Concavia. (Patreon)

So I’ve been hinting at my new project for a while now, like Humanity Lost, Concavia is something that I’ve been fleshing out for years. I think Concavia has finally reached a point of maturity where I feel comfortable showing you all some things to do with the project.

What you’re looking at here is an ancient map on a golden plate that shows the northern hemisphere of Concavia. This artefact is pre-deluge, which means that it was crafted prior to the age of ignorance. Nearly all accumulated knowledge was lost in the great flood and more was forgotten in the ages that followed, when man was forced into a state of mere survival. This plate is important because of the nature of Concavia’s cosmology, you see, living on Concavia is like living on the inside of a vast orb. Because of Concavia’s shape, the land sweeps up the horizon, over ones head and loops back again to meet the observer’s heels. This means that the lands closest to the observer remain hidden and obscured. As the land goes further up the horizon however, the lay of that land becomes increasingly evident. The “Nuna-plate” pictured above shows knowledge of the local geography, which was a complete mystery before the artefacts discovery.

The second image shows the cosmological model of Concavia, it depicts its shape, Alban characters (the writing of the Albes, the children of the god Woodir and the goddess Firalah) and defining features of the world including the inverted stairwell on the North Pole and the stairway to Gelh on the South Pole. Gelh being the the four golden rings that rotate around the sleeping sun god, Leuada.

I won’t bombard you with too much information here though, this is merely an introduction to Concavia, there is much more to come. The tale begins with a creation myth written in alliterative verse to convey the grand feeling of deep time that I hope to communicate through Concavias world building. The actual book itself will be a self contained fantasy novel with pen and ink illustrations littered throughout. Let me know what you think and if you’d like to see more, for now though I’m going to get back to Humanity Lost.