Creative Research 02 – Suicide Tree Developement

by telruya

`In the lands of Despair there is a forest, each tree is the soul of a human that took their own life and now suffer through strangulation til the tree’s grow over their body and they become part of it still suffocating.

Many of the tree’s turn violent and will attempt to ensnare those who walk through their forest to suffer with them, never to leave again.

The land is also permeated by a thick fog that like the tree’s it hides will attempt to prevent those who enter from leaving by obscuring their path and causing them to suffer the same despair as the tree’s felt in life’

The main themes of this world represent despair, suffering and the loss of life.

 

The keep was originally it’s own place within hell based on a sketch for it (below drawing bottom right) but after talking the idea over I put it above the Lands of Despair.

`Mammon’s Keep was pulled from the ground by Mammon himself and used to house himself and his legions as it provided useful defense against the majority of hell’s denizens which are unable to fly.

Great effort is required on Mammon’s power to have the Keep remain in the air as such he rarely leaves and uses his forces to attain more souls for him to devour, those under his rule that instead of returning every soul they capture decide to devour one or more themselves are thrown from the keep into the forest below eventually to be ensnared by the forest.

Leaving or entering the keep is next to impossible with the exception of a doorway with the keep itself that connects to other lands where the newer souls are deposited into hell, the doors can only be opened from within the keep though and will leave the devils sent through trapped outside.’

Power and authority are not given within hell, they are taken, I enjoyed the symbolism that the keep represented, the idea of mammon pulling a piece of hell out of the ground in an attempt to escape what’s on the ground in hell, that it is supposed to keep those he doesn’t control out  but traps himself and many others there and they can only leave to replenish the food sources.