Creus Meta - Inspiration Board

Ref: https://blog.worldanvil.com/2020/06/13/worldbuilding-summer-camp-prep-challenge-2/

Quotes

"You cannot step twice into the same rivers; for fresh waters are flowing in upon you."
Heraclitus, Ἡράκλειτος ὁ Ἐφέσιος, Fragment 12

"Nobility originates in the state of being outside, as has been said. That is, being outside of leadership and nobility and being in a vile, humble station, devoid of prestige. This means that all nobility and prestige is preceded by the non-existence of nobility and prestige, as is the case with every created thing...It reaches its end in a single family within four successive generations."
Ibn Khaldun, أبو زيد عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن خلدون الحضرمي, Muqaddimah, Chapter 2-14

"I would employ the wise and strong of the empire, using righteousness to lead them. In this way, nothing is impossible."
Cao Cao, 曹操, 三國志

Locales and Portraits

by Hiroo Isono

Arl's Town

Bright Eyes, Made of Oil by Chengwei Chen

Jo, La Belle Irlandais by Gustave Courbet

Officer of the Cisalpine Republic by Louis Gauffier

Castle By The River by Karl Friedrich Schinkel