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I got to curious to find out the standings so I counted the votes just to get a feeling of where the winds of the story might be blowing. This is what I found (please help me double-check the counting it if I'm wrong!). Since I don't know the weighing of a vote I counted on a few different formulas (3 points for place 1, 2 points for place 2, 1 point for place 3 = 3-2-1, and corresponding 5 p for place 1 etc = 5-3-1) Place 1 Place 2 Place 3 3-2-1 5-3-1 7-5-1 Henjin Quilones 12 4 3 47 75 107 TitusV 10 6 3 45 71 103 MiloNelsiano 0 5 5 15 20 30 MKJoshA 0 4 3 11 15 23 Faladrin 0 2 3 7 9 13 Captain Braunsfeld 0 1 3 5 6 8 Legofin2012 0 0 2 2 2 2 kahir88 0 0 1 1 1 1 So based on this I'd say that the likely winner is Henjin Quilones with his entry Historica United: Please note that this is purely my own vote counting and speculation and that the leadership might have different judging criteria. I would however be very surprised if it is not either Henjin Quilones' or TitusV's entry which is the winner.

Great news! Looking forward to seeing you build for GoH again (I'm also looking forward to getting a new purposely furnished building studio in our new house in a couple of months, unpacking my long-term stored collection and getting back to GoH and BoBS) Time to flesh out Varlyrio some more soon?

This is an excellent display indeed! Can't help but wonder how you managed to transport it to the convention...? Great also to see Varlyrio revived, not least for the new participants who might have missed the great atmosphere in the builds from the early days of the fifth guild

Great to see you here again NM! As you can read above there is a fairly urgent need for the maps to be updated with the canon post Book II (I'm fairly inactive these days due to a general lack of time in general and particularly my collection being packed in boxes in preparation for moving soon...)

Some really strong entries and great story-writing too! Hard to pick a winner but I tried to go on an overall gut feeling on how well-written the story was and how well it was illustrated and then my votes will be like this: 1. Henjin_Quilones 2. MKJoshA 3. TitusV

Wow! You are really developing your Kaliphlin style, I love how much details you've managed to get into a build of that size The subtle mosaic patterns are very fitting for the style, I especially like how well the simple square plate patterns work. I'm getting tempted to try more white Kaliphlin builds when I unpack my bricks in a few months...

Suck an amazing collaboration you managed to put together there! Once again I wish I had been there, but I'm working hard on getting back there next year!

When the facebook posts and pictures on flickr are starting to come in I'm starting to make plans for revisiting Brickworld...see you in Chicago in June 2018?

I'm in a very similar situation with both work and responsibility for the logistics around the kids (4 and 2,5 years old in our case), so I definitely recognize the situation... The only way out I'd say is delegate so you can conserve more of those precious few Lego hours to producing world-class MOCs

Fantastic scene, you've really captured the busy atmosphere of a castle kitchen! My favorite detail is the grill slope used as a knife holder

My first GoH build: Latest GoH build: I joined GoH because I wanted to have a context to place my castle/fantasy builds in and to challenge me to try new builds and styles. The possibility to tell a story of a number of characters also had a great appeal on me, but over time I've not pursued that very much but rather simply allowed my sigfig to make appearances in many of my builds. The greatest appeal to come back to GoH time and time again is of course the community! The challenges (especially having a deadline!) are also a great way to actually make me get down to building.

Somehow both my wife and the real estate agent agree that an oversized Lego collection is not something that increases the value of the house when we take photos of the rooms Brickworld 2018 would be great to go to, the idea is already brewing in my head! Need to justify the flight with something more than Lego for a few days however On topic I had almost forgotten about this challenge but can't wait to see the expanded environments we will see in Historica! (I just hope most builders stay fairly close to the spirit and general time period of GoH )

Too bad I need to start packing my Lego now for the move to a new house and won't have it back until we move in at the start of October. (I think however that right after the move is also not very appreciated by my wife if I dive straight into challenge crunch-time building :wink:)

Thanks! (The jars are old Scala flower pots in salmon color and the palm leaves are sand green dinosaur flippers)

Thank you for the kind words! My jungle temple is included as the 32x32 build in Phred's entry which is the collab this was built for. The entry even got it's name from my build

That easily fits into Kaliphlin! But the flags make me confused I love the contrast between the barren rocks and desert sand and the intense growth along the edge of the water. The flesh plates at the boundary between the rocks and the sand worked surprisingly well too! (Seriously Huge Investment Plate 8x8 trans-medium blue btw...? Or lucky enough to get them in a LUGbulk when they were in production?)

Very nice boat and swampscaping The Dwarven helmet worked great as an ornament too!

Fantastic entry with a great story (I especially love the twist at the end) and masterfully illustrated! For this kind of story your approach with all those small builds worked very well

Found a particularly interesting book among all the unread books in my bookshelf that I think might end up being some Easter holiday reading

I seem to recall that the High Council is also supporting the Resistance. A truce would therefore be in place between HC and the Desert King as they are supporting the same side in Nocturnus, even though it is not supported by everyone on the HC side and especially not the Order of Aslan and Lord Kral who are not forgiving that the Resistance sided with the Desert King.

Ok, so maybe a plausible situation then is that Bishop Sheyer and the rest of the temple leadership in Barqa has broken free formally to be able to side with Barqa against the Spire? Maybe even declared themselves to be a different religious movement of Aslan...? (But story wise it would of course add another layer to the intrigue if the leaders of the Order still are pulling the strings )

I was assuming that the sizeable presence of the Order of Aslan in Barqa lived on, albeit that their military strength might have been significantly weakened there too because of the losses in the Civil War. But as Barqa never was conquered by either the DK or Ulandus, the established institutions there should live on even if they too might be shaken by the unrests in Kaliphlin. My thinking was that in these times of trouble even more of Barqas inhabitants have turned their hopes and prayers towards Aslan and that the Order's priests would have a great time spreading their religion? (High on my build priority list for quite a while has been and still is "HSS Religious: Aslanic temple in Barqa" to complete that category and Barqa's recognition as a city in HSS :wink:) So should I consider the remains of the Order in Barqa still loyal to the Order's central command structure under Lord Kral or is it a rogue splinter organization no longer obeying the commands from Lord Kral...? The tension between the Order of Aslan and the Nocturnus Resistance makes for interesting plots at least, since the leadership of Barqa supports the Resistance Or should I revise my picture of the religous state in Barqa and assume that the Order has formally withdrawn from Barqa? That in turn would of course leave interesting opportunities for whoever would like to take over the shepherding of (or exploit) the pious followers of Aslan among the common people of Barqa

Great entry! I love the role the Barqan fire played in this! My favorite builds in this series are otherwise the desert cliffs and the grayscale landscape. I also really like the use of the CMF king parts, I picked up a few when they were in stores to use as Swiss Guard inspired troops some day The only thing I'm not too fond of is the use of custom parts for the king, since that makes it hard to use him in the canon if this excellent entry would win. But the Aragorn fig from the Black Gate set would work ok I guess.

Since I won't have time to make a serious Cat C entry I am keeping my fingers crossed that my sigfig will appear in the winning story (After a few crazy Lego weeks, culminating in the annual LUG event, I have promised my wife to let her have some more time for her hobbies for a while now... glad I managed to enter 2/3 categories here at least!)

Very nice build overall, bit those arches are stealing the attention