Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-25981649-20171129144913/@comment-26149161-20171129202404

Sir Lazuli wrote: Just a thought here. Has anyone else been to the Central Valley in California? It’s one of the most fertile places in the USA and enormous amounts of produce are grown there. But it’s an unbelievably ugly place. A quick google images search doesn’t show it. When you are really there the ground is scorching dry dust, and the sky is full of a smoggy dusty haze. There are endless rows of orchards, some only containing dead trees. The grass is dead and there is almost no natural vegetation.





The first picture is a dead orchard on hills in the valley, but most of it is terrifyingly flat. The second picture is a burned forest on mountains rising above the valley. I think it would really make for good inspiration for Nurn. It may be fertile, but it is still ugly.

Personally, I'm picturing something much more indescribable. Imagine endless fields, with men moving on them like tiny black ants, beneath a drear sky of brown ash and smoke. There are no trees, nothing to break the monotony save for large barracks and camps for the slaves, and factories pumping smog into the air and befouling the streams.

Ithilion, Discussions Moderator (Auta i lómë)