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Forest Temple and Darkstone Production:

How this elaborate door may tell us more about the process than we originally realized

Yesterday, I believe I had an epiphany. When I was watching this door activate, I realized that it quite literally might be giving us the recipe for darkstone production.

Let's outline what we're seeing.

First, the major structure on the door seems to represent the inside of the Temple and the machinery within. We see two people on boats above with jars full of golden-white light - the signature color for regular, non-colored light. We also see two cyan-colored lights below, not in jars, but seemingly in some mechanism in the machinery. This light must first be retrieved before it is taken by boat to the center of the machine.

Let's look at some concept art from Tom Zhao to compare.

Here we can see a little bit of what they imagined the darkstone refinery process would look like. We see raw material goes in the center golden chamber, it gets stamped into a diamond shape, the refined "artificial star" gets imbued with energy while still in the chamber, and then it rolls out the troughs, presumably ready to use.

Something that stands out to me is that the cyan-colored light in this concept art matches the cyan-colored stones on the temple doors, making me wonder if those stones represent the energy that is used to fill the darkstones. That energy, as seen in this next concept and also in the Abyss murals, comes from trapped light creatures.

It's important to note that these are concepts, not the final design, so things likely won't add up 1 to 1. However, we can at least try to glean some of the core ideas that were being captured.

These concepts appear to be:

Collect raw darkstone

Shape raw darkstone into diamond shape, creating refined darkstone

Imbue darkstone with light, creating charged darkstone

Whether or not all darkstones required the light of light creatures is up for interpretation, but we do know basically for certain that creatures have been used for that purpose at some point in Sky's history.

So let's look at the door again.

Two cyan-colored lights from below

And two golden-white lights from above

To make one singular darkstone

So what are these ingredients?

I have two theories.

The first theory is that the golden-white light represents natural, regular light (like the light that the Prairie Elder hoarded in jars), and that the cyan color, in this instance, represents light drained from light creatures. Combining these ingredients creates a charged, refined darkstone, ready for use.

The second theory is that the golden-white light represents any light used to charge the stones (including light from light creatures), and that the cyan-colored stones represent uncharged darkstones. Combining them, you once again get a charged, refined darkstone.

What brought me to these conclusions? Why do I think the colors represent certain things over others?

Well, let's look at some more concept pictures.

The color scheme in Sky is very important - we can see how orange and white represent the closest things to pure Light and when we start getting into blues and greys, it represents a lack of connection to The Light.

So, I think the golden-white lights speak for themselves - they are natural light in some form or another.

The cyan ones are more ambiguous. I think it's relatively safe to rule out Cyan Light itself, the element associated with wind and Valley (although, I guess you could go that route and maybe assume the cyan light is meant for the stones to be able levitate or something, idk).

I'm more inclined to believe this represents something with distance from The Light, whether that be the refined stones themselves, which are often represented with a similar color in the concept art, or the light from drained light creatures, which may also be represented with a similar color scheme.

What this really pokes at is the fact that we genuinely have no idea what the extraction process of light creatures looks like - the only thing we can compare the process to is ourselves as skykids and the way we react to losing light (which is not foolproof because skykids and light creatures are pretty different in a lot of ways).

We could also maybe look at things like manta projections/spirit mantas, as well as the eel from Treasure Reef to take note of the other unusual ways light creatures can present so we can try to discern whether they are that way due to light extraction or other factors.

Ultimately, though, we know so much and still so painfully little about this process, so please enjoy these crumbs lol

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This is an old art I dug up from deep within my arts folder... Somehow, I made this speculation of what a Sky Kid's home would look like before the Season of Nesting was announced. Safe to say I was ecstatic when that got announced....ah memories.

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"The bird's view"

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Broken vessel

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Did you know? Or did you forget? You can do whatever you want with your art. Put random scribbles wherever. Horizontal lines over your character. Add dots everywhere and on everything. Draw eyes different than the rest of the face. Change art styles halfway through. Cut and glue paper cutouts. Use paints and markers together. Use all the filters. Use photos on top to add texture.

You can do what you want. Like literally literally literally.

Add a rubber ducky in the corner for no reason, put text in different languages on the background, leave your handprints or wipe your fingers on the paper.

Go have fun now this stuff isn't meant to be stressful for you

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The Palestinian (1977)

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didn't fully realize just how much the most powerful figures in history have always been the most pathetic, loser ass men til i saw the oligarchs of the USA seize the government. but they've always been this way. tiny, spiteful, bigoted losers, constantly dragging the rest of us through the dirt for their own petty agendas

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I am so sorry, all my american friends. I am grieving with you. Stay strong and safe, take care of eachother.

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youre STARDUST!!!!!!!!!

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Okay people!! I made a skykid sona!!

This is Sigh! They live in the Wind paths, likes making clothes, especially capes, and collecting earrings! They've got a pet crab named Screech from the Sanctuary islands.

Sigh is a persona, in contrast to my other sky oc:s, that have their own stories and personalities. Sigh is... Pretty much me but skykid. Screech is based on my cat. (But it's pretty much it's own character, i just wanted to give my skykid-self a pet)

I'll probably doodle them a lot so i might post some of that!

Closeup on this doodle cause i like it very much :D

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It’s wholesome seeing spirits for different seasons interacting with each other.

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Celeste fanart!

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Wanted to give them both some warmer clothes... You can't be climbing a mountain without gloves!

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musk is going to die in a Tesla explosion in 6 months after sticking his nose where it doesn't belong and we will never get a conclusive answer on whether it was a CIA car bomb or just a normal Tesla malfunction

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Reblog daily for health and prosperity

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whether you call it an "AMV", an "edit", or a "fancam", all of us, across generations, want the same thing: videos of The Character set to music. and i think that is beautiful ❤️

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Thank you!! Yes, you really have been helpful! I'll definitely keep this in mind

Hmm midnight thinking

I should make a skykid sona, or just a regular sona so people can recognise me

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Hmm midnight thinking

I should make a skykid sona, or just a regular sona so people can recognise me