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=== Surn's Refuge === | === Surn's Refuge === | ||
[[File:Kar- | [[File:Kar-Thal Grand Hall.jpg|thumb|The Grand Hall of Oras]] | ||
[[Surn's Refuge]] is a district focused on contemplation and public ceremony A cavernous sanctuary filled with mineral chimes and natural spires. The city's most sacred public rituals take place here. | [[Surn's Refuge]] is a district focused on contemplation and public ceremony A cavernous sanctuary filled with mineral chimes and natural spires. The city's most sacred public rituals take place here. | ||
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|Representation in Media==== '''Art and Visual Depictions''' === | |Representation in Media==== '''Art and Visual Depictions''' === | ||
Kar-Thal is frequently portrayed in Duranthi 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. | Kar-Thal is frequently portrayed in Duranthi 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. | ||
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. | ||