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Hail King Sombra


We are all just stories in the end. Official scribe to his Royal Highness King Sombra of the Crystal Empire. His tales are as varied as they are poignant, sad and bittersweet. Remember them well.

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May
19th
2018

Playing around in Photoshop · 4:27pm May 19th, 2018

The graphics rotating around the image are Gallifreyan from Doctor Who. There's an awesome 'site that has a Gallifreyan language translator. You type in what you want it to say and it spits it out in this beautiful, circular language. I threw it into Photoshop behind the image and animated the rotation.

The original design belongs to my good friend and amazing artist Pixel_Spark. If you want to see the full finished product on the website, turn up your speakers and go to Hail King Sombra. The current background music is the haunted, ethereal tones from the group Between Interval and inspired me to write the story Frozen Shadows.

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Okay, that is awesome. Both the pic, and the site. Link?

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The 'site is at Hail King Sombra. The image is on the home page.

Heh, thanks Bricklayer! I'm working on a blog post right now that has more info on why I created it and the tools I used, especially the Gallifreyan Translator I used to create the clock-like, spinning background. I'll let you know when it's up or you can subscribe to updates from the website to get a notice in your email =D

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You're more than welcome! Oh, and since you are a 10th Doctor fan, that reminded me I wanted to change the music loop on the Hail King Sombra home page to something shorter and more poignant. There is a very little-known piece of music you will NEVER find on any of the Doctor Who soundtracks, but I have a copy of. I replaced what was there with that piece. You might want to go back to the website, turn up your speakers and reload the page. And thank you for reminding me to do that!

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