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Mikkel Winter-Stone will be back for Book III in Mitgardia! Looking forward to another year in Historica.

Wouldn't surprise me if many of us are waiting for things to restart on August 1 and get the lay of the land so to speak prior to building. I'm hoping to update my sigfig and get pics taken this weekend.

Some really great MOC in that list SK! Thanks for pulling it together.

@MKJoshA Where'd that hair come from? Looks pretty awesome.

Another great one from you de Gothia! I'm always impressed with how lively your dios are and this MOC is no exception.

These are all awesome!

This is a really lovely MOC guys! The buildings are great, the water is fantastic, and the cliffs are well executed.

I really enjoy the whimsy about this MOC!

Sweet boat!

Finally the Crusaders had enough of the Forestmen waylaying carriages, high jacking barges, and poaching the king’s deer. The king ordered a wagon loaded with his finest mead and dispatched under white flags to one of the occupied crumbling watchtowers near the edge of the forest as a peace offering in hopes of starting negotiations to end the Forestmen’s harassing activities. This was one of my entries to the CCCXV. For some reason, I never got around to posting it here! Some more pics here. C&C appreciated.

For me, probably the most impressive thing here is the roofs. Pretty dang awesome, though I can't figure out why you hid those lovely dormer windows in the back! Great MOC again SK!

Really great little building and a solid fall color scheme. The boulders are a fun touch too. Sweet MOC!

Thanks narbilu! I've been wanting to use CMF base plates as shingles for a long time, didn't think I'd be using them upside down! Yes, the rafters are holding up the roof, if only due to the friction created by 2 clip connections. Thanks gedren_y! Ha! Here's to the next chapter re-invigorating the guilds! Thanks John, I've got a bunch of those ingots that I hope to put to good use in the future. Thanks Garmadon! Thanks TitusV - I've always wanted to use the turntable bases for windows. Thanks Isaac, Maestro, and Henjin! The thickness is a byproduct of the SNOT to make the window work and the cover-up to hide it. However, I was thinking the same as you about the heft the thickness implies after finishing the build. I guess accidental goodness is still goodness!

Really nice work for your first MOC published here! This looks like it could come straight out of a Disney movie--great shaping overall!

Heck of an introduction! I'm looking forward to seeing what else you have for us here in GoH!

Really great MOC Isaac. Your angled rock technique works incredibly well here!

Amazing build here! I'm super impressed with how you wrapped the rockwork around the curve.

I think these leaf parts are unnecessary clutter. They bring in a jungle vibe that's not good here. Better without them probably?

Agree 100%! Successfully scratching out out minifig combos is both the most frustrating & enjoyable part of these CMF challenges.

This is a great wrap up guys. I for one am good with the story!

As a journeyman Dragonslayer walks through the halls of Drakken Keep, another hunter stalks her prey... I submitted this as a CCC entry this year, and used my Safe Haven assassin and a Dragonslayer "armor off" concept that didn't make the cut. It;s good to actually build something! Are we still doing Doctorate of Historica? If so, I request UoP credit for Windows & Window Frames if there are any Kaliphlinites still on the forum. C&C Appreciated!

Man oh man, really awesome concept and execution! The multiple tiers of activity here really draw the eye around and of course the forced perspective gets an A+. Great, fun MOC!

As always, I appreciate when studs are used by builders intentionally for texture, function, etc.! The plates on the roof certainly evoke a shingled structure, and work very well here I think. I do think the flower stems as grass/weeds sort of clutter an otherwise clean MOC though. I think either having the grassy areas either pretty much completely covered by them or using fewer of them would have been better. Also, non-LEGO related comment: I'm really liking that you're guiding us through Yureishima via the maps at the beginning of each of these builds!

Thanks all! @mccoyed & @Henjin_Quilones - Yeah, I get it; I think there's generally two "issues" that of we're dealing with at this point in our Guilds. One: I think is that there's so much to the Guilds already! Mitgardia and Avalonia have locks on stereotypical early through late medieval stuff in general. Varylyria has the Renaissance covered. Kaliphlin takes us to Crusader castles, Moorish architecture, Arabia and more. There were some Asian-styled builds in Kaliphlin during Book I and a lot of the Ulandan forces used samurai armor. Cold-weather peoples obviously reside in Mitgardia. Lion-people are established residents of Kaliphlin. Bird-people are established residents of Nocturnus. Drow in both Nocty and Avalonia. Dwarves all over. Orcs in Nocty. Etc. With all the story lines and builders, there's not many places left to go--heck, there's even mummies walking around here. Two: Take a look at what I'll call the "diversity fig parts" prices on Bricklink. Not cool. All colors of flesh are coming from sets that are already priced up due to licensing which should absolutely get passed along in the 2nd market. There's quite the collectors' market for superhero movie and Tolkien minifigs that creates a supply/demand problem. Plus, there's just fewer sets in the history of LEGO with "diversity fig parts". The monetary issue is one that I, as still mostly anti-fleshy, generally just can't justify. It's not just a fleshy problem either, if you want elvish ears for regular yellow minifigs, you've got only 3 options I think; and all are CMF elf parts which takes us back to the pocketbook issue. If you move the focus from "diversity fig parts" to "monster fig parts", the same problem is present save for a lot of the Chima line (I was really surprised at how not cheap some of the snake minifig parts from Ninjago are!). It sucks that even throwing together some minifigures raises the same money/collection contents issues that CCC's large miscellaneous category has.

Henjin, these are fantastic. (It looks like you and I were riding the same brainwave with dragons ) I really like how you've taken what LEGO has given us for "pointy ears" and created some unique and wonderful figs! The modern compound bow for Winda is killing me though--really jarring.