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{{Settlement Infobox | {{Settlement Infobox | ||
|Name=[[Kar-Thul]] | |Name=[[Kar-Thul]] | ||
|Image=[[File:Terasil - Kar Thal 01.jpg|center|frameless]] | |||
|Type=Capital City | |Type=Capital City | ||
|Location=Citadel Mountains, Central Terasil | |Location=Citadel Mountains, Central Terasil | ||
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|Inhabitants=Orasian | |Inhabitants=Orasian | ||
|Significance=Ancient capital and spiritual heart of Terasil | |Significance=Ancient capital and spiritual heart of Terasil | ||
|Controlled by=Council of Stone | |||
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{{Settlement Sections | {{Settlement Sections | ||
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|Representation in Media==== '''Art and Visual Depictions''' === | |Representation in Media==== '''Art and Visual Depictions''' === | ||
Kar-Thal is frequently portrayed in Orasian art, though rarely in full or literal form. Instead, artists emphasize the city’s underlying geometry, mass, and silence. Resonance painters, stone-dust muralists, and sculptors often represent Kar-Thal through abstract forms—layered arches, weight-bearing columns, and partial echoes of walls and halls. Glowstone halos or mineral shadows are sometimes used to suggest the presence of sacred districts. | Kar-Thal is frequently portrayed in Orasian art, though rarely in full or literal form. Instead, artists emphasize the city’s underlying geometry, mass, and silence. Resonance painters, stone-dust muralists, and sculptors often represent Kar-Thal through abstract forms—layered arches, weight-bearing columns, and partial echoes of walls and halls. Glowstone halos or mineral shadows are sometimes used to suggest the presence of sacred districts. | ||
[[File:Terasil - Art - Gilari Sand Kar-Thal 01.jpg|thumb|A Gilaari sand painting of Kar-Thal. ]] | |||
Artists from other cultures often portray Kar-Thal with more literal detail: towering subterranean gates, vast chasm-plazas, and monolithic guardians. These depictions typically emphasize scale and mystery over ritual accuracy, blending reverence with distant speculation. | Artists from other cultures often portray Kar-Thal with more literal detail: towering subterranean gates, vast chasm-plazas, and monolithic guardians. These depictions typically emphasize scale and mystery over ritual accuracy, blending reverence with distant speculation. | ||
=== '''Literature and Inscription''' === | === '''Literature and Inscription''' === | ||
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These compositions rely on slow, breath-aligned tones and chamber reverberations, forming an auditory map of civic rhythm and ancestral presence. Outsiders attempting to recreate these patterns often miss the spatial depth, yet still produce adaptations that echo the city's sonic identity. | These compositions rely on slow, breath-aligned tones and chamber reverberations, forming an auditory map of civic rhythm and ancestral presence. Outsiders attempting to recreate these patterns often miss the spatial depth, yet still produce adaptations that echo the city's sonic identity. | ||
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[[Category: | [[Category:Sanctuary Vale]][[Category:Council of Stone Holdings]][[category:Major Cities]] | ||