engine is so simple, human, strife but only on our mortal scale. Below the World Engine runs for the divine constructed by gods and put toward their ineffable goals. We scramble upon its artifice without the ability to fathom its purpose like rats in a wizard’s study. We can guess at the reason the divine built this machine, perhaps it is their means to bring about another devine of their kind, Deus ex machina, God from the machine? Perhaps it will run until the end of time, keeping hours like a great celestial clock. We can only guess. But there is one single consensus, if it should ever stop only upheaval can follow.
For this map I wanted to imagine the whirring insides of a super complex machine, Something like an airship or walking castle the players had to board and take down from inside! I even tried to make the lifts on the right and left move like they are the inside mechanics of a giant walking machine! I was really inspired by Steamboy and Dragonmech.
“I have seen the World Engine. Deep down underground in the Sunless Sea. Its miles across and Its core glows red in the darkness. Which is lucky, because it's very easy to get disoriented in that forest of Oil and pistons.” - Ida Holly
There are machinations we just weren't meant to understand. The surface above the world engine is so simple, human, strife but only on our mortal scale. Below the World Engine runs for the divine constructed by gods and put toward their ineffable goals. We scramble upon its artifice without the ability to fathom its purpose like rats in a wizard’s study. We can guess at the reason the divine built this machine, perhaps it is their means to bring about another devine of their kind, Deus ex machina, God from the machine? Perhaps it will run until the end of time, keeping hours like a great celestial clock. We can only guess. But there is one single consensus, if it should ever stop only upheaval can follow.
For this map I wanted to imagine the whirring insides of a super complex machine, Something like an airship or walking castle the players had to board and take down from inside! I even tried to make the lifts on the right and left move like they are the inside mechanics of a giant walking machine! I was really inspired by Steamboy and Dragonmech.
“I have seen the World Engine. Deep down underground in the Sunless Sea. Its miles across and Its core glows red in the darkness. Which is lucky, because it's very easy to get disoriented in that forest of Oil and pistons.” - Ida Holly
There are machinations we just weren't meant to understand. The surface above the world engine is so simple, human, strife but only on our mortal scale. Below the World Engine runs for the divine constructed by gods and put toward their ineffable goals. We scramble upon its artifice without the ability to fathom its purpose like rats in a wizard’s study. We can guess at the reason the divine built this machine, perhaps it is their means to bring about another devine of their kind, Deus ex machina, God from the machine? Perhaps it will run until the end of time, keeping hours like a great celestial clock. We can only guess. But there is one single consensus, if it should ever stop only upheaval can follow.
For this map I wanted to imagine the whirring insides of a super complex machine, Something like an airship or walking castle the players had to board and take down from inside! I even tried to make the lifts on the right and left move like they are the inside mechanics of a giant walking machine! I was really inspired by Steamboy and Dragonmech.