To Map a Hive City
Hello all o/
Being a huge fan of Hollow Knight and Silksong, I decided to start mapping out a hive city I'm tentatively titling Hive Noctis in a similar style to Team Cherry's. My goal is to make a new zone every week or two, and group some zones into regions, slowly building from the ground up outwards. The first proof of concept, "The Low Lanterns", is the first zone of the "Forgotten Crypts" region, belonging to the Noctis' underhive.
Conceptually this zone is a safe haven between the Cinder Steps leading up from an Auxiliary Mortuarium that receives excess overflow of corpses from the mid-hives' corpse starch factories that spill down a great length and the Sootways Hive Arteria. It is a foul zone that reeks of burnt corpse-wax from its multitudes of votive candles and low hanging lanterns. Occasionally, a prematurely condemned for death adventurer awakens in the great corpse piles of the Mortuarium and wanders into the relative safety offered by the scav encampment of lantern row. For Imperium Maledictum, I envisioned this zone would inflict Disadvantage to Awareness (Smell) Tests throughout each sub-area.
If you guys think this is a cool idea I'll continue to post updates here as I make adjoining zones and start making a pieced together version. I'll also enjoy any suggestions or feedback.