Creatures of Bhumi

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Beyond the animals that roam the lands of Bhumi, there are older, darker creatures that have taken this land as their own since before human memory.

Terrifying Ice Dragons scour the open tundra of Im-Himna occasionally ravaging the nearby settlements and terrifying the inhabitants.

Further South beings have harnessed the giant insects that roam the lands and are now commonly known as the insect riders.

In the bowels of the Earth nameless blind and grossly deformed monstrous creations make their home.

Whilst in the land of Umbrastra rumours continue to persist of a great bone dragon whose impossible life continues to strike fear into the hearts of all...


Ice Dragon




Insect Riders




Creatures of the Underworld




Bone Dragon

Animals of Bhumi

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What kind of world would it be that didn't have animals living in it? Well an empty and rather boring one for a start.

Bhumi in fact is a world filled with a myriad of animals and other creatures. Many of them are similar to those of the Earth (as Bhumi itself represents Earth in an ancient mystical time, before the world was torn) and some of them are vastly different.

I don't want to reveal all the different exciting animal inhabitants of Bhumi now and spoil the excitement of discovering them in the books to come, but here are some of our early concept drawings of a snow dog:

The Lands of Bhumi

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After putting together our map of the world and then separating it down into different lands and looking at what the characteristics of each land and it's people would be, it was then time for us to start working on our concept art.

Of course this meant creating the actual close-up look and feel of all the different lands, so that we could have our main characters traveling through them and interacting with the people of each land.

Today, I am featuring some of this concept art so you can see for yourself how we envisaged these areas in our mind and put them together on paper.


Im-Himna the icelands




The Half-Light City




Broken MoonGate




Bridge from Dahka to Umbrastra




The Province of Dahka




The City of Rhimn

Bhumi

When first working on the concept of our new series DevaShard, one of the earliest decisions we took was to create our entire world first before working on the stories in detail.

This meant drawing up a map for the full world, then we had to work out the trajectory of the sun and three moons we had decided on and what effect this would have on the weather patterns and climates of the different parts of the world. Through this process we could decide whether different areas would be green and fertile, covered in ice or raw deserts. Finally we divided the world up into the different lands and outlined the appearances, clothing, customs and history of the various peoples of our world.

We decided to call it Bhumi , which in Sanskrit means both the ground and the Earth.

The images that follow are the full map of Bhumi and then a close up on each of the different lands.