Salt & Myth

A party of adventurers set out to find the rarest culinary substance in the world, a finishing salt thousands of years in the making.

These forest clearings are home to Forest Elephants, who play an important part in the region's ecosystem. Looking to supplement their diets with salt, the forest elephants submerge their trunks deep into the mud to access nutrient-rich deposits below the ground. As they dig, they uproot new trees and plants, ultimately creating and maintaining these vast jungle clearings.

Caverns were created for the production and mining of this salt. It was an important economic export and a major element in the region's religion. As a result, its production process and location were hidden and heavily protected. A secret so well kept that it died alongside the few who ever knew of them.

Forest Vikings

The flooded redwood forest of Nai'un and the woodland vikings that call it home. This is the city's central dock
and the only structure with direct access to the flooded forest floor, acting as the city's main port of entry for travelers and traders.

Atomhawk Art Competition: Forgotten Creation 2022

Honorable Mention

Nanobots designed for increasing crop yields have mutated. To support their rapid population growth, they've fused with trees, maximizing growth conditions while using the energy they produce through photosynthesis. The result is a connected network of intelligent organic and inorganic megastructures.

Erothir - Ice Plains Outpost

The Ice Plains Outpost and the first Erothirian extension to the outside world since the ice age began.
Heated by geothermal water pumped from the city center below, the Ice Plains Outpost supports research and surface expeditions.

Erothir - Scouting Vehicle

For six centuries, the people of Erothir have rebuilt a civilization from near-extinction. It's been six centuries of hard work and isolation. With infrastructure and a rekindled spirit for exploration, the Erothirians now turn their gaze to the world above. It's dangerous, but the promise of resources and the hope that they'll find other like them drives their ambition.

Erothir - City of Light

Far beneath the ice plains of Earth, 620 years after the Industriozoic Ice Age began, lies Erothir, the City of Light. At its center, an orb of great power provides this civilization with the world's most valuable resource: heat.

Submission for the 2020 ArtStation Grand Space Opera: Light Age Challenge

A planet shrouded in clouds. Although the species of this world prefer the low light environments they evolved within, they've constructed towering spires to support the crops that feed their growing population. These spires mirror the construction and integrity of the of thriving giant trees that dominate the landscape, creating an organic and mechanical canopy above the clouds.