Visualizing Zalanthas..

[FantasyWriter]

Red moon or white moon?

Nope.... that's -no- moon.

[Iiyola]

Maybe some place, somewhere, there's an ocean or river connected to the Red, like this satellite photo of South Africa

[RogueGunslinger]

If you flip that image upside down it's easy to imagine those are the pointy red peaks of mountains, and the blue and white is the sky and clouds.

[bcw81]

If you flip that image upside down it's easy to imagine those are the pointy red peaks of mountains, and the blue and white is the sky and clouds.

red sky son

[wizturbo]

Vivaduan

[The Silence of the Erdlus]

[Mordiggian]

[LauraMars]

that is gorgeous

and if I ever saw it anywhere near me I'd call 911

[BadSkeelz]

If I saw one of these I would call the army.






http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2119343/King-Wasps-Indonesia-Two-half-inch-monster-jaws-longer-legs.html#ixzz1qDcg71Y8

[Majikal]

If you flip that image upside down it's easy to imagine those are the pointy red peaks of mountains, and the blue and white is the sky and clouds.

red sky son

I remembering being led to beleive the Zalanthan sky is red, though I did see a place that long ago. One of those out of the way very rarely travelled sort of areas and it disctinctly pointed out the sky being blue, I noticed it because it went against everything I thought. I wonder now if I should have typoed it. Whoops!

[solera]

Sky red pants vs Vivs' conclave.

[Taven]

My apologies if any of these have been previously posted.





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[James de Monet]

I saw a girl today with a pointed star/sun on her wrist.  Couldn't think of a way to ask to take a picture of it that wouldn't be weird, though.

[LauraMars]

A river of silt...

[Jihelu]

A river of silt...

Fuck


That

[BadSkeelz]

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A river of silt says, OOC:
   "Consent given."


Seriously though, what is that? Is it dust, pumice, meringue? It's something floating on the water, right?

[Iiyola]

It's hail, floating on water.

[LauraMars]

More architecture that reminds me of Allanak:


Somewhere in the Noble's Quarter


A merchant's courtyard


The Eastern Archway of the Bazaar


Hathor's Way


Somewhere in Allanak


Somewhere else in Allanak

 
A Windswept Canyon of Sandstone


Spice

[nauta]

Woah, I was visualizing carrus all wrong.

Partial Bestiary

[BadSkeelz]

Those look more like chalton (note the six legs). And I believe Carru are described as having branching horns.

[deathkamon]

When I scrolled down a bit more and saw the Inix on that page, I didn't really expect it to look like that in Dark Sun. My personal visualization was an over-sized Comodo dragon for all these years.

[nauta]

Those look more like chalton (note the six legs). And I believe Carru are described as having branching horns.

Yeah.  I just checked a log of a look at a carru, and in Arm, they have four legs, not six, and antlers, not horns.  Being a dork, I checked, and that picture comes from Appendix II of the Monstrous Compendium, and it is a carru in Dark Sun.  So, upshot: Arm carru are not the same as Dark Sun carru?

[nauta]

More:


Exhibit B: A Dark Sun elf, played by Bushranger.


Exhibit C: A Dark Sun halfling, played by nobody anymore (tears of blood).


Exhibit D: Dark Sun versions of mekillots, kanks (RIP), erdlus, and inixes.  (Also, some evidence that the plural of 'erdlu' is 'erdlus' and the plural of 'inix' is 'inixes', unfortunately.)

[RogueGunslinger]

Wow that halfling is amazing. They both are awesome, but I love the hair on the little ankle biter.

[nauta]

Exhibit F: A Dark Sun scrab.  (This is not at all how I visualized Arm scrab.)

From our helpfile:

Common in the areas surrounding Allanak, these insectoid creatures stand taller and larger than the average human, and their heads are fringed with a multitude of milky, translucent eyes. These beasts, while fairly common, have an aggressive hunter's instinct and a back terrible for riding, and thus are never used as mounts. They are often easy prey to the hunters of Allanak and the southlands, with a pale, soft yellow meat within their thorax, a head that if cooked properly is considered a delicacy, and a tough shell that can often be sold for coins in the larger cities.