#mistfjord

Drawn with Ecoline brushpens (gray, black and a blender), black fineliners and white gelpens on postcard sized watercolour paper.

Anyway done with black and gray brushpens and a blender together with some black fineliners on postcard sized water colour paper.

Concept art/speedpainting of the metacluster Mistfjord I might think of a more original name where Stian (my big white siderian; a horse-sized big cat) comes from. It's somewhere close the the Norwegian city Trondheim (loosely based on this spot www.google.no/maps/place/7550+…) . Human cities in the siderian world equivalent are slightly different and especially in Norway, they are not very developed as it comes to technology. Anyway, more about the metacluster - here is a concept of a the map of Mistfjord reignofsiderians.tumblr.com/po… .Metaclusters are natural 'nodes' in the metaphysical crystal nerve-like fibres that run through Earth's crust. Siderians (and some other species) have evolved and developed methods to use this nerve-system like crystal structure for communication and triggering energy conversions with the energy that runs through these crystals. At some places there is a very high density and diversity of these fibres, where they cluster. There they might even enhance plant growth, which in turn results in higher prey densities for siderians. So some siderians began to settle around these clusters and develop them in terms of living areas and crystal infrastructure. Metaclusters are now areas with high densities of siderians, where they are mostly non-territorial (in contrast to areas outside metaclusters) and where they live in a sort of society with a loose labour division based on trade and services. Since the access to crystals is best in metaclusters, it's also the best place to communicate with other siderians over longer distance. They can use these crystal nerves as a sort of internet-network that I call 'intellithos'- and send complicated messages -in the form of thoughts like feelings and mental images. Stian has been born in an area just outside of Mistfjord which is his family territory named Land Sætansen, which is defended by his grandparents, parents and ucle+aunt. Since most supplies, services ect are in Mistfjord, Stian's parents and brother moved quite frequently to Mistfjord for longer times, where Stian had the chance to learn more about crystals and get taught by other - professional- siderians- along with other kittens of approx. his age (like. his cousin Yava and his neighbour Bjørn) - as a kind of school. Since Stian's parents were most of the time busy defending their own land against for example their neighbours (who actually coordinate -sort of lead- this cluster), they often just dropped Stian and his 9 years older brother Goran off in Mistfjord where they had to live on their own. So Stian has spend a lot of his childhood in and around Mistfjord. Vaguely in the foreground you can see the silhouettes of Goran, Yava and Stian with a big fish in their mouths. So they obviously have been fishing in the sea somewhere...

A conceptual of the metacluster called Mistfjord. It’s Stian and Goran’s home-cluster sort of. It is located very close to the city Trondheim in Norway - though Trondheim in the ‘siderian-world’ is much smaller and less developed.