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The Slyndora Collection​
They say no photograph of Slyndora has ever survived. But paintings? Murals? Fragments of memory preserved in oils and pigment?
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These are different.
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Collected from across the world - and perhaps even across time - these renderings of the legendary city are as mysterious as the place itself.
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No two artists describe the same skyline. No two skies are ever the same hue.
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Some say these images are drawn from dreams. Others, from trauma.
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So the question becomes:
Are these glimpses of a real place... or echoes of something imagined?
"The Celestial Reverie"
Medium: Diamond-powder oil on fine-threaded cloud silk canvas
Year Completed: Unknown (believed to be Pre-Obscuration Era)
Last Known Display: The shattered wing of the Lysarith Archives, now sealed.
Description: Said to be painted by a traveler who glimpsed Slyndora during one of its rare daytime ascensions, this piece sparkles unnaturally in certain light leading scholars to believe it's laced with aetherite dust. The scene depicts a golden citadel glimmering among clouds, hinting at the city's rumored "diamond flesh." Some argue it is not a real sighting at all but a vision induced by prolonged exposure to skyfire gas.
"Veil of Avenura"
Medium: Crystallized egg tempera with glacial mineral wash
Year Completed: 742 After Silence
Last Known Display: The Winter Archives, Eastern Sanctum, presumed destroyed.
Description: One of the few depictions where the aurora can be seen piercing the heavens above Slyndora. It’s believed this was painted by a child seer whose memory of the city survived a forbidden journey. The stars above shimmer differently for each viewer. To some, constellations form new symbols. To others...only void.
"The Turning Sky Bastion"
Medium: Aether-scorched vellum and hex-silver inks
Year Completed: Date unknown, retrieved during the Great Cloudfall Expedition
Last Known Display: Private collector, now lost
Description: This dark and weathered depiction suggests Slyndora once drifted near the upper edge of the Tropos Null boundary where the sky is said to bend unnaturally. The swirling clouds are etched with a technique not seen in any known culture. Note the fortress has no foundation visible. This version of the city floats purely on belief.
"Silence from the North"
Medium: Snow-dye over sealed glacierbark panel
Year Completed: Circa 206 Before Blackout
Last Known Display: The Icebound Temple of Ardesh
Description: An arctic interpretation of the city, supposedly rendered by a guide who found a frozen vantage while escaping pursuit. The reflective lake is said to contain a second city beneath, an inversion. The falling snow obscures the truth of whether this image depicts the city… or what comes after.
"The Embered Dusk"
Medium: Heated wax pigment on vapor-dried sky parchment
Year Completed: Unknown. Believed to be painted from memory post-escape.
Last Known Display: Recovered from the wreckage of the S.S. Relenor
Description: This eerie scene shows Slyndora shrouded in clouds and burning light, as if seen through a storm. Some say the glowing windows represent lives still trapped inside. The smudging effect is said to have been caused by the artist's tears during the final strokes. Others insist the smudging happened later when the painting screamed.
"Renaissance of the Hidden Crown"
Medium: Burnt ochre and lapis on stretched sunbark linen
Year Completed: 291 After Awakening
Last Known Display: Royal Courts of the Inner Fold
Description: Portraying Slyndora in a golden age or perhaps an embellished myth, this rare vertical painting shows a sprawling city with canals, domes, and people. Uniquely, it depicts contact with outsiders. Historians believe it may have been painted before the veil was enforced, or by someone dreaming of what it could be without it.
"The Spire at Dusk"
Medium: Oil on canvas, feather-brushed with stardust resin
Year Completed: Unknown. First appeared in the cellar of a collapsed observatory in 1937.
Last Known Display: Private collection of "The Archivist," seen only once at the Grand Eclipse Gala.
Description: This eerie silhouette of Slyndora’s highest spire appears to catch light where no sun shines. The gradient sky glows violet and rose, as if reality is bleeding into a dream. The architectural form is hauntingly symmetrical, too precise for a human hand. Many believe this to be the most "accurate" of all representations of the city, though no one can say why.
"Lunar Inheritance"
Medium: Silverleaf overlay on canvas, lunar pigment wash
Year Completed: 1704 — attributed to Marek of Kaelin, a heretic painter condemned for “revealing too much.”
Last Known Display: Vaulted beneath the ruins of St. Bellaria's Abbey. Rediscovered in 1996.
Description: A full moon illuminates the towering domes and spires of the hidden city, nestled in clouds that never part. The moon is abnormally large—suggesting proximity, or maybe illusion. Its placement implies Slyndora exists in an orbit of its own, or perhaps on a celestial shelf forgotten by time.
"Glimpse Through the Arch"
Medium: Painted crystal encased in beveled glass and sealed with mercury mist
Year Completed: 1919
Last Known Display: Housed in the "Mirrors of the Many" exhibit in Lucerne before disappearing in 2002
Description: This oval frame invites the viewer to see Slyndora through an unknown lens. A portal, or a memory? The ethereal bridge and symmetrical towers are illuminated from behind, giving the appearance of a holy city, or a trap disguised as paradise. It shimmers faintly in changing light.
"Diamondveil"
Medium: Mixed media with reflective dust and false gem flake
Year Completed: 1945 — painted during the artist's coma, according to her daughter.
Last Known Display: Museum of the Unseen (Paris), curated by The Order of Nine Winds
Description: This sparkling depiction shows Slyndora beneath a crystalline sky, as floating shards and fragments orbit like satellites or broken memory. Many viewers report seeing their own reflections in the towers—others claim they see faces they do not recognize. It's said if you stare long enough, you’ll forget the world outside entirely.
"Violet Mirage"
Medium: Watercolor and powdered amethyst on treated parchment
Year Completed: Unknown — discovered rolled inside a pillar during a renovation in 1888
Last Known Display: Temporarily held by the Antiquities Guild before vanishing in transport
Description: This painting blurs the boundary between utopia and hallucination. A city of impossible geometry lies atop a pinkish-violet sky. Some believe this was painted by someone who never visited Slyndora, only dreamed of it—or was summoned. The purple mist evokes prophecy, warning, and longing all at once.
"The Lost Pane"
Medium: Stained glass fragments fused with oil and fire-dust lacquer
Year Completed: Estimated late 1500s; artist unknown. Signature is scratched into the back: “E.L.”
Last Known Display: Cathedral vault, sealed behind a false wall until 1931
Description: A chaotic and glorious burst of color surrounds what appears to be Slyndora mid-ascension—or mid-collapse. Historians have argued over whether the city in this depiction is real or metaphorical. The use of stained-glass style makes it unclear whether this was ever meant to be a window… or a warning.