Seeing how we're setting eyes on Bilgewater for the first time ever, and because I'm in a mood for Noxians, what do you think Noxus looks like? Now, Noxus does have an "official" image, but it's old and it might not fit the city's full scope anymore. Let's take a stab at it: What's your mental image of Noxus?
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I'll elaborate a little more. I picture the architecture to be imposing. Buildings of authority would be grand, meant to make the average citizen feel small.
Architecture would be functionalist in design. Very geometric and unorganic. Probably no where but in the houses of nobles would you see color, art, or hear music.
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Gothic architecture and large, grandiose statues, most of people or battles. Everything in the capital city is tall, extending far in to the sky not by being built in to cliffs or being terraced, but by simply being built to be imposingly tall. Great archways extend between buildings, leading to great roads and plazas with red banners dangling from above, depicting the crest of the mighty Noxian empire. Dark, dank alleyways are abound but seem like a completely different world to the main paths and roads.
The great and powerful nobles have the most grand estates, vicious hounds guarding the gates. Streets are illuminated by lamposts placed evenly along the paths, while the more dangerous streets are lit only by the lights affixed to the doors of the residences. The walls of the capital are enormous but many towers and rooftops crest over them, with the greatest and most daunting house of them all; the halls of the Grand General, standing taller than all the rest.
That's how I picture it at any rate.
Less "Castle Greyskull" like the old artwork and more like the glimpse we saw in the Sion relaunch teasers.
I picture a highly civilized, highly militaristic city. With large underbelly of ruthless crime and forbidden magic.
Probably full of monuments of war hero worship. It would basically be Stalin's utopia.
I would imagine it having a lot of straight lines and sharp edges, kinda like this. Artwork is done by Patrick Faulwetter, the same guy who made the new artwork for Shurima, Bilgewater, Twisted Treeline and Howling Abyss.
Mainly when i think Noxus, I think two things Highly militaristic and highly individualistic. So i'm I think something like Highly practical military outer wall/ district and then an inner city with a sort of Gothic architecture with a great many monuments.
My thoughts:
Very few trees within the city, very stone and sculpted environment that is rough and tumble, yet very formal at the same time. Pictures provided below show off the environment very well, but I believe it is much more populated. The top of the hill is segregated from the rest, the "Upper District" where the nobles reside, the closer to the Main Palace the more prestigious they are. Not that Nobles do not segregate with commoners, but commoners rarely have a chance to approach nobles in their home turf.
The lower districts have all of the commerce, the stadiums and archives, and thus noble and standards mix freely, but the meetings of the high command and the events are strictly for the upper class.
Order is kept through a very strict code of laws and with a bunch of brawn behind it, and the enforcers are often very brutal to the people they detain. Secrecy is key in most types of collaborations, but in public any type of meddling is forbidden, a hypocrisy that has led to an extremely professional and experienced environment, where the people of the Upper District are the cream of the crop in terms of skill and secrecy. Obviously the Du Couteau family occupies the top rung of the hierarchy, and its sworn (Katarina, Cassiopeia, Talon) are by far the most skilled assassins and statesmen in all of Noxus. However, with such high standings leads to infighting thanks to ego and differing opinions, and more importantly, their governmental opponents (Swain, Darius, Vladimir) are just as nefarious and enigmatic.
Noxus is ruthless and professional. Any form of weakness or scrappiness is punished and exploited. The environment reflects this solemn and serious environment, gothic in some cases, but for the Du Couteau household and other structures, spartan features and simple features. Nobody but the highest social standings every enter the Du Couteau household, reflective of their residents and how hard it is to comprehend what they are thinking.
After seeing this official picture of Noxus, I've had a hard time imagining anything else. Mostly a pretty dark city, a lot more scummy than most people probably imagine it.
Sunshine and rainbows
wow that's not how i imagined it i've always thought it was nothing but a maze of a city surrounded by dark alleys with talon hiding in it and garen in the bush kat would also be in that bush ;)
Don't be afraid to post pictrues!
Demacia dark version
Demonic fantasy city. Lord o the Rings orc city. That kind.
I think of it as the first Assassin's Creed cities
For me it would be like Dromund Kaas from SWTOR. Just less futuristic in its setting.
A lot of warlike and buildings which are made to be menacing, many war statues and monuments.
Dunk City
