The Lore of Castle Silva (Textural Concepts and Design)
Castle Silva is also well known for their advanced use in medicine practices, combining ancient clerical magic with modern (still medieval, moving out of the dark ages though) medicinal practices.
Castle Silva’s halls are adorned with nothing but the finest of tapestries, silk and crushed velvets, illustrious vases, various paintings from the kingdom’s finests artists hand picked by his highness himself, etc.
Castle Silva is nestled between an old stronghold of the ancient dwarven race who left more than it’s share of valuable artifacts and an abandoned dwarven mine that still can be mined, long after it was abandoned. The dwarves that mined there, peacefully coexisted with another ancient race, the gnomes.
The gnomes drew up the schematics for many of the machines that were used to mine precious gold, silver (ancient silver, mithril) and precious gemstones.
The dwarves foraged the machines and kept them working in excellent condition.
The peace treaty between both races were kept as long as the dwarves kept the gnomes safe from any and all threats that should ever befallen the gnomes’ race.
Since both races depended upon each other for survival, the gnomes for their advanced technology and the dwarves for their vast knowledge of wild game hunting and survival of harsh winters, the two races peacefully got along wonderfully. Both races also having a common shared interest, wealth from beneath the depths of those ancient mines.
The gold served as proper conduits for their advanced technology theories as well as payment for the dwarves services.
So by the time the kingdom of Silva settled there, the mines weren’t that much weathered and could be easily revived again by the race of men, after the early clerics started decoding/translating those as ancient schematics left buried by the dwarves in the stronghold. (This is closely linked to the hidden level in HoC, The Workshop. The Workshop level consists of the later internal machinery ran by both the dwarves and gnomes. The level’s end boss is named, ‘The Greater Machine’)
Castle Silva’s War Flags and Banners
Finally! I know it’s been a long time since I have posted anything about Castle Silva. Well….I’ve finally gotten something for you this time…😁
As you know, I started texture work with Castle Silva’s floors and floor runners, but have I gotten some exciting lore written for you so you can get a real jist of the Kingdom of Silva and how it was established. More on that later, now time for the eye candy galore, shall we…? 😊
Castle Silva War Banner
Castle Silva’s War Flags
Castle Silva’s Treasury Banners
Castle Banners
I have two more color combinations to play around with plus the throne/war room banners/flags to do, so do look forward to that. 😉
I hope you guys enjoy the small progress I have done in the visual department for Castle Silva. In the next post I make, I’ll go a little more in depth as to further development of the level and how it will be textured. 😅
Castle Silva Level and Assets
Even though I don’t have much done for this level, I do have some mesh work and mesh enhancement done for Castle Silva’s Interior.
Castle Silva’s Spiral Staircase w/Golden Stair runner
Castle Silva’s Coat of Arms
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