#on-gorkhon portraits

[pathologic-the-musical]

I wrote a tavern song for Andreyyyyy! This takes place in the Broken Heart, shortly before the discovery of the plague. Sorry this took so long, I moved again. I've lived in about a dozen different places while writing this musical, which is one of the many reasons why I'm doing it at a snail's pace, but it's still going. I'm getting fairly close to having a full list of songs, and the last few are more presentable, so one of these days I'll clean up the earlier ones and put everything out as an album. In theory. In the meantime, tavern!!!!

There's an instrumental bit in the middle during which there's some dialogue between Andrey and the Bachelor, included with the lyrics below. Lyrics/music/vocals/etc by me. Feel free to message me through the blog about anything you like! I'm not always great about responding, but I do love to get messages. Credit for background image goes to elena-illustration on tumblr, elenaillustrate on twitter.

Lyrics/script:

ANDREY, sung:

Two brothers once came to a town

and Gorkhon was its name

two architects of some renown

new players in this game, they’d come by

virtue of their minds and hands,

our genius caught the ear

of Mistress Nina Kaina who

then set us up right here!

[On ‘Mistress Nina Kaina,’ ANDREY pulls a cloth from where it had hung to cover a portrait on the wall of a rather beautiful woman with dark hair and a red dress, a painting with a bit of a surreal twist, Peter’s work.]

And here we stayed

to bring her dream to form

she told us of a scheme

a structure that could pierce through heaven’s veil

and in my brother’s mind, its seed.

[Andrey snatches a glass from someone who was about to take a sip from it and steps onto the Broken Heart’s stage with the band and hoists his drink in the air.]

Come down, raise a glass!

I’ll tell you a tale of a tower, a tale of romance,

a chance to win against

the powers that scour our bowers to topple utopia!

 CHORUS: Utopia!

ANDREY: Drain your cups

to Nina Kaina’s grace!

For every drop of fortune

in the Polyhedron’s name.

[ANDREY downs his drink, slams the empty glass down on the bar, and turns back to DANIIL, hopping off the stage again.]  

ANDREY, spoken: Well? What do you think?

DANIIL, spoken: I think you haven’t changed a bit since university. What does this have to do with Simon Kain?

ANDREY, spoken: Why, everything!

DANIIL, spoken: And what is this ‘Polyhedron’? Some new toy of yours?

ANDREY, spoken: Ha! So much more than that, my friend. She is everything.

ANDREY, sung:

Our dear departed Kaina had

a vision to provide,

a Focus that could hold within

the souls of those who died.

My brother Peter drew a blueprint for

a tower filled with light,

a spiral polyhedron that

could trap a dream inside

and so I drove

the needle in the earth;

the soil bled for days.

A miracle

that rose above us all,

and never will decay.

Come, I’ll fill your glass

in honor of me and my brother and what we have built,

we play our parts to alter

history, all in the service of saving utopia!

CHORUS: Utopia!

ANDREY: Drain your cups,

there’s no need to be shy!

Let fortune and time bend beneath our design,

see us push to new heights, we’ve a victory in sight,  

The Powers That Be are but children

in the Polyhedron’s light!

[wisteriasymphony]

МОР-ACULOUS Portrait #3 The Changeling - Mariya Nadezhda Saburova

Waking up in an shallow grave, 14 year old Mariya Nadezhda knows only two things: That she can channel saintlike abilities through her ruby earrings, and that a plague approaches. While Town-On-Gorkhon is torn between seeing her as a holy figure or as the thieving manifestation of the Sand Plague itself, Mari-Nezh has much bigger things to concern herself with: Convincing The Bachelor and Haruspex that her solution to the Plague is the only one which will heal the town for good.

[talltarakona]

THE TRIAL IS COMPLETE

THE PILGRIMAGE IS OVER

28 FACES HAVE BEEN RENDERED

[rathologic]

as much as i agree that they're probably the same picture... rubin's mouth always bothered me. it goes between a smirk and a frown. could just be the lighting though

rubin's portrait has some emotion... it's definitely an emotion but gorkhon's top scientists can't say what it is

[wisteriasymphony]

МОР-ACULOUS Portrait #2 The Bachelor - Adrian Dankovsky-Agresté

Dr. Agresté has been a long-standing fellow of the Thanatica research lab, with his interests in mythology and literature giving him a certain philosophical flair to differentiate himself from his more scientific-minded colleagues. In secret, Agresté is aided in his medical pursuits by his Thanatica signet ring, and would likely be hopeless as a professional without it. His trip to Town-On-Gorkhon to interview the legendary Simon Kain was meant to exercise his more natural affinities for conversation, language, and mythos—But it seems life has other plans.

[talltarakona]

Look at these guys

Just LOOK at these guys

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The hands, the head, and the guts

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Part 3

[talltarakona]

Utopians

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Part 5555555555555(5)

[talltarakona]

Decided I want to draw everyone in town-on-gorkhon

Basing them off the colours and animals associated with each character