#Star Stable

[juliekenobi]

Been drawing so much more than usual lately, now is the time to commission me if you want something done twice as fast 🤠

[toruq]

everyone needs a friend <3

[starstableopinions]

Not really the biggest deal but putting the criollo in South Hoof reminded me about how I miss when there was kinda consistency in where horses were placed. Like Steve's farm used to have Lusitano npc horses roaming around and that's what you would find sold there, they put the paso fino there too so it could give the impression that Steve's specializes in Iberian-based horse breeds but then they also put the shire there which feels kinda out of place. And speaking of the shire the fact that they used to be in Jarlasson's farm and had shire npcs there, which implies that the breed was their specialty but now it's just... empty. Similarly, South Hoof always gave the impression that it was pony-based, with the chincoteague, Welsh, and Gotland ponies all being sold there but now the criollo is there too and kinda breaks up the theming. I guess it was inevitable that things would have to change with the addition of so many breeds, though, so i don't really hold it against them. It's just too bad we lost that subtle world-building along the way

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[sso-montana]

wanted to do covers for montanas, justins and yukas playlists and here is montanas lol

pose and style ref (did i actually get the style down? no. but shut i like it good enough)

[bogcreacher]

what the hell are those

[visucene]

[fishylookingdeer]

kelpiieee

[sso-maev]

PUTTING JORVIK ON THE MAP: SIZE AND LOCATION

WHERE IS JORVIK?

Finding Jorvik’s exact location is actually pretty easy.

”Jorvik, located somewhere between Norway, Iceland, and the British Isles, of which it was once part, is a nexus of worlds.” - Jorvik Calling, Prologue.

This is still a pretty large area, but one that’s significantly narrowed down by reading Four Stories from Jorvik. Anne’s segment Midnight Sun establishes that Jorvik is at the very least partly above the arctic circle, to the point where Anne can see it while riding by Jorvik Stables in the middle of the night. This also puts Jorvik pretty close to the tectonic rift between the European and American continental plates, which handily explains why Jorvik is a volcanic Island.

HOW BIG IS JORVIK?

Jorvik’s size requires a bit more speculation, and I’m relying on two book sources.

1: Jorvik stables is a bus trip from Jorvik city.

Anne lives in Jorvik City but goes to school with the other soul riders in Jarlaheim, and has her horse at Jorvik stables. We know that she goes there by bus, so the distance between Jarlaheim and Jorvik City shouldn’t be too large; I’m capping the max length of the bus ride to about an hour.

2: Valedale is less than a day’s ride from the wineyard.

In The Legend Awakens, Elizabeth and the soul riders are heading to Pi’s Swamp and sleep over at the Wineyard. The soul riders wake up late and leave after having eaten breakfast and lunch. The sun is ”at its highest point in the sky” when they leave, so probably around 1-2PM. It’s twilight when they arrive, and the Baroness comments that they showed up in time for the evening feeding of the horses. Since the days are shorter in late October/early November, which is when this chapter takes place, we can guess that they arrived at around 5-6 PM.

Mapping out the most likely routes for these two trips, the route to the Wineyard is about a third of the bus route from Jorvik City to Jarlaheim. Additionally, the bus would drive on average ~70 km/h because of Jorvik’s smaller roads. The average walking speed of a horse is 6 km/h.

Now, the Valedale-Wineyard trip could take anywhere between 3-5 hours, but I’m inclined to believe that it’s on the lower end of that scale to keep Anne’s commute as short as possible. That leaves us with a 18 km long ride, and a 54 km long bus tour that takes 46 minutes. Pretty reasonable!

RESULTS

With these new measurements, we can figure out the actual distance between different places on Jorvik. Most importantly, we can measure the absolute width from Jorviks westernmost to easternmost point: 92 km, or ~57 miles!

Having figured out an estimate of the island’s size and location, we can now put Jorvik on the map!

[christopherballot]

seeing at least one person stuck in the ground is the sign of a fair winter

[krautvan]

My artwork of Mr. Sands, this time not in the Starshine Legacy art style but in my own, along with a small redesign of how I think he should have looked in SSO after surviving the portal and returning, based on his post-survival design.

[tttengue]

An alternate universe if there were horses in Monster Hunter.

[juliekenobi]

Winter riders!! I absolutely loved this bridge and the river in game

Also posted this on instagram but the quality there absolutely doesn’t justify the drawing so here you go, i hope you feel nostalgic <3

[fnsilvicot]

Stalker, SSL Katja's horse.

idk but when I try a new drawing program, I always draw this horse

[gearsofmetal]

drawing v1 weekly until im able to play ultrakill!

week #1 - ultrastarstable? ultrastable? ultrahorse.

[doveshovel]

POV: You are an apple slice. or perhaps an unattended grilled cheese sandwich.