Blocktober continues! Today: How To Drown In References (actually, that’s going to be tomorrow), and picture-wise "first light" (an astronomer’s term) of the scenery.

Post images: I found some sketches I had made a couple of years ago about the Mynster, the concent and the town layout.

As much as I just want to use the previously mentioned maps for this little playful project, I can’t really evaluate where I might have a different interpretation of the text than their authors, and they lack some information I want for a 3D reconstruction.

So, I’ve been delving into the book.

I’m currently on page 225,
having made 399 annotaitons,
employing 44 tags.

Puh. I noticed that sometimes relevant info might even come much later in the story when

– as on page 380, when the existence of a "New Laundry" at Edhar is mentioned. It will be a while; noticing all the details I want and marking passages is a lot slower than just reading for fun. ;)

So far, I have only transferred a few infos to a 3D model. I’m using Blender, even if I wanted to whitebox in Unreal Engine. But it’s easier for my skills to lay out the big relationships in Blender. This is what the scene currently looks like:

And just FYI, I’m using a scanned PDF in Zotero to manage my annotations, and Obsidian to keep track of relationships, and synthesize still outstanding answers to questions like:

• How does the Mynster look?
• How high is the Mynster above the Tenners’ meadow?
• How big is the concent = how many avout live in the concent? 
• What buildings are there in each Math?
• What kind, how big and where are the labyrinths between the three Maths on the plane?
• How big is each Mynster’s nave? 
• How big is the town around the concent?

Maybe I should dump all my research into a fan wiki, so that it’s preserved in case someone else is interested in anything? I’ve got some references, after all …