Safe Heaven Cat A. Coghallow

[kahir88]

Conrad left the boat. He now stads in the docks of Coghallow. As he looked around, he saw many flying ships, from the smallest, to the bigest. Many strange metal man carrying barrels and boxes in the nearby warehouse.

 - It's good to feel solid ground under our feet. - Cogfizz smiled next to him. - Come, I got thing that may you be interested, and I can give you as payment.
Conrad started following the gnome, while he was looking around. Anywhere he looked, every building moved. Wheels and cogs turned, smoke came from every chimney, huge machines hummed gently. They walked away from the docks, and arrived to a square, with a fountain in the center. The residents stopped for a moment, everyone was looking at Conrad.

 - What's the matter with them Cogfizz? - Conrad lowered his voice, and asked his companion.
 - Most of the never saw someone, from the outer world. - replied Cogfizz. - Actually, you are the first outsider on the isle. But don't worry, we aren't gonna throw you out, like, you almost did to me... The residents of Coghallow accepts everyone, in the city, sooner or later. This way please.
They continued the tour, as they went deeper in the city, Conrad had, more and more questions. And in the same time, he got more and more amazed, about the things he saw.
 - If there anything you want to know, just ask it. - Cogfizz broke the silence.

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Conrad did't know, where start:
 - Erm... How did you keep this whole island in the air? Is it magic?
 - A bit of both magic and science. Our ancestors created a crystal, which can float, and increased its power, with energy, what we can create.
They a conversation started between them. At first, Conrad asked, and Cogfizz replied to him, but later only Cogfizz was the only one, who talked.

   

The Lore of Coghallow, and how science and magic can work together:

  Many centuries ago, the ancestors of theisland, were lived on the main continent. They were, engineers, scientist, scholars, tinkerer and philosophers. Many profession, but common in one thing, they weren't acknowledged. The mages and sorcerers didn't accepted their studies. They didn't wanted to fuse science and magic, they don't believed, they can achive much more, if they work together. The mages outcasted them, so did the society. They decided, to move awayfrom Historica. They went to the west, with ships. They found a island, full with natural resources, including heat sources. They start building their little society, from pebbles and sticks. Later, they were able to creat golems, to help speed up the process. The heat sources give them new ideas, how to make use of them, and that was the dawn of the Age of Steam, which, is still on.

Their Ancestors achived, what they couldn't achive on the continent. Created a society, where magic and science can create a better life.

And pictures about the building, and others:

Spoiler

Observatory:

Hangar:

on Flickr

Fountain:

Generator:

Blacksmith:

University of Engineering:

Clock Tower:

As i mentioned, every building got something special. I made a video about them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-ja1x8sJwY&t=69s

And for last, the builded things, in the city:

 

Edited January 28, 2018 by kahir88

[Niku]

Some interesting building ideas, my favorite is the engineering school. I liked you went on an era more advanced to the expected medieval life. As a whole the moc looks nice.
The figs also help bring it to life. Well done.

[Gunman]

I like that kinda steampunk style you gave to your moc Kahir... Great one..!

A small note, some of your photos are underexposed, and personally I prefer to have higher res pics at the post (800-1000px width) so its not needed to go into flickR to see the details)

[TitusV]

Wow, a nice little city! Though I feel like there are a bit too many studs exposed, this also helps to give the city a living feeling (together with the many figs, of course!)

My favoured buildings are probably the temple, or otherwise the observatory. I think I even like the microbuild better  

[Henjin_Quilones]

Larger pictures (and arranged not side-by-side, since that looks confusing, trying to tell exactly where one picture ends the next begins) would be nice so we could see it all right here, as Gunman said.

As for the build, there are many great details here, from all of the figs dotting the streets, giving it life, to the diversity of buildings around the square. The cog-based details are particularly fitting for the style. I am not sure that I like the idea of a quasi-Victorian steam-punk magical floating island being a part of the Historican world, but that aside I like what you have done. I almost used the same planet sphere in my own build, actually, but it did not fit into the layout I had planned. The thing I like best of all, though, is the functionality you have put into each of the buildings, with some sort of moving part in all of them; messing with gears is not really my thing, so good job on figuring all of that out. The video was great!

[kahir88]

Thanks- thanks, I know, I'm a very poor user of the canon... too many options, too many choices, can't figure out, what to use, for photos... The buildings was really fun to build it, wit all the moving parts. I'm not a big engineer either, so it was challenging to figure it out, how to do them. As for the choosed theme, steampunk, I really like this, not as the classical medieval age. I tired to creat a story, why they are up here, insted down there :D I think, this is an, "all in" it would be an epic story, to be told, and to becontinued, or just a loss. :D

[soccerkid6]

Lovely observatory - the way you handled the roof and telescope connection is superb The functions hidden in each building are very impressive too!