I really enjoy how Pathologic adds these elements of mundaneness to the magical elements of its worldbuilding.
A beautiful, terrifying, gravity defying structure is built specifically to house the soul of an incredibly influential member of the community. By all accounts the Polyhedron should be this entirely otherworldly thing.
But this is a town full of curious children with nothing better to do, so they go there to play!
The polyhedron isn’t an otherworldly closed off temple, a place of only the supernatural. It became the most natural thing in this circumstance, a clubhouse, a play structure.
Of course the children have their own kind of reverence for it. But I just like how it’s connected to both the mundane and magical. The perfect symbol of the fact that miracles exist in this world, as ordinarily as the sun rising, miracles spring from this world, and people live alongside them.
