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Second entry! =)

It had been a good day the market. Many new exotic fruits and clothing were for sale and other new goods from the faraway Varlyrio . Angus and Lilly were going home from the market, happy now when Avalonia was in peace and flourishing as never before. It was good times. The streets of Zamorah were almost empty when everyone was at the market. Outside the family house they met Lilly's older brother Lars, he worked as a cartographer in Albion and were always out on missions in far away lands, making maps of unknown territories. Lilly: "Hi, Lars! How are you?" Lars was in a hurry but turned around to greet his sister and brother in-law: "Hi, Lilly and Angus." Lilly: "How are you? It's been awhile!" Lars: "It's fine, it's fine." Angus: "Well, we know you better than that Lars. You look stressed out and worried. Has anything happened?" Lars: "I'm in a hurry. I have to go to Albion before dark. I just made a quick stop to say hi to mother." Lilly: "Where have you been? What interesting things have you seen at your travels? You know I love your stories!" Lilly tried another tactic. Lars lowered his shoulders and sighed deeply: "Well, something troubling has been told to me by a traveler in the mountains in eastern Mitgardia. News that have to be forwarded to the Guild leader in Albion. If I tell you this, you have to keep it to yourself!" Lilly: "Ofcourse Lars, you know we can keep a secret" Lars: "Well, this traveler came storming in to the Tavern were I was sitting eating dinner. He looked totally freaked out and were mumbling about demons, evil creatures and the death himself walking among us. I invited him to the table and asked what was worrying him." Traveler: "They are back! The demons of Nocturnus. They are here among us already. I've seen them myself!" Lars: "Take it easy friend, here you got some mead. Now tell me what you have seen." The traveler took a deep sip of mead, then said: "I was walking in the Castaway pass north of here when I heard a loud crack to the right of me. I was afraid and hide behind a big rock. When I looked up I saw a bright light and a ring of fire appeared out of nothing in the rock wall. The ring expanded to about 14 feets wide, burning and a great heat radiated out from it and melted the show around it. Then out from the fire black figures stepped out into the snow instantly melting under there feets. First came some demon-like creatures walked out and after it came some winged beast with a even more terrifying demon riding it…. After that I can't remember anything. I think I maybe passed out or something. When I waked up they were gone. And there were not any trace of them. I know I saw it! I'm not crazy!" The traveler drank all of the mead in the cup. Then his eyes widened: "We all have to flee, they are coming! Noctornus is rising!!" The he stood up and ran out from the tavern with fear in his eyes. Lars: "Then I ate up and decided that I have to inform the Guild about this. So I took of directly and came here" Angus: "Well, that's… that's not good news!" Lars said in a not so convincing words: "I don't think you should be worried. It can be a crazy man's fantasies, but it's my duty to inform the Guild." Lilly' s eyes widened: "Can this be the reason The Aurum Order has ordered the city walls to be reinforced?" Angus: "We shall not draw any fast conclusions right now, we haven't heard anything of that." Lars: "Well, you should not go around walking about this. And take care of eachother. I really have to go. Have a good time and I hope we will soon see eachother again." Lars kissed his sister cheek and hurried away down the street.

Really good story. You can feel the desperation of the inhabitants and how they have to work with what they got. The build is full of details to look at. I like the minifigs and that every one is busy working. The farmer behind the palisades with the pitchfork is great, he really keeps a good mood even if don't have a sword and a shield. And I was thinking of this scene also when I was starting to build. Even if you got a big keep or a town , the farmers and villagers outside the walls have to be protected also.

Thank you very much! Thanks The rockwork is a fun thing. I ran out of inverted slopes. So I built 60% of it upside down

Haha great question! It's a bit landingplace for dragons in one side. But there is not any easy way to come up on the outside. The most of the mountain is hollow. And under it there is a port and som fortifications. Sonyou have to fly ore take elevators from the port up. So It's mostly airial attacks to fight of and protect the city from. The ballistas is air defence against dragons and such. I think the walls where built before the mountain was hollow. So then it was ways to come up the the hill side I guess

Awesome build! Nice to see other colours than gray . It looks exclusive It's an impressing room/hall. But when I saw the picture that you were inspired of I nearly choked on my coffe, Damn! That's almost exactly like the picture. Well done

Thanks man! They take that they have a lot of. The metall is precious and one of the lands biggest sorce of income. But to protect what they got in the mines and the city they have to send some also . I was a bit worried that it would be to much with the Pearl Gold parts, but in the end I'm pleased with the result. Thanks man! I see what you mean about the backdrop. It's a bit gray with all the gray in the build. I will think about that next time. I'm not used to build with so much gray Maybe I made it easy when I used 45 degree angles in the transition. But I tried other angles in the start and thought that this would have more wall without extend the footprint to much. I tought about the tower as well. But in order for the Ballista to move around I had to lower the walls I had built at first.

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Thanks man! I checked the hight a few times in the way. I wanted a tall wall that was higher than most other walls/castles bit not so high that the MOC would look odd. The rock base helped so I could build it higher than if it would only stand on the "ground plate". It was quite boring in the end to put those 1x2 together The colours I choose is all in the darker side. I wanted dark green because it's one of Avalonia colours. But I didn't use sand green as I first intended because it's not as dirty as olive green. My next HSS MOC will be more colour full.

Thanks man! The city also got dragons for protection. One of my coming projects is building a dragon. The tree har a hard time growing in the winds at the top of the mountain. So it's kind of short. I was thinking that it should have more roots. But after those I kind of left it there.

Thanks alot man! Haven't seen the last season of GoT yet, but many have said that they are reminded of the Ballista there. The dragonbreath is like when they pour tar on the enamies. But I thinks this is a little more fluid substance.

First entry! =)

After the death of Zamorah’s ruler, Zull af Drachen, The Aurum Order took over the power in Zamorah. They decided that Historica should be aware of the hidden city. So the mages lifted the dome of concealment and the city was there for everyone to see. The war was over and The Aurum Order saw a chance to find new ways of trade with Historica. But after some time there were rumours coming from other parts of Avalonia, Mitgardia and Kaliphlin about dark creatures and a rising threat. The citizens of Zamorah was talking about these new rumours and the word spread like wildfire in the city. The Aurum Order felt the concern from the citizens and gave the order to reinforce the walls of Zamorah, starting with the eastern walls. The walls of the mountain city Zamorah Zamorah is on top of a mountain and the only way to access it is by air or via lifts from the docks in the caves under the mountain. The walls around the mountain city is already high and only a small strip of land is outside the walls. To strengthen the wall armoured plates of Aurumium, the strong and gold coloured metall of Zamorah, is being mounted on the outside of the wall. The plates is made in pyramide shapes to avert incoming projectiles and to distribute the force of the impact. To reinforce the defence of the wall big ballistas is built to fight of enemy dragons and other big flying threats. And to fight of any enemies that may land outside the walls the walls is fitted with outlets for spraying Dragonbreath, a highly flammable liquid, on the enemies. The ballistas fights of dragons Outlets that spray "Dragonbreath" on enemies on the ground To get the work done properly two members of The Aurum Order, a elven mage and a druid, were sent out to monitor the work. The wall had to withstand fire from dragons and trebuchet projectiles and also bombardment of magic spells. An elven mage (elves is Flesh in my MOCs) and a human Druid helps the builders To insure that the workers were safe during the work outside the wall archers from the elite force called Guardians of Zamorah. Elite archers protect the workers ...and also Elite swordsmen Do you want to learn more of Zamorah, Check this out: City of Zamorah, The hidden city in Avalonia Extra pictures: ] Here you can see more pictures of the MOC: [Flickr] Building the Scene It’s nice to be back building on GoH again. I have been away from Lego since October. And now when I got my first Lego Room I felt a urge to build again. But first I concentrated on other projects. So now I’m planing to build more GoH. When the challenge came I got a vision of the build at ones. The thing is that I had a thought of building a smaller scene like this to show reinforcement of the walls when I wrote the first post of Zamorah, But i didn’t have the time for it then. The walls is only walls to protect the city behind, therefore there is not so many openings, windows or other apertures. The city inside of the walls is not in this scene. The Ballistas was made with JK Brickworks Ballista as an inspiration. It was at first made to work with the tension in the pearl gold pieces, not as good as the string version that JK did. But I was getting tired of it, and it was only built for the pics anyway, so i didn’t do the wind up construction. The walls is made mostly of 1x2 plates and 1x2 jumper plates. A technique that @ZlatanXVIGustaf showed me. The MOC is L-shaped and got some overhang on the plateau compared with the actual footprint at the bottom. It’s also rounded on the plateau edges. So to be absolutely sure of the size of the MOC I counted the studs. The total area of the MOCs upper plate is 3243 studs. Not counting a bit overhang with the leaves on the tree. So it’s within the range of 4096 studs (64x64) even if you also count the leaves overhang. …. Next time I’ll build a square one I hope you like it, be free to comment but be kind ;)

Congratulations @de Gothia, King of Avalonia. I have been away for some time now. From Challange I to March I have been away from Lego and focusing on work, family and being on parental leave. But we have also moved to a bigger place, so now I have my very first Lego room! This is making it very easier to get my megablocks out and create. This last month I have been building for our Community builds in Swebrick ("Ruins of San Victoria" and "FabuWars"). But now after our annual show I'm very eager to start to build for GoH and Avalonia. As all of the other members of #Swedishlegomaffia Here is a pic of some of us (#swedishlegomaffia) this last weekend:

Great MOC! Nice use of colours and I like the columns!

Really nice camel!

This is amazing. I really love it!

Hurrah! He is back! The Brick magician from the north!!! (IRL north that is )

As I have said: I will have to rethink how I shall use the Base. The whole landscape and town fitted in it in micro scale.... but in minifig scale it's a small space. Thanks de Gothia! Thank you. It's alot of details when you look at it from a distance. But in close ups there is some fun details. Thanks for the photo tips. I have learned alot about photos and light from Gideon..... But I don´t use it because I only got a mobile cam and no artificial light. So I always think that I should get a nice camera but I don't get my big behind out the wagon (swedish proverb =) )

Hmmm answered your post som day ago, but it didn't go away. Anyhow, I'm glad that you came with some constructive criticism. I will reuse the base later. I will take your advice about the text in my next build Thanks alot. It's a not of details in a small space, but at least it's all covered and not everything in one place. I got sand green and dark green in the build. Not the most interesting roof but it has the Avalonia colour ? Thanks! Yeah I really like that Rank. Well.... I call it half a house

Thanks! Yeah it's alot going on. The soldiers have to help others later ?? Thanks. My first intention was to let the guards just stand there guarding. But at our house we always take time to give the carpenters/workers refreshments and coffe ?

Thanks alot! I will use the base in some of my builds. I had it in the presentation of my town Zamorah. I think I will use it again for smaller builds.

Thanks for the input. I can agree with that. Thanks man! Yeah, the boundaries were set as I started. It could have been double the size ?

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