How this is made

What is authored

The world is mine. The cosmology and the canon that governs it. The four domains and the functions each of them lost. The six Walkers — who they were, what was taken, what order they erode in. The Bringers, and what each one was originally responsible for. The objects, the relics, the events, the rules of death and respawn and erosion, the four endings and what the Portal actually weighs.

That layer is written, documented and held to its own law. It has an authority hierarchy, an amendment record, and a set of prohibitions I enforce against my own drafts. When a detail contradicts a principle, the principle wins and the detail gets fixed. That work is the project. Everything else on this site is downstream of it.

What is assisted

Every image on this site is AI-generated, and every one of them is concept art. They exist to fix a look — scale, palette, the glow each domain runs on, how small a person should read against the terrain — so that the world can be seen before it is built.

None of them are final assets and none of them are presented as finished illustration. They are placeholders standing in for work not yet made, and they are labelled that way wherever they appear.

The claim, exactly

Authorship here is primary at the level of the world, and the pictures are the part that is assisted. The lore, the objects, the events and the rules are mine. The art is generated, and it is concept work. That is the whole of the claim — no wider, and no narrower.

I would rather state that plainly than let you guess at it, and I would rather build the world in public at this fidelity than not build it at all.

It appears beneath the work itself, wherever the work appears