Rise of the Atlanteans

"Rise of the Atlanteans"

Here is the cover art of the new chapter of my unKnown world.

Chronologically in the book, this new story takes place in "prehistoric" times and serves as a prologue to the beginning of this world.

A bit of lore:

After uniting all ten regions of Atlantean Island, the once peaceful people became a technologically advanced military superpower thanks to its vast mineral wealth.
And because ambition, greed and human cruelty know no bounds, these arrogant Atlanteans built ships and set sail to Ída (the central continent of the unKnown world) with one goal - to conquer, enslave and gain total domination over the world.

After generations of wars between the Atlanteans and the local tribes, these barbarian clans banded together to end Atlantean rule and push them back into the sea.

In a massive battle between the Atlantean army and a coalition of all barbarian tribes, the natives won and established the first kingdoms, as we already know from other stories...

A bit about world building and character design.
It was one of those spontaneous ideas that just fit beautifully into the lore. One of my oldest stories - Bellovesus - is about the last days of Atlantis. The more I build lore, the deeper I get into the history of this world. All the events then follow each other and this is reflected in the individual details and also in the designs of the characters. For example, with this new story I explained why many of the oldest kingdoms used fish-scal armor for their warriors. It is precisely from the time when they were on the verge of extinction and when they finally defeated the Atlanteans with great difficulty, they tried to copy their technology to be ready for the next time.

There are really a lot new stuff , so I'm planning a new illustration with the already mentioned battle, new character designs from this time, and also a new world building video on my youtube channel.

And you can already see the entire process of creating this cover on my YT.
As always, individual stages are on Patreon.
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