#sso dark core

[krautvan]

NOT A SHIP ART, i like drawing her bothering him)) unfinished sketches

[willow-springpaw592]

If SSO ever updates Darko, I hope they give him a long deathhawk. I just can't imagine him having any other hairstyle.

[elisedarkheart]

«people around you and me are just pathetically jealous»

» random sketch for practicing(?)

[esmeralda-dragonstar]

Sketch of Katja & Mortifa ❄️💨

[sso-brainrot]

SSO| Mr. Sands: Villian or Heartbroken

New Lore video from the Druidic Archives!!

" Is Mr. Sands the heartless villain in the Star Stable Universe, or is there more to him? While he constantly seems to want to take over Jorvik, is there a reason behind it, and is that reason justified? I hope to help explore those questions and shed light on some of the answers, though for some, you will have to decide for yourself. "

[doveshovel]

Part 2(?) of this post here

[wintry-art]

@centeris2 it's Time

[hajen14]

As I understand/remember it, they're not entirely human either and have been with DC maybe all their lives?

My memory isn't the best, so anyone who DOES know; please correct me

ok i understand katja joined DC because they freed her from ice witch prison, but what's the deal with Jessica and Sabine? are those two just some random girls recruited from the local highschool?

[centeris2]

It's hereeee!

Thanks to @writingonjorvik there is now a physical case for the Mr. Sands Dating Game created by @cindersly and myself! No physical CD, of course, although someone could always burn the game files onto a CD to create one... the QR code links to the game though!

What a fun thing for Dark Core Day!

[krautvan]

big forehead

[tierra-dogwood-sso]

You could have sworn this was a normal horse a second ago….

[elisedarkheart]

boo! I threw a bunch of my random Darko works here and ominously vanished ✦

[esmeralda-dragonstar]

Sketch of Sabine dancing in my fanfic „Dark Rider…?“ on Wattpad

[florencia-goldstone]

Jessica in Dundull, Mistfall.

[a-m-w-worlds]

SSO Theory: The Fridge Doors and the Secret of Underground Jorvik

I'm stating up front, some of this is fact, some is educated guesswork, do with that what you will! Now, onto the theorizing!

Underground Jorvik is a mysterious place; collapsed mines, fridge doors, volatile minerals, strange noises at night; something strange is happening beneath our feet, and I might know what…

The Nightmare Institute!

The faction of Dark Core run by Darko, responsible for the creation of dark horses and other monsters.

The Nightmare Institute is mentioned only in fleeting moments that don't give away its size or location.

Now, let's put a pin in that for a moment and move onto the strange things happing beneath Jorvik!

First off, every mining operation on Jorvik seems to end in disaster. The Demascus Mine? Collapsed! The Silverglade Mine? Collapsed! The old Deep Core Mine? Collapsed!

The most recent mining attempt we're aware of on the island is GED's attempt to mine Drakonium in Old Hillcrest, which resulted in the entire town being abandoned and half their workers mysteriously vanishing.

In addition to all of these catastrophic mining attempts we also have the fridge doors! Do these things even need an introduction at this point? Four (but probably five) hatches in the ground spread throughout our in-game map whose positions seem to align with the points of a star, which is also one of the two symbols depicted on the hatches? These doors are hecka weird on every level!/pos They're unexplained. We've never been able to interact with them. The second symbol on them doesn't match anything else in the game. Spooky music plays when we approach them. At night beams of light come out of their windows. And some kind of machinery can be heard coming from them. They're weird!

There's one more oddity about them I haven't seen anyone mention. This conversation with Emma during the Purple Pony's Halloween party in 2018.

Considering that there's a fridge door in Golden Hills, near the racetrack, I assume this is what Emma is referring to! The creature she's describing sounds like a capran, remember this!

So, now we have two mysteries. Where is the Nightmare Institute and what's going on underground? I think one line of dialogue could be the answer to both these mysteries: they're the same mystery!

When we speak with Valdemar Buttergood in the One of Our Witches questline he mentions his son Scott believing in "secret tunnels beneath Jorvik connecting to an institute of corrupt creatures."

While some of Scott's paranormal beliefs have come across as outlandish, this feels far more credible than the usual moth-horse and Bighoof. We already know an institute exists that seemingly deals with "corrupt creatures," we just didn't know where. Likewise, we knew something was going on underground thanks to the presence of the fridge doors, local reports of strange sounds from underground, and numerous mining operations being plagued by misfortune.

But there's still a question left unanswered; what makes underground Jorvik so special?

The Nightmare Institute explains the strange sounds and Emma's monster (capran?) sighting by the Golden Hills hatch, but what about the minerals and gasses?

This is where my theory turns into speculation.

We know Jorvik is a volcanic island thanks to Garnok's Fury, meaning the island could potentially be riddled with lava tubes. Garnok's Fury is implied to be magical (Pandorian?) in nature, so I feel safe in assuming that its lava probably is as well.

If this is true it could explain everything. Lava tubes forged by mystical energy would probably be imbued with the same energy, explaining the dangerous minerals and gasses and possibly the presence of so-called "corrupt creatures." From all of the magical horses and companion pets in-game we know that prolonged exposure to magical energy can corrupt, or at least alter, wildlife, meaning whatever creatures took up residence in the lava tubes could be very strange. And we know GED has at least one dangerous creature on their hands in Hillcrest!

In the days of Deep Core's early mining operations, they likely discovered not only the tubes and how extensive they are, but also the strange minerals and creatures. I imagine that if this theory is true these tubes are probably an invaluable resource that Dark Core has been exploiting for YEARS! Dark Core has so many weird serums and pieces of tech, they've likely been utilizing their discoveries in the lava tubes and taking advantage of no one else has had success mining under Jorvik. Heck, Dark Core might even be deliberately sabotaging other mining attempts to monopolize whatever might be down there! GED's efforts in Hillcrest might have just slid under their radar because of them being too busy with their preparations for the reverse light ceremony!

Have I gotten too carried away with idea?/lh

This theory just makes SO much sense to me! I hope someone else finds it interesting and thank you for reading!

[horseslur]

Things I have done in SSO:

Unlocked and completed Dino Valley

Unlocked Golden Hills Valley (after glitching into it on like. day 3)

Completed all archeaology sets

Got every single spider except for one (see other part)

Unlocked Mistfall

Unlocked Wildwoods

Completed the Nightdust questline (and met Darko through there)

Completed the Avalon questline where you sabotage that dark core base in Valedale

Got Herman caught and then rescued him again (seeing Darko again)

Completed the druid paths in Valedale

On the final chapter of toy postcards

Met Rob and Bob

Things I haven't done in SSO:

Rescued Justin

Even considered rescuing Anne and Lisa

Restored the Baroness's racetrack

Visited pandoria (let me iiiiiiiin)

Met the spymaster (he's holding my last fucking spider hostage)

Got Bob out of the fucking water (requires captain brus to be in his fucking place to talk to) (he's not bc he's in moorland) (bob has been hanging out in the waters outside cape west fishing village for like. three months now)