Visitor Guide to Eotera Sneak Peek: The Glimmering City of Hikarimofu

It’s with great excitement that I announce that the Visitor Guide is still ahead of schedule! If I were to give it a percentage, I would have to say it’s between 70% – 80% finished. There are still quite a few images left, but a good few of them are actually what the Kickstarter project funds were for anyway! I have a couple colleagues who are working on some maps and other pictures that will help bring Eotera to life even better than I could myself.

But, when I first started working on this guide, the city of Hikarimofu was one of the first things I made. Here’s the original version for you viewing pleasure:

Quite a bit different, eh?

While it’s not bad at all, it’s also clear that buildings and cities just aren’t my forte when it comes to art. And, while I wasn’t unhappy with this image, I wasn’t super thrilled with it either. It just didn’t capture the feel for The Glimmering City like I wanted it to.

Thankfully, I was able to start from scratch and get things figured out to an even better degree!

Anyway, here’s a bit about this place, residing in Eotera’s far western country of Tsukiame:

To visit the largest city in Eotera, is to feel like you could never truly see it all. Food, music, dance, performances, and countless other experiences; you could spend your entire life here and see something new each and every day.

Its geographical location on the planet makes its ambience fundamentally unique, too. Being positioned between opposing atmospheric pressure systems, most haze that would typically build atop such a metropolis instead gets swept away, leaving the night sky perfectly clear each evening.

And, as if to add to the effect, at times the mystical hues of the aurora that frequent the skies above seem to play an intricate dance with the twinkling lights of the city below.

Thus, while looking across the expanse of this urban marvel, a visitor to this world can easily see how it came by its name and moniker.

You’ll see this and much more soon to come!

The Visitor Guide is set to publish late April to early May. I will also have preorder available in the next few weeks!

Until then . . .

Stay strange, strangers.