Contest Information
This map is my intended entry for the Babylonian City Contest. I will add the link bellow when I post this on Reddit.
The following sonnet is not mine, but it inspired the creation of this fictional city, and my lich character attached to it. Nergal was a Babylonian god of war and the Underworld, so I felt it would be a good name to give to my first lich king. He later becomes Osiris to the Egyptians, and even later takes on the name of the sonnet bellow (a name originally given to or used by Ramses the Second of Egypt). Yes, I'm aware there were no pyramids in the year I list for this piece, but in my fiction, the city is meant to be advanced far beyond its years, and there should be nothing left of it by about the 19th century or even earlier. If you read on, I am grateful to you!
As always, happy viewing!
- KKXIII -
Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert... Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley -